In The Alternative Number Ones, I'm reviewing every single #1 hit in the history of the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks/Alternative Songs, starting with the moment that the chart launched in 1988. This ...

In The Alternative Number Ones, I'm reviewing every #1 single in the history of the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks/Alternative Songs, starting with the moment that the chart launched in 1988. This ...

Former Clash singer-guitarist Mick Jones will hit the road for an August tour with his band Big Audio Dynamite. The trek includes appearances at Lollapalooza and the Outside Lands festival. Big Audio ...

It is such a raging disappointment when you hear an album that you thought defined an era for you years after the fact and you can’t find one thing on the album that you can hook yourself onto. This ...

A new version of Big Audio Dynamite's debut album may have stoked interest in a band reunion. By Gary Graff A new version of Big Audio Dynamite‘s debut album may have stoked interest in a band reunion ...

Big Audio Dynamite’s rare visit to O.C. this week, with a terrific performance Thursday night at City National Grove of Anaheim, was another one of those cases when unwise booking works to the ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. The crowd for a reformed Big Audio Dynamite set Saturday night wasn’t ...

Back in the dark days of early 1984, there was a time when Orwell's predictions of an overbearing police state seemed worringly prescient. Thatcherism was at its peak, the miners were striking and ...

When Mick Jones was kicked out of The Clash in the early ‘80s, he formed Big Audio Dynamite, a group that melded Jones’ pop sensibilities with his earlier band’s punk ethos. This new edition of their ...