The Clash to Release Massive Box Set Shaped Like a Boombox, Plus Greatest Hits Comp
Five remastered LPs plus singles, rarities, demos, DVD, fanzines
On September 9 in the UK and September 10 in the U.S., the Clash will release what guitarist Mick Jones tells The Guardian is the ”best box set ever.” Designed by bassist Paul Simonon to resemble a 1980s boombox, the set is titled Sound System.
Along with remastered versions of all five Clash LPs (1977’s The Clash, 1978’s Give ‘Em Enough Rope, 1979’s London Calling, 1980’s Sandinista!, and 1982’s Combat Rock), Sound System will include three discs of singles, rarities, demos, and B-sides. It will also contain a DVD featuring all of the band’s videos, plus “unseen footage by Julien Temple and Don Letts,” as well as reprints and a new issue of the band’s Armagideon Time fanzine. Not to mention “an exclusive poster, dog tags, stickers, badges, and more.
Every Noise At Once (click picture!!)
This is an algorithmically-generated map of the musical genre-space. Genres and artists are positioned by code and data, adjusted for legibility, but the underlying vectors are less interesting than the juxtapositions and clusters that they produce, so the axes have been deliberately left unlabeled and uncalibrated. You are invited to imagine your own qualities and magnitudes that the geometry might be expressing. I may occasionally spin the axes just to see what happens.
Click anything to hear an example of what it sounds like.
Click the » on a genre to see a map of its artists.
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Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros - Better Days
“Better Days” will appear on the band’s forthcoming self-titled third studio album out July 23rd via Community Music.
The band recently hit the road for an extensive run of live headlines dates and festival appearances (Sasquatch, Governor’s Ball, Bonnaroo, Firefly, Kanrocksas, Floydfest). All tour dates can be found here.
Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros tracklisting:
1. Better Days
2. Let’s Get High
3. Two
4. Please!
5. Life is Hard
6. If I Were Free
7. In The Lion
8. Country Calling
9. They Were Wrong
10. In The Summer
11. Remember To Remember
12. This Life
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