Attention, Clash fans! 65 years ago today (August 21) Joe Strummer was born. As part of The Clash, he would go on to create an rock and roll punk legacy. Celebrating his amazing career, here's 50 Clash facts, starting with their first ever gig - a summer 1976 blowout supporting The Sex Pistols at the Black Swan in Sheffield.A new compilation fea...

A documentary about Joe Strummer's 1985 trip to Spain following the breakup of The Clash is attracting some big guests for its UK premiere at London's Koko on March 25

Before Radiohead released The Bends in 1995 and kicked off an unimpeachable run, there was 1993’s Pablo Honey. For a time, I ranked Pablo Honey alongside stuff like the Clash’s Cut The Crap: embarrassments by bands that were otherwise unassailable, the kind of albums the band and fans alike tried to willfully write out of [&a...

By any reasonable metric, the Clash are one of the five best bands in British history. (The others, if you’re keeping score at home, are the Rolling Stones, Black Sabbath, Pulp, and Ned’s Atomic Dustbin.) In honor of their history, the BBC has put together a new documentary called The Clash: New Year’s Day &#821...

Band's performance marked the explosion of punk