What makes a song “industrial?” It’s a question we’ve often pondered this past week at Consequence throughout our ongoing celebration of the genre. Harsh and liberal use of distortion; the ...

In her upcoming concert, “Hard Times: Good Songs,” Peggy Seeger will perform working-class tunes written during the 1930s and ’40s. But don’t expect a romantic slant on that troubled era. “These songs ...

Poor Paddy works on the railway.--The Gresford disaster.--The four loom weaver.--I'm champion at keeping 'em rolling.--The collier laddie.--The coal owner and the pitman's wife.--The iron horse.--The ...

Flannels and an attitude—Those are the two surface-level similarities between grunge rock and the folk music movement. However, what they don’t have in common, at least extensively, is their sound, ...

It is worth mentioning that this list is far from exhaustive. I’m just a fan of these four tunes, in particular. Nobody was doing folk music in the 1990s like Jeff Buckley. “Last Goodbye” is still ...

The vastness of folk music is the perfect escape from anything pandemic-related. While we may be confined to the indoors (or at least to strict solitude) right now, music is a kind of journey that ...

Faced with Russia’s efforts to erase Ukrainian culture, people have embraced traditional music as a way to reconnect with their past and affirm their identity. Roksolaniya, a traditional Ukrainian ...