It's folk crazy at flip the tape HQ.
As part of YOUTH WEEK, It feels like it's the right time to take a nice, long look at the world of folk music. Constantly misconstued as old, dusty and antiquitated, you can expect to have your conceptions shattered this friday.
I'll be exploring the world of folk, from the origins of freak-folk in the 70s (vashti bunyan), to the new wave of anti-folk (kimya dawson, Elizabeth mitchel, Paul Baribeau) and to the youthful sub-genre of american folk-punk (brian lugo!, victor V-B and more!).
Tune in to this friday's show for a two hour folk-music extravaganza. You can also check back to this blog for daily folk artist profiles (and mp3s!) throughout the week.
So celebrate Youth Week with style, by twanging your banjo and swilling some moonshine*
*please don't drink any moonshine, especially if you're youthful.
VICTOR V-B
(Illinois acoustic folk-punk musician, Victor V-B)
The joy of acoustic folk-punk is that it's a very raw style of music. Most folk-punk outfits are generally solo-projects and sideprojects of various musicians who simply want a break from their usual style of song writing.
Illinois native Victor V-B is drummer of pop-punk group Arkansas? and in his spare time picks up an acoustic guitar tours/records solo.
His songs are lo-fi, simple acoustic numbers and his voice routinely breaks as he strains to hold notes. Yet there's something utterly pretty about this broken, earnest style of song-writing.
It's youthful, unpretentious and endearing.
listen with: Ghost mice, Brian Lugo!, New Found Glory's latest release.
4 comments:
What is anti-folk? You are my music-specific Ask Jeeves.
stuff like the moldy peaches/kimya dawson, billy bragg, even beck for a time.
kind of came out of the new york 80s scene and tends to be very acoustic-guitar-driven.
I suppose my question is why 'anti' folk? As opposed to, say, alt-folk or dare I say it, nu-folk?
http://www.timeout.com/london/features/1971/Secret_scenes-Antifolk.html
A good read on anti-folk, which attempts to explain the name. I'm going to assume that someone coined the original movement as such, and it's stuck as the genre-title for all the artists/bands who got involved in both the london/new york scenes.
kind of like how 'emo-violence' started as an inside joke and eventually became a genre tag for bands like pg.99, orchid, hassan i sabbah etc.
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