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As a quick thanks-you to all my great COMMENTERS, here's a l'il rarity, a compilation put together by Released Emotions, home of...

No, really, legendary NYC punk, main mouth of Heart Attack and DGenration, Jesse Malin has joined with The Grateful Dead's Bob Weir ...

So, The Wallflowers, a band led by Dylan The Younger, have joined forces with former Clash-man, Mick Jones, who Jakob's dad describe...

While hypothesizing about Chuck Prophet's record collection (see HERE ), I left out a number of probably obvious choices, not least ...

I suppose Record Store Days singles still seem more of a tribute to our favourite faltering institution than cash grab. That said, asid...

Jimmy Cliff is one of the greatest artists ever to come from Jamaica (where the competition for that honour is murderous) and hearing hi...

Winnipeg guitarist/singer/song-writer/label head/community-organizer Greg Macpherson has been releasing albums and touring this world fo...

I'm back after nine days in the wilds of Western Canada ("Hello, Moosamin"), endless miles of prairie and mountains mitiga...

R.I.P. Joe Strummer August 21st 1952 - December 22nd 2002 Sandinista is a mess. Call it an inspired mess or self-indulgent one but few accu...

Punk was progressive and reactionary. On the one hand, staunchly conservative, railing against the modernity of pop charts and calling for a...

Billy Childish and his fellow Headcoats play more full-bore Clash ( see here ) , this time without fucking up the words. Download Suave Old...

No one resented The Clash's belated Number One Hit that they got for shilling for Levi's Jeans than lead Headcoat, Pop Rivet, Milksh...

We're wrapping up the series that saw Joe Strummer and Mick Jones' bands each get two nominations for First Great Post-Clash Song. ...

Next up on our (non-chronological) list of possible Great Post-Clash songs is the 1988 Joe Strummer and Latino Rockabilly War (Bass - Jim D...

I took some upbraiding for suggesting that "Love Kills" is the First Great Post-Clash song, with the dissenters saying either it ...

Regarded coldly in the modest post-Clash canon,"Love Kills", Joe Strummer's contribution to Alex Cox's 1986 bio-pic Sid an...

"This is Disco Clash..." goes the standard slag, if you want any more you can sing it yourself. Not much to add that the lin...