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Aug. 30, 2009
Music
Pop music: Billy Bragg and Mavis Staples
Nov. 4, 2010
Bit Player
July 25, 2008
Aug. 12, 2016
Lifestyle
The English musician (and author) performs in L.A. in support of his ‘Mr. Love & Justice’ album.
June 5, 2008
Ask Billy Bragg why his music has failed to find a large audience in the United States and he answers: “Too English, too political, too tall.”
Aug. 28, 1999
Communist governments were toppling like dominoes in Eastern Europe, along with the Berlin Wall.
Sept. 29, 1990
Pop music: Parental devotion has influenced the singer-songwriter. But that doesn’t mean he’s abandoned the righteous indignation that’s marked his career.
Nov. 8, 1996
At one point in the late Abbie Hoffman’s May, 1988, performance at the Belly Up Tavern in Solana Beach, the radical-politico-turned-stand-up-comic was issuing a blanket indictment of today’s rock scene, with which, he confessed, he had long ago lost touch.
Dec. 7, 1991
In his most famous song, Woody Guthrie sang that this land is our land.
Oct. 12, 1997