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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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 Justice
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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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Singer/songwriter Billy Bragg has been a top spokesperson for the Featured Artists Coalition, a group of UK-based musicians that includes Radiohead, Kate Nash, Robbie Williams, David Gilmour, Travis, and many more. Though their main purpose is "the...
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--- - |- 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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