"People call us Germany's streetcore band number one." Hinrich Schmidt is sitting in his kitchen in Kreuzberg drinking tea. The drummer for the Berlin band Toxpack says his band was was really the ...
Unlike Warren Zevon’s coda “The Wind,” Joe Strummer had no idea “Streetcore” would be his swan song. The album–his third with the Mescaleros–wasn’t quite done when the former Clash frontman died in ...
With the release of the posthumous Streetcore, Joe Strummer fans have another bittersweet reminder of just what was lost last year when the 50-year-old Clash legend died from an undiagnosed congenital ...
Streetcore may not quite reach the heights of its predecessor (2001's Global a Go-Go), but despite a ragged patchwork nature of rescued studio takes, it's certainly a fitting bookend to Joe Strummer's ...
***** Joe Strummer & the Mescaleros, Streetcore (Hellcat): Rock icons always have the capability to disappoint, going all the way back to Elvis in those awful movies. So that makes it even more of a ...
Joe Strummer‘s final album was far from finished when he died last December. But the former Clash leader’s backing band, the Mescaleros, weren’t about to let the material go to waste: Streetcore, a ...
“Streetcore,” the final album from the late Joe Strummer, will be released Oct. 7. The tracks were put together by his former Mescaleros bandmates and assembled from sessions recorded before ...
"I hear punks talk of anarchy - I hear hobos on the railroad I hear mutterings on the chain-gangs. It was those men who built the roads. and if you put it all together and you didn't even once relent ...
The self-described "streetcore" band, Toxpack, has been labeled by some "grey-zone," referring to bands tolerant of Neo Nazis. Drummer Hinrich... Berlin's Toxpack Sets The Standard For Streetcore ...
The posthumous album from Joe Strummer, a leader of The Clash, reflects many elements of his career, with a mix of rock and reggae influences. Strummer died last December at age 50, and members of his ...
It s hard to be objective knowing that this is Strummer s last recording, but the great irony of Streetcore for any fan still in shock from his sudden death late last year is that from the opening ...