Folk music is supposed to advocate for peace and harmony, but Bob Dylan and Phil Ochs didn't have an exactly harmonious relationship.

The two Greenwich Village folkies, Phil Ochs and Bob Dylan, started out as friendly supporters, but a combination of cruelty and jealousy led to a sad end.

(This week, I decided to “lend” my Poptional Reading blog to my Westchester Magazine colleague, Carol Caffin, a music aficionado and former music publicist, who is a huge fan of 1960s folk and ...

President John F. Kennedy. John Lennon. If you are of a certain age, you remember where you were when you learned of the untimely deaths of those iconic figures. But, JJ Goldberg adds one more ...

A warts-and-all portrait of a singer and his celebrity, "Phil Ochs: There but for Fortune" is an overdue look at the '60s folk movement's anti-Dylan. Like any singer-songwriter defined by the ...

For folk singer and activist Phil Ochs (1940-1976), the ultimate insult came in the early ’60s, from his contemporary and rival, Bob Dylan. One evening, after both had performed at a Carnegie ...

Folk singer Phil Ochs was one of the first protesters arrested during the tumultuous 1968 convention when he hauled in a pig named “Pigasus” as the presidential nominee of the “Yippies.” ...

The No Ones-Peter Buck, Arne Kjelsrud Mathisen, Scott McCaughey, and Frode Strømstad-share "Phil Ochs Is Dead," the latest track from their new album, My Best Evil Friend, out March 31 on Yep Roc ...

There but for Fortune, a loving tribute to the remarkable career of political activist and balladeer Phil Ochs, is the film my generation has been waiting for. It embodies truths — both heady and ...