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The Subway Sect: Bernard Rhodes Great Unknowns Payola Special

Interview by Paul Morley, NME, 4 March 1978

SUBWAY SECT have been together in some form or another since the semi-legendary 100 Club punk festival in September 1976. The line-up on that date ...

Clash, The: Paul Simonon: The Clash's Ace of Bass

Retrospective and Interview by James Medd, The Rake, August 2017

Without him, The Clash would still have been a great band, but with him they became iconic. Paul Simonon was built for rock 'n' roll and ...

Joe Strummer at 60

Memoir by Jeff Slate, Examiner.com, 21 August 2012

JOE STRUMMER, the frontman of The Clash and all around "spokesman for a generation", would have been 60 today. He died tragically nearly 10 years ...

Clash, The: The Clashmen Meet The Pearlman

Report and Interview by Ira Robbins, Trouser Press, February 1979

"It wasn't the easiest thing I've ever I done, that's for sure." I had Sandy Pearlman, Record Producer, on the phone from some unnamed restaurant ...

Clash, The: God, What A Bummer! Stuck Here With Joe Strummer!

Report and Interview by Chris Salewicz, New Musical Express, 3 September 1977

THE CLASH AT BELSEN... 'ALL JOURNALISTS ARE SWINE' BY CHRIS SALEWICZ, WHO DUCKS AND RUNS. ...

Big Audio Dynamite: He Who Laughs Last

Interview by Lenny Kaye, Spin, March 1986

Two years ago Mick Jones was dishonorably discharged from the Clash. Now that he's having a blast with Big Audio Dynamite, it doesn't seem to ...

Clash, The: 30 Years Ago Today... Sandinista!

Retrospective by Jeff Slate, Examiner.com, 13 December 2010

IN ALL THE hoopla over the 30th anniversary of John Lennon's murder another significant 30th anniversary seemed to slip by.  The Clash released Sandinista! 30 ...

Clash, The, Sex Pistols: Beyond the Dole Queue: The Politics of Punk

Essay by Simon Frith, The Village Voice, 24 October 1977

The Clash and the Pistols have established social realism as an essential part of punk ideology, but this does not make their music the "direct ...

Clash, The, Damned, The, Sex Pistols, The: Welcome To The (?) Rock Special (#1): In Love With The Modern World

Overview by Jonh Ingham, Sounds, 9 October 1976

Johnny Rotten, the Clash, the Damned and a committed cast of hundreds of new music makers give the finger to the old farts ...

The Members: Going West (Albion)

Review by Mat Snow, NME, 9 July 1983

ONCE UPON a time I thought The Members fell between the stools of The Clash and The Boomtown Rats. Little has changed, except you ...

Jam, The: The Jam: Setting Sons (Polydor POLD 5028)****

Review by Peter Silverton, Sounds, 17 November 1979

THE WHO, why and where is of no concern here but someone once said of the Clash that they didn't want to become stars, they ...

Jah Punk: New Wave Digs Reggae

Report by Vivien Goldman, Sounds, 3 September 1977

'We're gonna have a punky reggae party...the Wailers will be there, the Slits, the Feelgoods, and the Clash...' – BOB MARLEY SONGS LYRIC ...

Crass: The Spirit of '76 is Alive and Well and Living in Ongar (in a Commune)

Profile by Garry Bushell, Sounds, 20 January 1979

"YES THAT'S right, punk is dead/it's just another cheap product for the consumer's head/bubblegum rock on plastic transistors/schoolboy sedition backed by bigtime promoters/CBS promote the ...

Stranglers, The: The Stranglers on 40 years of fights, drugs, UFOs and "doing all the wrong things"

Retrospective and Interview by Dave Simpson, The Guardian, 12 March 2014

Legend has it the Stranglers started a fight with the Clash, took heroin for a year, exploited strippers on stage, and incited a riot in ...

The Buzzcocks, The Clash, The Damned, The Sex Pistols, Siouxsie & The Banshees: The 100 Club Punk Rock Festival

Book Excerpt by Caroline Coon, '1988: The New Wave Punk Rock Explosion', 1977

Monday, September 20th: The Sex Pistols, the Clash, Subway Sect, Siouxsie and the Banshees. Tuesday, September 21st: The Damned, Chris Spedding and the Vibrators, the ...

The Cradle Will Rock: Punk rock for babies

Comment by Pete Paphides, The Guardian, 23 November 2002

Nirvana and the Clash are the perfect bedtime listening for toddlers, reckons new label Punk Rock Baby. Anything for a good night's sleep, says Peter ...

Captain Sensible, Damned, The: The Damned's Captain Sensible

Interview by Jim Sullivan, Boston Phoenix, 3 March 2009

THE Sex Pistols, the Clash, the Jam — they get punk rock respect more than three decades down the pike, but their contemporaries the Damned ...

Delroy Wilson: Soon Gone...

Obituary by Penny Reel, MOJO, July 1995

In January, Penny Reel witnessed the last British appearance by Delroy Wilson. Here he pays tribute to the reggae ruler famously namechecked by The Clash. ...

Ultravox, John Foxx: John Foxx: The Quiet Man Speaks

Interview by Alex Ogg, The Quietus, 7 November 2008

John Foxx is perhaps one of the UK's most undersung musicians. Here he talks to Alex Ogg about Ultravox!, synth pop and nearly being in ...

Slayer: I Talked With A Zombie

Interview by Ian Gittins, Melody Maker, 29 September 1990

As Britain trembles with anticipation of the "Clash Of The Titans" tour, Ian Gittins meets the metal monsters and hears tales of death, despair and ...