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.

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.

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 ...

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.

Michael Hurley, a unique guitarist and songwriter known as the ‘Godfather of freak folk,’ died last week at the age of 83. His death was confirmed in a statement sent to Rolling Stone from his ...

Freak folk pioneer Devendra Banhart takes on multiple personalities at the Beacham Le freak c'est chic By Alma Hill on Wed, Feb 22, 2017 at 1:00 am Photo by Sebastian Smith ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

Emerald Ground Water makes dramatic Celtic freak-folk with hints of psychedelic and prog rock, and plays July 26 as part of The Ramble in Burlington.