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Song of the Day: The Clash “Clampdown”

Celebrate May Day with The Clash‘s stirring anthem “Clampdown”, which is a highlight from the band’s seminal London Calling

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In 1998, reggae sessions guitarist, Ernest Ranglin, returned to his native Senegal to record this gorgeous track with singer, Baaba Maal.

Veteran punk group, The Clash gave this Ellen Foley pop duet a lift on this 1981 love-conquers-all single, “Torchlight”.

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“The Street Parade” by The Clash is a deeply existential song about the sublimation of identity into a crowd.

Watty Burnett and Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry‘s dub rewrite of Brook Benton‘s “Rainy Night In Georgia” is one of the great dub songs.