Tag Archives: Billy Bragg

no depression: its all a best of

Posted on March 30, 2012 by Dave

Jesse Marinoff Reyes: I wrote at length on the work of Grant Alden on his essential document of American music, No Depression magazine—both as designer and art director for its covers. But this was an entire magazine he was doing … Continue reading →

Posted in Shake Your Hips | Tagged art blakey and the Jazz Messengers, Billy Bragg, grant alden, jesse marinoff reyes, Joe Hill, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, No Depression magazine, reid miles, reid miles blue note, roy kanter, saul bass | Leave a comment

don’t mess with the holy fool

Posted on January 29, 2012 by Dave

Regarded as a kind of holy fool who could stretch time and space while spitting on Isaac Newton’s cape and could scare off Voltaire with flashing visions of nihilistic revelry,a positive nihilism, a kind of messianic negation of the mundane … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged alan moore, Albert Einstein, Allen Ginsberg, Andrew Potter, Billy Bragg, Donald Trump, G.K. Chesterton, jim jarmusch, john michell, John Milton Paradise Lost, mike goode, Slavoj Zizek, Terry Eagleton, todd mcfarlaine, W.B. Yeats, William Blake | Leave a comment

signs and signifiers: the snapper

Posted on January 20, 2012 by Dave

He is made out to be an original traveling troubador, but the reality is more varied and complex in the case of Woody Guthrie than being a mere singer of Cantos in the transplanted Spanish heartland of dust bowl America. … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Billy Bragg, billy bragg mermaid avenue, cudahy bacon, Edith Wharton, john dewey, John Dos Passos, John Steinbeck, nora guthrie, Thorstein Veblen, Wilco, Woody Guthrie, woody guthrie commercial sign painter | Leave a comment

cable street: they shall not pass

Posted on December 20, 2011 by Dave

Cable Street was a battle in 1936 in London in which Jews, Irish, Leftists and citizens waged a pitched battle with police to arrest a planned march of fascists through a predominantly jewish area. The police were unsuccessful in breaking … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Antonin Artaud, Billy Bragg, emil l. fackenheim, Filippo Marinetti, hanah arendt, Lady Gaga, max levitas, pepper spray cop, Rick Salutin, Robert Crumb, Slavoj Zizek, Walter Benjamin, Wilco, Winslow Homer | Leave a comment

mike waterson: today bright phoebus is smiling

Posted on July 22, 2011 by Dave

The Guardian:As the seminal traditional folk group of the 1960s, with Mike as the male lead singer, the Watersons toured the country with traditional English songs in harmony and largely unaccompanied, breaking the mould of guitar and banjo-led folk groups. … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Music/Composition/Performance | Tagged Billy Bragg, british folk music, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, martin carthy, mike waterson, Paul Simon, steeleye span, the watersons | Leave a comment

ZOMBIE BANKS, BUBBLE BATHS & EPITAPHS

Posted on July 6, 2010 by Dave

Pretty Boy grabbed a log chain, And the deputy grabbed his gun; In the fight that followed He laid that deputy down. Then he took to the trees and timber To live a life of shame; Every crime in Oklahoma … Continue reading →