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The Clash (Band)

  • Voice Choices

    May 16, 2012

    PUT A BIRD ON THIS

    Fred Armisen plays his favorite songs

  • Blogs

    April 24, 2012

    Live: Refused Return To Raised Fists And Open Arms At Terminal 5

    Refused w/Ceremony Terminal 5 Monday, April 23 Better than: Most of the 21st century. It took 15 years, but Refused is ready to forgive. The first injustice came when people ignored their second release, Songs To Fan The Flames Of Discontent. Refused followed that up by mocking its fans' lack of d ... More >>

  • Film

    October 26, 2011

    Janie Jones

    Refused w/Ceremony Terminal 5 Monday, April 23 Better than: Most of the 21st century. It took 15 years, but Refused is ready to forgive. The first injustice came when people ignored their second release, Songs To Fan The Flames Of Discontent. Refused followed that up by mocking its fans' lack of d ... More >>

  • Film

    October 5, 2011

    NYFF: Daily Reviews

    Daily updates from the Festival

  • Blogs

    September 16, 2011

    Q & A: The Raincoats' Ana da Silva On The Riot Grrrl Movement, Kurt And Courtney, And Being Johnny Rotten's Favorite Band

    ​ This month has seen quite a bit of ink spilled on behalf of the 20th anniversary of Nirvana's Nevermind. But it's also a moment to remember the ways that lead singer Kurt Cobain's reach went beyond the scope of his band and that record—consider one of his most beloved influences, the U ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 18, 2011

    Download: Forest Fire's Moody, Expansive "Future Shadows"

    ​New York "cosmic Americana" crew Forest Fire would rather float in space than frolic in the woods; their music is a churning, twang-gazer swirl of moody hums, guitar divebombs and black angel dub dance. They've recently teamed up with vaunted avant-indie label FatCat for their second album, t ... More >>

  • Columns

    June 8, 2011

    Why Do Mexicans Come to This Country Illegally Instead of Legally?

    And how can we finally secure our border with Mexico?

  • Voice Choices

    June 1, 2011

    Joe Ely Band

    And how can we finally secure our border with Mexico?

  • Blogs

    April 27, 2011

    NYU's Class On Punk Is Open To The Public

    This summer, NYU's Clive Davis Institute for Recorded Music is offering a class on punk taught by Voice contributor (and decorated journalist), founding Flying Lizard, and all-around brilliant lady Vivien Goldman. The class will be open to anyone who wants to pay the tuition (anyone in the city, tha ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 8, 2011

    Are You Smarter Than A Rock Critic?: Can You Name The American Idol Finalists?

    Michael Becker/FOXWho are these people?​ For weeks, our weekly indignity parade "Are You Smarter Than A Rock Critic?" has been putting our writers at an unfair disadvantage, asking for the intimate details of long dead and gone artists like The Clash, The Doors and Metallica [yeah, no sic]. I ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 25, 2011

    Rock-Critic Pop Quiz #8: Can You Name All Three Members Of Sleater-Kinney?

    Ordinarily there'd be some sort of joke in this caption, but at the moment we're a little intimidated.​For weeks now, our weekly music-writer embarrassment session "Are You Smarter Than a Rock Critic?" has puttered along innocently, proving just how precious little this generation of Wikipedia ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 21, 2011

    Rock Critic Pop Quiz #3: How Many Members Of The Clash Can You Name?

    Left to right: Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt, Tre Cool, and Steve Mason​In celebration of Pazz & Jop 2010, we are more than happy to explore the sinister reality that most of us rock critics are completely ill-equipped to do our jobs properly. Our ongoing column "Are You Smarter Than a Rock ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 21, 2011

    Week In Review: Confirming Kanye's Inevitable Victory

    ​So we put out Pazz & Jop this week. We're pretty happy with it. As are Kanye West and Cee Lo Green, hopefully. Lots of essays and lists and numbers to absorb there, so spend some time if you haven't yet, and if you have, please enjoy our bonus post-mortem analysis: some context for Kanye's re ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    January 19, 2011

    'Personality Crisis'

    ​So we put out Pazz & Jop this week. We're pretty happy with it. As are Kanye West and Cee Lo Green, hopefully. Lots of essays and lists and numbers to absorb there, so spend some time if you haven't yet, and if you have, please enjoy our bonus post-mortem analysis: some context for Kanye's re ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    November 3, 2010

    Toots & the Maytals

    ​So we put out Pazz & Jop this week. We're pretty happy with it. As are Kanye West and Cee Lo Green, hopefully. Lots of essays and lists and numbers to absorb there, so spend some time if you haven't yet, and if you have, please enjoy our bonus post-mortem analysis: some context for Kanye's re ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 21, 2010

    R.I.P. Ari Up of the Slits

    ​"Wild and crazy, like an animal let loose, but an innocent little girl with it too" is how Ari Up would later recall her 15-year-old, dreadlocked, Slits-fronting self, telling Simon Reynolds: "It wasn't to shock anyone." But shock people it did. The Slits began playing their inept, dub-damage ... More >>

  • Books

    October 20, 2010

    American Hardcore: Second Edition Stage-Dives Back Into the Seminal Music Scene

    Minor Threat, Black Flag, Dead Kennedys get an encore

  • Blogs

    October 5, 2010

    Gorillaz Debut New Single "Doncamatic (All Played Out)," Play Madison Square Garden (With Mos Def And Lou Reed!) Friday

