"Turn all weapons into instruments." These words first came into eyes when we stepped into the live house run by Ryukyuan musician Shokichi Kina in the city of Naha. Flower, a Ryukyuan folk song Kina ...

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Lohri, celebrated every year on January 13, is one of the most vibrant winter festivals in North India. It is most popular in Punjab, Haryana, Delhi, and Himachal Pradesh, where people gather around a ...

Lucknow: Amid dancing around bonfires on folk songs and the distribution of traditional til ke ladoo, rewri, and chikki, people celebrated the festival of Lohri with great enthusiasm. Newlyweds, clad ...

In the 1960s and 1970s, the most popular rock and roll subgenre was, without a doubt, folk rock. Popularized by groups and artists such as Bob Dylan, The Band, Creedence Clearwater Revival, and CSN, ...

The 1970s produced countless folk musicians. Some earned fame while others remained underground heroes. Given the genre’s rich and robust history, particularly in this decade, it’s impossible to know ...

Back in September 2023, Bruce Springsteen announced that he would have to shelve his planned tour until March 2024 so he could recover from peptic ulcer disease. The temporary retreat shouldn’t be ...

As nostalgia for 2016 takes over the Internet, a Gen Z writer tries living the millennial lifestyle, from Tinder to SoulCycle ...

Visiting Okinawa, I was struck by how much it didn't feel like I was in Japan. Not only are the vast majority of buildings made of concrete, but they are designed in a unique Okinawan way. Video shows ...

The best songs of 2025 worked admirably toward the daunting task of attempting to describe what it feels like to be alive in the unpredictability matrix of the mid-’20s. Songwriters expressing pangs ...

Sometimes life imitates art - or at least the two can seem eerily connected. On Jan. 1, the Venezuelan band Rawayana released ...

Sometimes life imitates art - or at least the two can seem eerily connected. On Jan. 1, the Venezuelan band Rawayana released ...