Maximo Park had a valuable guitar stolen yesterday (May 13) on the first night of their UK tour.

Hey, it's that riff from the Clash's "Straight to Hell", remember it? And this time it's actually being used in a version of the Clash's "Straight to Hell". That's London songstress Lily Allen on this particular cover. She contributed this laidback version of the dubby Joe Strummer-sung original to the covers comp Heroes, which benefits War Chil...

It's this kind of lame crap that is destroying music. We actually received a press release about the t-shirt Randy Jackson wore on American Idle. It gets worse as they place Jackson in the same category as Frank Zappa, John Lennon, Janis Joplin, Robert Plant, Joe Strummer and Jeff Buckley.

A Christmas benefit gig for the charity Strummerville is to be staged in London this December.

The ongoing 30th anniversary salute to the Clash etches a new peak with the long-awaited DVD release of Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten