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I always feel guilty listening to music at work. Maybe it is because I don't listen to the "easy listening" that attribute to cubicle dwellers, and my music habits demand that I devote at least more than 10% of my subconscious to what is playing. Am I alone in this feeling? So many people treat music as an ambient environmental tool, which is what I do too, but on top of that I have a hard time allowing myself to listen. I feel that on some level I am goofing off. I wo... MORE
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Now, as I understand it, we all pride ourselves on our music collection/selections/confections, whatever. Well, I contend that if you have a collection of Rock Music and it does not contain London Calling ,Your collection is sadly incomplete.The Clash took on the world with this album, and pinned it to the mat. The boys display an affinity for, and impressive command of a wide range of pop/rock/world music, becoming itself the umbilicus tying it all together.With their ad... MORE
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Y-Rock on XPN is running Joe Strummer's "London Calling" BBC radio show of a few years back each week, but I've not been able to catch it each week. Damn I love the internet,,,, found a podcast of it here on WRNR-FM. More info on the show is on Y-Rock's site. Somewhere I found the playlist but I can't find it anymore. Suffice to say, it's a global mix, from reggae (of course) to some Colombian cumbia to Berlin techno to folks like Baaba Maal. I wish every radio stat... MORE
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With Mick Jones, once of The Clash, guesting with Alabama 3 at SXSW it just seemed like a good time to remind ourselves just how great the music of The Clash is. So here's a fave song, "London Calling."
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Sometimes, the fans take over and help to create the band. Letters scrawled on a blank wall, word of mouth praise whispered through dirty basement clubs, can bring a band more notoriety than a thousand PR folks could ever pray to create. And every once in a while, one of those fan created slogans becomes legendary.
Two such slogans come to mind; the graffiti image "Clapton is God," and the widely resounded description of the Clash as "the only band that matters." While the... MORE
Two such slogans come to mind; the graffiti image "Clapton is God," and the widely resounded description of the Clash as "the only band that matters." While the... MORE
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The Clash 's "Wrong 'em Boyo," from London Calling , begins as if the band is going to cover the chestnut "Stagger Lee." Then the band breaks down and Joe Strummer instructs the band to "start all over again," at which point, as we all know, the band breaks into another cover, "Wrong 'em Boyo," by a Jamaican band, The Rulers . The first time I spun London Calling this instance of songus interruptus was quite a thrill. In the following years it would be a gimmic... MORE
Original Story: http://www.rocktownhall.com/blogs/index.php/200...
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I have mad love for Don Letts and therefore have no doubts that his newest project will be awesome. The former Roxy Club dj produced a film with rare live concert footage of the Clash which will be released on DVD in April and excerpts will be broadcast on PBS in early March. The film is called "The Clash Live: Revolution Rock" and it will be widely available on April 15th. Letts was close with the band during their heyday and some of the footage comes from his own coll... MORE
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But then again, this is nice stew of many ingredients. A little dub, a little ol' school hip hop, a little punkish around the edges. This came up on shuffle on my pod the other day, and I thought to meself "Well, hey there. This is a mellow and slightly funky lil' tune. It would be purrrrfect for a Friday." So it is said; so it is done. Futura's flow has a nice innocence to it. If you've never checked out his art, it's worth a google. He's been an influence on legions... MORE
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Rock Against Racism
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Carnival Day in London
27 April 2008 - Thirty years after a group of music stars decided to Rock Against Racism, the Love Music Hate Racism carnival is celebrating the efforts of 1978. The Good, The Bad and The Queen, Hard-Fi and Jay Sean are headlining the anti-racism concert in east London. Organisers hope 100,000 people will attend the free carnival in Victoria Park.The original gig was headlined by Tom Robinson Band and featured a legendary performance from The Clash... MORE
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David Bowie, Ronnie Wood and Paul Simonon. Would anyone care about their paintings if they weren't famous musicians?
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I was fortunate to have been a teenager/college student during the halcyon days of punk rock, and was fortunate to have experienced the electric feeling when bands like the Ramones, the Damned, and 'the only band that matters', the Clash, were in the midst of their finest hour(s). 'London Calling' is still one of my all-time favorite albums, and, in my opinion, no record collection is complete without a copy. Every track's a winner - here's one of the standouts among the... MORE
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In 1978 the groups that rocked London's Trafalgar Square in support of the Rock Against Racism message included The Clash. Well, The Clash won't be there this year (R.I.P. Joe Strummer) when they celebrate the upcoming 30th anniversary on April 27th, but I expect the event will be well worthwhile.More info here, and a hat tip to Serge The Concierge for the heads up. The Clash playing for tens of thousands at the first Rock Against Racism event, photo nicked from h... MORE
