The Norwegian duo makes eiderdown-plush folk-pop records, buoyed by harmonies that recall Simon and Garfunkel at their zenith.
Bach and Beethoven were not above throwing folk-pop melodies into their works.
The folk-pop outfit, formed by singer-guitarist Israel Nebeker and drummer Ryan Dobrowski, has taken two bike tours, playing its music all along the West Coast.
"The Whole Love" seems like a celebration of that freedom, with songs that roam happily all over the place: "Capitol City" is a country waltz with bits of Dixieland clarinet, "Sunloathe" sounds like the Beatles if they were still together in 1974, and the vaguely psychedelic folk-pop title track takes Simon and Garfunkel's 59th Street Bridge down to the Small Faces' Itchycoo Park for a summer-breezin' picnic.
Singer-songwriter Shawn Mullins offers a mix of folk-flavored pop songs in a special, midday concert from the World Cafe live stage in Philadelphia, Pa.
English singer-songwriter Newton Faulkner specializes in folk-tinged pop music.
Jaymay's debut album, Autumn Fallin', is a collection of charmingly heartbroken songs that mix bluesy-folk and pop.
Vincent, Merrill Garbus's Tune-Yards and Laura Marling, who added a cello and brass to her retro-folk sound, presented polished, high-concept chamber pop, as did Other Lives, who impressed with melodramatic baroque folk featuring strings, orchestral synths and vocal harmonies in support of the quietly charismatic singer Jesse Tabish.
Advertising and news, politics and entertainment, and even school textbooks, according to a 2012 study, reflect the pop-folk reality, which also dictates the standards of fashion and beauty, especially among adolescents.
Back then, pop-folk music and its lifestyle were associated with the mafia-dominated nouveau-riche class that sprung out of the marriage between capitalism and lawlessness in the region's nascent democracies but, over time, it crossed over into the mainstream.
Though still best known as an Oscar-nominated actress who's made films such as Good Will Hunting, GoldenEye and Grosse Point Blank, Minnie Driver continues to make inroads as a musician, developing a pop-folk style similar to that of Neil Young and Bruce Springsteen.
An up-and-coming folk-rock singer-songwriter who crafts brooding, timeless, sophisticated pop songs, Elvis Perkins has earned lofty comparisons to the likes of Leonard Cohen and Bob Dylan.
Paul, Minnesota, presents a diverse array of musical offerings, from pop and folk to award-winning classical music programs such as ' Performance Today' and ' Pipedreams.
One album I completely missed when it came out last year was the self-titled debut release from Martha Wainwright, the sister of cabaret-pop singer Rufus Wainwright and daughter of folk artists Loudon Wainwright and Kate McGarrigle.
Animal Collective's latest CD, on the Domino label, is the appropriately named Strawberry Jam: a sticky-sweet mixture of mashed-up musical elements, from noise pop and fringe folk to ambient drones and psychedelia, with crunchy seeds of noise rock.
The English folk rockers received their honour from fellow-countrywoman Adele, who had earlier won best pop solo performance for her live version of Set Fire to the Rain.
He was already a seasoned local and regional performer, playing both old-time music and what he called "rockabilly and pop standards, " when the folk boom of the 1960s put him in front of a new set of audiences with his voice, banjo and acoustic guitar.
Philadelphia's The Asteroid No. 4 takes dreamy shoegazer pop and mixes in elements of '60s psychedelia and latter-day space rock to create a folk-rock sound that falls somewhere between The Byrds and The Stone Roses.
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