What's old — and new — at Newport folk festival

Joan Baez was just 18 when she performed at the first Newport Folk Festival, a self-described neurotic and high maintenance teenager who remembers trembling in her sandals as she waited her turn on stage.

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5Top: Top of the pops! Up-and-coming young singers

This New Jersey trio represents a refreshing change from the usual tween-oriented female acts. First and foremost, sisters Destinee and Paris Monroe not only can sing (as their occasional a cappella tunes prove), but their voices blend to make a shiny, happy sound more reminiscent of Bananarama than Britney. They also play cute instead of sexy, preferring Converse sneakers to the now-cliché stripper heels. The group’s EPs have been pretty much ignored, but things may start to look up since they signed with Interscope Records, and became spokesgirlz for Baby Bottle Pop candy. (They also replaced Ariel Moore with newcomer Sara Diamond.) Their full-length debut, “Incredible,” is due out this summer, and if buzz continues to build, maybe songs like “Then I Woke Up” and “Without You” will make it onto radio playlists.

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Robots to revive dying dance routines

HRP-2 performing a Japanese folk routine called Aizu-Bandaisan (Image: Journal of Robotics Research)

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It is easy now to underestimate the influence of Peter, Paul and Mary on the world of popular music as the 60s fade into history. After all Peter, Paul and Mary haven't had a hit in many a year.

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It's been a while since we had a new folk collective. Since Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young in the late Sixties, the last folk supergroup was probably Pentangle, starring Bert Jansch, John Renbourn and Danny Thompson, back in the Seventies.

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A man in Croatia has become so obsessed with folk music that he has changed his name to Folk. The 35-year-old from the southern village of Glavice decided to discard his real name Predrag Dolic and legally changed it to Folk Dolic.

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Some dude's have worse years than others, but WW's might beat out most. The new disc is sub-par, but check the write up at x Osmosis.

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Folk-blues-pop sensation Sophie Hunger looks set to continue her meteoric rise with strings of sell-out shows and a top-selling new album just out in Europe.

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Before he passed away this week at the age of 60, the singer and guitarist John Martyn had cheated death many times.

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Many times in my youth I sat in Café Lena in Saratoga listing to Utah Phillip's magic tales. I just learned of his demise and am saddened by the news. However, it will be nice for Utah to reunite with his old friend Lena.

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There are probably more beautiful songs. There are songs that more people can probably sing along to. But the way in which "Stealin'" was written and has subsequently been performed makes it an American standard. Of late it seems to have been getting its due as well.

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Made up primarily of Reverend Thomas Vito Aiuto and his wife Monique amongst various collaborators like Sufjan Stevens, The Welcome Wagon differs greatly from what might be expected from a short glance at the album cover.

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This debut pretty much has it all. Simple melodies and percussion, ample guitar work and vocals that are friendly enough that one might be able to hear them emanating from your friends' kitchen.

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Litany of Echoes contains a great deal of stunning musicianship. And James Blackshaw , who has released more full lengths in five years than anyone could expect, continues to exhibit his compositional skills.

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Unfortunately or not, The Fall Apartment really has nothing to do with the Slip. That band's metamorphosis over the years has encompassed a great deal of stylistic variety, but doesn't ever really touch upon acoustic, instrumental guitar music.

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A former member of Beachwood Sparks, Jen Cohen previously of the Aislers Set and a producer that, in the past, has worked with Project Blowed come together to create an album that should defy categorization.

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Over the years, thousands of artists and musicians have come and gone, while only a handful seemed to have left a lasting impression on popular culture.

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In Pictures: They've been transformed into average folk by computer wizards for a new viral email. It also features mock-ups of how Jo-Lo, Tom Cruise and Britney might have looked without fame and fortune.

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Erik Darling, a preppy Ayn Rand devotee who replaced Pete Seeger in the Weavers and who was associated with two of folk music's biggest commercial hits, "The Banana Boat Song" and "Walk Right In," died Sunday in Chapel Hill, N.C. He was 74.

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Consider defaulting on your college loans.

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Since 2004, Lupen Crook has been a part of the underground folk scene growing out of London. Lupen joins with brothers Tom and Bob Langridge of the Murderbirds, to bring what the BBC calls "a rag-tag sonic assault" to the stage.

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A short film based upon the truCulentEnigma album track drugless...... "it seeks to balance a drugless head on a stick" jandek halooming "ideal for all petrol lighters" B. Dyland

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Songwriter Patrick Dodd's web site is unlike any other. All Patrick's well crafted songs can be downloaded for free, or stream and listen to music while you read provocative under reported news.

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Music Review: The Weepies-- Happiness

Deb Talan and Steve Tannen comprise the duo known as The Weepies. Their music has been heard on television in shows such as Grey's Anatomy and Scrubs, as well as movies and major TV ad campaigns.

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Shortly after September 11, 2001, a small, heavy package wrapped in brown paper arrived in the mail at the Woody Guthrie Archives in New York City. Inside was a mess of wires.

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The ensemble of Ancient Russian Music Svetilen was formed in 1989 to take care of old Russian tradition in singing. This tradition is reflected in two types of singing; church singing and secular singing. Both are marked by the meaning of the sacred word.

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A pair of twins were separated at birth and fell in love, marrying. When the truth was revealed, their union was annullled.

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A police inspector in the U.K. is fired over a sexual indiscretion

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