Photo: The Alarm,5/23/1983

These Welsh chaps are making a name for themselves in America, and it�s not hard to see why. They practice a stirring, if rather obvious, brand of rock, rather cliched but doubtless very exciting live. Not a bad record, but their debt to The Clash threatens to bankrupt them at times. Publication:: Author::

Back in 1981, The Alarm was being hailed by some as the next Clash, but just as many were tagging the band as phony Clash poseurs. Ten years, and many ups and downs later, they’ve all but shed those labels and become just another intrepid rock’n’roll band from Wales. Which isn’t a bad thing, considering some of the overdubbed new wavish atrocities they released in the mid-to-late 80’s (a fact [read more]

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