Billy Bragg

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• Died On This Date (November 26, 2008) Rob Partridge / Publicist; Helped U2 Get Signed To Island

  
  The Music's Over — Authority: 143
  Rob PartridgeJune 2, 1948 – November 26, 2008Rob Partridge was a UK music industry veteran who founded and ran the Coalition Group, a powerful management and PR firm.  Partridge began his career in the mid ’70s when he worked as a journalist Music Week.  By the late ’70s, he was the head of the publicity [...]
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• Review of Charlotte Hatherley’s New Worlds

  
  .: chromewaves v7.5 — Authority: 496
  MySpace I don’t remember if I read somewhere that Charlotte Hatherley has synesthesia (the condition wherein your visual cognition is tied to your aural and, amongst other symptoms, you see colours or shapes when you hear sounds – experienced by the likes of Lightspeed Champion and Ida Maria , amongst ...
  3 days ago

• Toadcast #96 – The Excast

  
  Song, by Toad — Authority: 500
  The Excast is so named because I am playing a lot of people’s former bands.  There’s Shane MacGowan’s Nipple Erectors, Phil Chevron’s Radiators, Shilpa Ray’s Beat the Devil and Billy Bragg’s Riff Raff. I concentrate so much on new music these days that I often decide whether or not I like a band on the ...
  6 days ago

• Waiting For The Great Leap Forward

  
  Doug's Dynamic Drivel — Authority: 140
  Billy Bragg with his anthem song updated for a new generation which is fitting as according to the CBC he appeared at a news conference in Ottawa Friday to advocate for copyright reform and a new approach to music downloads. He was in town to give a concert at the Bronson Centre and also sang for striking ...
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• Billy Bragg Keeps Fighting In Canada

  
  Anti Blog — Authority: 134
  (pic Dave W Clarke ) Billy Bragg is in Canada on tour . Besides a string of rousing concerts, the socially impassioned folk-punk found time to appear before the Ottawa Parliament on the issue of copyright reform, encouraging Ottawa to avoid criminalizing music downloading when it updates its copyright ...
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• CBC Question Period Live Chat

  
  Stageleft: life on the left side — Authority: 471
    Yesterday I had a little time to kill at 2:00PM so logged in to see what goes on in Question Period live chat hosted by the CBC to see what goes on there - I wont be going back, I cant abide echo chambers .
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• Billy Bragg and Ron Hawkins at The Phoenix in Toronto

  
  .: chromewaves v7.5 — Authority: 496
  Frank Yang Q: Without a new record to promote – Mr. Love & Justice has been out for close to two years – what reason did Billy Bragg have for staging an ambitious cross-Canada tour ? A: Who cares? Any time you get the opportunity to see Billy Bragg live, you take it, no questions asked. Of course, I ...
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• Great Leap Forwards

  
  Transmillennial — Authority: 421
  Feeling a bit Billy Bragg (ish) today. So, here ya go. An updated version of "Waiting for the Great Leap Forwards." I saw Billy in concert a long time ago -- late 1989 or early 1990 if I remember correctly. Talking with the Taxman About Poetry is one of the great albums. (Great Leap Forwards is on Workers Playtime). ...
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• An introduction to Theoretical Girl

  
  .: chromewaves v7.5 — Authority: 496
  Pavla Kopecna All throughout Theoretical Girl’s set at SxSW back in March , I was wracking my brain trying to figure out who Amy Turnnidge, she who is the central abstract idea of the band, reminded me of. This didn’t keep me from enjoying her set, but it was a relief and head slap when I finally put it ...
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• Frank Turner Strikes A Chord With “Poetry Of The Deed”

  
  Powerline A.D. — Authority: 133
  London-based singer-songwriter Frank Turner (pictured above in a Greg Nolan photo) has had a sizable indie rock hit across the pond with “Poetry Of The Deed,” which is the title track to his latest album. The song has received a considerable amount of airplay on UK music radio stations like XFM London and BBC 6 ...
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• Friday Showstravaganza:: Elliot Brood, Deep Dark Woods, The Gideons & Billy Bragg

