Freak Folk

Freak Folk is a style that uses mainly acoustic instruments; mostly guitar (often in alternate tunings) and occasionally violin or flute, accompanied by percussion instruments such as bongos. Used correctly, it tends to refer to music with long instrumental/psychedelic passages (and that may utilise drones), or “poppier” folk music with elaborately baroque, psychedelic or oppressive atmospheres. Some modern singer-songwriters are tagged as Freak Folk just for looking a bit peculiar. Read more…|Edit this Artist photo: Cthulhu Ferguson

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Jan 8 Friday 8 January 2010 Tomorrow
Atlas Sound Tune-Yards	Natural History… Los Angeles CA, United States 34.017801 -118.290576	135 people attending 27 shouts
Fischerspooner & Animal Collective (DJ sets) at American Museum of Natural... Animal Collective, Fischerspooner, Activaire DJs	American Museum of… New York, United States 40.78072 -73.973404	78 people attending 30 shouts
Jan 20 Wednesday 20 January 2010
Junk Science return to the silver screen stage at Southpaw Junk Science, Das Racist	Southpaw Brooklyn, New York NY, United States 42.34417 -75.17083	1 person attending Add shout
Feb 6 Saturday 6 February 2010
St. Vincent (early show) at Doug Fir St. Vincent, Wildbirds & Peacedrums	Doug Fir Portland OR, United States 45.522766 -122.656946	30 people attending 1 shout
St. Vincent (late show) at Doug Fir Lounge St. Vincent, Wildbirds & Peacedrums	Doug Fir Lounge Portland, OR, Portland, United States 45.522766 -122.656946	16 people attending Add shout
Feb 8 Monday 8 February 2010
St. Vincent Wildbirds & Peacedrums	The Great American… San Francisco CA, United States 37.785063 -122.418798	69 people attending 3 shouts

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sir_ks wrote:
7 days ago

wdf is this tag lOl

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caragenerico wrote:
14 days ago

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vboechat wrote:
19 days ago

This page failed at teaching me about freak folk. [4]

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moneeb wrote:
25 days ago

hey, cool new site featuring album and gig reviews, aswell as spotify playlists. http://www.distantreverb.com/

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tinakilz wrote:
December 2009

Freak-folk, most bullshit tag ever.

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Yunckzilla wrote:
November 2009

mostly guitar (often in alternate tunings) and occasionally violin or flute, accompanied by percussion instruments such as bongos.

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blibblipblib wrote:
November 2009

ben914 tagged Marissa Nadler with ‘freak folk’. 8 minutes ago <-- What goes through some peoples' minds

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hamboman wrote:
November 2009

Explain me: what is this and what is New Weird America and what is the difference, since all music i have tagged with one of those is also tagged with the orher.

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Onie-mickeypl wrote:
October 2009

he can't because he is a troll and he got blocked lol

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Initializer wrote:
October 2009

That makes no sense Mukeys. What do you speak of? Explain yourself.

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Spark_and_Spark wrote:
October 2009

...Freak folk?

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mukeys wrote:
October 2009

Half the people who listen to freak folk don't actually appreciate the genre... I like people who really do freak folk.

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GeorgieFruitt wrote:
September 2009

badmovieescene have any idea of animal collectives history?? ahahahha

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badmovieescene wrote:
September 2009

Animal Collevtive folk?? ahahahha

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these_hands wrote:
September 2009

this genre/tag needs to die

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rogenjosh wrote:
September 2009

man, if you're not going to say something original don't say anything.

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_brunah_ wrote:
September 2009

This page failed at teaching me about freak folk. [5]

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BornToByte wrote:
September 2009

This page failed at teaching me about freak folk. [4]

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rogenjosh wrote:
September 2009

well that's my take on it anyway.

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rogenjosh wrote:
August 2009

I'm pretty sure freak folk is singer song writters with a slightly satirical, nonsensical style. Artists who don't take them selfs to seriously. But ofcourse there are exceptions as in anything in life

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