The Clash were about two and a half years into their career before they played a gig on U.S. soil. The band’s first American show wasn’t at a grimy punk club: They were already too popular in the ...

If any band ever stood a chance of living up to its hyperbole, then that band must be The Clash. Dubbed in their heyday “The Only Band That Matters”, there were times during their storied career when ...

On the Clash’s London Calling, the pink-and-green lettering that frames Paul Simonon—red London down the Y axis, green Calling across the X—mimics the “first” rock album, Elvis Presley’s 1956 debut.

The Clash were “The Only Band That Matters.” But more to the point, they were the only band who’s ever gotten away with calling themselves something so self-aggrandizing, because it felt close enough ...

Happy 40th birthday to the Clash’s Cut the Crap, the most hated album of the Eighties. History is full of cases where great bands make terrible records, yet history stands speechless at what the Clash ...