Stereogum — By any reasonable metric, the Clash are one of the five best bands in British history. (The others, if you’re keeping score at home, are the Rolling Stones, Black Sabbath, Pulp, and Ned’s Atomic Dustbin.) In honor of their history, the BBC has pu... more info

Mercury News, California — Deep sea snails living in the dark, hot and acidic environment around hydrothermal vents are pretty punk rock, scientists have concluded. more info

Stereogum — Back in June, Busta Rhymes released the new single “Calm Down,” which has both him and Eminem going absolutely nuts over a Scoop DeVille beat that chopped up the opening horn-blast from House Of Pain’s “Jump Around.” That single makes up th... more info

Pop Candy — 'Escape from Tomorrow' and 'Sophie's Choice' on Blu-ray are also out this week. more info

NME — One-off collaboration revealed as part of Converse's Three Artists, One Song series more info

MTV.com News — Punk pioneers and super-producer Diplo talk to MTV News about teaming up with Frank Ocean for Converse's Three Artists, One Song campaign. By Elizabeth Lancaster more info

ContactMusic — The Clash stars Mick Jones and Paul Simonon have reteamed to record a new track with Frank Ocean.The punk icons, who also joined forces as part of... more info

NME — The song will be available on March 10 more info

Sweeping The Nation — The start of a very occasional series takes as its key point the obvious and undeniable fact that the list of NME covers on Wikipedia is the very best page on the internet. But why stop there? Why can't we chart the whole of pop culture by rise a... more info

USA Today Music — Album bundles also survey Miles Davis, John Mellencamp, The Clash, ZZ Top and Paul Simon. more info