It is the final hour of spook season, and in the midst of most people's plans to go to costume parties, haunted attractions, or go trick-or-treating, the sacred origins of the holiday are all but ...

Belfast's New Pagans play charged-up guitar rock with a dark edge but no shortage of pop appeal. Today they've announced their debut album, The Seed, The Vessel, The Roots And All, and shared its ...

This is a very, very good day for heavy music. We've already posted the ass-stomping new albums from Sharptooth and Skeleton, and now the Las Vegas outfit SpiritWorld have come out with their ...

Any jazz pianist with the courage to record solo deserves our respect. Sans bassist and drummer, he stands naked, as vulnerable as a stand-up comic or a wire-walker who’s thrown aside his net. If the ...

An image of what could be Stonehenge appears inside the back cover of the booklet coming with Sumer Is Icumen In – The Pagan Sound Of British & Irish Folk 1966–1975. Inside its front cover, a similar ...

I don’t live for the weekend, but I’m glad it’s here. First up: Old grammar forms live on in American English: “Take the past participle of get, which in Britain is got and in America gotten. To some ...

Punctuated by dry coughs, cello and idiosyncratic charm, folk rock band Half Pagan filled its new song "Coronavirus in New Orleans" with good advice. Some recommendations: stock up on bourbon (lots of ...

To a civilian bystander there could hardly be two white pop genres less simpatico than metal and folk. On the one hand you’ve got corpse-painted quasi-fascist Vikings grunting about blood and Satan; ...

Notably rotund performer Rik Waller is to quit music after agreeing to marry a pagan. The 26-year-old former Pop Idol contestant will no longer grace stages after his engagement to “pink-haired goth” ...