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

Guardian Music — Billy Bragg performs Never Buy the Sun, his song written in the wake of the News of the World hacking scandal. It refers to the Sun's sales in Liverpool, which never recovered after its coverage of the 1989 Hillsborough stadium disasterBilly Bragg more info

Guardian Music — Now that the News of the World has gone... Billy Bragg turns his attention to its daily sister with a catchy number, Never buy The Sun.The refrain suggests that the title should really be "The Scousers never buy The Sun" (a reference to the boycott t... more info

Guardian Music — Brixton Academy, LondonSeattle's Death Cab for Cutie are the closest the 21st century has got to a pure, no-compromise indie rock success story. Sure, they signed to a major, but only after building their craft, REM-style, over four foggy, grunge-pop... more info

Guardian Music — Singer tells followers 'today is a fantastic day for Britain', while Lily Allen, Example, Billy Bragg and more offer their opinionsGeorge Michael has led reaction to the closure of the News of the World among his pop star peers on Twitter. The singer... more info

Guardian Music — In the 80s, even Wham! supported the miners. But tomorrow's strike has yet to find any expression in the wider cultureThursday's strikes loom, and underneath the inevitable theatrics from both sides, there's a sense of an achingly familiar problem: t... more info

Guardian Music — Forget the mud, the toilets and the crowds. Glastonbury first-timer Tim Dowling's biggest challenge was to get a gig. But who would invite him on stage? Step forward Billy Bragg . . .On the train I tell myself I won't write about the mud. There's alw... more info

Guardian Music — This was to be the year the festival got its radical mojo back. So what happened to all the protests?There were rumours of siege towers and stage invasions. But in the end, Art Uncut's much-hyped U2 protest proved somewhat less seismic: an 8m-high ba... more info