According to a report from the Globe & Mail , legendary musician Billy Bragg recently appeared before the Canadian Parliament to talk about the file sharing problem. The singer and the Canadian New Democratic Party is calling on the government to let artists find a way to make music file swapping a legitimate part of promotion and sales. He is hoping to see new ways to compensate performers while...
The Balconies dominate Ottawa Xpress' Best of Ottawa poll + new shows announced . MySpace Joel Plaskett, Deep Dark Woods , Catherine Maclellan & Jim Byrnes among Canadian Folk Music Award winners. folkawards.ca Merge Records to re-issue The Arcade Fire's Funeral on vinyl Dec. 15. via Twitter Ring in the New Year with Joel Plaskett in Halifiax. TicketAtlanta Spencer Krug releases solo Moonface...
This Vancouver trip feels like it is speeding by at a breakneck pace, yet it has been so packed with events and activities and fabulous people that it's also hard to believe that I have only been here since Friday afternoon. Since we last spoke, I spent five hours wandering around downtown in the rain with the Offspring Formerly Known as Resident, getting seizures from the excesses in Pacific Centre...
Uncategorisable collective The Imagined Village return on January 11 with their second album Empire & Love. Having settled into a regular membership of ten talented musicians and singers, down from a revolving cast of sixteen, the BBC Radio 2 Folk Award winners are a more focused bunch this time around. Rather than focusing on having [...]
I mean seriously. All you have to do is say " it's gonna rain! " periodically and you're covered. Cushiest job ever. Apparently I arrived during the only 3-hour break from the rain that this city has seen all month. Sadly, those dry Calgary winds that I tucked into my bag were no match for the pineapple express that's been pummeling the coast. But that did not stop Mel, Al, the OFKAR and...
… p2pnet would stay online. Actually, it would be a few cents more than that, what with CC fees. But you get the idea … I’ve just put p2pnet up for sale. I started it to share music – MIDI, not mp3, files — but ended up becoming a kind of online pamphleteer, joining the men [...]
The Excast is so named because I am playing a lot of people’s former bands. There’s Shane MacGowan’s Nipple Erectors, Phil Chevron’s Radiators, Shilpa Ray’s Beat the Devil and Billy Bragg’s Riff Raff. I concentrate so much on new music these days that I often decide whether or not I like a band on the [...]
Poster by Barney Bubbles for Elvis Costello’s Get Happy!! (1980). Adelita, the publishers of Reasons To Be Cheerful: the life and work of Barney Bubbles, announced this week that Paul Gorman’s essential collection of BB graphics has been named Book of the Year in Mojo magazine: Reasons To Be Cheerful – the acclaimed study of the life [...]
British musician Billy Bragg belted out labour songs on a cold, rainy picket line outside the Canadian Museum of Civilization Friday, bringing some cheer to workers who have been on strike for nearly two months.
Frank YangQ: Without a new record to promote – Mr. Love & Justice has been out for close to two years – what reason did Billy Bragg have for staging an ambitious cross-Canada tour? A: Who cares? Any time you get the opportunity to see Billy Bragg live, you take it, no questions asked. Of course, [...]
p2pnet news view P2P | Politics:- The outgoing British Labour government wants to leave as its legacy a law to victimise members of the P2P communities, including children, who share with each other online. “Initially the Government will aim to educate and those identified as downloading unlawfully, will be sent letters,” says the Telegraph. “If [...]
Concert attended and reviewed by Karen I ‘ve never been to a Billy Bragg concert before. In fact I couldn’t name you one song that he sings. My best friend Louise however has been a huge Billy fan for a very long time and has seen him six times so I went along with her to [...] Related posts: Concert Review: Manic Street Preachers, The Phoenix, Oct 4, 2009 Toronto – What a show. What...
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