Members of Occupy London announce first record label release musicweek.com It features artists including: Ani Di Franco, Tom Morello, Tao Seeger, Billy Bragg and Sam Duckworth of Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly. Artwork for the album has been created especially for the Folk the Banks album by acclaimed punk rock British artist Jamie ... |
 The L Magazine | From Lethem to Burroughs: 6 Authors Who've Moonlighted as Lyricists The L Magazine Billy Bragg's 1996 album William Bloke is a triumph, one of the smartest reflections on uneasy political decisions ever recorded, and full of top-notch songcraft to boot. And the one number on it that sounds like a throwback to his stark, furious early ... |
 TheChronicleHerald.ca | Review: Dylan's "Freedom" offers eclectic mix of songs Chicago Tribune Maroon 5 and Billy Bragg, brethren in protest-song revival? There should be a Grammy category for best achievement in cojones, created just for this collection's compilers. If anything, the set could have used more such irreverent surprises, ... Chimes of Freedom: Dylan without Dylan – massive 4 CD collection of his tunes ... |
 New York Daily News | Review: Miley, Adele, Adam Levine, and Dozens More Ring Dylan's 'Chimes of ... Reuters Maroon 5 and Billy Bragg, brethren in protest-song revival? There should be a Grammy category for best achievement in cojones, created just for this collection's compilers. If anything, the set could have used more such irreverent surprises, ... Chimes of Freedom: Dylan without Dylan – massive 4 CD collection of his tunes ... |
 The Guardian | Picturing Nick Drake back on tour The Guardian There are famous subjects: Tom Stoppard, Noel Fielding, Billy Bragg; as well as a car park attendant at Southampton airport, a climber on a mountaintop in the north-west highlands of Scotland, and a man fishing for grayling on the River Itchen in ... |
Occupy London Wants You To Buy Records To Support Them Business Insider "It's the music of the people." The 17-track album includes tracks by Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine, Billy Bragg, Anaïs Mitchell, Ani DiFranco, Sam Duckworth, and Chumbawamba and will be run using a crowd-funding model. Occupation Records tests City limits with protest benefit album |
Nothing to Bragg about The Student Speaking to The Student when Occupy LSX was just beginning, Billy Bragg was noticeably excited to seeSpeaking to The Student when Occupy LSX was just beginning, Billy Bragg was noticeably excited to see a new mood of protest in Britain. |
 STV Local | Occupy Edinburgh opt to leave St Andrew Square STV Local These included a live appearance by Billy Bragg, theatre shows, pedal powered film evenings and a number of public talks. During the occupation of the square campaigners also flew a Jolly Roger flag from the roof of the RBS headquarters overlooking the ... |
 Chicago Tribune | Rise Against protests against lack of protest songs Chicago Tribune It's like Billy Bragg said in London during Occupy, 'It's not about left- or right-wing politics, this is about holding people in power accountable for their actions.' People can rally behind a statement like that.” greg@gregkot.com Rise Against: 7 pm ... |
American Masters: Phil Ochs: There But For Fortune A.V. Club New York Joan Baez credits Ochs for inspiring her and others to believe that folk music and politics could be combined, while Billy Bragg introduces the whole scene by saying “Elvis Presley changed their world culturally by singing songs, so I guess they ... |
 Electric Banana | Frank Turner Electric Banana Billy Bragg will be supporting. Is he aware of the influence his work has had on you? I suppose he is, yeah, we've played together before and hung out. He's a lovely guy. You are well-known for your massive amount of gigs and touring, but what would be ... |
 Silicon Valley's Metro | Wilco Kicks Off Sold Out Bay Area Concerts in San Jose Silicon Valley's Metro In between, he got another boost from Mermaid Avenue, the album of Woody Guthrie sounds that Wilco recorded with Billy Bragg. What Tweedy and Wilco had done in a larger sense was make country music cool for the indie-rock set, ushering in an era of ... |
