That's exactly what Mick Jones is aiming for – the new box set will be called Sound System and will contain The Clash's first five albums, three CDs of rarities, singles, and demos, a DVD of previously unseen footage, and reproductions (as well as a new edition) of their fanzine, Armagideon Time. Oh, one more thing: bassist Paul Simonon designed it to look like an '80s boombox.
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The Clash are to release a new box set featuring remastered versions of their first five albums, The Clash (1977), Give 'Em Enough Rope (1978), London Calling (1979), Sandinista! (1980) and Combat Rock (1982).
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The Clash are set to collect their recorded output on the lavish new box set 'Sound System'.
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Running a record store on St Mark's Place in the East Village during the 1980s put me in the dead-center middle of an exploding mecca of pop culture.
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Jimmy Cliff was born James Chambers on April's Fool's Day, 1948 in the Somerton District of St. James near Montego Bay, Jamaica.
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There are more reasons to report animal abuse: studies have repeatedly demonstrated that children who abuse animals are more likely to bully classmates and grow up to be violent adults.
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The Jim Jones Revue sell out 4 show residency at The Sebright Arms in 24 hours!!! 7 Times Around The Sun is the third single to be released from The Jim Jones Revue critically acclaimed album The Savage Heart produced by Jim Sclavunos (Nick Cave & The Band Seeds). 7 Times Around The Sun is a great example of The Savage Heart's musical diversity-No guitars (A JJR first!) just piano, drums and a call and response gospel type vocal between Jim Jones and The 'Revue.
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When frontman Jesse Leach reemerged to rejoin Killswitch Engage in 2012, it was a major turning point for the Western Mass. band.
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When The Wallflowers landed in Nashville to record their latest album, Glad All Over , they were under the gun.
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Reliably, Julian Temple still really annoys me.
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Mick Jones of The Clash has been named an 'honorary Scouser'.
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There was a time when Desaparecidos' moniker went from being a politically-charged and perfectly memorable name for a socially-conscience post-punk band, to actually applying to the group itself.
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Not to over editorialize, but covering The Clash should be like the bar exam for punk bands: if they can't do it, then it's time to consider a career change.
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The Spanish city of Granada has responded to fan-supported Facebook petition to name a square in the city after The Clash singer Joe Strummer.
Read MoreAll you need to know, really, about Irish punk rockers Pogues is right in their name, taken from a Gaelic phrase meaning "kiss my arse."
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Joe Strummer of The Clash is to be honoured with a square in the Spanish city of Granada named after him.
Read MoreCover versions are indelibly etched near the top elechons in the Clash musical lexicon ("I Fought The Law", "Police On My Back"); reggae of course features prominently as well (too many to mention); for that matter, "Police and Thieves" is a reggae cover that is often featured among top Clash song lists.
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This time of year is always bittersweet for fans of The Clash.
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"JOE was a flawed character," says Johnny Green, almost ten years to the day since Joe Strummer's untimely death on December 22, 2002.
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Brittany's capital - is cold, wet and windy, and boozy is the default setting for the tens of thousands who flock to Trans Musicales ' out-of-town aerodrome home and the city-centre bars and restaurant that provide venues for the parallel Bars En Trans festival.
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The Ohio born singer-songwriter and frontwoman of the Pretenders emerged from the teeming hothouse of late 1970′s London like Athena cracked forcefully from the skull of Zeus. Hynde the writer and performer was fully formed and completely wonderful — a distinctly feminine (and feminist) counterpoint to the nearly overwhelming crush of alpha-male performers ranging from Elvis Costello to Joe Strummer to Nick Lowe to the still-looming presence of ex-Pistol John Lydon, beginning the first stages of rebuilding his caustic social critique as Public Image Limited.
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When The Wallflowers debuted their first single "Reboot the Mission" from sixth studio album Glad All Over there was something very familiar about it.
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In the final analysis, the first wave of British punk rock left us with a brief, fractious cacophony.
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Concluding what has been another innovative and groundbreaking year for Clash Magazine, today marks the release of a very special bimonthly issue, which incorporates two of our traditional and seasonal list features, and in turn presents each of them with their own cover star.
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Where else will you find, side by side by side, new reissues of Miles Davis' Porgy and Bess, Nirvana's 1992 compilation Incesticide, and the Fat Boys' Pizza Box album — packaged in (yes) a pizza box?
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For rock & roll fans, the holidays are coming early this year: artists ranging from Bob Dylan and Nirvana to John Mayer and the White Stripes are releasing limited-edition vinyl gems for Record Store Day's third annual Black Friday celebration.
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Martin Scorsese turns 70 on Friday, and them and the man has never been busier.
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Billy Bragg delivered the second annual John Peel Lecture earlier today (November 12) at the Radio Festival 2012 at The Lowry in Salford.
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Robbie Williams and Mick Jones of legendary UK punks The Clash are set to release a cover of The Hollies He Aint Heavy, Hes My Brother for charity this Christmas, challenging the X Factor and raising money for the Hillsborough charity in the process.
Read MoreThe Clash came to a rather sad ending in May 1983.
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Robbie Williams and Mick Jones of The Clash will release a cover of The Hollies' 'He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother' for charity this Christmas, challenging the X Factor and raising money for the Hillsborough charity in the process.
Read MoreAfter enough time, almost all bands run their course.
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After a seven-year break between studio albums, the Wallflowers would like to reintroduce themselves.
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A selection of rare Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros tracks have been released - and you can listen to them below.
Read MoreWith all the political and social friction polluting society these past few years, it's weird that there haven't been more pure, balls-out rock albums addressing the situation.
Read More"Eyes on the prize/Reboot the mission," goes the first Wallflowers single in seven years.
Read MoreThe Quietus shares an excerpt from Barney Hoskins' new oral history of Led Zeppelin, Trampled Under Foot. Vulture examines the economics of a successful indie band, using Grizzly Bear as an example.
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British rocker Billy Bragg has renamed himself Johnny Clash for the release of a new charity single inspired by late country icon Johnny Cash and legendary punk band The Clash.
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Joe Strummer , the late, great voice of The Clash, would have turned 60 years old on August 21st.
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