The Clash

Y-Rock on XPN is running Joe Strummer's "London Calling" BBC radio show of a few years back each week, but I've not been able to catch it each week.  Damn I love the internet,,,, found a podcast of it here on WRNR-FM.  More info on the show is on Y-Rock's site. Somewhere I found the playlist but I can't find it anymore.  Suffice to say, it's a global mix, from reggae (of course) to some Colombian cumbia to Berlin techno to folks like Baaba Maal.  I wish every radio stat... MORE

I always feel guilty listening to music at work. Maybe it is because I don't listen to the "easy listening" that attribute to cubicle dwellers, and my music habits demand that I devote at least more than 10% of my subconscious to what is playing. Am I alone in this feeling? So many people treat music as an ambient  environmental tool, which is what I do too, but on top of that I have a hard time allowing myself to listen. I feel that on some level I am goofing off. I wo... MORE

Now, as I understand it, we all pride ourselves on our music collection/selections/confections, whatever. Well, I contend that if you have a collection of Rock Music and it does not contain London Calling ,Your collection is sadly incomplete.The Clash took on the world with this album, and pinned it to the mat. The boys display an affinity for, and impressive command of a wide range of pop/rock/world music, becoming itself the umbilicus tying it all together.With their ad... MORE

With Mick Jones, once of The Clash, guesting with Alabama 3 at SXSW it just seemed like a good time to remind ourselves just how great the music of The Clash is. So here's a fave song, "London Calling." s

David Bowie, Ronnie Wood and Paul Simonon. Would anyone care about their paintings if they weren't famous musicians?

Carnival Day in London 27 April 2008 - Thirty years after a group of music stars decided to Rock Against Racism, the Love Music Hate Racism carnival is celebrating the efforts of 1978. The Good, The Bad and The Queen, Hard-Fi and Jay Sean are headlining the anti-racism concert in east London. Organisers hope 100,000 people will attend the free carnival in Victoria Park.The original gig was headlined by Tom Robinson Band and featured a legendary performance from The Clash... MORE

I have mad love for Don Letts and therefore have no doubts that his newest project will be awesome. The former Roxy Club dj produced a film with rare live concert footage of the Clash which will be released on DVD in April and excerpts will be broadcast on PBS in early March. The film is called "The Clash Live: Revolution Rock" and it will be widely available on April 15th. Letts was close with the band during their heyday and some of the footage comes from his own coll... MORE

I was fortunate to have been a teenager/college student during the halcyon days of punk rock, and was fortunate to have experienced the electric feeling when bands like the Ramones, the Damned, and 'the only band that matters', the Clash, were in the midst of their finest hour(s). 'London Calling' is still one of my all-time favorite albums, and, in my opinion, no record collection is complete without a copy. Every track's a winner - here's one of the standouts among the... MORE

In 1978 the groups that rocked London's Trafalgar Square in support of the Rock Against Racism message included The Clash. Well, The Clash won't be there this year (R.I.P. Joe Strummer) when they celebrate the upcoming 30th anniversary on April 27th, but I expect the event will be well worthwhile.
More info here, and a hat tip to Serge The Concierge for the heads up. The Clash playing for tens of thousands at the first Rock Against Racism event, photo nicked from h... MORE

The Clash Live: Revolution Rock is a new documentary that gives an in depth look at their live performances. The film is directed by Grammy-winning producer Don Letts who took on the tall task of chronicling one of the biggest bands to ever come out of the U.K.
The film follows the band from the studio sessions with nobody around, to playing sold out shows in New York City. The film details the history of the band with the use of rare or previously unseen footage that promi... MORE

Such a great lryic,  you can check out that song below...but just listening to it has put me in a Clash sort of mood...Cheers Joe.