
Don't worry, this podcast really isn't about football. I might have been tempted, but in all honesty, but I can't really think of all that many good songs about football and if I am being truthful with myself I can't imagine you lot really enjoying a podcast about football all that much. More to the point, I am back playing football myself now, after something like two years out with back problems. Two years really is a long time to miss out on something you love doing, and even more so when you're past your mid-thirties and every [...]
Our review of the stellar new collection of Bob Dylan covers in support of Amnesty International.

Det fortsätter: Luger släpper även i dag två akter till Way Out West. Smart drag, då festivalen får uppmärksamhet varje dag i stället för att släppa tio akter på en och samma gång och bara få det en dag. I dag handlar det om ingen mindre än Billy Bragg(!) och Iceage får vi på köpet. Klara artister just nu: Refused Feist Bon Iver Billy Bragg Azealia Banks Asap Rocky Yelawolf The War On Drugs Biljetter till årets upplaga av Way Out [...]
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Billy Bragg: A New England [ purchase ] An oft-covered punkfolk youth anthem from UK singer-songwriter and left-wing activist Billy Bragg's 45 rpm debut that chugs along with the momentum of a train hurtling down the tracks, deliberate proof that the same combination of anger, frustration, innocence and optimism that fuels so much of his explicitly political work can be just as deftly applied to the age-old story of boy meets girl - or, at least, to the liminal narrative that comes of setting aside the old affections for the [...]
Every day, Daily Downloads offers 10 free and legal mp3 downloads, plus free and legal live sets from around the internet. Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: Billy Bragg : 1984-12-21, Dusseldorf [mp3,ogg,flac] Billy Bragg: "The Busy Girl Buys Beauty" [mp3] search for more Billy Bragg posts at Largehearted Boy Centro-matic : 2006-12-13, Athens [...]
Every day, Daily Downloads offers 10 free and legal mp3 downloads, plus free and legal live sets from around the internet. Today's free and legal mp3 downloads: Billy Bragg : 2011-07-25, WNYC [mp3,ogg,flac] Billy Bragg: "Never Buy the Sun" [mp3] Billy Bragg : 1986-10-10, Malmo [mp3,ogg,flac] Billy Bragg: "It Says Here" [mp3] search for more Billy [...]
12 years after the release of Mermaid Avenue Vol. II, a third volume of lyrics penned by Woody Guthrie is expected in 2012, again as a collaboration between Billy Bragg and Wilco. From Billy Bragg's facebook page; Jeff Tweedy tells his fellow Chicagoans what to look out for - he could have added that there'll be another volume of Mermaid Avenue recordings coming along in 2012 If the quality is anything like that of the first two volumes, it's likely to be one of the finest albums of 2012. If you [...]
Listen to all four discs of new Dylan covers from My Morning Jacket, Patti Smith, Kesha, Queens of the Stone Age, the Avett Brothers, the Gaslight Anthem, and dozens more!

As previously reported, Chimes of Freedom: The Songs of Bob Dylan Honoring 50 Years of Amnesty International is the name of Amnesty International's 75-track, 4-disc Bob Dylan tribute album , comprised of new or previously unreleased Dylan covers from Adele, My Morning Jacket, Queens of the Stone Age, Silversun Pickups, The Gaslight Anthem, Patti Smith, Dave Matthews Band, Sting, Joan Baez, Bryan Ferry, The Who's Pete Townshend, Sinéad O'Connor, Elvis Costello, Pete Seeger, Fistful of Mercy, Bad Religion, Mark Knopfler, Cage the Elephant, and, of course, Miley Cyrus and Ke$ha. The collection will be released in North [...]

Flashback, 1987: I'm a freshman in high school, just finding my way into the dark underbelly of underground music thanks to the burgeoning alternative college radio scene in and around the Boston area and a younger brother whose musical tastes blossomed early. I hadn't really noticed UK band The Smiths during middle school, but when Girlfriend in a Coma hit the airwaves, it touched me deeply, and I purchased the album from which it came, hardly aware that it would be their last, that the band was already disintegrating from the stress between an exhausted and [...]
Get the Full Tracklist on the Upcoming Bob Dylan Amnesty International Tribute Album.

UK hardcore alumnus and singer songwriter Frank Turner has reported, via his Facebook status , that none other than Billy Bragg will be supporting him at London's Wembley Arena , on the 13th of April, 2012. Turner writes: "Absolutely over the moon to be able to announce that the legendary Billy Bragg will be playing with me at Wembley next year!" Both musicians have spoken at length about how punk ideals they came to in their youth affect their work (Bragg as a Clash fan, Turner through hardcore), both mix [...]

Billy Bragg Earlier this year I made my debut at a literary event. As part of the Brighton Festival, the writer Dorian Lynskey was discussing his book '33 Revolutions per Minute: A History of Protest Songs' with the Observer journalist Luke Bainbridge. Despite the book's magnificent title, the event organisers rightly figured that the presence of these two chaps alone would never be enough to seduce the punters. So the inspired decision to invite Billy Bragg for [...]

Last month we told you of an upcoming Bob Dylan tribute album being put together in celebration of Amnesty International's 50th anniversary. At the time, My Morning Jacket, Adele, David Matthews Band, and Ke$ha were among the confirmed participants. Now, the set's entire tracklist has been revealed, and Ke$ha's cover of "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right" is just the beginning of the insanity. Spanning four discs and 75 tracks (!!!) , Chimes of Freedom: The Songs of Bob Dylan Honoring 50 Years of Amnesty International packages together new or previously unreleased Dylan covers from artist of all different genres [...]
Watch: Amanda Palmer cover 'The World Turned Upside Down' to Occupy Video.
Photo gallery of Billy Bragg, The King Blues and Sound of Rum at the University of Leeds in Leeds, UK ... Read the full article at http://www.prefixmag.com/photo s/billy-bragg-the-king-blues-s ound-of-rum-university/
Filed under: News , Holy Hell Spencer Platt, Getty Images New York City Police began forcibly removing Occupy Wall Street protesters from their location in the city's Zuccotti Park Tuesday morning. And it appears the Roots ' drummer Questlove had a hunch about the raid, leaving some news sites referring to him as a modern-day Paul Revere. In a string of tweets early Tuesday, the drummer predicted that something was in the [...]

Frank Yang So here we are, with both post- Oasis projects with their debuts officially out in the wild - the Liam-led Beady Eye having released Different Gear, Still Speeding back in March and Noel Gallagher's Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds out this week. Given the not-so-greatness of Liam's Oasis output, the bar for the former was set fairly low and Different Gear 's meat-and-potatoes Brit-rock had no problem clearing it, with "not bad" counting as a big win. [...]