“Have you heard people talk about freak folk in the last five years?” Vetiver frontman Andy Cabic asks, point blank. “That’s people being lazy, right? Isn’t it? It didn’t make sense when they used it ...

If you didn’t know better — which at first, I didn’t — it would be easy to mistake San Francisco folk quartet Vetiver’s latest album Thing of the Past as just that: a long-lost relic. In a sense, that ...

Vetiver's Andy Cabic has a surfeit of musical identities: He came up in North Carolina’s fertile music scene of the ‘90s, playing with college-rock act The Raymond Brake before decamping to San ...

Andy Cabic has been at it for a while. Under the moniker Vetiver, he had his coming out in the freak folk explosion of the early oughts alongside tourmates Joanna Newsom and Devendra Banhart. Unlike ...

Andy Cabic, who has been playing indie music since before indie was mainstream, named his current project Vetiver because, “I just like the plant … the grass ...

“It’s always slightly confounding to me whenever Vetiver is depicted with the same tropes that people have read off of press sheets,” says Andy Cabic. “The same sort of milestones get mentioned but ...

You could be forgiven for mistaking Vetiver for a freak-folk band based on the company they keep. They’ve toured and recorded with freak-folk pioneers Vashti Bunyan and Joanna Newsom, and Devendra ...

Working with collaborators like the Jayhawks' Gary Louris, Jenny Lewis and Black Crowes frontman Chris Robinson has certainly left its carbon footprint on the music of Andy Cabic and his band Vetiver.