  
  Herohill — Authority: 533
  The Friganza returns! Its been a while since weve posted our rundown of the weekend shows here in Halifax, but youll have to cut us a bit of slack, as weve had a few things going on. But things, schmings, theres a lot going on, so lets get to it. If the two of us can power through the illness in our bodies and ...
  2 weeks ago

• There is a god: Sun screws up in tawdry Brown affair (plus iPod moment)

  
  Gordon's Republic — Authority: 516
  See just when you thought there wasnt a god The Sun comes out and makes a howler managing to spell the name of the mother Jacqui Janes wrong on its website as it uses her and her fallen Jamie son in a tawdry effort to attack Gordon Brown for political gain.   It is hard to say if this is a new low for the Sun - or ...
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• Saharan Nomads Beat Wilco and Bob Dylan to Album Prize

  
  Spinner — Authority: 735
  Filed under: News , UK Tinariwen , the North African collective whose music has become a cult sensation across Europe, have won the Uncut Music Award for best album. The Saharan musicians, who are all members of the Tuareg tribe, won for their fourth LP Imidiwan: Companions, which beat the likes of Uncut ...
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• Billy Bragg covers The Smiths

  
  .: chromewaves v7.5 — Authority: 496
  Wikipedia Billy Bragg and The Smiths go way back. Besides being contemporaries and stalwarts of the English indie music circa the 1980s, Bragg was/is obviously chummy with Johnny Marr , the Smiths guitarist guesting on a number of records as well as producing some of Bragg’s most pop numbers. His ...
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• File sharer at UK Digital Economy meeting?

  
  ShareConnector — Authority: 161
  p2pnet news view P2P | Politics:- When Billy Bragg and I started a2f2a.com , we intended it to be both an advocacy site, and a channel through which musicians could talk directly to fans, and fans could talk directly to musicians. We thought we were being optimistic when we tentatively slated it for a December launch. ...
  3 weeks ago

• Spend Election Day 2009 With Pink, Young Jeezy And Ghostface

  
  MTV Newsroom — Authority: 687
  Today is Election Day, which means that the polls are open and the races for your local school board, aldermen, state representatives and the like are coming to a close with the help of good old-fashioned democracy. There are a handful of notable races happening across the country today, notably for mayor of New York ...
  3 weeks ago

• Billy Bragg “A New England”

  
  Chris Hanaka — Authority: 115
  I’ve been playing this game where I ask someone, “Have I told you that ‘I don’t want to change the world, I’m not looking for a new England, I’m just looking for another girl’ lately?” the past week, then saying it’s just a joke, maybe you heard the song in Half Nelson . Well, here it is… Billy ...
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• Musicians seek Guantanamo Bay records

  
  You Thought So! — Authority: 137
  Star musicians will launch a legal bid to discover whether their music was played to detainees at Guantanamo Bay. The music of Britney Spears, the Bee Gees, Rage Against The Machine and the television show, Sesame Street, was played in the camp, according to government records and the accounts of former detainees. ...
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• 100 Greatest LPs Since I Was Born

  
  Highway Five | Portishead Third | PJ Harvey | Spotify | John Peel — Authority: 104
  My Favorite 100 LPS since I was born. My Top 100 LPs since I was born! 1. American Music Club – California 2. New Order – Low Life 3. The National – Alligator 4. Momus – Tender Pervert 5. Tricky – Maxinquaye 6. Pixies – Surfer Rosa 7. Joy Division – Unknown Pleasures 8. Burial – Untrue 9. Portishead ...
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• a2f2a Hopes To Close The Artist Fan Divide

  
  Studio Manifesto — Authority: 100
  By: Connor a2f2a.com is a blog launched by UK musician and activist Billy Bragg and Jon Newton from P2PNet. The site is dedicated to the concept that “artists need to be paid and fans want to pay them.” Keep an eye on it! “The internet has huge potential for artists to make a living on their own terms. ...
  4 weeks ago

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