Billy Bragg

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• Saharan Nomads Beat Wilco and Bob Dylan to Album Prize

  
  Spinner — Authority: 742
  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 ...
  21 hours ago

• Billy Bragg covers The Smiths

  
  .: chromewaves v7.5 — Authority: 500
  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 ...
  1 day ago

• File sharer at UK Digital Economy meeting?

  
  ShareConnector — Authority: 455
  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. ...
  5 days ago

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

  
  MTV Newsroom — Authority: 707
  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 ...
  6 days ago

• Musicians seek Guantanamo Bay records

  
  You Thought So! — Authority: 136
  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. ...
  1 week ago

• 100 Greatest LPs Since I Was Born

  
  Highway Five | Portishead Third | PJ Harvey | Spotify | John Peel — Authority: 99
  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 ...
  1 week ago

• a2f2a Hopes To Close The Artist Fan Divide

  
  Studio Manifesto — Authority: 135
  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. ...
  1 week ago

• It’s the Q Awards. Cue eye-popping outfits!

  
  Orange Celebrity Blog — Authority: 135
  Posted by Jane Murphy Monday afternoon is party time! At least, it was yesterday - as the great and the good from the music business gathered at London’s Grosvenor House Hotel for the Q Awards. Among the winners? A casual-looking Lily Allen picked up the gong for Best Track (for ‘The Fear’), sporting ...
  1 week ago

• EXACTLY WHY DO WE NEED THE MUSIC INDUSTRY

  
  Stupid and Contagious — Authority: 158
    JUST EXACTLY WHY DO WE NEED THE MUSIC INDUSTRY?... Fred Wilhelms writes: I have a good friend, Jon Newton, who for the past couple years, has graciously provided me, through his website p2pnet.net a place to stand and swing at the evils of the music business. Jon has teamed up with Billy Bragg (who ...
  1 week ago

• a2f2a site aiming to spark debate on filesharing and digital music

  
  Music Ally — Authority: 661
  a2f2a? Sounds like a dodgy pr0n site acronym to us! But no, it’s the name of a new blog that aims to connect artists and fans to thrash out the issues around digital music and online piracy. It’s the work of P2PNet blogger Jon Newton and singer/songwriter Billy Bragg, with a2f2a standing for ...
  2 weeks ago

• Dylan up against Kings of Leon

  
  D210 TV | Dallas Texas | Entertainment | Celebrity News and Events — Authority: 151
  Kings of Leon will go head to head with music legend Bob Dylan in a battle to find the year’s best album. The eight-album list for the Uncut Music Award – an international equivalent of the Mercury Music Prize, judged by figures such as Radio 2’s Mark Radcliffe and Fleet Foxes star Robin Pecknold – is ...
  2 weeks ago

• Pearl Jam, REM join coalition

  
  D210 TV | Dallas Texas | Entertainment | Celebrity News and Events — Authority: 151
  A coalition of pop musicians is outraged that their music was used by the American military as an interrogation device at the U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. Outraged by the interrogators and security agencies”’ practice of using their music and others’ at ear-bleeding levels to intimidate detainees, a ...
  2 weeks ago

• Toadcast #92 – The Pantscast

  
  Song, by Toad — Authority: 132
  This podcast is a little bit random, I have to say.  There are songs which follow on from the like folk/hate covers posts which have appeared over the course of the last week or so on the site, a couple are related to the fact that Mrs. Toad is once more away in God Bless America shooting illegal aliens, chewing gum, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Billy Bragg Joins Coalition To Close Guantanamo Prison

  
  Anti Blog — Authority: 133
  (pic Collector Maniac ) Folk punk firebrand Billy Bragg has joined up with a coalition of musicians including REM, Pearl Jam and Rage Against The Machine in supporting president Obama’s efforts to close the Guantanamo Bay prison. Many of the artists who have signed up are angry that their music was used as an ...
  2 weeks ago

• Musical Interludeness

  
  I Am The Cheese — Authority: 424
  I listen to songs while driving from here to there and over there sometimes. I usually change them up semi-non-regularly and I realized today that … “ Hey! I wonder if some of my now favorite songs actually have videos to them “. So here are the official videos/live performances/someone’s video with ...
  2 weeks ago

• Top Rockers Protest Against Music Torture At Guantanamo

  
  Look To The Stars News: Latest — Authority: 593
  A coalition of US and international musicians, including Trent Reznor , R.E.M. , Pearl Jam , Jackson Browne , Rise Against, Rosanne Cash, Billy Bragg and The Roots have announced they are joining the National Campaign to Close Guantanamo—a campaign led by retired Generals Robert Gard, John Johns, former member ...
  2 weeks ago

• R.E.M. and Pearl Jam Call for Guantanamo Closure

  
  Spinner — Authority: 742
  Filed under: News US President Barack Obama s call for the closure of the Guantanamo Bay detention camp in Cuba has got quite the chorus line of support from the music world, with R.E.M. , Pearl Jam and Rage Against the Machine s Tom Morello all adding their weight to the campaign to close the facility. ...
  2 weeks ago

• Artists Speak Out About Music’s Role in Torture

  
  LimeWire Music Blog — Authority: 564
  We’ve all heard the skin-crawling stories about the questionable interrogation techniques at Guantanamo. We’ve all seen conservative pundits try to argue that waterboarding isn’t torture. And it isn’t news that guards have used incessant, loud American pop music as a way of breaking down detainees. But now, a ...
  2 weeks ago

• Close Gitmo!: Musicians Angry Their Music Used For ‘Torture’

  
  Big Hollywood — Authority: 815
  From the “Truth is Stranger Than Fiction” files: Rock bands including Pearl Jam and REM have joined a coalition of musicians to support the US president’s efforts to close the Guantanamo Bay prison. The National Campaign to Close Guantanamo, which also includes former military officers, launched on Tuesday. ...
  2 weeks ago

• Rock and Rap Stars Join FOIA Request to Reveal How Music was Used in Torture at Guantanamo, Other US Facilities

  
  Firedoglake — Authority: 763
  Musicians, including R.E.M and Pearl Jam, launched a formal protest of the use of music used in conjunction with torture that took place at Guantanamo Bay and other facilities. And they’ve announced they are supporting an effort seeking the declassification of all secret government records pertaining to how music ...
  2 weeks ago

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