From Pete Seeger to Billie Holiday to Rage Against the Machine to Kendrick Lamar, musicians of all genres have spoken truth to power ...

Four-time Oscar nominee Edward Norton showcases a benevolent side as folk singer Pete Seeger in A Complete Unknown. Just don’t tell him he’s playing against type. In 1964, Bob Dylan wrote a ...

Folk singer and social activist Pete Seeger was a regular on US radio over three decades and his music is celebrated to this day by artists including Bruce Springsteen. Seeger was one of the ...

TheWrap magazine: Director James Mangold said, “Go out and mine Pete Seeger and bring me back a bunch of gold,” says the actor ...

There’s a priceless moment early in “A Complete Unknown” when folk icon Pete Seeger returns to the cabin where he lives with his family after offering a young singer named Bob Dylan a place ...

Pete Seeger didn't like singing by himself. It wasn't just that he contributed his tenor (and banjo picking) to two seminal folk groups — the Almanac Singers (with Woody Guthrie) and The Weavers ...

It took a while for the Popular Front’s strategy to get results in popular music—and Pete Seeger was the catalyst.” Seeger joined the Communist Party in 1942 and, in time, learned to make ...

During the decade, the trio won five Grammy awards, released two No. 1 albums, and had Top 10 hits with their takes on "If I Had a Hammer" by Pete Seeger and ... living by the sea were based ...

Wilkes-Barre-based folk musician and songwriter Don Shappelle can recall an early, formative moment in his musical journey.

Toward the end of A Complete Unknown, a good biopic about Bob Dylan that opened on Christmas, there is a key scene in which Dylan manager Albert Grossman barks at folk music legend Pete Seeger ...

The early scenes of the film set the stage. When Bob Dylan arrives in New York City in the early 1960s, Pete Seeger, the paterfamilias of folk music, takes the young musician under his wing, getting ...