“If it’s never new and it doesn’t get old,” the singer tells his audience, “it’s a folk song.” Llewyn Davis (Oscar Isaac) has just finished performing the traditional blues number “Hang Me, Oh Hang Me ...

The Coen brothers are hoping the music for December's Inside Llewyn Davis—the already highly praised story of a struggling folk singer—can live (and thrive) independently of the film.

At one point in the Coen brothers latest film Inside Llewyn Davis the title character shouts, "I hate f---king folk music." It's a strange declaration for Llewyn—a folksinger himself—but it's ...

This post is in partnership with Consequence of Sound, an online music publication devoted to the ever growing and always thriving worldwide music scene. Following an embattled young folksinger in ...

Welcome back to another issue of Your Movie Mage, where I discuss underrated movies across genres. Last week, we discussed the highly underrated film adaptation of the popular book, “Where the Wild ...

Llewyn Davis is a jerk. One of many folk musicians working the cafes and basement bars of Greenwich Village in 1961, Llewyn (Oscar Isaac) is undoubtedly a talented artist. But he’s also a walking ...

When it was revealed two years ago that the Coen brothers’ next project would revolve around the Greenwich Village folk scene of the early ’60s, the first thought that came to mind was “who’s going to ...

Three types of artists hinge on authenticity: punk bands, folk singers, and rappers. Actors, like Oscar Isaac, are phonies by definition. But the star of the Joel and Ethan Coen’s new film, Inside ...

The eponymous Llewyn (Drive's Oscar Isaac) is a man out of time, trying to make a living playing covers of folk songs in a transitional period where tastes were leaning towards singer-songwriters who ...

The Coen brothers' blackly comic drama Inside Llewyn Davis follows a week in the life of struggling folk musician Llewyn (Oscar Isaac) in 1960s New York. Digital Spy sat down with Isaac and Carey ...

Bon Iver songs have landed on a number of movie soundtracks, but Justin Vernon has never actually appeared in a feature film himself — unless you count a Taylor Swift concert film. Turns out there was ...