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 ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Big Audio Dynamite was in the midst of completing a brief U.S. tour in ...

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 ...

1984: Don Letts – movie maker, band manager (The Slits) and Roxy club DJ – teams up with a P45 carrying Mick Jones. He drafts in a bunch of gun slinging hopefuls and, foreseeing the future of music, ...

Within the first few beats and spaghetti western loops of "Medicine Show" the news was good for BAD. At 55, the besuited Jones has less hair but the same old swagger, resembling a hipster Norman ...

For the sake of this review, we will go ahead and refer to them as BAD, but technically, at this time they were going by the name Big Audio Dynamite II. This the sixth album by the band and the second ...

Not too many interview subjects tell you how to write your article. But then again, there aren’t many interview subjects who have a Bob Marley song named after their contribution to music culture. DJ, ...

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 ...

Performing at London s Town and Country Club just after the release of 1991 s The Globe, this DVD captures Big Audio Dynamite II at their very inception, immediately following Mick Jones s disbanding ...