Island: The record label that changed the world Independent, UK He photographed for 'NME' and 'The Face' and as staff photographer for 'Melody Maker', Boot snapped the Damned, the Sex Pistols, Wire, the Clash and Billy Bragg. His other subjects include Rolling Stones, Marvin Gaye, Led Zeppelin, Grace Jones, ... |
 NME.com | Juliette Lewis added to Wayne Kramer tribute in New York NME.com, UK Lewis will join Kramer, Iggy Pop, Perry Farrell, Tom Morello, Jerry Cantrell, Don Was and Billy Bragg at the benefit concert which is a tribute to former MC5 guitarist Kramer, and proceeds from the event will go to Road Recovery, an organisation that ... |
Folk's virtuoso of dissent The Australian, Australia Testifying to the breadth of Seeger's influence, Springsteen (who released The Seeger Sessions three years ago), Eddie Vedder and Tom Morello will also be there, as will Bela Fleck, Billy Bragg, Kris Kristofferson, Ani DiFranco, Steve Earle and Emmylou ... |
 guardian.co.uk | Behind the music: When politicians use music to get their message ... guardian.co.uk, UK Billy Bragg? Thom Yorke? Someone from the not-for-profit collection agency PRS for Music? No, they enlisted the head of the biggest record label, Lucian Grainge of Universal, the head of the BPI and the MD of Classic FM. It may ensure that Cameron gets ... |
 Ottawa Citizen | Fanfares for the common man Ottawa Citizen, Canada Channelling Billy Bragg with his vocal coarseness and political rhymes, 20-year-old Edmonton guitar slinger Eamon McGrath brings tunes from his new album 13 Songs of Whiskey and Light (White Whale Records) to the Black Sheep Inn, 753 Riverside Dr., ... |
Lost and FOUND Knoxville Metro Pulse, TN Kimya Dawson and a glass eye, Billy Bragg's fossils, Michael Musto's talking Joe Camel, etc. To herald Requiem's release, Rothbart and his brother Peter have embarked upon one of their notorious guerilla book tours. Instead of the more typical reading ... |
Magic Numbers to play Scottish summer festival Best Western News, UK The festival, which takes place across the weekend of July 24 on farmland near Kirkcudbright, will also see Candi Staton, Billy Bragg and Idlewild perform. Festival favourites The Magic Numbers, comprised of brother and sister duos Romeo and Michele ... |
 Telegraph.co.uk | Music festivals: weekly news round up Telegraph.co.uk, United Kingdom The Damned, Billy Bragg, The Zutons and Little Boots are also set for the urban bash, with the latter the sole name added to the Wychwood Festival line-up on Monday (20 April). Sticking with city soirees, Brighton's Great Escape shoved aside ... |
Hit & Run: Jarvis' bum note Independent, UK Hence the creation of Red Wedge, a musical movement fronted by Billy Bragg and intended to engage young people with the Labour Party during the 1987 election. Such idealism died with what Cocker once called the "Cocaine Socialism" of Britpop and New ... |
 Huffington Post | Based on Jazz Fest, Nicolas Cage Sold His Houses Too Soon Huffington Post, NY Louisiana native John Stirratt somehow managed to keep a straight face while their John Holmes-looking cowbell player stole the show dashing around the stage during Hoodoo Voodoo - a song written by Wilco and Billy Bragg with reclaimed Woody Guthrie ... |
Support grows for crucial dispute Socialistworker.co.uk, UK The Visteon dispute was also raised at a Tolpuddle festival in north London, where singer Billy Bragg announced his support for the workers from the stage. Over £300 was collected for the fight. Delegations of workers continue to visit the plants to ... |
Newport Folk Festival Gets A Makeover American Songwriter, TN This year's lineup includes the Decemberists, Langhorne Slim, Ben Kweller, Arlo Guthrie, Fleet Foxes, Neko Case, Billy Bragg, Campbell Brothers, the Avett Brothers, Josh Ritter, Gillian Welch, Judy Collins, Del McCoury, Iron & Wine, Joe Pug, ... |
Win a pair of tickets to Liverpool Sound City Virtual Festivals, UK This year Calvin Harris, Billy Bragg, White Lies, Little Boots and Cage The Elephant are set to perform in various venues around the city's cultural quarter along with The Zutons, Animal Collective and The Damned. The festival will also feature The ... |
