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Classic Paste: The Best of Issues 1-10 (2002-2004)

(JUST A FEW MORE REASONS TO HELP SAVE PASTE)In a little more than two weeks, I'll celebrate my 6th anniversary at this magazine. When I started as Paste's second-ever intern on June 1, 2003, we were still a tiny operation. Only five of us were in the office full-time: publisher Nick Purdy, editor Josh Jackson, assistant editor Jason Killingsworth, myself (who would go on to become associate editor) and my intern cohort, Steven Bevilaqua. Other important folks—like senior/film editor and future Paste president Tim Porter, design director José Reyes, and future associate publisher Joe Kirk—were working part-time, since Paste couldn't...  read more

Clash's Mick Jones opens music public library

"The Only Band That Matters." Not many bands could get away with this slogan—let alone a "punk" band—but then again, The Clash was in a league all its own. While the late Joe Strummer is more widely recognized and referenced, some people forget there were two frontmen—two necessary halves that made The Clash work. And when Strummer and bassist Paul Simonon booted that other half, guitarist and vocalist Mick Jones, out of the group after the last official Clash album, Combat Rock, they gave us Cut the Crap, an album so bad and so incomplete, it had fans begging the...  read more

Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros - Streetcore

With the release of the posthumous Streetcore, Joe Strummer fans have another bittersweet reminder of just what was lost last year...  read more