Folk Rebel Blues: 'Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune' PopMatters ... then follows up by revealing a quick succession of lauded activists, past and present, from Students for a Democratic Society leader Tom Hayden and British socialist-leaning songster Billy Bragg to actor/director Sean Penn, whose work in Haiti has ... |
 Cinema Blend | LP Release Tuesday: August 30th, 2011 Cinema Blend Not only is that a pretty awesome idea for a band, which is similar to the likes of Billy Bragg, it also inadvertenly brings back the good ol' political folk that Buffalo Springfield, Bob Dylan and Country Joe and The Fish made famous. ... |
 ABC News | Stetson Kennedy: Longtime voice for Florida stilled at 94 Daytona Beach News-Journal (It was finally recorded by Billy Bragg and the group Wilco in 1997.) If you've read his obituaries, you'd think the only thing Kennedy did was infiltrate the Ku Klux Klan using an uncle's name and write the expose, "I Rode with the Ku Klux Klan," ... Florida's Homer, folklorist Stetson Kennedy, dies at age 94 Author who exposed, fictionalized KKK dies |
SoundCloud vs. Bandcamp: Local musicians weigh in Minneapolis City Pages Agitprop folkster Billy Bragg once sued MySpace over ambiguous language in its disclaimer. In contrast, Bandcamp announced its fee structures months before enacting them, and site founder Diamond regularly blogs in casual, personable terms. ... |
 Baltimore City Paper | Baltimore-based Riot Folk roots of a national folk-music collective Baltimore City Paper Harvey, though he grew up as a punk rocker who found his way to Billy Bragg via Rancid, is cutting a fairly different path. “I've noticed the acoustic explosion in the last few years,” he says. “But I don't really feel part of it at all—I feel like I ... |
Village hosts star-studded event Oxford Mail Towersey Festival is in its 47th year and this year it hosted performers including Billy Bragg and The Oysterband from Thursday to yesterday. Music, dance, workshops and a packed showground of activities filled the village, with events spilling over ... |
 ChristianToday | 20000 turn out for Greenbelt ChristianToday This year's theme was Dreams of Home and the line-up brought together a variety of performers, artists and speakers including Billy Bragg, Rob Bell and Pete Rollins. Andy Turner, Chair of Trustees, was pleased with this year's festival. ... |
 Los Angeles Times | Author who exposed, fictionalized KKK dies Bend Bulletin In 1997, a band called Wilco and a rocker named Billy Bragg put the poem to music. A Don Juan, he enjoyed romances with many women, some who turned out to be married during their trysts. Between girlfriends he still managed to marry seven times, ... Florida's Homer, folklorist Stetson Kennedy, dies at age 94 |
 Truthdig | British Alt Rocker: Kids, It's Time to Get Political Truthdig After England's summer of unrest, Billy Bragg, folk- and punk-rock icon of the British protesting classes, recalls the musicians who politicized him after London's 1976 Notting Hill riots and summons a new generation of artists to raise their voices ... |
 Paste Magazine | Lou Reed, Tom Morello, Others to Pay Tribute to Woody Guthrie Paste Magazine Wilco, in conjunction with Billy Bragg, already penned music to rare Guthrie lyrics more than a decade ago on Mermaid Avenue. Appropriately, the two-volume collaboration will see a reissue sometime next year as a fancy box set, which is rumored to ... |
Listen to "Stetson Kennedy" by Woody Guthrie and Billy Bragg Florida Times-Union (blog) Guthrie left many finished and half-finished lyrics behind when he died, and years later English folk singer Billy Bragg and rockers Wilco added music to them for those terrific "Mermaid Avenue" albums. "Stetson Kennedy" was one set of lyrics they ... |
Pocktoberfest's £10k fundraising hope The Press, York It is hoped that headliner Billy Bragg and other acts like Thea Gilmore and Sean Taylor could help attract up to 1000 visitors to the town. People have been requesting tickets ever since they went on sale at the arts centre and posting messages of ... |
