 In These Times | Tom Morello In These Times From artists who've been around a while like Steve Earle and Billy Bragg, to the newer artists like Arcade Fire, Bright Eyes and Rise Against. Sometimes the artists that are making confrontational music are not always at the top of the charts, ... |
Frank Turner at Culture Room, September 29 Broward-Palm Beach New Times (blog) The other half, a diverse mix (indie kids, young professional couples, guys in their 50s wearing Tommy Bahama gear) of randoms who heard he's a bit like Billy Bragg/Woody Guthrie/Joe Strummer more up for nodding heads and having a drink. ... |
 Altsounds.com | KING KRULE (FORMERLY ZOO KID) RELEASES BRAND NEW SELF-TITLED EP NOVEMBER 7TH Altsounds.com Shades of The Streets' plainspoken and observant ramble dance with the heart on sleeve confessions, Billy Bragg. Archy's influences are a patchwork for his voice to lay in, woven from several generations music as divergent as the 80s romantics, jazz, ... |
The FreeStyle Life Partners with The Voice Project to Amplify Peace PR Newswire (press release) The movement has captured the support of a wide variety of musicians including Peter Gabriel, Billy Bragg, Mike Mills, Andrew Bird, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros and Broken Social Scene. With world renowned musicians covering songs by another ... |
 Austin Chronicle (blog) | Hank Lives! Hank Williams' 'Lost Notebooks' come to life. Austin Chronicle (blog) Like the Billy Bragg & Wilco Mermaid Avenue project that put unfinished Woody Guthrie songs to music, The Lost Notebooks has it's detractors. It's fair to point out that these songs were unfinished for a reason, but that doesn't make listening to what ... |
Frank Turner's Five Finest Cover Songs Broward-Palm Beach New Times (blog) Another one of Turner's heroes, Billy Bragg, gets a raw tribute here with fellow punk-Americana acolyte Gaslight Anthem frontman Brian Fallon sharing vocal duties. Frank Turner is only 29, but he's got a lot of love for music that's firmly before his ... |
 Sydney Morning Herald | Giving voice to a musical legend Sydney Morning Herald It differs in several ways from Nora's first excavation of Woody's unsung lyrics, the two Mermaid Avenue albums by Billy Bragg and Wilco. Note of Hope draws instead on his copious journal entries, channelled by such interpreters as Lou Reed, ... Music Review: Various Artists - Note Of Hope: A Celebration Of Woody Guthrie |
 Atlanta Journal Constitution (blog) | Wilco Brings Alternative Country Vibes To Cobb Energy Centre Atlanta Journal Constitution (blog) Wilco has released eight studio albums, a live double album, and three collaborations: two with Billy Bragg, and one with The Minus 5. The group won two Grammy Awards in 2005. AJC photographer Robb Cohen covered the event with his camera. ... |
Billy Bragg gig Drogheda Independent The one and only Billy Bragg hits the stage with his great mix of rock, punk and protest songs. The English singer has been on the scene for almost three decades and is well worth a look and a listen. Tickets from the Droichead. ... |
Sydney Morning Herald | Music Review: Various Artists - Note Of Hope: A Celebration Of Woody Guthrie Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog) In 1998 British folk/punk singer Billy Bragg joined with American band Wilco to release Mermaid Avenue, a collection of previously unreleased Guthrie songs, which was followed a couple of years later by Mermaid Avenue Volume 2. ... Giving voice to a musical legend |
 Nelson Mail | Guitar girl sings a song Nelson Mail "It is everyone from Billy Bragg and the Eurythmics to the Beatles – all sorts of different people." Their tastes blended nicely on the tune selection. "It is really nice in that regard – we've found it is a happy musical partnering. ... |
Frank Turner, Andrew Jackson Jihad, Into It Over It Dallas Observer Frank Turner is finally shaking the old Billy Bragg comparisons with his fourth album, England Keep My Bones. He spent his early 20s in knotty post-core band Million Dead, then embraced a solo career when they broke up in '05. ... |
