Ever since his 1983 mini-album "Life's
a Riot With Spy Vs Spy," folk-rock artist Billy Bragg has been
known as a spokesman for a generation.
But where his politically...
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Billy Bragg, Hard-Fi, and Clash band members Mick Jones and Topper Headon are to play a benefit concert for striking firefighters.
The gig will mark the fifth anniversary...
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Initially, Billy Bragg's
gig Wednesday at the Music Box appeared as if it was going to
be a drag. Before the Brit punk-folk vet hit the stage,
attendance was so sparse that...
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Cameron Crowe was on tour with his
wife, musician Nancy Wilson. He gazed out the bus window at the
Kentucky landscape and thought of his father; he had not been
back to...
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Woody Guthrie was a dust bowl drifter, a guitar strummer and a proto-folkie who wrote enduring songs about America's workers and underdogs. He also was a longtime New York...
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Britain's music world heaped tributes
upon the late John Peel, crediting the maverick BBC disc jockey
with transforming the country's popular music scene.
The 65-year-old...
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Paul McCartney , the Red Hot Chili
Peppers, Tony Bennett , Sonic Youth, Ben Harper and the Innocent
Criminals, Los Lonely Boys and Tegan & Sara will join event
founder Neil...
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Wilco's
main man can't stand it anymore.
Jeff Tweedy, the
singer-songwriter behind the seminal alt-country band, has checked
himself into a drug rehabilitation center...
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The Faces, a band known as much for
its excess as for its music, will return for one more round
with the four-disc box set "Faces: Five Guys Walk Into a
Bar..."
Due May 25...
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Steve Earle is a shadow of his former self.
Seriously. He's been on the Atkins diet, which has stripped more than 50 pounds off his frame, and the 48-year-old...
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Musicians worried that new media ownership rules will make it harder to get airtime are taking the fight from the Capitol to their own turf, embarking on a grass-roots music...
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R.E.M .'s Mike Mills,
singer/songwriter Jill Sobule and Boots Riley of rap act the
Coup will join select dates on the Tell Us the Truth tour,
which kicks off Nov. 7 in...
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Bluesman Corey Harris will
release his fifth studio album, "Mississippi to Mali," on Nov.
18 via Rounder Records.
His second set for the label, the album will feature...
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The songs of Woody Guthrie will again get the spotlight with the release of Man In The Sand, a DVD and VHS about the making of Mermaid Avenue, the Billy Bragg/Wilco...
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Mermaid Avenue Volume 2, the sequel to the Grammy-winning, Woody Guthrie-inspired Mermaid Avenue, is currently in stores, and co-writer Billy Bragg says fans may see it...
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For those who can't get enough of Mermaid Avenue--the collaborative effort featuring Billy Bragg and Wilco providing music for previously-unreleased song lyrics by Woody...
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The WOMAD festival begins today in Seattle, kicking off a three-day celebration of world music. The festival is renowned in the U.K., but this is the first time it is...
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Summer blockbuster films aren't only knocking 'em dead at the box office, they've spawned some of the biggest albums of the season.
On the new album chart the City Of...
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Those hoping to see Billy Bragg and Wilco join forces to tour in support of Mermaid Avenue, their collaborative effort due Tuesday on Elektra Entertainment, may be a bit...
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Political English folkie Billy Bragg will soon get together with Wilco's Jeff Tweedy and Jay Bennett to record several unfinished songs by the late Woody Guthrie. According...
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