Occupation Records tests City limits with protest benefit album The Guardian The 17-track album includes work by Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine, Billy Bragg, Anaïs Mitchell, Ani DiFranco, Sam Duckworth and the stalwart anarchist collective Chumbawamba. Yours in exchange for a donation, it will be distributed digitally ... |
 AZ Central.com | New CD releases: Tim McGraw, Lamb of God, Scorpions AZ Central.com Elvis Costello, Pete Townshend, the late Johnny Cash with the Avett Brothers, Sting, Adele, Lucinda Williams, Patti Smith, Bettye LaVette, My Morning Jacket, Billy Bragg, Jackson Browne and Cage the Elephant join Miley Cyrus in honoring Dylan and ... |
 Scotsman (blog) | Protest music makes a new stand in 2012 at Celtic Connections Scotsman (blog) One of this year's flagship Celtic Connections shows, The World Turned Upside Down, takes its title from an English Civil War ballad, adapted in the 1970s by satirical singer Leon Rosselson, whose version was memorably covered by Billy Bragg in 1985. |
The Mixture is All of Us and We're Still Mixing: Do Pitchers with More Diverse ... Bluebird Banter Thanks to Woody Guthrie for today's post title, from "She Came Along to Me" a song later written and recorded by Billy Bragg and Wilco. by Pikachu on Jan 21, 2012 6:22 PM EST reply actions SIERA has a very small improvement on xFIP, so if substituting ... |
 USA TODAY | Dylan tribute 'Chimes of Freedom' track by track Pittsburgh Post Gazette (blog) She pulls it off with a pure, pretty voice, and exquisite Billy Bragg, “Lay Down Your Weary Tune”: Solid lunchpail version from true Dylan disciple. Elvis Costello, “License to Kill”: Elvis shows off his falsetto on a slow, dubby cover that just kind ... Four-CD collection of Bob Dylan songs for Amnesty released in UK on 6 February |
Join top guitarist Brook at The Barn on January 26 Bourne Local He has played with John Hammond, Paul Jones, Billy Bragg, and Little Feat and his recent festival appearances include Glastonbury, Shrewsbury, Cambridge and Marlborough Jazz Festival. The concert starts at 8pm and tickets are £8 from 01778 560497, ... |
June Tabor & Oysterband - Ragged Kingdom RootsWorld As for modern songsmiths, in the past, they've re-done Dylan, Billy Bragg, and Richard Thompson. On Ragged Kingdom, we get a ripping version of PJ Harvey's "That Was My Veil," Dylan's rollicking "Seven Curses," and the classic "The Dark End of The ... |
Poet Gary Kaye turns to politics Wharfedale Observer Gary, 41, formerly Poet in Residence at Leeds United, and who worked with the folk singer Billy Bragg to set up a guitar tuition programme at Armley prison, is hoping to be elected as a councillor in Horsforth. The NUT representative has been selected ... |
Alex Salmond, Little Englander The Economist Their adversaries, like the left-wing singer Billy Bragg, are as enthusiastic as Mr Salmond about England's radical tradition. In between those two poles, there is evidence suggesting a link between the rise of Englishness and feelings of being ... |
Alex Salmond, little Englander The Economist (blog) Their adversaries, like the left-wing singer Billy Bragg, are as enthusiastic as Mr Salmond about England's radical tradition. In between those two poles, there is evidence suggesting a link between the rise of Englishness and feelings of being ... |
 Jewcy.com (blog) | The Other Greatest Jewish Songwriter? Jewcy.com (blog) The film which features Pete Seeger, Sean Penn, Jello Biafra and Billy Bragg among others, goes on to document Ochs troubled yet withstanding career up until his tragic downfall which begins with the crushing of his vocal chords during a mugging in ... |
 The Guardian | Four-CD collection of Bob Dylan songs for Amnesty released in UK on 6 February Amnesty International UK The four-disc collection contains 76 newly-recorded Dylan songs by more than 80 artists, Adele, My Chemical Romance, Michael Franti, Elvis Costello, Sinead O'Connor, Queens Of The Stone Age, Bad Religion, Patti Smith, Billy Bragg, My Morning Jacket and ... Dylan tribute 'Chimes of Freedom' track by track |
 ClashMusic.com | The Apple Cart Returns ClashMusic.com Elsewhere, British folk icon Billy Bragg is set to appear at the Apple Cart, following the recent release of 'Fight Songs'. A compilation of topical downloads, the release underlined the songwriter's commitment to left wing politics and the digital era ... |
