The Clash (Musical Group)

Radio, Radio: Ayo Says Adios, While We Look at Just What Passes for "Quality Rock"

Two follow-ups in this particular radio round-up. First, I exchanged a few messages with Alan Ayo via Facebook, and the long and short of it is, he's not at all upset that Clear Channel gave him his walking papers yesterday. Writes the former midday host and music director at KDGE-FM:I'm feeling rat ... More >>

PVC Street Gang Pipes Up

Taylor Swift, Butch Walker and Others Offer Up Their 2008 Favorites

...Oh, and we got a few well-known out-of-towners to share some of their favorites too

No One Voted, But They Did Eat Cake...

Look, It's The "Definitive 200" Albums of All Time. Sure, If You Don't Have Ears, Absolutely.

The Clash

The Singles (Columbia Legacy)

Shell Game

Over the Hedge wants you to feel bad about what it's selling, which is everything

Joe Strummer Revisited

Two long-lost reissues shed light on a punk icon.

The Clash

London Calling: Legacy Edition (Legacy/Epic)

Future Shock

Michael Winterbottom paints a plausibly problematic tomorrow in Code 46

Going Through Changes

Salim Nourallah, who's become a different man over the years, isreleasing three new recordings

Irish Eyes

It's about learning heritage, not getting hammered

Classic, Rock

Why is the most important producer in rock history a footnote?

Various Artists

White Riot: A Tribute to the Clash (Uncut Magazine)

Thanks Again

Rhino assembles the definitive '70s punk collection. Pretty much.

Real Whirled

Plus: New Entries in the Dallas Dictionary; “Oh, Laura”

This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

Shallow Graves

Budapest One's Keith Killoren and Chad Stockslager find their future in the past

Lift Off

This may be it for Lift to Experience

'Cocks, Rock

Buzzcocks still kick ace, in case you've forgotten

War on War Songs

Iraq and roll don't go together well when rockers protest

A Sad Salvation

At SXSW, you couldn't hear the bad news over all that music

We Meet Again, Mr. Bond

Plus: Empty Pocket, Sensitivity Training, Parting Words

He Goes Now

Joe Strummer is dead. Merry effin' Christmas.

Rising Stock

With Berry, the interest is high--and, indeed, the latest Bond yields a big payoff

Royal's Screwups

Wes Anderson's film is like its characters: flawed genius

Hits and Grins

The greatest-hits format has fallen out of favor, but sometimes the results are pure gold

The Rebel's Waltz

For 10 years, Joe Strummer made little noise. Finally, the Clash front man returns with a record he can call his own.

Crit and Shap 2000

The worst of the worst

Rage Against the Machine

Renegades (Epic Records)

100 Bullets

MTV and Rolling Stone pick the 100 greatest pop songs ever, "from The Beatles to the Backstreet Boys." We demand a recount.

Robbie Williams

Sing When You're Winning (Capitol Records)

Rock and a Hard Place

Music can free your soul, but can it spring the West Memphis Three?

Out of the Past

John Doe doesn't have to run from yesterdays anymore

Set to stun

The Deathray Davies love math, drunk ventriloquists, Chinese checkers, and Devo records

True believer

From punk to rock to country, Alejandro Escovedo has weathered the push and pull of family and music

Young guns

Julien Temple and The Sex Pistols set their record straight in The Filth and the Fury

You Slaid me

On the road in his Dodge Dart, Slaid Cleaves is the last of the traveling troubadours

A mother of a father

Bo Diddley created rock and roll -- now, where's his check?

Naked eye

Turn on and tune in to the Dallas Video Festival

Viva Sandinista!

Is the Clash still the only band that matters?

Out There

Fire & Skill: The Songs of the Jam

Book 'em

Separating the wheat from the chaff in this year's crop of rock-and-roll tomes

Nic at night

Scorsese manages to bring out the dead, especially in the living

Live from New York?

Saturday Night Live and DreamWorks Records team up for two not-ready-for-prime-time compilations

Manifest destiny

The Dictators are not back. They never left.

Manifest destiny

The Dictators are not back. They never left.

Combat rock

The Strafers tune in to rebel radio and the Clash's echoes

Off the record

After seven wacky years, 14 Records prepares to close its doors

Dour times

Portishead creates a sad poetic sound that separates dreams from reality