Joe Strummer: 'Punk Rock Warlord'

"...and roll balcony. I’d swear on the soul of Joe Strummer that Clash show was just prior to the..."

May 15, 2007 Music Post by Raoul Hernandez

Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten

One of the most compelling documentary portraits of a musician yet made, Julien Temple's film about the former Clash musician acknowledges the legend while uncovering the truth.

"...skirmishes among the band members, frontman and principal lyricist Joe Strummer went missing. As revealed in Temple's thoroughly exhilarating,..."

Dec. 7, 2007 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Joe Strummer Was From Mars

The Future Is Unwritten, on DVD

"...One of last year’s most critically lauded bio pics, Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten (Legacy), has just been..."

July 23, 2008 Music Post by Jim Caligiuri

Happy Birthday, Mr. Strummer

Feral tribute to the Clash man

"...the event a couple of days early with tonight's Joe Strummer: Feral Clash and Beloved Birthday Bash...."

Aug. 19, 2010 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

10 Minutes With Joe Ely

“It’s either being creative or I’m bored easily”

"...Joe Ely marks his 70th birthday Friday night at the..."

Feb. 9, 2017 Music Post by Jim Caligiuri

Lubbock Calling: Joe Ely Remembers the Clash

The only punk rock band that mattered, and why they still do

"...cutting 'Should I Stay or Should I Go' and Strummer said, 'Hey, help me with my Spanish.' So me..."

May 19, 2000 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Revolution Rock

At the crossroads of the Clash and the great state of Austin, Texas.

"...across the bottom of my TV screen, "Punk Singer Joe Strummer Dead at 50." Surely that couldn't be right;..."

Jan. 17, 2003 Music Feature

Redemption Song

Dick Rude on 'Let's Rock Again!' and the legacy of Joe Strummer

"..."Everybody has a story to tell," says Joe Strummer, late of the Clash, the Mescaleros, and the..."

March 3, 2006 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Hard Core Logo

A legendary punk band reunites for a tour of Western Canada in this indie film that perfectly captures the common fissures that erode so many bands on the run.

"...the story focuses on the dysfunctional relationship between co-bandleaders Joe Dick (Dillon) and Billy Tallent (Rennie). Superficially, their feud..."

Jan. 15, 1999 Movie Review by Russell Smith

From Here to Eternity

The only punk rock band that mattered, and why they still do

"...plant soybeans in and the look of an average Joe punching a time clock somewhere. Topper Headon's appearance is..."

May 19, 2000 Music Feature by Jerry Renshaw

The Magnificent Seven

Why three records are better than two

"...for people on oil rigs or Arctic stations." -- Joe Strummer on Sandinista!..."

May 19, 2000 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Clash City Rockers

Unexpurgated Clash box set review

"...realized he’d unleashed a proper English beat poet in Joe Strummer...."

Sept. 20, 2013 Music Post by Tim Stegall

The Clash Live From Here to Eternity (Sony) / Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros Rock Art and the X-Ray Style (Hellcat)

"...The ClashLive From Here to Eternity (Sony)Joe Strummer & the MescalerosRock Art and the X-Ray Style..."

Nov. 12, 1999 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Rock & Roll Books

"...Redemption Song: The Ballad of Joe Strummer, The Definitive Biography..."

June 1, 2007 Music Feature by Dan Oko

Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros

Record Reviews

"...Joe Strummer & the MescalerosStreetcore (Hellcat) With the passing of..."

Oct. 24, 2003 Music Review by Dan Oko

Get It While You Can

"...book, is introduced to his readership as Clash frontmen Joe Strummer and Mick Jones drag him dead drunk through..."

March 19, 1999 Books Feature

DVDnds

DVDnds

"...Festival Q&A, assured in the knowledge that his 67-minute Joe Strummer: Let's Rock Again (Image Entertainment) leaves the late..."

July 14, 2006 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Critics Poll

"...Hernandez: Joe Strummer, John Entwistle, Jam Master Jay..."

Jan. 3, 2003 Music Feature

Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros

"...Joe Strummer & the MescalerosGlobal A Go-Go (Hellcat) Third time's..."

Aug. 31, 2001 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Art + Commerce

Marc English Design's DIY Criteria

"...his hands, "design theory" is a radical, insurrectionist weapon. Joe Strummer would've dug this cat, but good...."

Feb. 15, 2008 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Crock of Gold: A Few Rounds With Shane MacGowan

The Pogues' frontman in all his dissolute glory

"...the Pistols (The Filth and the Fury), the Clash (Joe Strummer: The Future is Unwritten), and Madness (Suggs: My..."

Dec. 4, 2020 Movie Review by Tim Stegall

Carmine Street Guitars

Spend time with the quiet artisans who make the instruments that rock & roll is built upon

"...more than three chords is kinda like showing off.” Joe Strummer, Johnny Ramone, and Lou Reed would doubtless agree,..."

May 10, 2019 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Out Among the Stars: Cash to the Clash

New but vintage bluegrass, classic rock, country & punk CD/DVDs

"...seems to exist to cast a negative light on Joe Strummer and his association with band manager Bernard Rhodes...."

April 2, 2014 Music Post by Jim Caligiuri

God Save the Screen

Zack Carlson and Bryan Connolly spent seven years hunting Mohawks for their mad, mammoth compendium, Destroy All Movies!!!: The Complete Guide to Punks on Film

"...that because the Pogues are in it, Elvis Costello, Joe Strummer. It should be the most punk movie of..."

Nov. 5, 2010 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

There Will Be Film

"...8) Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten Joe Strummer, the only..."

Jan. 4, 2008 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

King of Bongo

Tracking Spain/France's illusive King of Latin punk rock, Manu Chao

"...Mano Negra's Joe Strummer – Manu Chao – guilty as charged. Several..."

Aug. 11, 2006 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

End of the Century: The Story of the Ramones

The scruffy, seminal punk band that put the Bop in the Blitzkrieg is given its due in this treasure-laden doc.

"...hand, the sheer wealth of rarely seen footage of Joey, Dee Dee, Johnny, and Tommy Ramone (and later Marky..."

Oct. 22, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Clash

Reissue

"...Westway to the World DVD, given special poignancy after Joe Strummer's untimely death, comes The Essential Clash CD and..."

Aug. 15, 2003 Music Review by Jerry Renshaw

Please Kill Me and other ROCK & ROLL BOOKS of 1996

"...hysterical photocomic salute to the Roger Corman oeuvre starring Joey Ramone and Debbie Harry, apparently a key factor in..."

Dec. 6, 1996 Books Feature

Joe Strummer

"...Joe Strummer voiced arguably the most beloved of original English..."

Dec. 7, 2018 Music Review by Tim Stegall

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