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Dark Horse Records is digging into the pre-fame archives with Joe Strummer 003: The 101’ers Years, a collection of studio and live material from the days when Joe Strummer fronted The 101’ers, years before The Clash existed. It includes the earliest known recordings of Strummer and catches a band wedged between London’s pub rock circuit and the punk blast that was about to go off.

David Zonshine produced the set, and Paul Hicks, who has worked on material by The Beatles, David Bowie and The Rolling Stones, handled the remastering. It arrives Nov. 20 as a 3CD deluxe edition with 48 tracks, packed into a 48-page hardback book inside a slipcase. Sex Pistols bassist Glen Matlock wrote the foreword, Richard Nother Dudanski of The 101’ers contributed the band’s history, and the book also carries Strummer‘s own drawings and writing.

The first disc gathers the band’s studio output, with a few tracks freshly mixed. The second digs into basement tapes and demos, including “Full Moon,” a lone acoustic piece Strummer cut at the band’s West London squat. The third is all live material, featuring an early run through “Junco Partner,” which he later reworked with The Clash, and a version of “Jail Guitar Doors” that was still called “Lonely Mother’s Son.” Hicks restored the demos and live tracks from the original cassettes, some of them lifted straight off the soundboard, so recordings that sat unheard for decades sound like they were made last week.

A double LP version is also on the way. It holds the full studio run on the first record and a selection of basement tapes and demos on the second.

The band took its name from 101 Walterton Road in Maida Vale, where its members shared a squat and started out as the house band for the other residents. They became fixtures on London’s mid-1970s pub rock scene and built an audience at pubs, clubs and squat benefits in the city and beyond. Rock and roll, R&B and rockabilly made up the sound, right as punk was starting to crawl out of the gutter.

In April 1976, The 101’ers shared a bill with the Sex Pistols for two nights at London’s Nashville Rooms. That run made a lasting impression on Strummer, who was soon pulled toward the punk movement’s raw energy. The band played its last show on June 5, 1976, with future Clash bandmates Mick Jones and Paul Simonon in the crowd.

Taken together, the recordings cover the earliest stretch of Strummer‘s time on tape: his songwriting finding its voice, a rowdy squat band at full volume, and an artist about to switch lanes.

Strummer said: “The Labour government introduced the Rent Act in 1965. Its purpose was to protect tenants in rented accommodation. Unfortunately, it backfired as most laws do — and the result was landlords found a loophole and switched to short lets, which were not covered. There were thousands of empty houses in London and the councils actually employed gangs to come in and smash up these lovely Victorian houses, remove floorboards, rip out wiring, destroy the plumbing so squatters couldn’t live in them.

“Now being homeless, I ran into some old friends who were squatting on West 9. Within about a year, I had formed a band in a squat. It was named ‘The 101’ers‘ after our address (Walterton Road, Maida Vale). We ran a club every Wednesday in the upstairs room of a pub. Entry fee: 10p.”

Strummer died on Dec. 22, 2002, of an undiagnosed heart defect. He was 50.

Joe Strummer 003: The 101’ers Years is available to pre-order here.

Joe Strummer 003: The 101’ers Years:

Produced by David Zonshine
New mixes and remasters by Paul Hicks
Art direction and design by Spencer Ramsey
Liner notes by Richard Nother Dudanski
Product management by Marc Sallis

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Directed by Dariusz Szermanowicz (Behemoth, Amon Amarth).

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Tomorrow marks another milestone for Sweden’s Orbit Culture. Not only are they gearing up for extensive touring across the UK, Europe, and North America, but they are also set to release Death Above Life (Deluxe Edition), the director’s cut of their cinematic and highly successful latest studio album.

Today, the band unveils a very special collaboration with renowned cellist Tina Guo, the video for the emotional track “The Path I Walk (ft. Tina Guo),” created by their longtime creative partners, Riivata Visuals.

The band shares: “We’ve always been a bit uneasy about bringing someone else into our music, but Tina Guo was the exception. Ever since we saw her perform in Stockholm in 2017, we’d joked about working with her one day. When the label suggested a guest for ‘The Path I Walk,’ we threw her name out, fully expecting nothing to come of it. Then our A&R, Mike Gitter, simply said, ‘I know her.’

We initially worked out her parts in MIDI using her own sample library, but hearing her actual performance was something else entirely. The emotion she brought completely changed the song and took it further than we’d imagined.

What stayed with us just as much was how kind and down to earth she was throughout the whole process. For someone with her talent and experience, there was no ego at all. We’re incredibly proud to have her on this song, and grateful that an idea we’d joked about for years actually happened.”

The creation of Death Above Life (Deluxe Edition) was a heartfelt undertaking for the band: “We’re proud to release the Deluxe Edition of ‘Death Above Life’ and finally share ‘Nuclear God,’ ‘Spiral Head’ and ‘The Form Not Meant To Be.’ It’s always exciting to put out songs that people haven’t heard yet, and we’re looking forward to seeing what everyone makes of these three.

