This 1972 record from Mellow Candle is a great example of what Irish bands were doing with the genre in the 1970s. Clodagh Simonds’ piano tracks are on another level, and the addition of the ...

Strummy singer-songwriter confessionals, twisty guitar pop, L.A. shoegaze, Spanish garage-punk, North Carolina folk-rock, Ohio disaffection — it was a great year for all manner of indie-rock.

In “Unknown,” of course, it’s a very big deal and the journey from aspiring teenage folkie arriving in New York City in 1961 to rock star blazing onstage at the Newport Folk Festival vividly ...