The Clash’s name is as much a noble statement as it is the name of one of the most famous rock bands in history. The term represents the political tensions taking place in the 1970s in the band ...

Recorded over the course of three weekend sessions and costing £4,000 (roughly $10,000 in 1977) the band released its self-titled debut album, The Clash, in the U.K. on April 8, 1977.

The Clash came to a rather sad ending in May 1983. The group had every reason to be on the top of the world by this point: their previous LP, Combat Rock, was an enormous hit and their singles ...

Bam! Here are eight bands with onomatopoeic names. When The Clash formed in 1976, it amplified many tensions—both musical and social—that were in the air at the time. By the time 1979’s ...

Born Nicholas Bowen Headon in 1955 in Bromley (England), he joined the iconic English band from their second album in 1978. When punk erupted in the London capital, anything seemed possible, and ...

There are remembrances on the record in all its (death or) glory scattered around today, many of which mention the Clash being “The Only Band That Matters.” It’s a label that’s been ...

A Ukrainian punk band has rerecorded the Clash’s classic “London Calling” as a protest song and a resistance anthem against the Russian invasion. Beton, a punk-hardcore trio, received ...