Guardian Music — Guitarist with the Miracles who co-wrote their 1965 hit The Tracks of My TearsSoft and dreamy, a perfect pre-echo of the song's exquisitely swooning melancholy, the guitar lead-in to The Tracks of My Tears, the 1965 hit by the Miracles, remains one o... more info
Guardian Music — Regent's Park, LondonYiddish Twist Orchestra are a band with a mission, and their own quirky mythology. Their aim, they say, is to revive the forgotten music of 50s London, a time when klezmer and other Jewish styles interacted with West Indian and ... more info
Guardian Music — My friend Andy Gibson, who has died of cancer aged 55, spent his life creating opportunities and spaces for young people – many of who had rejected, or been rejected by, conventional services – to blossom. Working in small, voluntary projects, An... more info
Guardian Music — Continuing our series in which Guardian and Observer writers pick their favourite albums – with a view that you might do the same – Tony Naylor has a riot with this Billy Bragg classicIt may seem perverse – when asked to choose my favourite alb... more info
Brooklyn Vegan — "numb fingertips from the guitar playing last night. .. worth it coz I get to tell people I played Lincoln Center with Billy Bragg!!" - Marsha Burnett Billy Bragg at Lincoln Center (via Ian Jane) Billy Bragg kicked off the... more info
Brooklyn Vegan — Flaming Lips @ Sasquatch 2011 (more by Josh Darr) today in NYC * Questlove @ Brooklyn Bowl * Billy Bragg @ City Winery * Andy Biskin's Ibid @ Barbes * Pauline Oliveros @ The Stone * Monique Buzzarte @ The... more info
Brooklyn Vegan — today in NYC * Lil Wayne in NJ * Billy Bragg @ City Winery * Slavic Soul Party @ Barbes * Tell Your Friends @ Lolita Bar * Honky, The Dreebs @ Cake Shop * Jessica 6, Xylos @... more info
Brooklyn Vegan — As previously mentioned, but in the words of a new article in the Wall Street Journal:On Wednesday, Richard Robbins will take his two daughters, Ava, who is 5 years old, and Ella, who is 3, to the Damrosch Park... more info
Guardian Music — My song, Never Buy the Sun, pays tribute to the scousers who started their own boycott after the Hillsborough stadium disasterFor the past 22 years, people in Liverpool have boycotted the Sun newspaper because of the lies that it printed about the be... more info
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