With its poetic lyrics and haunting melodies, contemporary folk music is, at its best, deeply evocative. The elusive genre is hard to pin down, often blending traditional acoustics with elements of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. Seven Taylor Swift albums chart in the U.K. this week, with ...

Crys Matthews won song of the year for "Sleeves Up." ...

A folk record unlike any other released this year has quietly risen to the top of the list for critics. Forefowk, Mind Me, the third album by Scottish artist Quinie, was recently named the best folk ...

Taylor Swift has been on quite a journey in recent years -- going goth on "Reputation," pivoting to loved-up sugary pop on "Lover," and finding her political voice in between -- but her newest, ...

Bruce Springsteen scores multiple Billboard wins with Tracks II and Lost and Found, as both reach the Top Album Sales and Americana/Folk Albums charts together. NEW YORK, NEW YORK - NOVEMBER 06: Bruce ...

The golden era of folk music has been left in the 20th century. But that doesn’t mean new evolutions of the genre aren’t still keeping things alive today. In fact, in the 2020s, there was quite a ...

Five years ago, in the stir-crazy swelter of COVID-19 lockdown, I clung to one ritual: long drives along Massachusetts’s North Shore with Taylor Swift’s album folklore on repeat. Salt air on my Chevy ...

In retrospect, the 2010s were an underrated time for music. Pop was at its peak, garage rock was in full swing, and indie folk revival had put a modern spin on a classic genre. Let’s look at just a ...