How can I express my deep love of Clash of the Titans? The kitschy Ray Harryhousen Clash of the Titans with the mechanical owl and the silly SFX (I admit Pegasus flying through the sky looks pretty silly, in a beautiful sort of way) and weird jump cuts and Harry Hamlin’s big, fat pre-Botox-era lips? […]

Yes, the quality is crap and half the microphones are blown, but if you have 20 minutes in your day then you have time for Mick Jones on TV Party. The cult landmark TV Party (re-released awhile back on DVD) was a free cable access show in New York City that ran from 1978 to […]

Are we Clash fans? Ummmm…you might have inferred that from the title of our little online project here…and you’d be 100% correct. Well it just so happens that London Calling, the album that contains our eponymous track, came out exactly 30 years ago today. Entertainment Weekly here posits it’s the best album of all time, […]

One of LIAS’ favorite DJs (and producers and label heads), Berlin’s very own Shir Khan, has dropped a Clash Magazine mixtape in preparation for an upcoming Exploited Records double-disc compilation (Exploited, released on 14 September). The mix features both brand new and classic material, and some exclusive preview tracks from the upcoming comp. “A born […]

There’s nothing over the top about this Harrington jacket and it’s why I like it. It’s classic, it’s casual and it’s the kind of essential piece that’ll last in your wardrobe for a while. Baracuta founders Isaac and John Miller pretty much stole the show when they released their iconic jacket in 1939. There’s no […]

Here’s a fun factoid about Slits: before the all-female British punk band made any real mark on the scene they opened up for the Clash on a regular basis—and borrowed their equipment so they could play. So, no big shocker to find out that we’re big fans of the band here at LIAS. It’s been […]