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: The Minstrels

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Nov 30 Monday 30 November 2009 Today
The Books Baby Dee	Majestic Theatre Madison WI, United States 43.074418 -89.380851	28 people attending 1 shout
Dec 3 Thursday 3 December 2009
The Skygreen Leopards	Echo Curio Los Angeles, CA, Los Angeles, United States 34.076105 -118.255846	3 people attending 2 shouts
Dec 6 Sunday 6 December 2009
Cutlery at Pete's Candy Store Heidi Harris, www.sirensofsilverware.com	Pete's Candy Store Brooklyn NY, United States 42.34417 -75.17083	1 person attending Add shout
Dec 11 Friday 11 December 2009
Espers	Fernwood Resort Big Sur, CA, United States 36.059206 -121.585698	1 person attending Add shout
Dec 12 Saturday 12 December 2009
Tickley Feather Small Black	Cake Shop New York NY, United States 40.720947 -73.987878	9 people attending Add shout
Dec 15 Tuesday 15 December 2009
Tickley Feather Nelly Kate	Twisted Branch Tea… Charlottesville VA, United States 38.029675 -78.478984	3 people attending Add shout

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Yunckzilla wrote:
27 days ago

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

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blibblipblib wrote:
28 days ago

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

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hamboman wrote:
28 days ago

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:
last month

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

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Initializer wrote:
last month

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

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Spark_and_Spark wrote:
last month

...Freak folk?

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mukeys wrote:
last month

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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riigo wrote:
September 2009

one of the dumbest tags i've ever come across. where the fuck is rick james doing leonard cohen covers on this page?

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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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deadthancoolkc wrote:
August 2009

This page failed at teaching me about freak folk. [3]

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SirMothy wrote:
August 2009

lol Kid A freak folk? haha

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SirMothy wrote:
August 2009

http://www.last.fm/group/Indie+is+a+genre

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dog_face wrote:
August 2009

indie is to new rock/pop music as freak folk is to new folk music.

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