Guardian Music — After the glitz of the Brits, Radiohead put out a new album on their own website. These contrasting events show an industry in turmoil as pop stars and indie bands alike cope with a digital revolutionOn the face of it, it was a week in which the gre... more info

Guardian Music — The England PJ Harvey paints isn't the green and pleasant idyll of popular imagination, but a dear and bruised and bedraggled thingA few weeks back, I interviewed Colin Meloy of the Decemberists for these pages. Sitting in his study in Oregon, we di... more info

Guardian Music — Billy Bragg showed what a heartwarming man he isTom Robinson's interview with Billy Bragg (BBC 6music, Friday) was like listening to the spring awakening in Narnia: two gnarly old lefties, frozen under an evil spell since the watery 90s, burst alive... more info

Altsounds — Sam Duckworth is 22. He writes, records and gigs a lot as Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly. He grew up in Southend in Essex, home county of his hero Billy Bragg. You should hear Sam's version of 'A New England', then you should hear his own song, 'The Li... more info

Guardian Music — South Bank re-creation of confidence-boosting 1951 festival aims to provide a similar tonic on a slimline budgetIt was one of the most austere of years but the Labour government spent a fortune on buildings and cultural events to cheer up the battere... more info

Altsounds — Occult Detective Club is formed by Alx Anguiano on vocals/guitars, Andrew Messer on guitars, Chris Reeves on drums and Tyler Shults on bass. With echoes of The Jam, Boys, Clash, Sham 69 and the passion and forward thinking of Billy Bragg, on their n... more info

Guardian Music — 'I took John Peel a mushroom biryani when he was on air – in return, he gave me my first radio airplay'What got you started?A desire not to go and work in the Ford car factory in Dagenham. That's what everyone where I lived was being educated to d... more info

The Telegraph — As an Essex-born punk rocker, folk singer and lifelong socialist activist, Billy Bragg caused a few eyebrows to be raised when he spent £625,000 11 years ago on a house in a conservative, picturesque Dorset village. more info

NME — Singer blames BNP for dozens of letters sent to his neighbours more info

Guardian Music — Hate mail sent to residents calling for campaign against 'anti-British' singer and activistNeighbours of the singer-songwriter and political activist Billy Bragg have received hate mail calling on them to force him out their village because of his so... more info