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tours announced: Billy Bragg, The Hold Steady, Clan of Xymox, more
Plus: New Order & Pet Shop Boys, Rage Against the Machine, Tool, Kraftwerk, Judas Priest, The Black Keys, Four Tet, GWAR, They Might Be Giants, and more tour news.
Billy Bragg
Billy Bragg
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Paul McCartney, Mick Jagger, Rush, Flea, Brian Wilson & more pay tribute to Ginger Baker
Hawkind, Dave Davies (The Kinks), Brian Eno, Ringo Starr, Steve Winwood, Questlove, Brian May, and members of The Brian Jonestown Massacre, Spandau Ballet, and Slipknot have also paid tribute to the drum legend...
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Billy Bragg writes more on Morrissey: “as a Smiths fan, I’m heartbroken”
"Where once he offered solace to the victims of a cruel and unjust world, he now seems to have joined the bullies waiting outside the school gates" -- Billy Bragg on Morrissey.
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Interpol & Billy Bragg respond to Morrissey’s support of far-right For Britain party
Morrissey said in an interview published on his own website, ”Everyone ultimately prefers their own race … does this make everyone racist?”
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Ranking Roger (The English Beat, General Public), dead at 56
Read tributes from Dave Wakeling, The Specials, Jerry Dammers, Billy Bragg, REM's Mike Mills, UB40, and more.
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Billy Bragg celebrating first 6 LPs on 2019 U.S. tour
Billy will play three nights in all stops of the tour, with one night dedicated to current material, and then two nights focusing on his first three, and second three albums.
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watch Britt Daniel, Craig Finn, Ted Leo & lots more sing protest songs at “Flip These Houses” benefit
The "Flip These Houses" protest benefit also features Nicole Atkins, Lenny Kaye, Matthew Caws (Nada Surf), Shilpa Ray, Mac McCaughan (Superchunk), Hamilton Leithauser and lots more.
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Jason Isbell, Emmylou Harris, Dawes, Billy Bragg & more going on a cruise
Dawes also announced a headlining tour.
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Portishead’s Geoff Barrow scored ‘Annihilation’ w/ Ben Salisbury (listen), forms DJ crew “Dads on Drugs”
Geoff Barrow, when not making music with Portishead or BEAK>, makes disquieting soundtrack music with collaborator Ben Salisbury. Their work includes the scores of Alex Garland's 2014 film Ex Machina and Black Mirror episode "Men Against Fire" and Garland's new film Annihilation...
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Artists pay tribute to Mark E. Smith (Thom Yorke, Pavement, Kim Gordon, Jarvis Cocker, Billy Bragg & more)
Few bands of the last 40 years have been as influential to indie rock, punk and alternative as The Fall, so it is not surprise to see the outpouring of tributes following the very sad death of main man Mark E. Smith...