Freak-Folk Inspiration "Nick Drake is a saint," Devendra Banhart told me last summer during a front-stoop interview outside the San Francisco apartment he shares with Vetiver's Andy Cabic.

The Manchester band Starless & Bible Black sounds as if it arrived at this song after spending an intense few days thinking about the limitations of so-called "freak folk." Though there's much to ...

Dubbed a pioneer of “freak folk” — an experimental subgenre that includes Dirty Projectors and Joanna Newsom — he sings with an ethereal lilt layered onto a diverse soundscape.

Michael Hurley, a folk musician, cartoonist and painter, has died. He was 83. Hurley's publicist confirmed the news of his death to PEOPLE on Friday, April 4 and shared a statement on behalf of ...

And for Cabic’s sake, we’ll decline to refer to any of those songs as freak folk. Vetiver plays at 8:30 p.m. on Sunday, November 17, at Ophelia's Electric Soapbox.

LOS ANGELES — Michael Hurley, the eccentric singer and songwriter who pioneered the “freak-folk” movement and inspired generations of artists, has died. He was 83.

Newsom took a hiatus after she and her husband, actor and comedian Andy Samberg, had a daughter in 2017, but now she’s slipping back into the spotlight as quietly as a freak-folk superstar can.

The title, “All Hour Cymbals,” provides a clever image that slyly references the band’s habit of reaching into worldly archetypes to turn them from holy to eerie. The track “2080” switches between a ...

Columns Bill Fay, ’70s Jesus-Freak Folk, and the Secular World Critic Sadie Sartini Garner looks at Fay’s long career in context of the ’70s freak folk scenes, and beyond.

The late musician, known as the "Godfather of Freak Folk" was influential to a generation of singer-songwriters including Will Oldham and Lucinda Williams Michael Hurley, a folk musician ...