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.

Who is Bozo Texino? I have no clue. But The Public Trust plans to help answer that question at 7 p.m. Tuesday when they host artists Ralph White and Bill Daniel, who are currently on tour with ...

Her freak-folk past rears its head on the esoteric “Love Letter,” which ambles along in a nearly indecipherable meter that Foster has described to me as “completely irrational.” ...

On a cobwebbed stage decorated with dream catchers, battered children's toys, a banana-seat bicycle, and a massive fisherman's net, ­twee-pop sister duo CocoRosie performed at the Deitch Projects ...

Headlining is our very own freak-folk maestro and oddball legend Ray Brazen, along with the ADD pop-culture blender electro of Polykarp, Byson's shimmering, downtempo sample-soundscapes, and the ...

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 ...