The punk icon and his best-known band is being honored on International Clash Day, Feb. 6 by Seattle public radio station KEXP, available for streaming worldwide at KEXP.org, with songs by the Clash and like-minded artists, including Bruce Springsteen, Rage Against the Machine, Billy Bragg, Bad Bunny and more throughout the day. Interspersed with the music, the station is playing audio clips from Bragg, Tom Morello and others talking about the impact of the Clash on their music and their continuing importance.
International Clash Day was founded on Feb. 7, 2013, by KEXP morning DJ John Richards. On his show this year, Richards acknowledged it’s a made-up holiday, like all holidays, and in the do-it-yourself spirit of punk rock, he encouraged listeners to invent their own holidays.
“But it struck a chord with the listeners. Clearly, there was something bigger going on. So we did it again the next year, and the year after that. The thing kept growing, until we eventually put together a whole international trip complete with a dozen Live on KEXP sessions with favorites like IDLES and Ibibio Sound Machine, and we had civic and world leaders making official proclamations for International Clash Day: the Mayor of Toronto, the Governor of Washington State, Katy Perry's boyfriend, etc.,” he added
Along with such Clash classics as “Know Your Rights” and “Somebody Got Murdered,” KEXP DJs are playing such recently release protest songs such as Springsteen’s “Streets of Minneapolis” and Bragg’s “City of Heroes,” as well as protest songs by such artists as Prince, the Chicks, Jesse Welles, Woody Guthrie and others.
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