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  • 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’

    • 10 March 2014
    • Digital Music
    • 0 comments

    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.”

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  • 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

    • 21 May 2013
    • Box Sets, Tracklist, Video
    • 30 comments

    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.

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  • Milestones: Paul Simonon is 55 today; watch The Clash play ‘Guns of Brixton’ in 1980

    Milestones: Paul Simonon is 55 today; watch The Clash play ‘Guns of Brixton’ in 1980

    • 15 December 2010
    • Milestones, Video
    • 3 comments

    Today we mark the birthday of Paul Simonon — he’s turning 55 — with this performance of The Clash bassist’s signature tune, ‘The Guns of Brixton,’ filmed April 25, 1980, for the band’s second-ever U.S. television appearance on ABC’s late-night comedy show ‘Fridays.’

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  • Q&A: Drummer Greg Roberts on ‘This Is Big Audio Dynamite’ reissue, band’s legacy

    Q&A: Drummer Greg Roberts on ‘This Is Big Audio Dynamite’ reissue, band’s legacy

    • 26 April 2010
    • Q&A, Video
    • 3 comments

    The seminal debut from Mick Jones’ post-Clash outfit Big Audio Dynamite is set to be reissued tomorrow in an expanded 2CD package — and to mark the occasion, Slicing Up Eyeballs spoke to drummer Greg Roberts about B.A.D.’s origins, the recording of ‘This Is Big Audio Dynamite’ and his current group, Dreadzone.

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  • Coachella webcast: Watch PiL, The Specials, Echo & The Bunnymen, Devo and more

    Coachella webcast: Watch PiL, The Specials, Echo & The Bunnymen, Devo and more

    • 16 April 2010
    • Festivals, Webcast
    • 1 comment

    Fans who can’t be in Indio, Calif., this weekend — or bands trapped in the U.K. by an angry volcano — can watch much of the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival via free streaming webcasts on Facebook, MySpace and Verizon V Cast Video on Demand (for those with Verizon phones) beginning tonight.

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  • Big Audio Dynamite’s Mick Jones on possible reunion of post-Clash act: ‘Maybe next year’

    Big Audio Dynamite’s Mick Jones on possible reunion of post-Clash act: ‘Maybe next year’

    • 9 April 2010
    • Reissues, Reunions
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    With a new reissue due this month, the two key figures in Big Audio Dynamite — former Clash member Mick Jones and DJ/filmmaker Don Letts — have broached the idea of reuniting the ’80s cross-genre act, Letts tells Billboard.

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  • New releases: Gorillaz reunites The Clash’s Jones, Simonon; Spandau Ballet reissues

    New releases: Gorillaz reunites The Clash’s Jones, Simonon; Spandau Ballet reissues

    • 8 March 2010
    • New Releases
    • 1 comment

    This week’s new releases include the Gorillaz’s ‘Plastic Beach’ — featuring a reunion of The Clash’s Mick Jones and Paul Simonon — plus reissues of Spandau Ballet’s first two albums and a new early-’80s best-of from The Fleshtones.

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  • Video: The Clash’s Mick Jones and Paul Simonon in the studio with Gorillaz

    Video: The Clash’s Mick Jones and Paul Simonon in the studio with Gorillaz

    • 2 February 2010
    • Video
    • 0 comments

    It’s not much, but this 30-second promo for the Gorillaz’s forthcoming Plastic Beach is kind of exciting: It offers an all-too-fleeting glimpse of The Clash’s Mick Jones and Paul Simonon recording together for the first time since 1982’s Combat Rock.

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  • The Clash’s Mick Jones, Paul Simonon reunite on Gorillaz’s upcoming ‘Plastic Beach’

    The Clash’s Mick Jones, Paul Simonon reunite on Gorillaz’s upcoming ‘Plastic Beach’

    • 23 January 2010
    • Album News, Reunions, Tracklist, Video
    • 1 comment

    Tweet The Clash’s Mick Jones and Paul Simonon have reunited on record for the first time since 1982’s Combat Rock, each contributing to the title […]

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