When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Phoebe Bridgers Folk and indie are genres that are incredibly difficult to define, but ...

Steve Tannen, one half of the serenely sing-alongable indie folk duo The Weepies, tells Scene the story of the Hurricane Festival, a heavy-metal-tinged music fest in Germany. He and Deb Talan (his and ...

Indie-folk artist Searows released his EP “End Of The World” on Nov. 10. Wistful and nostalgic, the EP’s songs serve as vignettes of a life once forgotten. Though the EP lacks a certain sense of ...

Indie folk has long been one of our favorite genres, as nebulous a descriptor as it may be. Take the acoustic instrumentation or structure of traditional folk and the sensibilities of modern indie ...

When Gracie Huffman came up with the chorus for Lighthearted’s newly released single, “Borrowed,” she didn’t know if there was anything there. So, she turned to her twin sister and bandmate, Eliza ...

The recent stomp clap discourse sparked a lot of conversations about how the divisive 2010s subgenre grew out of 2000s indie-folk, and the evolution (and “gentrification”) of the latter is actually ...