Guardian Music — Watch Billy Bragg's John Peel Lecture live from the 2012 Radio Festival in Salford on 12 November at 7pmFollowing in the footsteps of last year's inaugural speaker, Pete Townshend, Bragg will explore how the pirates of radio become mainstream and in ... more info

Chorus.fm — Stream *Young Statues (http://www.absolutepunk.net/youngstatues)*' cover of *Billy Bragg (http://www.billybragg.co.uk/)*'s "A New England" featuring *Tigers Jaw (http://tigersjaw.tumblr.com/)*'s Brianna Collins on Spinner (http://www.spinner.com/2012... more info

Guardian Music — Bristol musicians are bringing together two styles that share a sense of social justice and a belief in community actionReading on mobile? Watch hereIn September, the Southbank Centre in London hosted a celebration of the centenary of Woody Guthrie's... more info

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

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

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

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

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

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

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