Joe Strummer died of a heart attack on Dec. 22, 2002, at the age of 50, yet the music he made with the Clash, as a solo artist, and his last band the Mescaleros lives on today.
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.
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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.
“We started International Clash Day on the Morning Show over a dozen years ago, more or less on a whim. We just got on a roll playing Clash songs, and didn't want to stop. Simple as that — good music sounds good, so keep playing it,” Richards wrote in a post on the KEXP website.
“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
This year’s theme of International Clash Day is Know Your Rights!, named after the Clash song featured on the group’s most-commercially successful album, 1982’s Combat Rock. The theme and International Clash Day have seemingly gained even more urgency in the wake of the siege on Minneapolis by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and the subsequent protests and deaths of Alex Pretti and Renée Good.
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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