Although the triple album sprawl of 1980’s Sandinista! from The Clash – the self-styled “only band that matters” – may seem like a more obvious candidate for inspection under the prog lens, its sense ...

The Clash’s fourth album, Combat Rock, was aptly named. Created against a backdrop of growing tension, behind-the-scenes machinations and spiralling drug abuse, it would gave the band their biggest ...

So much so that The Clash, when they came to Davenport on May 20, 1984, sold all 2,600 tickets almost instantly. By the time the concert rolled around, The Clash were two years removed from "Combat ...

More importantly, the Clash was a great rock & roll band, above and beyond the roots music that informed their sound. Even the earliest Clash songs echoed reggae and rockabilly, with rough but ...