Billy Bragg News

Michael C. Hall's new band Princess Goes To The Butterfly Museum is releasing their latest single “Love American Style” with a video.

Wilco and Sleater-Kinney are pleased to announce their “It's Time” Summer 2020 co-headlining tour. After their respective North American and European runs in support of last year's Ode To Joy (out now on dBpm Records), Wilco will return stateside, closing out each night of their co-headlining tour with Sleater-Kinney, who just closed out their The Center Won't Hold tour. The entirety of the tour is made up of outdoor amphitheatres and venues, including a show in Wilco's hometown of Chicago at Millennium Park's Pritzker Pavilion, Nashville's Ascend Amphitheater, Morrison, CO's Red Rocks Amphitheatre, and more. Tickets for these go on sale this Friday, March 13th at 10am. Tickets are $35, $49.50, $77.50 and $89.50 and are available at www.ticketswest.com, by phone at 800-325-SEAT or at all TicketsWest Box Offices.

Poet Simon Mole and musician Gecko have joined forces to write and perform an interactive musical show for children, aged 4-11, and families a?" Mole & Gecko: THE SHOW which they are bringing to Wakefield Library on Saturday 7 March at 11am. What's more, tickets are FREE! Book in advance to avoid disappointment. Email: wakefieldlibrarymuseum@wakefield.gov.uk or telephone: 01924 305376.

Joe's Pub bids farewell to February and welcomes March with the third in a five-part concert series exploring Shakespeare's women, black female ambition, and music, Whitney White: Think, And Die; Joe's Pub Working Group 2020 member Salty Brine continues their dazzling exploration of pop music with Living Record Collection - THESE ARE THE CONTENTS OF MY HEAD: The Annie Lennox Show

Below is a list of upcoming shows at Luther Burbank Center for the Arts. Tickets for all shows are available online at lutherburbankcenter.org, by calling 707-546-3600 or at the Luther Burbank Center for the Arts ticket office (50 Mark West Springs Road in Santa Rosa. The patron services office is open Tuesdays through Sundays from noon to 6 p.m., closed on Mondays except when a show is scheduled, for which the box office will open at 4 p.m. Tickets and information are available 24/7 online at lutherburbankcenter.org.

As January winds to an end, the party still rages on at Joe's Pub!

Luther Burbank Center for the Arts (LBC) announced today that it has added three shows to its 2020 lineupa?"Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter Sarah McLachlan on Tuesday, February 25, the beloved children's show, Peppa Pig Live!, come to life on Friday, March 20, and Grammy Award-winning Chicago-based alt-rock band Wilco on Thursday, March 26. Tickets for all shows are available now online at lutherburbankcenter.org, by calling 707-546-3600, or at the Luther Burbank Center for the Arts ticket office (50 Mark West Springs Road in Santa Rosa).

Acclaimed singer/songwriter Ani DiFranco will return to Australia in April 2020 for the first time in ten years, for a national tour which will include performances at Bluesfest. This tour will take her to Perth, Melbourne, Sydney and Byron Bay and tickets are on sale now.

As they prepare to hit the road from this Halloween, DECLAN WELSH & THE DECADENT WEST are serving up an early treat to sink your teeth into: an electrifying live rendition of 'No Fun', surgically spliced with Lizzo's 'Juice' and The Strokes classic 'Reptilia'.

Over the past two-plus decades, Wilco has won multiple Grammy Awards and released 10 studio albums as well as a trio of albums with Billy Bragg, penning music to lyrics by Woody Guthrie. They have founded their own record label (dBpm Records) and festival (Solid Sound), and 2020 sees them curating Sky Blue Sky, a destination concert experience in Mexico, for the first time. The Chicago sextet continues to be regarded as a live powerhouse, as described by NPR, a?oeTo see Wilco on stage is to hear the best of the best.a??

Philadelphia-based Celtic-tinged folk rock collective River Drivers present their new single 'Isn't It Grand Boys (Look at the Coffin)'. This traditional ballad foreshadows their new album 'Big Oak Road', to be released on October 18.

British synthpop stalwarts Nature of Wires present their new double album 'Modus', out on August 16 via Manchester's Analogue Trash label. Comprising 18 tracks, this is 80s-influenced synthpop with a dark edge. The album had its genesis in the late 80s and early 90s, when the band were in the middle of a creative hot streak.

Philadelphia-based Celtic-tinged folk rock collective River Drivers has announced their new album 'Big Oak Road', be released in early October. Ahead of this, they are offering a taster of this high-energy blend of Celtic-Americana via the double A-side single 'Children's March (Mother Jones) / Going Once'. The release coincides with the band's appearance at this year's Philadelphia Folk Festival.

Wilco returns. Long celebrated for their "captivating and expeditionary" (New York Times) performances, WILCO is pleased to announce a fall North American tour, their first tour in nearly two years. Following their Solid Sound Festival and the previously announced European tour, Wilco will bring their live shows across the country, playing dual nights in Austin, TX at ACL Live at the Moody Theater and Boston's Wang Center, plus a stop at the Fabulous Fox Theatre in St. Louis on Thursday, November 14.

The French Institute Alliance Fran aise (FIAF), New York's premier French cultural and language center, today announced the 2019 Crossing the Line Festival, featuring 11 performances and a gallery exhibition from a geographically, generationally, and artistically diverse group of artists whose work transcends genres and boundaries. All performances are world, US, or New York premieres; they are united by their convention-breaking fearlessness as they confront topics from social injustice to personal demons. Many of the performances pay homage to legendary artists of our time and previous eras, while the theme of migration and its transformational effects on identity informs several others. The festival runs from September 12 to October 12. Ticket are available at crossingtheline.org.

On June 24, critically praised Los Angeles-based singersongwriter Eleni Mandell will launch a Northeast tour in support of her just-released 11th studio album, Wake Up Again. With stops in Boston, Philadelphia, and New York City, Mandell will make her debut at JazzFest in Montreal July 3. A full list of dates is below. 

Critically lauded Los Angeles-based singer/songwriter Eleni Mandell has confirmed more tour dates in support of her 11th studio album, Wake Up Again, out June 7 on Yep Roc Records. Kicking off with an album release show June 9, at Dynasty Typewriter in Los Angeles, the tour includes stops in Philadelphia, New York City, and a debut appearance at JazzFest in Montreal. A full list of dates is below. 

Irish singer-songwriter Wallis Bird has announced her first ever North America tour. Bird will take her high energy performances, throughout the East Coast and Midwest making stops in DC, Philadelphia, NYC, Boston, and Nashville among others.

Critically acclaimed Los Angeles-based singer/songwriter Eleni Mandell's second single, “Be Together” from her forthcoming album, Wake Up Again, premiered today at American Songwriter.

City Theatre Company, Pittsburgh's home for contemporary plays, has announced the details of the theatre's 45th season of new works. This line-up of plays is the first curated by Artistic Director Marc Masterson upon his return to City Theatre in 2018.