hip hop bunny hop

Seriously? I'd say the opposite; Folk Punk to me is nothing more than priveleged kids pretending their fighting for the oppressed because they're bored and overly sheltered. Really, to me, folk has a definite economic and cultural dimension; and priveleged kids from the suburbs playing music and using subcultural symbolism most relevant to other priveleged kids thats about making-pretend Wobbly politics are still relevant... that **** doesn't apply. At all.

There is, after all, a definite reason truckers and farmers listen to Merle Haggard and not The Bike is a Pipe Bomb.

levio_sah

I would point out how stupid you're generalization about folk-punk is, but then again, you're the guy who thinks that the Nazi band Screwdriver is the best band ever. And is probably a troll.


For those of you who really want to know, many members of folk-punk bands are actual grown adults, are from the country, and are not white (...okay, so most of them are white, but not all! The singer from Defiance Ohio isn't, and who knows who else).
And the reason that truckers don't listen to THIS Bike is a Pipe Bomb, not "The Bike is a Pipe Bomb", is that truckers don't generally like punk. And also most of them probably don't even know who TBIAPB is.

BTown

subculture is part of what genre a band is placed under imo. especially a punk band.

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James

of course it's part of it, Minutemen are called Post-Punk all the time when they aren't really imo but that doesn't change what the genre entails......it's a punk and folk hybrid and that's what Billy Bragg is imo.

BastardofYoung

Not sure if it is straight up folk punk, but is acoustic punk. One of the nicest guys I have talked to as well.

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‎"I hope that someday we will be able to put away our fears and prejudices and just laugh at people." - Jack Handey.

Obi

I'm really into Oxygen Thief atm. All the ferocity of a grunge band but, it's one guy with his acoustic guitar.

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Zamyotov

I think folk punk is incredibly juvenile and aside from a few Defiance Ohio albums I almost never listen to it anymore. Stuff like The Pogues is great; though I wouldn't associate it with todays style of Folk Punk.

Paul Baribeu makes me want to kill myself.

just a choking victim

I have been lisening to folk punk and riot folk for about a year now and I'm just beginning to break the crust.i mainly listen to johnny hobo in all of his projects. andrew jackson jihad , ryan harvey , and screw you and the four chords any suggestions of others i may like?

Trauma

This Bike is a Pipe Bomb is my favorite, although Defiance, Ohio and a few other bands are cool too. I like the sound of the sub-genre as a whole. I met Terry from This Bike a couple years ago, she made me dinner. She's very cool and has a vegan restaurant in Pensacola. Just another reason to endorse someone's music.

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XMattX

I usually don't listen to much folk punk at all. But on tour my friend showed me Frank Turner. I really like him and think he is considered folk punk. He uses all hardcore logos and imagery. He also mentions stuff like "skins and punks" in his songs and has a black flag tat. I'm down.