Billy Bragg, who has mixed pop and politics his entire 40-year career, has shared a new song, “Hundred Year Hunger,” in support the Palestinian people. He writes, “‘Hundred Year Hunger’ looks at the ...

"It's been over a decade since I had a run of Canadian dates, so I'm excited to be playing shows from Halifax to Winnipeg ...

Behind the heartfelt Billy Bragg sound is a world of eclectic influences, some more outlandish than others, that expands his vulnerable sound even further.

Elsewhere he is even more gloomy. On the opening "January Song", he suggests "this is how the end begins" over a lachrymose pedal steel refrain. The music is never upbeat, but its Nashville twang – ...

NORTH ADAMS — "The world needs all the Woody Guthrie it can get." “Mermaid Avenue Live,” the first-ever full-length concert of music from the acclaimed “Mermaid Avenue” songbook by Wilco and Billy ...

Billy Bragg has announced a run of shows in the US and Canada later this year, before his time on the road accompanying Squeeze in the UK.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Wilco fans, mark your calendars: The band’s biannual Solid Sound Festival is returning to North Adams, Massachusetts, on June ...

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 ...

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 ...

Billy Bragg, the British folk-rock protest singer, has always spoken out loud and clear about issues of politics, morality, and justice, be it rebutting Oliver Anthony's viral grievance anthem "Rich ...