We also wanted the physical release to be something people could spend time with. The 40-page Artbook and Mediabook give us more room to show the artwork and bring people further into the world of the record. We put a lot into Death Above Life, both musically and visually, so it feels good to bring those parts together in this edition.

Thank you to everyone who has listened to the album, picked up a copy or come out to hear these songs live. It means a lot to us, and we’re excited to share more with you.”

Come tomorrow, Death Above Life (Deluxe Edition) will be available in the following formats:

• Ltd. Deluxe transparent sea blue-golden yellow splattered 2LP Artbook
• Ltd. 2CD Mediabook
• Digital album

For this special release, the band opened up their photo archives, offering an intimate collection of live photographs and behind-the-scenes moments. Pre-order here.

The release of Death Above Life (Deluxe Edition) also marks the beginning of another touring cycle for Orbit Culture. First, they will join Amon Amarth‘s The Allfather Awakens Tour across Europe alongside Soilwork. Immediately afterward, they will embark on the second leg of Trivium‘s The Crown in the Grave Tour across the U.S. and Canada, which also features In Flames and Frozen Soul.

The band comments: “We’ve got a lot of touring ahead of us, starting with Amon Amarth on their The Allfather Awakens EU/UK Tour, where we’ll be direct support with Soilwork on the bill as well. Just seeing those three names together is pretty fucking cool. An all-Swedish package going across Europe and the UK, bringing a lot of heavy music with it. Swedish steel. We’re proud to be part of that, and we can’t wait to get back out and play.

After that, we head over to the US to join Trivium, In Flames, and Frozen Soul. It’s a hell of a lineup, and to have both of these tours ahead of us feels a bit unreal when you stop and think about it.

We’re looking forward to seeing familiar faces and playing for people who might never have heard us before. Those shows give us a lot to prove, and we’re hungry for it. Thank you to all the bands for having us along, and to everyone coming out. See you very soon.”

For a deep dive into Orbit Culture, watch the documentary “How Orbit Culture Became One Of Metal’s Fastest Rising Bands | OFFSTAGE with Niklas Karlsson” by Scream Dudes.

Hailing from the small town of Eksjö, Sweden, situated between the renowned metal hubs of Gothenburg and Stockholm, the quartet of guitarist and vocalist Niklas Karlsson, guitarist Richard Hansson, bassist Fredrik Lennartsson, and drummer Christopher Wallerstedt has evolved into a global force. Blending thrash, death metal, and industrial influences, the band combines crushing riffs with unforgettable hooks and a richly layered atmosphere. While inviting comparisons to Gojira, Metallica, and Static-X, Orbit Culture continue to forge a sound that is unmistakably their own.

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They Are Gutting A Body Of Water, the prolific Philly underground heroes, are always cooking up something. Next week, they’ll release KOOL FAITH / LOOSIES II, a new guest-heavy 29 track mixtape that includes collaborations with people like RXKNephew, Greg Mendez, Spirit Of The Beehive, and Hotline TNT. When they announced the tape last month, they shared three songs. With the release coming up quickly, they’ve given us two more.

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From the impending deluxe edition of their latest album “Death Above Life”.

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Photos by Ron Lyon

Guns N’ Roses Guitarist Slash was presented with the Les Paul Spirit Award on October 5 (2026) at the Les Paul Recording Studio inside Universal Master Recordings in Hollywood.

Presented by the Les Paul Foundation in partnership with Gibson Gives, the Les Paul Spirit Award recognizes an individual who exemplifies Les Paul’s pioneering spirit through innovation, creativity, engineering, technology and music. The one-of-a-kind award is created from hand-carved acoustic boards that Les Paul built and used in his home recording studio. Past recipients include Bob Weir, Nile Rodgers, the Edge, Peter Frampton and Steve Miller. Slash and Les Paul shared a special friendship and often played music together.

The evening also hosted a listening party featuring tracks from Slash’s latest collaboration with Miles Kennedy & the Conspirators entitled Flying Blind, which will be available in February 2027 on Gibson Records.

The title track was released as a single on October 2. Following the listening party in one room of the studio complex, which was filled with the late Les Paul’s vintage recording equipment, the award presentation happened in a larger, main room.

Slash humbly accepted the award, as dignitaries from Gibson USA and the Les Paul Recording studio presented. He spoke of his friendship with Les Paul, and how honored he was to be the recipient.

Congratulations Slash!

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Posted on October 8th 2026, 6:30pm

Café Wha? opened in 1959 in a MacDougal Street basement in Greenwich Village, and it has long been an early stop for artists still building their audiences. Bob Dylan first played the room in January 1961, Jimi Hendrix worked through multiple sets a night there as Jimmy James in the mid-1960s, and Bruce Springsteen did […]

“Ghost’s Host”: That’s not a song title that I ever want to try to say out loud. It would be a disaster. Those words would trip all over themselves coming out of my mouth. But New Jersey power-pop stompers Classic Traffic are brave enough to use that impossible-to-pronounce title from their latest single, a bittersweet midtempo rocker with an adrenaline-charged fists-up chorus.

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