Forty years ago this month, the Only Band That Mattered drove into a ditch with one the Eighties most hated albums. How did ...
Last night in East London, folks got a flavour of what’s to come at this year’s The Great Escape. The launch, held to celebrate the first fifty artists ...
Not everyone wants to live the rock star life. Terry Chimes, best known for being the Clash’s former drummer, revealed why he left the British punk group and music industry behind forty years ago.
At this point, The Clash had three guitarists. They were a five-piece band rather than the four-piece which became familiar. The guitarist who left a few weeks after the Screen on the Green outing was ...
Prince, the Clash, and the Four Seasons’ Frankie Valli are among the artists who will receive lifetime achievement awards at the Grammys’ upcoming Special Merit Awards ceremony, the Recording Academy ...
On one hand, they could make music that seemed way too uncompromising for the pop charts. But then again, the songwriters of The Clash possessed a knack for catchy melodies, the kind that make for ...
When The Clash had a Top 40 hit in 1980 with “Train in Vain,” it wasn’t just a breakthrough for the band—it was a breakthrough for punk. Seminal bands in the genre, such as The Stooges, The Ramones, ...