RIP Joe Strummer


The Clash was the first band I ever saw in concert, and one of the defining acts of my teenage years. Like most Americans raised on unhip radio, I arrived late to the party with the Combat Rock album, but each trip to their back catalogue was a new revelation. Their claim of being "the only band that matters" was never hype. I was holding out for a reunion tour in conjunction with the Rock & Roll HOF induction, but alas...