Daniel Johnston died today. I like this story about the time Dylan Pyles met him.

Mustard Plug on the PBS Backstage Pass show in 2014.

list of folk punk bands on r/folkpunk

"Almost all of the popular evangelical songs that incorporate the Magnificat stop after the first few verses"

Of course there is the Psalters version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AT8VoWX2238

This article by Aaron Lake Smith was one of the first I read on Jacobin, and still one of my favorites.

"There’s that song, the one about getting knocked down and then getting back up again, but their body of work is like an iceberg; the bulk of it is submerged below the surface, difficult to get a hold of."

I came across this old archived vivalavinyl thread. I learned that even people who hated folk punk in 2005 still liked Erik Petersen and Defiance, Ohio.

I'm a fan of Mischief Brew and Erik Petersen, and I just discovered this tribute to his life and music. From the video description:

"Opening with Stan Rogers' The Mary Ellen Carter, The Folks Show on 88.5 WXPN invited the friends and family of Erik Petersen of Mischief Brew to the show to play some covers pay tribute to him. Show opens at around the four minute mark. Songs are interspersed with reminiscing, talk of inspirations, and exactly what you'd expect from this kind of thing.

"Hosted by Ian Zolitor; also present are Erik's partner Denise, his brother Chris, bandmate Shawn, and others."

A song about living in the USA.

This is an anarcho-capitalist rap metal group. Politics aside, I like them better than RATM. See also this interview with the frontman by Reason: http://reason.com/archives/2017/04/20/meet-eric-july/

Full album of Mischief Brew's "Thanks, Bastards!" demo on Youtube.