Even the Clash were tired of their reputation as a punk band by 1979. Only two albums into their career, they were starting to see the limits of being associated with the genre. As dozens of groups ...

Pryor Stroud: Alongside Gang of Four, the Jam, and, to a lesser extent, the Sex Pistols, the Clash were punk’s proud, leftist poet-intellectuals, equally interested in cultivating their own political ...

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The Clash enjoyed a fairly long career, but their biggest claim to fame has to be the punk rock classic “London Calling”, as well as the whole of the album of the same name from 1979. The song is a ...

The exhibit marking the anniversary of the band's landmark third album will open in November and feature Paul Simonon's smashed Fender bass and Joe Strummer's lyric notebook. By Gil Kaufman A ...

1979 was not the best time to be a punk rocker. Many of the leading acts of the era were already in the process of flaming out just a few years after the genre had arrived and peaked almost ...

In late 1979, British rock band the Clash released an album that would go on to be a staple in classic rock history. The record, named London Calling, was the group's third studio album, and while ...

The New York Palladium, 21 September 1979. Photographer Pennie Smith is standing in the wings, just off stage left, snapping pictures of the Clash, as they deliver another trademark, fiery performance ...

On September 21, 1979, when British punk legends The Clash tried to amp up the crowd at The Palladium in New York, security guards pushed fans back into their seats. According to guitar-makers Fender, ...

The Clash's Joe Strummer would no doubt get a chuckle out of one of his band's biggest hits, 'London Calling,' being used to promote next summer's Olympic Games in London. The title track from the ...

Slipknot / Stone Sour vocalist Corey Taylor has proven to be a versatile musician in the past, but you may have never seen him quite like this. In a new clip, Corey Taylor sits down and picks up an ...

Billboard notes that the shattered bass, captured on the cover of The Clash’s 1979 album London Calling, will be part of a permanent exhibition at a newly opened music museum in London. The instrument ...