The post Ukrainian Band Beton Reimagine The Clash’s “London Calling” as Anti-War Anthem “Kyiv Calling”: Stream appeared first on Consequence. As The Guardian points out, the surviving members of The ...

Built atop a stadium chorus, Strummer sings about economic despair, alienation, and violence in England during the early 1980s. It’s a protest against Margaret Thatcher’s Conservative government and ...

In five short decades, musician Joe Strummer created a legacy that still looms large nearly 20 years removed from his untimely death at the age of 50. That legacy, which preached the power of music to ...

In 1977, The Clash was known as “The Only Band That Matters.” Today, The Clash — Westway to the World — the band’s story as told by its members to filmmaker and friend Don Letts — underscores that ...

LONDON — Ukrainian punk band Beton have reworked the Clash’s famous “London Calling,” turning it into “Kyiv Calling” to highlight events in Ukraine and raise funds for a resistance movement. The three ...

At this point, The Clash had three guitarists. They were a five-piece band rather than the four-piece which became familiar. The guitarist who left a few weeks after the Screen on the Green outing was ...