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Clutch's Neil Fallon: 10 songs that changed my life
By Rich Hobson published
Clutch's firebrand preacher explains how blues, funk and hip hop all set him on the path to music

The albums produced by Steve Lillywhite you need to know, and one to avoid
By Alex Burrows published
Producer Steve Lillywhite has his fingerprints all over a number of top rock, post-punk, new wave and art-rock albums

The Pogues announce expanded 40th anniversary edition of their classic 1985 album Rum Sodomy & The Lash
By Paul Brannigan published
Rum Sodomy & The Lash is getting another lash

“It was wonderful, boring, horrible, heartbreaking": Life with Shane MacGowan
By Paul Brannigan published
The Pogues' Jem Finer recalls life in the original line-up

“There certainly was a fair amount of hard drinking. But there was a degree of professionalism, if hard to recognise at times”: How The Pogues made a folk-punk classic in Rum, Sodomy & The Lash
By Alex Burrows published
The Pogues’ second album Rum, Sodomy & The Lash remains the late Shane MacGowan’s finest moment

Nadine Shah, Lankum's Darragh Lynch, Lisa O'Neill among guest vocalists joining The Pogues for their first UK headline tour in 13 years
By Paul Brannigan published
The Pogues reveal guest vocalists joining them for their 40th anniversary Rum Sodomy & The Lash tour in May

How Jimi Hendrix became an unlikely influence upon Irish folk-punk legends The Pogues
By Paul Brannigan published
Shane MacGowan and Spider Stacy loved Jimi Hendrix, but The Pogues were never going to sound like Seattle's legendary guitar hero

The Pogues announce first UK headline tour in 13 years
By Paul Brannigan published
London-Irish folk-punk group to tour for the first time since the death of former frontman Shane MacGowan
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