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The first complete box set dedicated to The Runaways, the all-female group fronted by Joan Jett and managed by Kim Fowley

Best known as the front woman for The Blackhearts as well as a member of The Runaways, Joan Jett has had a huge impact on the rock world ...

Mick Jones for a proposed Alternative Press piece on punk’s original guitar heroes. Though it remains unpublished, I asked in the course of it what he thought of Rancid. Jones waxed effusive, noting he’d met the Berkeley punk traditionalists in the course of a U.S. Big Audio Dynamite tour, impressed with how hands-on and DIY they were in the running of the band, down to storyboarding their own videos. I smirked. “You’re being considerably generous, considering many cynics think Rancid ...