The species observed in all its downtrodden glory The Age, Australia I am reminded of that Billy Bragg song, Rotting on Remand where he sings: "This isn't a court of justice, this is a court of law." The Collingwood prejudice against the officials is profound. It's as if they have never known justice and their ... |
Topp Twins: Untouchable Girls Nelson Mail, New Zealand The documentary has its share of archival footage, still photos and interviews - from Billy Bragg and Don McGlashen to John Clarke and Helen Clark - as well as showing the twins on their farm and performing at A&P shows, on their Gypsy Caravan Tour and ... |
New York's Road Recovery and Wayne Kramer to Perform Live at Sing ... The Open Press (press release) The program will be followed by a full electric performance by Kramer and friends, including Billy Bragg, Perry Farrell (Jane‘s Addiction), Etty Lau Farrell (Satellite Party), Tom Morello (Audioslave, Rage Against the Machine), Jerry Cantrell (Alice in ... Iggy Pop, Tom Morello, Perry Farrell & Others to Perform With ... |
 Today's Zaman | [EXPAT VOICE] Does piracy pay? Today's Zaman, Turkey In an interview in Brussels with CNN, singer-songwriter Billy Bragg explained that under the old system, extending copyright was fine but that it was addressing the problem in the same old way and that it would not work with modern-day technological ... |
Iggy Pop, Tom Morello, Perry Farrell & Others to Perform With ... Top40-Charts.com, NY This special event carries a low ticket price of $25, and will feature very special guests including IGGY POP, TOM MORELLO, ETTY FARRELL & PERRY FARRELL, DON WAS, JERRY CANTRELL, BILLY BRAGG, HANDSOME DICK MANITOBA, GILBY CLARKE, BUN E. CARLOS, ... |
SET LIST: GAYMERS CAMDEN CRAWL Daily Star, UK Man Like Me, Rob Skipper & The Musical Differences, FrankMusik, The Big Pink, Billy Bragg and The Fall all pulled off memorable sets, but the weekend belonged to Little Boots and Kasabian. One is an enigmatic pop princess who shone even without a ... |
 BBC News | Wickerman adds The Magic Numbers Virtual Festivals, UK They will be appearing on the Main Stage alongside such luminaries as The Human League, The Zutons, Idlewild, Candi Stanton and Billy Bragg. Festival Director Jamie Gilroy has said the sibling band “is custom made for the chilled out groups and ... Wickerman Festival Adds Artists Onto the 2009 Line-up |
 SFStation.com | William Elliott Whitmore SFStation.com, CA Like a young Billy Bragg, or better yet, like his self-proclaimed hero Shane MacGowan of the Pogues, Will's innate populism and unaffected sincerity resonate with the alienated and imaginative youth culture that surrounds punk, a scene that has ... |
Kasabian close curtain on Camden Crawl Virtual Festivals, UK ... for a hip hop hit happy set and some filthy chat. “My neck, by back, lick my dick and my crack,” the Radio 1 DJ called over the microphone at one point. Little Boots, Billy Bragg, King Creosote and Die! Die! Die! also played the north London festival. |
tunes into hard times Monterey County Herald, CA Guthrie's cracked-voice protest songs offer a ready-made model for authentic expression that, for decades, has been serving singer-songwriters like Springsteen, Billy Bragg, John Mellencamp and Loudon Wainwright III. You can add to the list Ramblin' ... |
Billy Bragg and REM fans/players need to meet Daniel Earwicker ScienceBlogs Daniel performs his own music as Primrose Soul but I first learned of him while Googling when I was learning to play Billy Bragg's, "Greetings to the New Brunette," referred to most often as "Shirley." There is a killer 12-string guitar run under the ... |
Internet pirates beware: this man is out to stop you guardian.co.uk, UK But he is not advocating a free-for-all - "I can safely say that I have never illegally downloaded in my life" - because he has talked to creators of content such as Billy Bragg's Featured Artists Coalition, and believes that "without the creator there ... |
