Found: Bits and pieces of American lives Tulsa World, OK The celebrities include actors such as Damon Wayans and Seth Rogen (who writes — not too surprisingly, given his choice of screen roles — of finding a pornographic magazine by the side of the road in his younger days), songwriter Billy Bragg, ... |
 guardian.co.uk | Arise you Dippers, Diggers and Ranters guardian.co.uk, UK It's a tradition that has given us Tom Paine and Billy Bragg, as well as Oswald Mosley and the British Union of Fascists. Still, it's a record that deserves to be remembered, warts and all. Vallance has performed a useful service by adding a vigorous ... |
 guardian.co.uk | : An Anthology of Short Stories Inspired by Punk guardian.co.uk, UK Meanwhile, Billy Bragg forsakes fiction entirely in his account of going, as a young kid from Barking, to see the Clash. The stories that work best are those that are guided by the sparseness of punk, their economy of language reminiscent of the ... |
bikemonkey's Best/Worst Cover Song Meme ScienceBlogs I have been completely fascinated by the Billy Bragg/Wilco project envisioned during the 1990s by Guthrie's daughter, Nora. Hundreds of Guthrie lyrics lie unrecorded in the Woody Guthrie Archives in New York City and Billy Bragg and the members of ... |
Musicians Demand BNP Stop Selling Their Songs Ultimate-Guitar.Com Billy Bragg, along with Dave Rowntree from Blur and Nick Mason from Pink Floyd, have joined with the Musicians' Union and Featured Artists' Coalition in objecting to the BNP's "politics and morals". "In the lead up to the European elections, ... |
 The Star-Ledger - NJ.com | Street Sweeper Social Club opens for Nine Inch Nails and Jane's ... The Star-Ledger - NJ.com, NJ Morello was a fan of the Coup, and invited Riley to perform on the Tell Us the Truth Tour, organized by singer-songwriter Billy Bragg to protest globalization and media consolidation. Morello was performing on the tour, solo, as the Nightwatchman. ... |
Musicians Tell British National Party to Stop Selling Their Music Merchant News, UK Billy Bragg, Nick Mason from Pink Floyd, and Dave Rowntree from Blur have joined with the Musicians' Union and Featured Artists' Coalition to object to the morals and politics of the British National Party. In a letter that The Times published, ... |
 Telegraph.co.uk | Music unions try to gag BNP CD's London Daily News, UK A number of artists, including Billy Bragg, Pink Floyd's Nick Mason and Blur drummer Dave Rowntree, are backing a campaign by the Musicians' Union and Featured Artists Coalition to try to stop the British National Party from selling compilation CDs of ... Blur and Pink Floyd angry over music usage |
Robbie Williams and Amy Winehouse back our Hope Not Hate campaign Mirror.co.uk, UK Music is a triumph of hope over hate. That's why we urge you to vote for hope." Billy Bragg and Kate Nash also signed it. Our bus is in Oldham town centre. Tomorrow it's at Stoke City FC from noon to 10pm for a finale Love Music Hate Racism Festival. ... |
 Mirror.co.uk | Hope not Hate: Robbie Williams and Amy Winehouse back our anti ... Mirror.co.uk, UK Music is a triumph of hope over hate. That's why we urge you to vote for hope." Billy Bragg and Kate Nash also signed it. Our bus is in Oldham town centre. Tomorrow it's at Stoke City FC from noon to 10pm for a finale Love Music Hate Racism Festival. ... |
Robbie and Amy back our campaign Mirror.co.uk, UK Music is a triumph of hope over hate. That's why we urge you to vote for hope." Billy Bragg and Kate Nash also signed it. Our bus is in Oldham town centre. Tomorrow it's at Stoke City FC from noon to 10pm for a finale Love Music Hate Racism Festival. ... |
Q & A: Mirah American Songwriter, TN Why hasn't anyone ever suggested that I was influenced by Billy Bragg? That was one of my first inspirations. And it's because he's a guy. Male straight men are the most common human on the planet, and everything else is “the other,” which has to be ... |
