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Spanish Plaza Named After Joe Strummer Thanks To A Facebook Campaign
Following a Facebook petition that garnered over 2,000 signatures, city officials in Granada, Spain have been swayed to name a plaza after former Clash frontman Joe Strummer. The campaign was started...
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The Clash Talk ‘Soundsystem,’ Being Wilder Than The Kinks And Scaring The Who
Younger music fans may be confused when presented with Sound System, the new Clash box set. That’s because it comes in the shape of an old-school boombox, which, these days, is about quaint as a...
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Joe Strummer’s 1963 Ford Thunderbird Up for Auction
Have some extra cash t0 spare? Like, a lot of cash to spare? If so, you could soon be the owner of Joe Strummer‘s old 1963 Thunderbird. Back in 1987 when the late Clash frontman was working in film,...
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Please Take a Moment to Watch Drake Dance to The Clash’s ‘Rock the Casbah’
The internet went crazy last week after Drake released his music video for “Hotline Bling.” His dance moves quickly became a meme and was strong for days. While it’s popularity has slowed from its...
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The Clash Get Their Own Converse High Tops
By Annie Reuter The Clash are getting their own Converse line in celebration of the 40th anniversary of the band playing at the 100 Club Punk Special, a two-day event in London that helped launch the...
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Metallica Cover the Clash, Jam with Neil Young, at Bridge School Benefit
By Brian Ives Last night, Metallica performed at Neil Young’s 30th annual Bridge School Benefit concert at the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, California. The show is an all-acoustic affair...
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Metallica: Their 13 Best Covers (from Killing Joke to Deep Purple and Beyond!)
By Brian Ives The deluxe edition of Metallica’s brand new album, Hardwired… to Self-Destruct includes some of the covers that they’ve done in the past few years, including a 2008 cover of Iron Maiden’s...
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The 6 Best GRAMMY ‘In Memorandum’ Tributes
By Brian Ives The GRAMMY Awards can usually be relied on to pay tribute to recently fallen musical icons. Whether or not they do those icons justice, though, is up for debate. Did they book the right...
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This Week In History: Motown’s Biggest Girl-Group; Punk’s Best; George...
Joe Causi here with another week in history and talk about a week of record breakers. This week it’s back with Motown’s biggest girl group; We take a look at the greatest punk band of all time; The...
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This Week in History: The Clash Have a Run-In With the Law, Nirvana’s...
With This Week in History, “Brooklyn’s Own” Joe Causi looks back at Joe Strummer’s clash with the law, one of music’s most memorable album covers, and Courtney Love’s bad credit. 1980 (AP Photo/Reed...
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