Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A variety of popular music combining elements of rock music and folk music.
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- noun A
music genre combining element offolk music androck music
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Examples
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The couple split up in 2010 and since Mulligan and I met US Weekly magazine has alleged that she is now engaged to Marcus Mumford, lead singer in English folk-rock band Mumford & Sons, following a six-month relationship.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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Hitchcock completes the query - famously asked by Dylan at Newport - in his best nasal American folk-rock accent.
Musical History Tour: Joe Boyd and Robyn Hitchcock revisit the '60s 2011
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There's a sense, however, in which the '60s have yet to conclude for the New Jersey native who found himself at the center of London's acid- and folk-rock booms.
Musical History Tour: Joe Boyd and Robyn Hitchcock revisit the '60s 2011
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Hitchcock completes the query - famously asked by Dylan at Newport - in his best nasal American folk-rock accent.
Musical History Tour: Joe Boyd and Robyn Hitchcock revisit the '60s 2011
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Rising up on the folk-rock charts, New York City-based "Metrobilly" band 2/3 Goat has just released a foot-stomping, evocative and inspiring video performance from their breakthrough new CD, Stream of Conscience.
Jeff Biggers: Metrobilly Band Rocks Charts With Song on Mountaintop Removal (VIDEO) Jeff Biggers 2011
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As a member of the vaunted indie band Grizzly Bear, Chris Taylor helps make prissy, prim folk-rock songs that sound as if they were concocted in a laboratory and only later softened up so as to be marked as artisan-approved.
Oddities of Sound Abound in City Andy Battaglia 2011
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'The Unfazed Partisan continues Dolorean's tradition of very fine song-centric folk-rock albums.
Dolorean Stays 'Unfazed' on the Road to Recognition Jim Fusilli 2011
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There's a sense, however, in which the '60s have yet to conclude for the New Jersey native who found himself at the center of London's acid- and folk-rock booms.
Musical History Tour: Joe Boyd and Robyn Hitchcock revisit the '60s 2011
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Last week Dan Schwartz and Tim Arnold, two-thirds of the emerging folk-rock trio Good Old War, were seated on the patio of an East Village bar here when a sudden storm struck the region.
Harmonious Times for Good Old War Jim Fusilli 2011
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Rising up on the folk-rock charts, New York City-based "Metrobilly" band 2/3 Goat has just released a foot-stomping, evocative and inspiring video performance from their breakthrough new CD, Stream of Conscience.
Jeff Biggers: Metrobilly Band Rocks Charts With Song on Mountaintop Removal (VIDEO) Jeff Biggers 2011
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