On this day in 1977, The Clash dropped their self-titled debut album on CBS Records, and it still stands up as one of punk’s most essential releases. With their speedy and reckless yet musically adept ...

For most of their career, The Clash lived up to their tag as "the only band that matters." They remain one of the most important acts from the early years of punk rock music, influencing nearly ...

Mick Jones, co-founding singer/guitarist of The Clash and Big Audio Dynamite, celebrates his 70th birthday today (June 26). From 1975 to 1976, Jones played in a called London S.S. After that group ...

Here’s wishing a Happy Birthday to Topper Headon, the longtime drummer of The Clash, who turned 70 on May 30. Headon was simply one of the most dynamic beat-keepers to emerge from the British punk ...

If punk rock’s heart belonged to any one person, it beat in the chest of Joe Strummer. At a time when the movement was largely defined as a glue-sniffing “blank generation” with no future, the Clash’s ...

It was like 1982 in Asbury Park all over again. Jessie Malin, Brian Fallon, Richard Barone, Craig Finn and Tad Kubler of The Hold Steady, Ted Leo, Danny Clinch and more performed the songs of the Joe ...

It’s hard to separate songs from the memories we associate with them. People and places we used to know suddenly come rushing back with tremendous clarity after just a flurry of notes and words sung ...

When I spoke with Joe Strummer in November, his ears were ringing. He and his band the Mescaleros had just finished rehearsing for a U.K. tour, and he hadn’t even spoken with his former Clash ...

Triple albums were rare at the time, reserved for proven megastars: George Harrison’s All Things Must Pass, Yes’s Yessongs, the Grateful Dead’s Europe ’72. Frank Sinatra had just dropped Trilogy: Past ...