The Clash (Musical Group)

Bob Gruen on Lennon and the Clash

Instant Mash: Could Girl Talk do it this well?

Neko Case and more

My Top 20 music videos of all time

Darondo at SXSW

Culture Jamming

Elvis Costello's greatest album tops this week's pop culture picks

Music A-List

An interview with Julien Temple

No Future? Not Exactly

The Clash's Joe Strummer transcends punk, and the music lives on

The Sound and the Filth (Signifying...What?)

Julien Temple's 'Glastonbury' is all a blur

Local Music Yearbook 2006--I need anecdotes

11/22 Morning Communiqué

Complicated Clash: The Mick Jones Interview

Who is Mick Jones?

The Clash and Carbon/Silicon guitarist talks about life after Joe

Complicated Dread: the Mikey Dread interview

All Apologies

Nirvana's box set takes the best band of the '90s and reveals the very worst

It's just the beat of time, the beat that must go on

Better to Be a Burnout Than to Fade Away

Flunking rehab, robbing bandmates, pulling a Courtney Love: The Libertines return

Doctor Alimantado: Born for a Purpose

Stupid Little World, Stupid Little Band

In which a song makes me feel mighty real

Real Life Rock Top 10

Natalie Merchant does an about-face; Joe Strummer's countenance appears on the wall; Stephen Tyler loses his head

Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros: Streetcore

Real Life Rock Top 10

Placebo rediscover cro-magnon relics; culturcide revive 1985; Randy Newman says the past ain't what it used to be

Son of a Preacher Man

Mark Curtis Anderson's '70s memoir looks at what happened when white evangelicals first embraced the devil's music

Older Than Yesterday

How I spent my 10-year vacation from City Pages

Primal Screen

Hippie-hating punk rockers, captured on film! Remembering The Clash with a new DVD

The Great Escape

Blur's musical diaspora: Beyond the waterloo sunset, Africa!

The Spy Who Bored Me

Familiar stunts, stale puns, awesome tits--must be Bond time

Sonic Outlaws

The second annual edition of “Sound Unseen” highlights the subversive side of music making in the era of media consolidation.

This is Hardcore

It made less history than '77 punk. It sold fewer records than Nirvana. But the suburban rebellion of Eighties America found its own potent way to say no.

File Under Former Frontmen

High Fidelity tries to rescue John Cusack from the cutout bin

Clashback

A bio-doc looks at the punks who changed the complexion of white rock

Love the Machine You're With

Does Rage stir the revolution--or provide the soundtrack for the next white riot?

Young Spuds in a Longhorn Daze

Worldly Dispossession

Jack Logan brings a grizzled naiveté to the role of rock outsider on his new album, Buzz Me In

Mpls./St. Paul International Film Festival Week II: See No Daylight

Just when you thought it was safe to go back to the multiplex...

My New House

For the Record

The music industry released 30,000 albums in 1998. You can live without 29,990 of them.

The Last Days of Disco

Open playlists. Mixed audiences. Women's mud wrestling. Ample coke. What ever happened to the Minneapolis club scene?

Ballad of a Golf Pro

Memories, good and bad

The Pluck of the Irish

From traditional reels to Celt rave-ups, local Irish music addresses the troubled times of its homeland

Public Enemy #6

Who da man? Duh, The Man: PE takes aim at white male corporate oppression

Daydream Believers

Five skeptical spin doctors probe for local music's pulse -- a City Pages roundtable

MUSIC: The Raincoats

Dwight Yoakam

Enraged and In Love

Sleater-Kinney and the dichotomies of rock & roll

Talking Political Blues

Who Are These Girls & Guys?

That's a bigger question than usual in our 1996 new music poll.

Record Roundup