    ​It's a pretty intense week for visual excess at Madison Square Garden, beginning tonight and tomorrow with Roger Waters doing The Wall in all its stadium-rock glory (with another date Nov. 6) and continuing Friday with Gorillaz, everyone's favorite cartoon band, rolling in with several member ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    September 29, 2010

    Gorillaz

    ​It's a pretty intense week for visual excess at Madison Square Garden, beginning tonight and tomorrow with Roger Waters doing The Wall in all its stadium-rock glory (with another date Nov. 6) and continuing Friday with Gorillaz, everyone's favorite cartoon band, rolling in with several member ... More >>

  • Columns

    September 1, 2010

    Free Will Astrology: September 1-7, 2010

    ​It's a pretty intense week for visual excess at Madison Square Garden, beginning tonight and tomorrow with Roger Waters doing The Wall in all its stadium-rock glory (with another date Nov. 6) and continuing Friday with Gorillaz, everyone's favorite cartoon band, rolling in with several member ... More >>

  • Music

    June 15, 2010

    The Gaslight Anthem's Fading Glory Days

    New Jersey's finest Boss acolytes are too young to be so nostalgic, and so safe

  • Blogs

    December 11, 2009

    The 50 Worst Songs of the '00s, F2K No. 14: Korn, "Ya'll Want A Single?"

    F2K is a countdown of the 50 worst songs of the decade. Track our progress here. Our record label is so stupid! Can you believe they actually called us on the phone and told us our album needed a single? The nerve of the people who write us enormous checks that we don't even remotely deserve! How ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 25, 2009

    Quick Hits

    ​ Twitpic via M_Solomon. With last year's Long Island Walmart Black Friday stampede in mind, the National Retail Foundation has established training, security, and traffic flow guidelines to prevent recurrences; Walmart has established its own new guidelines, in compliance with an agreement ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    November 17, 2009

    Blowfly+Anal Cunt

    ​ Twitpic via M_Solomon. With last year's Long Island Walmart Black Friday stampede in mind, the National Retail Foundation has established training, security, and traffic flow guidelines to prevent recurrences; Walmart has established its own new guidelines, in compliance with an agreement ... More >>

  • Voice Choices

    July 8, 2009

    MOVING TO INVADE

    Two French street artists take over Chelsea

  • Blogs

    July 1, 2009

    Photos: Queens Unisphere Round Robin with Aa, the Eskalators, Pterodactyl, and Terror Pigeon Dance Revolt

    The Eskalators had another Subway Show this past weekend. This time it was an 7 Train-themed singalong (Ozzy's "Crazy Train," Tom Waits's "Downtown Train," the Clash's "Train in Vain," etc) that ended up at Flushing Meadows Park, where an impromptu Round Robin four-band took place with Aa, Pteroda ... More >>

  • Music

    May 27, 2009

    The Ecstatic Violence of Villains

    Jovially brutal metalheads actually say the mean things you're thinking

  • Voice Choices

    August 12, 2008

    RUDE & RECKLESS

    The movie the Clash don’t want you to see

  • Voice Choices

    March 11, 2008

    CREATIVE COLLISION

    A contest where you choose the winner

  • Unknown

    January 15, 2008

    How to Rob, by M.I.A.

    M.I.A. triumphantly knocks the hustle that's driving hip-hop's materialist malaise

  • Film

    October 23, 2007

    No Future? Not Exactly.

    Joe Strummer transcends the idea of punk, and the music lives on

  • Film

    August 28, 2007

    Going for the Gold

    Joe Strummer transcends the idea of punk, and the music lives on

  • Music

    August 21, 2007

    Prinzhorn Dance School

    Wonky, shambolic, nonsensical, and tremendously appealing

  • Music

    May 8, 2007
  • Music

    April 25, 2006

    Demo'ing Down

    Former teen heroine matures by offering crisis counseling to 10-year-olds

  • Specials

    October 18, 2005

    We Have to Deal With It: Punk England Report

    Former teen heroine matures by offering crisis counseling to 10-year-olds

  • Specials

    October 18, 2005

    1981

    Former teen heroine matures by offering crisis counseling to 10-year-olds

  • Specials

    October 18, 2005

    Coming of Age

    1976–1985: Punk to Pomo, Basquiat to Breakdancing

  • Books

    June 28, 2005

    El Clash Combo

    Elvis Costello versus the Clash: Apocalypse-stick traces

  • Music

    June 7, 2005

    High Fidelity

    From A to B and back again: this is your correspondent, running out of mix tapes

  • NYC Life

    October 19, 2004

    Brooklyn Space Cadets and Hasidic Jews Get Cozy in Bed-Stuy

    From A to B and back again: this is your correspondent, running out of mix tapes

  • Music

    January 13, 2004

    The warm smell of colitas can go fuck itself

    From A to B and back again: this is your correspondent, running out of mix tapes

  • NYC Life

    November 11, 2003

    Listings

    We come from garageland and we rock with drink in hand

  • Art

    August 26, 2003

    Extreme Makeovers

    The Fine Art of Picking a Shtick

  • NYC Life

    March 25, 2003

    NY Mirror

    The Fine Art of Picking a Shtick

  • Music

    December 24, 2002

    Joe Strummer, 1952–2002

    Up in Heaven (Not Only Here)

  • Music

    September 10, 2002

    Keeping Up With the Jones

    Up in Heaven (Not Only Here)

  • Music

    June 18, 2002

    This '70s Show

    Up in Heaven (Not Only Here)

  • Music

    August 14, 2001

    Return to Whenever

    Retro Girls Go Gore Crazy

  • Music

    July 14, 1998

    Unspoiled

    Retro Girls Go Gore Crazy

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