The world has been without Joe Strummer for a decade. The co-founder and lead singer of The Clash died Dec. 22, 2002, of an undiagnosed heart defect at just 50 years old. Yet even his most topical ...

WHAT’S to like about Joe Strummer, I wondered? Yes, I’ll admit it – until last week I knew basically nothing about the Clash, other than that “Rock the Casbah” was a mix-tape staple in ...

When reflecting on the bands he was digging towards the end of his life, former The Clash frontman, Joe Strummer, seriously praised one particular 1990s act.

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

In 1977, on The Clash's debut single, White Riot, vocalist/guitarist Joe Strummer sang about wanting “a riot of my own” . He wouldn't have to wait terribly long to get one. In fact ...

The late punk rock legend Joe Strummer is rendered fully human in Julien Temple‘s engrossing and all-encompassing portrait “Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten.” Strummer’s strange ...

Without Joe Strummer, Eddie Vedder would have never found his way to Jack Irons, and subsequently Pearl Jam. During a show the Clash singer played in November 1989, Vedder ended up becoming ...

Joe Strummer‘s work outside of the Clash will be collected in the new compilation Joe Strummer 001, featuring rare and unreleased recordings by the late rocker. The compilation – which ...

Joe Strummer was given a radio show to espouse some of his greatest musical loves, including his deep appreciation of The Rolling Stones.

And there was a lot of mending to do as players such as Steve Jones, Joe Strummer, and Johnny Ramone pushed their gear to the limit. We'll also recommend some contemporary punk guitars that you ...

If punk rock’s heart belonged to any one person, it beat in the chest of Joe Strummer. At a time when the movement was largely defined as a glue-sniffing “blank generation” with no future ...