Shane MacGowan, cannibalism and punk mayhem at The Clash concert, 1976
The end of an ear.
The Clash
When Bob Dylan sat down to record with The Clash and Sex Pistols: “Fucking surreal”
A magical if not mad moment.
‘Should I Stay or Should I Go?’: Mick Jones’ last performance with The Clash at the Us Festival
Steve Wozniak may have co-founded Apple, but it was his notorious “US Festival” that makes him one of the greatest rock promoters of our time.…
Sammy Hagar’s influence on the early Clash
With a nickname like “the Red Rocker” and a home in the San Francisco Bay Area, could the Clash have mistaken Sammy Hagar for a…
The Sex Pistols, The Clash and Siouxsie and the Banshees on early TV documentary ‘Punk’ from 1976
There had been a killing. But no one was quite certain where it had happened or where the body was hidden. Maybe it was in…
Strassenjungs: The ‘fake’ German punk rockers who toured with The Clash
German ‘punk’ band Strassenjungs circa 1980. In 1977 two German producers decided to try to follow Malcolm McLaren’s success with the Sex Pistols by creating…
Get ready for tedious and predictable aging punker outrage: Converse has Clash Chuck Taylors now
It’s hard to say that punk ever died, given that both its distinctly non-hippie anti-authoritarian spirit and its fashion sensibilities have survived over four decades…
Johnny Ramone compares the Clash to Joan Baez on Minneapolis TV, 1978
Local news stories about underground music can always be counted on to cluelessly pander to the paranoid grandparent demographic, which makes this 1978 Minneapolis public…
Riot on Times Square: The Clash on Broadway!
From the Dangerous Minds archives: In May/June of 1981, The Clash were booked to play at the curiously named “Bond International Casino”–a discotheque that was…
That time the Clash appeared in Martin Scorsese’s ‘The King of Comedy’
An interesting cinematic footnote to the Clash’s time spent in New York City in the early 1980s–while they recorded their sprawling three-record Sandinista album–is their…