--- - |- Punk rock folkster Billy Bragg has announced a 32-date tour set to kick off September 25 in Paris that'll eventually venture into the United States mid-October and finally back to Europe in November for another leg. Bragg released his 12th studio album, Mr. Love & Justice, in March of this year and has been on the road ever since, migrating back and forth from Europe to the United Sta...
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This is gonna be a Very Long Post, but it concerns Very Important Issues regarding music online and the future thereof)(For those confused by the title - before the invention of the Davy safety lamp, coalmines used to keep canaries in cages to give warning of dangerous gas buildups; the canary would keel over before the gas became concentrated enought to be dangerous...)Anyway.Internet radio (l...
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The New York Times ran this.I think its great stuff...March 22, 2008Op-Ed ContributorThe Royalty ScamBy BILLY BRAGGDorset, EnglandLAST week at South by Southwest, the rock music conference held every year in Austin, Tex., the talk in hotel lobbies, coffeeshops and the convention center was dominated by one issue: how do musicians make a living in the age of the Internet? It’s a problem our indu...
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Billy Bragg is ready to release his first album under his own name in six years, titled Mr. Love & Justice. Fans have been buzzing about it since late last year, but today we have a tracklist and release date. The album will feature 12 songs of new material with guest appearances from Ian McLagan (Faces) on Hammond and piano and Robert Wyatt on vocals. I'm not sure if the Wyatt/Bragg track t...
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Political folk-rocker Billy Bragg's next album, Mr. love and Justice, includes "some love songs," Bragg said Thursday during an appearance at Berlin's Popkomm, the annual international music conference. The album will be released next year.Bill Bragg at Popkomm. Photograph by Michael Goldberg"Life is not just politics and not all love either," Bragg said of the mix of songs on Mr. Love and Just...
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UK's Brighest folk star Jesse Quin discusses a forgotten track ('One by One') from his favourite album, Billy Bragg & Wilco's 'Mermaid Avenue Vol. 1', exclusively for FreshDeerMeat.com....As one of the UK's most exciting new folk talents, Jesse Quin is following quickly in the footsteps of Johnny Flynn, Mumford & Sons and Alessi's Ark in planting the folk revival flag firmly in the rain-soaked ...
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Tonight, Australia Day 2008, Billy Bragg made a number of points. One of them was something that happened to him after he had left the SXSW Festival in Austin and headed to Minneapolis. As he said, he had lost some of the range in his not so wide ranging vocals. As he was doing the sound check up there in Minnesota, he said to one of his cohorts, he was quite distressed that the people were com...
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This is the most enraged I have been at the powers that be since The Katrina debacle. Riot Squad Police turning on peaceful protesters, firing at and beating people with children. This is America at its classist and racist worst. Immigrants are always the whipping boys for what ails the country. County Health systems may be in disorder because they are over burdened, but I assure you the ha...
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so, if you didn't know by now, billy bragg is one of my all time, favorite things, ever. but its not just because he writes amazing, powerful, run me over like a mac truck every time i hear them songs, its because he's there every time something happens.Like Westerberg, Tweedy, Adams and the Beilanko brothers, Braggie seems to be one of those guys who's ther for all the big moments. The embodim...
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So I logged on today and noticed my picture of myself was not showing up on my page. Not that this is a bad thing, but when I went to other MOG pages I noticed that their pictures seem to be hidden as well. If their picture did show up, and I clicked on more pictures they would soon disappear. Anyone else have this happen to them?
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Being on summer break does not mean I sit around the house playing video games and doing nothing. Ok, that is part of my gig right now, but I have been busy crossing things off my list of chores I have to get done before the summer is over. One of those chores was to turn my son's room into a "little boys" room. I had been working on some paintings for him over the last year, and today they fin...
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From the first uttrance of "Shirley!" in that unmistakeable accent, I'm transported.My skin feels dry and crusty from dried-on sea salt, the side effect of another Sunday spent surfing. It's late on a Sunday night in 1987, and I'm hastily finishing my homework half-heartedly while paying most of my attention to the living room television. 120 Minutes is on, but not so loud as to wake up Mom. I'...
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So I logged on today and noticed my picture of myself was not showing up on my page. Not that this is a bad thing, but when I went to other MOG pages I noticed that their pictures seem to be hidden as well. If their picture did show up, and I clicked on more pictures they would soon disappear. Anyone else have this happen to them?
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A completely unoriginal post...It's in the garage.It's cold in the summer, hot in the spring and fall, and freezing in the winter. Just like the Bay Area.
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Yeah, well the title of this post says it all. This is a job for a three-armed contortionist with X-ray vision.So while I do that give Billy Bragg a listen. Rearraging motown tunes for the shit-kicker crowd is nothing new, but when its done well.....well, I like it anyway.
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| 1 Greetings to the New Brunette |
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| 2 There Is Power in a Union |
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| 3 Levi Stubbs' Tears |
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| 4 The Warmest Room |
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| 5 Ideology |
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