Clash

New covers album includes Tom Waits, Neil Young and The Clash

Rolling Stone says 'It’s draconian – socially, politically-correct bullshit'

Neil Young, like Dylan, has a lot to live up to. Most obviously, he has to contend with his own reputation, and the expectations of his audience: two things which are not entirely compatible.

Lively documentary portrait of the 2-Tone tyros, sadly lacking in band interviews

The coolest show on radio

The band headline the NME Big Gig next week

Pacino and Friedkin’s infamous journey into New York’s gay leather underground

The Rock Against Racism manifesto at the time of the second of 1978's major anti-fascist festivals, held in September in Brockwell Park and featuring Elvis Costello and Aswad, called for: "Rebel music, street music. Music that breaks down people's fear of one another. Now music. Music that knows who the real enemy is. Rock against racism. Love music. Hate racism."

I’ve just been reading your comments on yesterday’s Vampire Weekend blog – thanks for those. They helped me crystallise my thoughts about that much-vaunted African influence on the album. What’s interesting, I think, is not that they draw on African sounds, but how they point up the affinities between that spindly, melodically cartwheeling guitar sound and the indie-rock tradition.

The veteran of 1978's protest set for historic gig