Word: clashed
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...punk rock can a coffee-table book possibly be? The Clash, a band that embodied the rebellious, DIY ethic of the late-'70s scene - and that proclaimed louder than anyone else a social and political purpose to punk's nihilism - have a book out. A big, pink, glossy, coffee-table book. In good time for Christmas...
...Accusations of the band betraying their punk credentials are nothing new - it says so on page 113 of The Clash, their first official autobiography. In the words of front man Joe Strummer, "fanzine Sniffin' Glue wrote 'Punk Rock died the day the Clash signed to Columbia' [in 1977]." In reality, mainstream success didn't kill their principles: as the band recounts, when their week-long residency at Bond's Casino in New York City was oversold, they stayed on and played 17 shows until every ticket holder had seen them live. Filled with such details, the book erases...
...ultimate rebels, the Clash even defied their own musical genre, breaking from its prescriptive three chords and careering into reggae, rap and rockabilly. Just like this big, pink, glossy, coffee-table book, they proved to be about much more than punk...
...Despite that advance, questions remain how much the U.S. and its free-market fans will the more invasive regulatory approach that Europe seems to favor. Even as they face dire economic crisis, Americans are quicker than Continentals to distrust perceived market "socialism." Indeed, even Bush and Sarkozy seemed to clash Saturday in how each weighed the virtues of regulation against the liberty of markets...
...trajectory and has assumed the throne, vacant since David Bowie's prime, of popular music's avant-gardist in chief. In the past few years, he's launched a cartoon hip-hop band (Gorillaz), an Afro-pop album (Mali Music) and a side project with a member of the Clash. All were slightly ridiculous (hip-hop, world music, supergroup--the hubristic rock star's triple crown) but well received, yet none can quite prepare you for Albarn's latest: Journey to the West, a "circus opera" based on a Ming-dynasty novel, with lyrics in Mandarin by Chinese actor Chen...