 View Online | LYME REGIS: Billy Bragg visits school View Online DORSET-based singer and songwriter, Billy Bragg, worked with young people throughout Lyme Regis last week. The alternative rock and folk singer visited St Michael's Primary School, the Power Boat Club and the Woodroffe School as part of a “Coastal ... |
 Reuters | Wilco travel beyond genre on new album The-Burg At the same time, the band earned critical kudos for "Mermaid Avenue," a collaboration with British folkster Billy Bragg that set previously unrecorded Woody Guthrie lyrics to rootsy riffs and went on to earn a Grammy nomination in the Best ... The Whole Love |
 The West Australian | A note from Woody The West Australian It differs in several ways from her first excavation of Woody's unsung lyrics, the two Mermaid Avenue albums released by Billy Bragg and Wilco at the turn of this century. Note of Hope draws instead on his copious journal entries, spoken and sung by a ... |
 The Guardian | Divine dispatches: a religion roundup The Guardian The archbishop of Canterbury, Jeanette Winterson, Billy Bragg and Carol Ann Duffy are taking part. Precious Light at Edinburgh's City Art Centre is on until 16 October and is a "contemporary imagining of the King James Bible in collage, sculpture and ... |
Anglo Style: Everyone Can Raise a Glass and Sing With Frank Turner Broward-Palm Beach New Times The pure folk discontent of his earlier work has been replaced with something more inwardly complex on this album, and Turner seems to be following in the footsteps of troubadours such as Woody Guthrie and Billy Bragg. Yet in many ways, it's difficult ... |
 Salon | How Wilco's Jeff Tweedy became a great American songwriter Salon ... at the height of their popularity -- everything from collaborations with Warren Zevon to guest appearances on Indigo Girls, Billy Bragg and Replacements songs -- in recent years, these extracurricular pursuits seemed to overshadow their main band. ... |
 The Guardian | School cancels event with 'blasphemous' Meg Rosoff The Guardian It would be like David Cameron allowing Billy Bragg to speak at the Tory party conference. Not that I wish to defend the religious bigots' point of view in any way whatsoever but... HamishPK: "And incidentally, I hope this patronising and narrow-minded ... |
 Times LIVE | Guy Buttery goes vinyl Times LIVE His cover of Joanna Newsom's The Book of Right On found it's way onto a compilation album Versions of Joanna released internationally alongside nu-folk icons M Ward, Billy Bragg and others. Guy has since trotted the globe headlining a number of ... |
Hall without Oates | Philadelphia Daily News | 2011-09-27 Philadelphia Daily News GUTHRIE GLORIFIED: Till now, Wilco and Billy Bragg's "Mermaid Avenue" has been the best of several album projects newly scoring long-lost lyrics by Woody Guthrie. Ah, but now there's a "Note of Hope: A Celebration of Woody Guthrie" (429 Records, A). ... |
Welsh theatre group revives classic tale of love's wayward course to celebrate ... WalesOnline “We've worked with some of the finest international artists, including Catrin Finch, Billy Cobham, Billy Bragg and Bellowhead, and have sold performances to both Glastonbury and Womad festivals.” Theatr Mwldan's partnership with Mappa Mundi began in ... |
 USA Today | The Whole Love Glide Magazine “Open Mind” hearkens back to Wilco's collaboration with Billy Bragg on the Mermaid Avenue sessions, while “Whole Love” illustrates Tweedy's playful knack for setting simple rhyme schemes to catchy chords. “Capitol City” even surprises with its' ... How Wilco's Jeff Tweedy became a great American songwriter |
 Esquire | The Song of Right Now Is... Esquire And indeed, it's virtually impossible to argue with the single-most-essential piece of its catalog: 1998's "California Stars," a stunningly effortless lullaby lovingly cobbled together by the band and Billy Bragg from unrecorded Woody Guthrie lyrics. ... |
 American Songwriter | Emmy The Great American Songwriter Billy Bragg was a huge inspiration when I was starting out. He proved that you could make a point just armed with lyrics and a few chords. That gave me the courage to write my first songs even though I couldn't really play an instrument well. ... |
