The recent Oscar-nominated film A Complete Unknown drew renewed attention to Bob Dylan’s historic performance at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival, where he caused a stir by performing with an electric ...

Throughout the early sixties, the Newport Folk Festival provided a spotlight for folk royalty like Joan Baez, Johnny Cash, and Howlin’ Wolf, under the assumed context that they’d uphold the festival’s ...

Continuing the work of Bob Dylan, The Byrds, and others, these acoustic songs from 1971 also put the rock in folk rock.

A new documentary, Newport & The Great Folk Dream, uses rare archival footage and fresh interviews to revisit the legendary 1960s festival that shaped modern music The film spotlights Bob Dylan’s ...

Today, Bob Dylan is considered one of the most influential cultural figures of his time. But you wouldn’t have seen that coming had you seen him getting booed onstage at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival ...

James Mangold likes to start his movies with a bang. “He wants to make sure that the people don’t get initially bored with the movie’s opening,” A Complete Unknown supervising sound editor Donald ...

The Fender Stratocaster that Bob Dylan plugged in when he famously went electric at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival sold Friday for nearly $1 million — the highest price ever paid for a guitar at ...

A new documentary featuring never-before-seen footage of a pivotal moment in folk music history taps into a revival of interest in Bob Dylan thanks to recent biopic "A Complete Unknown", which starred ...

“Newport & the Great Folk Dream” is a rapturous documentary — elegant and transporting, full of scratchy lyrical black-and-white images and performances that have a timeless power. The movie tells the ...

Driving home from watching A Complete Unknown, fired up by Bob Dylan’s middle finger to the establishment, my mom said she wondered how today’s musicians would respond to the Trump administration. We ...