Well ... it’s fun, for starters. High-energy. Hilarious. And that’s just between songs. The music, itself, if you had to stick it in a category, it’s probably ...

D erek Piotr is always on the hunt for old songs. These ancient melodies and fragmentary lyrics echo across generations, ...

John Craigie has a degree in mathematics and also went through a self-described “hippie phase” while in college. When you learn that, it becomes easier to wrap your head around the title of his new ...

Jersey City is referenced in one version of an old folk song called “The Butcher Boy,” and the reasons for that are as much of a hodgepodge as the city itself. Hodgepodges are apparently the nature of ...

Elizabethan songs. Man is for the woman made ; Come again, sweet love doth now invite ; Never weather-beaten saile ; I care not for these ladies ; Willow song ; The cypress curtaine of the night ; ...

Several rising British bands are using centuries-old ditties to discuss hot-button issues like prison abolition, trans rights and the gig economy. By Alex Marshall Reporting from London Think of ...