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Former Clash singer-guitarist Mick Jones will hit the road for an August tour with his band Big Audio Dynamite. The trek includes appearances at Lollapalooza and the Outside Lands festival. Big Audio ...

In The Alternative Number Ones, I'm reviewing every #1 single in the history of the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks/Alternative Songs, starting with the moment that the chart launched in 1988. This ...

It is such a raging disappointment when you hear an album that you thought defined an era for you years after the fact and you can’t find one thing on the album that you can hook yourself onto. This ...

Big Audio Dynamite’s rare visit to O.C. this week, with a terrific performance Thursday night at City National Grove of Anaheim, was another one of those cases when unwise booking works to the ...

Don Letts has led a very cool life. He was the DJ at ’70s London club The Roxy where he turned punk crowds (and the bands) onto reggae when there were no punk records to play yet. He parlayed that ...

“If there was any disappointment it was they have been playing the same set at all these shows… I would’ve liked a couple more songs from 1989’s Megatop Phoenix (that album’s single, “Contact,” was ...

Within the first few beats and spaghetti western loops of "Medicine Show" the news was good for BAD. At 55, the besuited Jones has less hair but the same old swagger, resembling a hipster Norman ...