Billy Bragg

This is gonna be a Very Long Post, but it concerns Very Important Issues regarding music online and the future thereof) (For those confused by the title - before the invention of the Davy safety lamp, coalmines used to keep canaries in cages to give warning of dangerous gas buildups; the canary would keel over before the gas became concentrated enought to be dangerous...) Anyway. Internet radio (legal internet radio, at any rate) is very likely to be a thing of the past... MORE

Being on summer break does not mean I sit around the house playing video games and doing nothing. Ok, that is part of my gig right now, but I have been busy crossing things off my list of chores I have to get done before the summer is over. One of those chores was to turn my son's room into a "little boys" room. I had been working on some paintings for him over the last year, and today they finally found a place on his walls. In addition he got his first big boys bed, and ... MORE

So I received an email from the mogfather, David Hyman, and it had me thinking about the reservations I had before striking. For the record, I was in no way asked to do this.
I was a little unsure about the purpose of a the strike, since none of us pay any money to be here, and all information seemed to send me in circles or to Multiply login pages (yeah, I'm a member, but there's plenty of moggers who aren't).We are what make Mog so damn good, but it's their hard work pul... MORE

Billy Bragg is ready to release his first album under his own name in six years, titled Mr. Love & Justice. Fans have been buzzing about it since late last year, but today we have a tracklist and release date. The album will feature 12 songs of new material with guest appearances from Ian McLagan (Faces) on Hammond and piano and Robert Wyatt on vocals. I'm not sure if the Wyatt/Bragg track that opens the album is new or not however. I found an mp3 for "I Keep Faith" in... MORE

The New York Times ran this.
I think its great stuff...

March 22, 2008
Op-Ed Contributor
The Royalty Scam
By BILLY BRAGG

Dorset, England

LAST week at South by Southwest, the rock music conference held every year in Austin, Tex., the talk in hotel lobbies, coffeeshops and the convention center was dominated by one issue: how do musicians make a living in the age of the Internet? It’s a problem our industry has struggled with in the wake of the rising popularity of sharing mp3 musi... MORE

From the esteemed egalitarian Billy Bragg comes his Anti- Records debut Mr. Love and Justice. Considered "a national treasure" in his native England, Bragg has long been a cult hero in the US, releasing consistently celebrated solo records and recording with everyone from Wilco to Less Than Jake. In his two and a half decades of carrying the torch, Bragg has melded the folksy populism of Woody Guthrie with the anger and indignation of the Clash, and both are perfectly enca... MORE

As previously mentioned, the deluxe release of this cd contains two versions of the album; one with the band and one done solo I prefer the intimacy of the solo versions A little shout out to runobodyii as it was his theme that resulted in this post

The deluxe version of this release contains two CDs A "band" version and a "solo" version I'm a "solo" version kind of person what do you think? The Release is titled "Mr. Love & Justice but it seems the MOG uploader insists it isn't

Thanks to Crazy for the 411!

Tonight, Australia Day 2008, Billy Bragg made a number of points. One of them was something that happened to him after he had left the SXSW Festival in Austin and headed to Minneapolis. As he said, he had lost some of the range in his not so wide ranging vocals. As he was doing the sound check up there in Minnesota, he said to one of his cohorts, he was quite distressed that the people were coming to hear him do his songs on that night, and he was not going to be able to s... MORE

Yeah, well the title of this post says it all. This is a job for a three-armed contortionist with X-ray vision. So while I do that give Billy Bragg a listen. Rearraging motown tunes for the shit-kicker crowd is nothing new, but when its done well.....well, I like it anyway.

...i used a panorama-generating program i have to put together a panoramic view of the crowd from that Billy Bragg video i posted in a comment a bit ago - the one where whoever shot the video panned around the crowd - rather unsteadily. Here's the center part of it: The whole thing is online; Click here to see it. (This was as much an experiment to see if the program could actually make a panorama by extracting frames from a video sequence as anything else...) Click... MORE

Political folk-rocker Billy Bragg's next album, Mr. love and Justice, includes "some love songs," Bragg said Thursday during an appearance at Berlin's Popkomm, the annual international music conference. The album will be released next year. Bill Bragg at Popkomm. Photograph by Michael Goldberg "Life is not just politics and not all love either," Bragg said of the mix of songs on Mr. Love and Justice. "It's a balance. Its that balance I'm trying to have." Bragg's las... MORE