Meanwhile, California-based Asva, London's Teeth of the Sea and Canadian doomgaze duo Nadja are among a second wave of acts riding Sunn O)))'s cloaktails to new territories.
The international labels such as Decca and EMI, who had "got" Fela and Afrobeat, had no A&R scouts willing to support the new wave of acts who were trying to emulate the hip-hop exploding out of America.
The White Stripes famously recorded in the all-analogue Toe Rag Studios in east London, and a wave of acts duly appeared in the late noughties soaked in the same vintage production.
Taking place from 14 - 17 August on the Glanusk Estate, Black Mountains, Wales, the new wave of acts include the aforementioned artists as well as Simian Mobile Disco, Angel Olsen, Boy & Bear ,Nick Mulvey, Francois & The Atlas Mountains, Teleman, East India Youth, O'Hooley & Tidow, Adult Jazz, 9 Bach, Samantha Crain, Samaris, Laura Groves, Alice Boman, Hockeysmith, The Rails and Babe.
The melding of folk with the civil rights movement was a few years away, and give or take the odd murder ballad, the wave of acts that followed in The Kingston Trio's wake - the Limeliters, the Brothers Four, the New Christy Minstrels, the Back Porch Majority - seemed to aim at nothing more complicated than family entertainment.
Look out for: Fat White Family, who will continue to cause trouble with their on and off-stage antics Where: Portmerion, north Wales When: 3 - 6 September Who's going: The first wave of acts include headliners Grace Jones and Belle and Sebastian, as well as the excellent Kate Tempest, DJ Harvey, Ghostpoet and King Creosote.
The tide of protests that swept US cities was matched by a wave of individual acts of resistance.
From Bangladesh to Florida, hundreds died in a new wave of terrorist acts.
Both countries are experiencing an unprecedented wave of violent acts just as they gear up for key elections next year.
In the early part of the century, Harry Gardiner — reportedly partial to climbing buildings in a white duck suit, tennis shoes, and rimless spectacles — gained notoriety as the Human Fly, spawning a wave of copycat acts.
The coordination of the explosions in the city of Krasnodar, not far from the Black Sea, prompted senior officials to link the bombings to a summer-long wave of deadly acts stemming from the war in Chechnya, but some officials quoted by Russian news agencies did not rule out the possibility they were part of a business or criminal dispute.
