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Bruce Springsteen’s angry anti-ICE song is on-the-nose in the right way

The star’s urgent and to-the-point protest song is not subtle about its target and right now that’s why it works so well

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"There were bloody footprints where mercy should have stood.And two dead left to die on snow-filled streets, Alex Pretti and Renee Good." Bruce Springsteen releases moving anti-ICE protest song Streets of Minneapolis

Bruce Springsteen rush-releases song "in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis"

Louder

‘I never wanted to sing into a vacuum’: Scottish folk pioneer Dick Gaughan’s fight for his lost music

A skilled interpreter and social justice champion, Gaughan is a hero to the likes of Richard Hawley and Billy Bragg. Yet much of his work has been stuck in limbo for decades – until a determined fan stepped in

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PinkPantheress, Billy Bragg, Jamie Cullum and more to spill hitmaking secrets at Anti Social Camp

Songwriting workshop festival makes UK debut this November

MusicRadar

Starmer banks on £150bn investment to placate critics of Trump state visit

Prime minister seeks to make best of difficult state visit by US president with package of commitments by US firms

The Guardian - UK

Billy Bragg releases song in support of Palestine and Greta Thunberg aid flotilla

Hundred Year Hunger – which has a chorus in Arabic – has been released by the British protest singer to coincide with a humanitarian aid flotilla heading for Gaza

The Guardian - UK

Can any club match Liverpool’s impressive run of top-eight finishes?

Plus: which club have won the greatest variety of finals at Wembley? And more footballers as song titles

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‘He wrote five songs about washing dishes!’ The lost Woody Guthrie gems rescued by AI

He sang about love, injustice, Einstein – and his landlord Fred Trump, father of Donald, ending up in hell. As a trove of Guthrie tracks resurfaces, his daughter Nora remembers the penner of ‘hard-hitting songs for hard-hit people’

The Guardian - UK

‘Billy Bragg makes me cry’: Will Best’s honest playlist

The Big Brother presenter spent his pocket money on Babylon Zoo and was wowed by the Streets, but which grime banger did he butcher at karaoke?

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Glastonbury 2025: Full lineup and stage times today including Rod Stewart and Olivia Rodrigo

Fans can now work out any clashes between sets, and which stages their favourite artists are playing

The Independent UK

Charting protest pop: How music can bring about change

The 1980s was a period of profound popularity for political pop. Now, 40 years later, it’s what we desperately need again

The National (Scotland)

Billy Bragg says open letter from music stars defending Kneecap ‘lacks nuance’

The Metropolitan Police’s Counter Terrorism Command is investigating two videos, one of which allegedly shows the band calling for the deaths of MPs.

Evening Standard

“I was on my way to Vegas to marry a French boy, who was asleep on my lap, and I was listening to this song thinking, I'm living the dream. Then he woke up and said, I can't marry you.” Du Blonde on the eight songs that changed her life

From Joni Mitchell to David Bowie via Billy Bragg, Led Zeppelin and Frank Zappa, here are eight songs that made Du Blonde the bold and brilliant artist that she is

Louder

Anti-racism campaigner’s London book events cancelled amid threat of far-right violence

Freedom of speech groups alarmed after events to promote book by Hope Not Hate employee are called off

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The one thing these Euros lacked was a true underdog. Enter Georgia

In today’s Euro 2024 Daily: Georgia make it to the last 16

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Glastonbury Festival 2024 lineup, set times and clashfinder for each stage

Fans can now work out any tricky clashes between sets, and which stages their favourite artists are playing

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How to watch Glastonbury 2024 — confirmed lineup, guide, news

Here's how to watch Glastonbury 2024 for free from anywhere, with Avril Lavigne and the one and only Cyndi Lauper set to perform at Worthy Farm's festival of the summer too.

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Billy Bragg: ‘There’s nothing like going out there singing your truth. That ain’t changed’

The activist singer-songwriter on fighting for trans rights, his 40 years in the music business and his forthcoming tour with his son

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"Adore weaves its dark spell a little bit deeper. It's brooding, gothic and hypnotic in spades": Smashing Pumpkins embrace the sadness but lose fans on Adore

After Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness there was nowhere to go but up for Smashing Pumpkins: Then bad things began to happen

Louder

“Me and Stipey stood there thinking, ‘This is history in the making’: the time Billy Bragg and Michael Stipe were roommates in Czechoslovakia

Bragg and the R.E.M. frontman visited the country for a series of special shows in 1990

The Guardian - UK

Billy Bragg review – from bard of Barking to golden voice

Touring a box set of his 40-year career, Bragg remains unequivocally himself, but the radical romantic’s mellower vocals are a revelation

The National (Scotland)

Gregor Gall: In search of protest songs as popular music leaves a void

‘TOO many protest singers/Not enough protest songs.” So sang Scots former Orange Juice frontperson, Edwyn Collins, on his 1994 hit single, A…

The Guardian - UK

Billy Bragg looks back: ‘I can’t compete with Taylor Swift. But I can talk to an audience’

The musician on East End violence, taking on Margaret Thatcher, and why he’ll always be ready with a protest song

The Guardian - UK

Timely reminder of George Osborne’s misogyny

Brief letters: BHypocrisy on display | Ghost signs | War protest | Billy Bragg

The Guardian - UK

Billy Bragg: The Roaring Forty review – four decades of flying the flag

Austere, melodic, at times heartbreaking – the music of Britain’s foremost protest singer gets an evocative overview in this nuanced compilation

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