Even the poachers.” The Pogues travelled to Rockfield in June 1990 to record Hell’s Ditch with The Clash’s Joe Strummer as producer and Glasgow roadie Charlie MacLennan tasked with looking ...

By 19, Eliot was at Chelsea Art School when he was roped into performing at a working men’s club. “I had a fear of getting up on stage. I nearly bottled it.” But he “gave it my all ...

described as “a narrative song cycle for extroverted mandolinist and orchestra.” Also Wednesday, hardworking guitar strummer and songwriter Rhett Miller of Old ’97s does a solo gig at World Cafe Live, ...

Punk pioneer Joe Strummer of The Clash has died at the age of 50, it was announced today. The star - who was the band's guitarist, singer and songwriter alongside Mick Jones - died yesterday from ...

But they would have preferred us to be architects or lawyers, not ‘My son the unemployed strummer’.” Mark was first to flee the nest, when he got a job as a cub reporter on the Yorkshire ...

“On the other they had a liberal bias for letting us follow our own path. But they would have preferred us to be architects or lawyers, not ‘My son the unemployed strummer’.” Mark was first to flee ...

The former Sex Pistols frontman John Lydon has explained his dislike of The Clash singer Joe Strummer in a recent interview. “It was Joe Strummer’s voice that would irritate the hell out of me and his ...

John Lydon has shed light on why he hated Joe Strummer‘s “fake angst”, saying his voice “would irritate the hell out of me”. The former Sex Pistols frontman touched on the late Clash ...

I played Augusta National the day after Rory McIlroy won the Masters and became the sixth man in golf to complete the career Grand Slam. I cannot believe that is a factual statement that I’m ...

To celebrate this week's Blu-ray release (in the UK at least) of Repo Man, director Alex Cox reflects on the 1984 cult classic, subsequent battles with Hollywood and Hunter S. Thompson, and why it's ...

The punk scene, both in the United States and the United Kingdom, was defined by its performers. They are some of the most iconic musicians — sometimes in the loosest sense of the word — in ...

It is, perhaps, not surprising that there are a whole lot of great songs out there written about cities. Most people in the United States live in cities, and the unique experience of living in the ...