Last week, we learned that the Good, The Bad & The Queen, the supergroup made up of Damon Albarn, the Clash's Paul Simonon, the Verve's Simon Tong, and Afrobeat drummer Tony Allen, would be returning with their first album since their 2007 self-titled debut. And now it's official: Merrie Land will be out next month,…

It's the long-awaited follow-up to the supergroup's 2007 debut albumThe Good The Bad & The QueenThe second The Good, The Bad & The Queen album has finally been announced – with the new record, titled ‘Merrie Land’, set for a November 16 release. The supergroup – which is comprised of Damo...

We're about a month away from the most consequential midterm elections of my lifetime. In Texas, Representative Beto O'Rourke -- a former punk rocker who used to be in a band called Foss with Cedric Bixler-Zavala, before Bixler-Zavala formed At The Drive-In and the Mars Volta -- seems to have a pretty good chance of…

A lyric video for an early demo version of The Clash's 1985 track, 'This Is England',

Beto O’Rourke might just be the coolest candidate in US Senate history. It’s a well-known fact that he grew up playing in punk bands with At The Drive-In’s Cedric Brixler-Zavala, and he also jammed with Willie Nelson at the songwriter’s annual Fourth Of July picnic this year in Austin. Now, as Splinter points out, the…