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Big Audio Dynamite: This Is Big Audio Dynamite: Legacy Edition

Let bygones be bygones When Mick Jones was kicked out of The Clash in the early ‘80s, he formed Big Audio Dynamite, a group that melded Jones’ pop sensibilities with his earlier band’s punk ethos. This new edition of their 1985 debut, This Is Big Audio Dynamite, comes as a two-disc set featuring several remixed tracks, including “E=Mc2” and their first single “The Bottom Line.” On the first disc, the songs appear in their original form, showcasing Jones’ catchy hooks, experimental spoken-word phrasing and music/women/drugs lyricism. It’s iconic ’80s fare, as frothy and over-the-top as teased bangs and acid-washed...  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