Bragg, 68, has been dubbed the "Bard of Barking" after his hometown, then in Essex but now part of east London. His teenage ...

NORTH ADAMS, MASS. - Wilco and Billy Bragg, nearly three decades after collaborating on "Mermaid Avenue," will reunite to bring the album to life once again. For the first time ever, the band and folk ...

Billy Bragg, the British folk-rock singer and lifelong figure in protest music, has shared a new song for Palestine. The release coincides with the launch of the Global Sumud Flotilla, which set sail ...

The Catholic Church in England and Wales has a new leader - Richard Moth has been named as the new Archbishop of Westminster, succeeding Cardinal Vincent Nichols who turned 80 last month. We hear from ...

It was thirty-seven years ago when the Saturday boy from Essex became the UK’s foremost political singer-songwriter. He released his first record, Life’s a RiotwithSpy Vs Spy, bashed out on a punk ...

TROY – Performing at Troy Music Hall on October 11th is singer-songwriter and activist, Billy Bragg. An artist with a long and storied career that found his roots in an unabashed punk-rock mindset, ...

Wilco announces the 2026 Solid Sound Festival lineup at MASS MoCA, highlighted by a rare live performance of Mermaid Avenue with Billy Bragg.

Elsewhere he is even more gloomy. On the opening "January Song", he suggests "this is how the end begins" over a lachrymose pedal steel refrain. The music is never upbeat, but its Nashville twang – ...

In general, I believe Tucson has all of the concerts a person needs to attend, but occasionally, something notable happens up north and a drive to Phoenix is in order. A show by Billy Bragg, who doesn ...

A better title for this album would be Too Damned English. That’s always been Bragg’s problem, as far as his inability to break out in America is concerned. Even hard-core U.S. left-wingers have a ...

This will be the first time Tweedy and Bragg have ever played a full live concert together, according to Rolling Stone, so ...