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 ...

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, ...

Between 1998 and 2012, Wilco and British troubadour Billy Bragg released three Mermaid Avenue albums inspired by a trunk of unpublished Woody Guthrie lyrics uncovered by his family. However, beyond a ...

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

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 ...

Solid Sound Festival announced the rest of the lineup for the three-day celebration of music, comedy and art at MASS MoCA in North Adams, Mass.

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 – ...

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 ...