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Karine Polwart – review

4611 days ago
Guardian Music — Union Chapel, LondonThe current Scottish folk renaissance has centred on inventive instrumentalists who can switch easily between genres, and Karine Polwart has brought the same sense of the unexpected to her songwriting. She's a cool, thoughtful s... more info
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Kirsty MacColl: the great British songwriter who never got her due

4627 days ago
Guardian Music — She wrote incisive lyrics, sang exquisite harmonies and graced arguably the greatest Christmas single ever. Yet Kirsty MacColl has somehow been erased from the story of British pop. Will the re-release of her first four albums finally change that?Nex... more info
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Last Shop Standing: a new spin on our vinyl romance

4648 days ago
Guardian Music — Jude Rogers salutes a film charting the struggle of indie record shops and their unsung ownersThe British independent record shop hasn't had the rosiest time recently. More than 500 of them have closed in recent years, their racks emptied of glossy s... more info
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Frank Turner's (a)political stance is part of a post-ideological culture | Billy Bragg

4648 days ago
Guardian Music — Who can blame him? He's a singer-songwriter who came of age in a time when ideology was dumped in favour of triangulation"I thought that if you had an acoustic guitar/Then it meant that you were a protest singer" sang the Smiths in 1985. Lots of peop... more info
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Watch Africa Express at Glastonbury 2007 – video

4655 days ago
Guardian Music — The musical collective known as Africa Express played its first-ever proper gig at the Glastonbury festival in 2007. Here is Algerian singer Rachid Taha covering the Clash's Rock the Casbah with Damon Albarn, Billy Bragg, Baaba Maal and more more info
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Six Songs of Me: Barry from Barrygruff

4658 days ago
Guardian Music — The music blogger picks the songs that mean the most to him as part of our Six Songs of Me projectBarry writes about music at barrygruff.wordpress.comWhat was the first song you bought? Status Quo – Down DownI can't remember my first single but the... more info
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Letters: Pop music's debt to Lonnie Donegan

4700 days ago
Guardian Music — Many thanks to Billy Bragg for his piece on the Woody Guthrie centenary and Bob Dylan's role in the Guthrie legacy (The return of a pariah, 13 July). But let's not forget the British contribution. Although Woody did appear on BBC Radio's Children's H... more info
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Woody Guthrie: the return of a pariah | Billy Bragg

4706 days ago
Guardian Music — Woody Guthrie was shunned by his home state. Now Oklahoma can finally embrace the singer-songwriter's workThe construction team that kept hammering away all night outside my hotel window in downtown Tulsa are gone by the morning, the fierce glare of ... more info
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Winnipeg Folk Festival underway; Billy Bragg on tour (dates)

4712 days ago
Brooklyn Vegan — As mentioned earlier today, Billy Bragg -- whose Mermaid Avenue records with Wilco brought the songwriter back in to the pop culture zeitgeist in 1998 -- will be in NYC soon for some Woody Guthrie 100 celebrations. It's part... more info
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bruce springsteen – wrecking ball – 6.5

4715 days ago
melophobe — Like Steven Spielberg, Bruce Springsteen needs redemption and hope with his rage and bitterness, even when his despairing characters have every right to their raw anger. So, beware the synth-dominated, sappy clunkers here. That still leaves an EP’s... more info
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