When Einar Selvik founded Wardruna in 2003, they effectively existed in a scene of one. While by no means the first band to explore Scandinavian tradition, they helped popularise it to such an extent ...

The History of Future Folk is movie about space aliens who come to earth to destroy it, but end up playing bluegrass instead. They bill it as “the only alien folk duo science-fiction action comedy ...

Pop-culture geeks of a certain age may recall the episode of Star Trek in which Spock, playing his Vulcan lute, improvises with some hippie-alien musicians hitching a ride on the Enterprise to a ...

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 ...