NORTH ADAMS, MASS. - Wilco and Billy Bragg, nearly three decades after collaborating on "Mermaid Avenue," will reunite to bring the album to life once again. For the first time ever, the band and folk ...

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Billy Bragg, the British folk-rock singer and lifelong figure in protest music, has shared a new song for Palestine. The release coincides with the launch of the Global Sumud Flotilla, which set sail ...

Every few months, my algorithm serves up one utterly delightful video: Billy Bragg singing The Velvet Underground's "Sunday ...

Bragg, 68, has been dubbed the "Bard of Barking" after his hometown, then in Essex but now part of east London. His teenage band's first gig was at a street party in the town's Beccles Drive to mark ...

In general, I believe Tucson has all of the concerts a person needs to attend, but occasionally, something notable happens up north and a drive to Phoenix is in order. A show by Billy Bragg, who doesn ...

A better title for this album would be Too Damned English. That’s always been Bragg’s problem, as far as his inability to break out in America is concerned. Even hard-core U.S. left-wingers have a ...

In the spring of 1995, Woody Guthrie’s daughter contacted Billy Bragg about composing music for her father’s prose–a staggering number of incomplete lyrics, penned from 1939 to 67, that were never ...