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  Swaginista! The Clash Announce Boombox-Shaped Box Set Full of Wonder

  May 21, 2013 – The Clash will soon release what guitarist Mick Jones recently described to the Guardian as the "best box set ever." This fall, the punk icons will break out Sound System, a massive retrospective that comes in an army fatigue-colored case shaped like a 1980s boombox. The upcoming set, which was designed by bassist Paul Simonon, will be available in the U.K. on September 9 and in the U.S. …
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  Punk Goes Uptown: See the Met's 'Chaos to Couture' Exhibition

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  Zine and Heard: Rare Images from the Punk Press

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  Joe Strummer's Complex Legacy: 10 Years After the Clash Leader's Death

  December 17, 2012 – On December 22 it will be 10 years since the unexpected death of Joe Strummer, singer, lyricist, rhythm guitarist, and centerpiece of the Clash. Strummer was 50 when he passed away from a congenital heart defect, old by the standards of rock mythology but terribly young for someone to die of natural causes.Lifelong partisans know the Clash's history and music inside and out. …
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  One Direction Adorably Pretend to Know Who the Clash Are

  October 1, 2012 – We were so busy bitching about how a new Bat for Lashes song sounds like Gotye, we didn't even bother realizing there was a mini-controversy brewing about how British boy band One Direction's new single "Live While We're Young" apes the guitar riff from the Clash's "Should I Stay or Should I Go." Fortunately, there is an entire industry devoted to finding out whether Liam Payne has shaved his head and Harry Styles is a "bonking machine, …
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  See Dramatic Trailers for New Rolling Stones and Clash Docs

  September 26, 2012 – Two of the biggest Micks in music are celebrated in a pair of new documentaries. As previously reported, Oscar-nominated director Brett Morgen is taking on the Rolling Stones in Crossfire Hurricane, and it turns out a Spanish filmmaker named Danny Garcia has set out to portray The Rise and Fall of the Clash.Naturally, both trailers depict their subjects with an eye toward the dramatic, but while Mick Jagger and Co. …
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  'Strummer of Love' Continues With Joe Strummer Comp

  August 22, 2012 – Yesterday would have been the Clash legend Joe Strummer's 60th birthday (as some pun-loving U.K. festival organizers reminded us). To celebrate his life, the label that released his final recordings has put out a digital compilation of his work with his group the Mescaleros. Titled Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros, the Hellcat Years, it contains a whopping 57 tracks recorded between 1999 and Strummers death in 2002. …
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  Joe Strummer Remembered With Punny U.K. Festival

  April 10, 2012 – Joe Strummer's pals have announced plans to mark the 10th anniversary of the Clash singer's death in an excitingly punny fashion — with the Strummer of Love festival, a one-off event to be held August 17-19 in Somerset, in southern England. …
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  Mick Jones Wants to Loan You His Clash Memorabilia

  March 9, 2012 – Mick Jones likes show and tell. …
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  EXCLUSIVE: First Look at New Clash Documentary

  December 7, 2010 – They're one of the greatest bands of the last 40 years, and now the Clash are being profiled in a new documentary, airing this weekend in the U.S.On December 12, BBC America will broadcast The Rebel Truce: The Clash, a long-form look at the band's explosive rise in the '70s, and SPIN has a first look at the doc. …
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