Greenbelt hosts Britain's biggest communion service Ekklesia At the beginning of the weekend, award-winning comedian Milton Jones kicked off the Big Top comedy lineup, along with musician Billy Bragg, acoustic duo Show of Hands, and aerial theatre company Ockham's Razor. Saturday's music lineup featured Get Cape ... |
 Tampabay.com | Florida's Homer, folklorist Stetson Kennedy, dies at age 94 Tampabay.com In 1997, a band called Wilco and a rocker named Billy Bragg put the poem to music. Stetson Kennedy is on iTunes. "He knew everybody," said Tina Bucuvalas, the former director of Florida Folklife who now leads a similar program in Tarpon Springs. ... Author who exposed, fictionalized KKK dies |
Room for one more at the keyboard? The Independent Sixty-six writers are involved with the Bush Theatre's celebration of the 400th anniversary of the King James Bible, from Carol Ann Duffy to the Archbishop of Canterbury, Billy Bragg and Wole Soyinka. Sixty-Six Books is curated by the Bush's artistic ... |
 Yorkshire Post | Backstage video: Glastonbury mud and rain makes it a Leeds Festival to remember Yorkshire Post On the main stage, Frank Turner, an old Etonian successfully relaunched from the demise of a band called Million Dead, was looking a bit like Bruce Springsteen and sounding a bit like Billy Bragg. He was a hit at Leeds in 2008 and was going down very ... |
For protest songs, times are a-changin' Washington Post (blog) Billy Bragg, the British protest songwriter, says that music still has a role in protest culture. “An expression of communal outrage, you don't really get that from the Internet,” he says. “Five thousand people might 'like' your comment, ... |
Woody Guthrie Tribute Ropes in Lou Reed, Van Dyke Parks Exclaim! (blog) In other Guthrie-related news, Wilco and Billy Bragg's third set of the tunesmith's music, following their Mermaid Avenue collections, is set to be released sometime in January on Rounder Records. It will be called New Multitudes. ... |
A weekend of fun you can Bank on... Herald Series Bard of Barking Billy Bragg was last night's opening headliner. Booked acts include Martin Carthy and Dave Swarbrick, Oysterband and Cara Dillon, while tonight '80s folk rock group Home Service reform for a special show. WHERE: Towersey, near Thame ... |
Reed, Wilco, James Celebrate Woody Guthrie's 100th Spin Magazine (blog) Wilco, Billy Bragg, My Morning Jacket's Jim James, and others are also planning tributes (via TwentyFourBit). Note of Hope: A Celebration of Woody Guthrie is the first to mark the occasion, and will be released on September 27 by 429 Records. ... |
A weekend of fun you can Bank on... Oxford Times Bard of Barking Billy Bragg was last night's opening headliner. Booked acts include Martin Carthy and Dave Swarbrick, Oysterband and Cara Dillon, while tonight '80s folk rock group Home Service reform for a special show. WHERE: Towersey, near Thame ... |
Tom Morello: The Nightwatchman Buffalo News Whichisnottosuggest thatMorello is trulybreakingnewground here. That was never the idea with the Nightwatchman, the creation of which seems to have been aimed at satisfying the renowned guitarist's desire to get his Springsteen and Billy Bragg on. ... |
 Daily Mail | Radio man Lysaght a guest on unusual Edinburgh show Daily Mail They also have a decent two-year-old on their hands in Warwick winner Knocker Knowles, named after Peter Knowles, a legend at Molineux who scored over 100 goals for the club and who was subject of the Billy Bragg song 'God's Footballer. ... |
Why Music Needs to Get Political Again CounterPunch Get CounterPunch by email for only $35 per year. by BILLY BRAGG How ironic that The Clash should be on the cover of the NME in the week that London was burning, that their faces should be staring out from the shelves as newsagents were ransacked and ... |
 Altsounds.com | THE LOWDOWN: FIGHTING FICTION Altsounds.com I guess, a Clash meets Billy Bragg mesh with modem influences as well; the whole early seventies British punk music thing with its ties to reggae and inspiration of multiculturalism was part of what we were going for because of its intrinsic link to ... |