Songs to Write By San Francisco Chronicle, USA Billy Bragg and Wilco, "California Stars," from Mermaid Avenue. An antidote to number 10: this one will make you feel good about California. 12. Nick Cave, "Into My Arms," from the 1997 Nick Cave disc The Boatman's Call. This song has a special place ... |
Pink Floyd, Blur battle BNP over music Digital Spy, UK Billy Bragg, Pink Floyd's Nick Mason and Blur drummer Dave Rowntree have now joined the Musicians' Union and Featured Artists' Coalition in a bid to stop the BNP using their music to promote its beliefs. The organisation is seeking a legally recognised ... |
Musicians angry with BNP Edinburgh Evening News, UK A GROUP of top musicians, including Billy Bragg and members of Blur and Pink Floyd are demanding that the British National Party stop selling their music on its website to raise campaign funds. The musicians say they are powerless to stop their work ... |
Blur And Pink Floyd Unite Against The BNP's Music Compilations Festivalwise, UK In a letter to The Times, Billy Bragg joined forces with Dave Rowntree (Blur) and Nick Mason (Pink Floyd) plus the Musicians' Union and Featured Artists' Coalition to object to the BNP using the music. They wrote: "In the lead up to the European ... |
 Martiniboys.com | Worldwide Summer Festival Guide 2009 Martiniboys.com, Canada This year sees a typical smattering of singer songwriters, like Iron and Wine, Langhorne Slim, Neko Case, Josh Ritter, Billy Bragg, and Joan Baez. Additional marquee talent includes The Decemberists, Fleet Foxes, and Elvis Perkins in Dearland. ... |
 New Zealand Herald | The latest albums reviewed and rated New Zealand Herald, New Zealand What Woody Guthrie was to Billy Bragg and Pete Seeger was to Springsteen, Townes Van Zandt has become to Steve Earle. That is not only a life-long inspiration, but the backbone of one really great record. This has Earle covering 15 of the late ... |
DEACON NEW ; Ricky and Lorraine Release First Album Away From Band California Chronicle, CA McIntosh and Ross have signed to Cooking Vinyl records, making them new label-mates of Ryan Adams, The Lemonheads, The Charlatans, Billy Bragg and The Prodigy. Cooking Vinyl spokesman Jo Cokell told the Razz: "Ricky and Lorraine have created a ... |
Record labels 'throw in the towel' Legalbrief (subscription), South Africa Record labels have given up on copyright law and are trying to make ISPs fight their battles for them in a 'shameful attempt to pass (on) responsibility', singer songwriter Billy Bragg has said. Out-Law.com reports that Bragg is one of the main figures ... |
Ex-Wilco Member Jay Bennett Dead At 45 FMQB, NJ He was also key to the band's collaborations with Billy Bragg on unreleased Woody Guthrie songs, released as Mermaid Avenue Vol. 1 and 2. As seen in the documentary I Am Trying To Break Your Heart, Bennett left Wilco during the recording of 2002's ... Ex-Wilco member Jay Bennett dies |
Capitalism Produces Rich Bankers, but Socialism Produces Happiness Common Dreams (press release), ME As Billy Bragg exhorts us in his update of the socialist anthem "The Internationale": "Stand up, all victims of oppression/for tyrants fear your might/Don't cling so hard to your possessions/For you have nothing if you have no rights. ... |
Former Wilco Musician Found Dead TheCelebrityCafe.com, NY Bennett also played a part in “Mermaid Avenue,” a partnership between Wilco and Billy Bragg to set song lyrics written – though never published – by Woody Guthrie to music. Bennett was involved in the project's first installment in 1998 as well as the ... |
Patrick Jones has something to Bragg about WalesOnline, United Kingdom What have Billy Bragg, opera singer Beverly Humphreys and James Dean Bradfield got in common? Matt Thomas finds Patrick Jones is the answer Manic Street Preachers are garnering rave reviews for their latest work Journal For Plague Lovers, ... |
Glide's Jay Bennett Interview from September 2008 Glide Magazine, MA Bennett was best known for his work with Wilco, the group for which he wrote and recorded on 1996's "Being There," 1999's "Summerteeth" and 2002's "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot," as well as the band's Woody Guthrie themed albums with Billy Bragg, ... |
