Articles tagged "the clash"

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Live recordings flourish in spite of technology

by Greg Kot [Chicago Tribune (MCT)]

[19.Nov.08] :. It has served as a star-making vehicle for everyone from James Brown to Peter Frampton. It went through an unplugged phase that allowed listeners to glimpse their pop heroes in a more informal...

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Music Review

The Clash: Live at Shea Stadium

by Michael Keefe

[10.Oct.08] :. This rousing and rocking complete live show from 1982 finally affords Clash fans the full concert experience.

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Music Feature

“Once You Saw Them Live, You Were Hooked Forever”: An Interview With Don Letts

by Ron Hart

[15.Jul.08] :. With the 30th Anniversary release of the seminal Clash documentary Revolution Rock, director Don Letts reflects on the sheer power of seeing the Only Band That Mattered in a live setting, the possibility of a Big Audio Dynamite reissue, and his unabashed love... for Curb Your Enthusiasm.

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Music DVD Review

The Clash: Live Revolution Rock [DVD]

by Zeth Lundy

[15.Apr.08] :. Fiery yet flawed, this 22-song collection of live Clash clips is a visual feast of gritted teeth, sopping hair, and snarled lips.

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Mixed Media

The Clash, The Raveonettes, Todos Tus Muertos…

by PopMatters Staff

[26.Feb.08] :. The Clash - Live: Revolution Rock This new Clash live show documentary will be airing on PBS stations in the US in March and will be coming to DVD via Sony/Legacy on 15 April. The 60-minute...

Mixed Media

Carbon/Silicon: The Last Post

by John Bergstrom

[5.Dec.07] :. The world was hardly holding its breath for a Mick Jones/Tony James reunion. Maybe it should have been.

Here’s the News, and All of It Is Good: An Interview with Mick Jones

by Michael Franco

[3.Dec.07] :. The ex-Clash artist returns with a new outlook and a new means of spreading his music, but the rebelliousness remains. Jones talks to PopMatters about his new project Carbon/Silicon.

Joe Strummer: The Future is Unwritten

by Dan DeLuca [The Philadelphia Inquirer (MCT)]

[9.Nov.07] :. The Sex Pistols declared that there was “No Future.” The Clash insisted that there was one worth fighting for. The cruelest twist of fate involving the two greatest British punk rock...

Joe Strummer: The Future is Unwritten

by Rafer Guzman [Newsday (MCT)]

[6.Nov.07] :. Rock music seems to be producing fewer and fewer icons like Joe Strummer, the lead singer of The Clash who died in 2002. A musician who valued integrity and meaning even while operating inside the...

Part 4: Anger Was Cooler [1982-1984]

by Chris Salewicz

[24.May.07] :. "(Joe) seemed this sad, lonely figure, confused with life, Hank Williams playing on his ghetto blaster in the background. I felt sorry for him." -- Mark Cooper, Record Mirror

Part 3: Red Hand of Fate [1979]

by Chris Salewicz

[23.May.07] :. Johnny Greene and a roadie... found a rehearsal room... (it) was at the rear of a garage, the kind of premises you might see in American gangster films as heists are planned... Here, hunkered together with no visible means of financial support, the Clash would rigorously write and rehearse the new songs that would emerge as London Calling, which time would judge one of the finest rock 'n' roll albums ever made...

Part 2: Under Heavy Manners [1976-1977]

by Chris Salewicz

[22.May.07] :. "... people like Joe Strummer... were like the punk intelligentsia, they were the thinkers... (Joe) knew all the cultural and literary references, all the revolutionary references, and he put it all into context... there's a lot more ideas (sic) in one of Joe's rhyming couplets than there are in some people's entire albums..." -- Don Williams

This is the Radio’s Clash - The Singles Box Set

by Bill Gibron

[1.Dec.06] :. Audacious, angry and all-encompassing, the music of The Clash transcended categorization to represent the best of British punk. But they were much more than some simple, three chord thrash, as a new box set focusing exclusively on their 45rpm single output proves.

The Clash: London Calling: 25th Anniversary Legacy Edition

by Adrien Begrand

[8.Oct.04] :. In a genre regarded by many as being confrontational more than anything else, the Clash were the one band who seemed to be always open to new ideas.

The Clash: London Calling

by Sal Ciolfi

[10.Mar.04] :. But if you take away all the labels and tiny classifications we impose, all you’re left with is the music on London Calling, a lasting testament and tonic to everything that can seem hopeless.

The Clash: The Essential Clash DVD

by Thomas Patterson

[26.Aug.03] :. It’s been 25 years since The Clash spat out their first stuttering chords, and London is a very different town to the one they set out to shake up and tear apart. Thank God, then, that their city and their legacy as the best British band since the Beatles has been captured so vividly on The Essential Clash DVD.

The Clash: The Essential Clash

by Charlotte Robinson

[22.Apr.03] :. Where Essential fails, though—and it fails spectacularly on this count—is in the mix.