Tag: The Clash

Keith Levene to finish PiL's 'Commercial Zone,' release album 'the right way'

Keith Levene to finish PiL’s ‘Commercial Zone,’ release album ‘the right way’

Keith Levene, founding member of both The Clash and Public Image Ltd., plans to resurrect what was to be PiL’s fourth album —1984’s Commercial Zone, released in two different incarnations — and “enhance it with original material,” finishing the album 30 years later.

Download: The Clash's Mick Jones, Paul Simonon team up with Frank Ocean, Diplo on 'Hero'

Download: The Clash’s Mick Jones, Paul Simonon team up with Frank Ocean, Diplo on ‘Hero’

The Converse sneaker company continues its “Three Artists, One Song” series of musical collaborations this week with some creative math, bringing in four people — Mick Jones and Paul Simonon of The Clash, plus R&B star Frank Ocean and producer Diplo — to craft the track “Hero.”

‘120 Minutes’ Rewind: Joe Strummer goes under the ‘120 X-Ray' — 1989

‘120 Minutes’ Rewind: Joe Strummer goes under the ‘120 X-Ray’ — 1989

Been a while since we’ve done a “120 Minutes” Rewind — the pickings were getting awfully slim on YouTube — but it’s time to revive the feature, and there’s no better way to do it than with this “120 X-Ray” spotlight on the mighty Joe Strummer.

U2, The Clash, INXS, English Beat and more featured on 'US Festival 1983’ DVD

U2, The Clash, INXS, English Beat and more featured on ‘US Festival 1983’ DVD

Thirty years after drawing an alleged 670,000 music fans into the middle of nowhere in California, the 1983 installment of the US Festival — a four-day event over Memorial Day Weekend — will be commemorated next month with a DVD concert film featuring performances by U2, The Clash, English Beat, INXS and more.

New releases: The Clash, Ministry, Kim Gordon, Boomtown Rats, Juliana Hatfield

New releases: The Clash, Ministry, Kim Gordon, Boomtown Rats, Juliana Hatfield

This week’s new releases include two different box sets and a new best-of from The Clash, plus Ministry’s farewell album, new music from Sonic Youth’s Kim Gordon and Juliana Hatfield of Blake Babies, a new Boomtown Rats best-of and a compilation of Rank & File’s first two albums.

The Clash to release 12-disc 'Sound System' box set, new 2CD best-of this September

The Clash to release 12-disc ‘Sound System’ box set, new 2CD best-of this September

The Clash return to record stores in a big way this September, with the release of a 12-disc box set called Sound System — featuring five of the band’s six albums, a DVD with unseen footage and three discs’ worth of demos, non-album singles, rarities and B-sides — as well as a new double-disc best-of set.

Video: Johnny Marr and Billy Duffy tear up 'I Fought the Law' and 'How Soon Is Now?'

Video: Johnny Marr and Billy Duffy tear up ‘I Fought the Law’ and ‘How Soon Is Now?’

Johnny Marr surprised fans in San Francisco on Saturday night by pulling an old friend on stage: Billy Duffy of The Cult, who joined Marr and his band to rip through “I Fought the Law,” the 1958 classic by The Crickets’ Sonny Curtis popularized first by the Bobby Fuller Four and then The Clash.