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Billy Bragg releases song for Palestine “Hundred Year Hunger”

September 2, 2025 Keith Hargreaves 1

Billy Nomates added to Gaza benefit show at Shepherd’s Bush Empire on 20th September. In solidarity with the Global Sumud Flotilla, which launches this week in a bid to break the Israeli naval blockade and deliver […]

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Billy Bragg announces Palestine benefit concert for September

July 31, 2025 Keith Hargreaves 0

Billy Bragg has announced “Days Like These”, an evening of music, spoken word and film for Palestine, featuring performances from Jamie Webster (solo), words from Antony Szmierek, Reverend & The Makers (acoustic), Big Special, Khalid Abdalla, […]

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“Billy Bragg – A People’s History” to be published in autumn 2025

June 18, 2025 Richard Parkinson 0

Burning Shed has announced that “Billy Bragg – A People’s History” will be published on 9th October 2025 and is now available to pre-order. “Billy Bragg – A People’s History” is an oral history of the […]

Can't Live with it, Can't Live without it

Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Without It: Billy Bragg

June 4, 2025 Darren Lumbroso 3

I first saw Billy Bragg play live on 30 December 1984 at the Lyceum Ballroom in the Strand in London. I used to be able to recall all the times I’d seen him perform but I […]

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Interview: Phillip Lammonds on “Cowboy Things”

May 7, 2024 Martin Johnson 0

Finding a voice to sing his own songs with a little help from his friends and supporters. Unless you read track and album credits carefully you may not have heard of Phillip Lammonds, but those in […]

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Something for the weekend: Toad the Wet Sprocket “California Wasted”

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Live Review: Midlake + The Bretheren, Electric Ballroom, London – 6th February 2026

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Anniversary Cheers: Slim Dunlap’s “Every Little Word” is a reissue of his two solo albums 30 years on, with added extras

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  • Something for the weekend: Toad the Wet Sprocket “California Wasted”
  • Live Review: Midlake + The Bretheren, Electric Ballroom, London – 6th February 2026
  • Anniversary Cheers: Slim Dunlap’s “Every Little Word” is a reissue of his two solo albums 30 years on, with added extras
  • Exclusive AUK Mini-Gig: BIRD
  • Classic Clips: Chris Whitley “Big Sky Country” – Live At Les Nuis L’Emission, 29th February 1992
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Interview: Mean Mary answers six of one and half a dozen of the other

February 18, 2026 0

The banjo is a glorious instrument that can do a lot of ill in the wrong hands. It’s not easy to proudly, confidently pluck out some hot licks and really hard to play it with the […]

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Behind the Songs: Polite Company “Please Go Wild”

February 17, 2026 0

Alan Gregg is a native Kiwi transplanted to North London with a spotty resumé to his credit. Not intending to be impolite, but prospective employers might be taken aback, curious as to what he has been […]

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Interview: Jim White on Trey Blake and the backstory of “Precious Bane”

February 12, 2026 2

If you’ve heard anything about Jim White, you’ve probably heard about the surfing, the modeling, the cab driving, and the unlikely way David Byrne changed his life with a record deal. You’ve heard about the junk […]

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Classic Clips: Venice, with America, Richard Page and David Crosby “Suite:Judy Blue Eyes” at Barnum Hall, Santa Monica High School 2011

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If, dear reader, you trace your love of the Americana genre back to the 60s you would probably agree that there were a number of bands in the California music firmament that can be considered as […]

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Mat Callahan & Yvonne Moore “Working-Class Heroes: A History Of Struggle and Song” (Free Dirt Records, 2019)

June 20, 2019 0

You know times must be tough when an album of pre World War 2 working class American songs sounds topical. ‘Working- Class Heroes’ finds folk singers Mat Callahan and Yvonne Moore revisiting 20 songs mainly culled […]

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Fangs And Twang “You Monster”

January 30, 2024 1

An album of fiddle-driven, creepy escapades which also makes some serious points. Formed in 2014 Fangs And Twang comprise Billy LaLonde (drums, vocals), Andy Benes (guitar, vocals) and Joe Bertoletti (bass, vocals) all of whom are […]

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