The Clash

During the 1990s and early 2000s Joe Strummer, former lead singer for the Clash, did a radio show for the BBC World Service using the…

Promo ad for Blondie’s ‘Plastic Letters,’ 1978. This might even be an in-store stand-up, hard to tell If you are of a certain age, you…

“Complete Control” — It’s The Clash’s fourth best song, featured on the U.S. release of their debut album. The song which is supposedly a “fiery…

An early photo of The Star Club Since getting their start back in Nagoya, Japan in the spring of 1977, Japanese punk band, The Star…

It was 1981, and looking to soak up some revolutionary–and authentically countercultural–inspiration, The Clash recorded what would become their fifth album, Combat Rock in Frestonia,”…

Steve Severin and Siouxsie Sioux, 1976 Photographer Ray Stevenson, the brother of former Sex Pistols’ road manager and early manager of Siouxsie and the Banshees,…

Last year, DM told you about a marvelous children’s book called What Every Child Needs To Know About Punk Rock. In that post I mused…

Last year Paul Dougherty posted this treasure on his blog When p**k was a work in progress, where it then went unaccountably ignored. The setup…

Okay it’s been nearly 40 years since I heard The Ramones debut album for the first time and that means I’m fucking old. But I…

The Clash busking in York, 1985 In its official version, the story of The Clash ends with the firing of lead guitarist Mick Jones in…