boingboing collected a bunch of covers of my favorite clash song ’straight to hell’. i am keeping my opinion to myself. tho i will say when i saw joe strummer and the mescaleros for the first time at the TLA and they did straight to hell it gave me both goose bumps and sent shivvers up my spine.

wikipedia has some added insight on the song.

on this day in 1658 Oliver Cromwell, the Lord Protector of England, died. raise a glass.

1 million LPs. 1.5million singles

The Archive from Sean Dunne on Vimeo.

vice magazine interview shane macgowan. decent interview of a guy that i would think would be hard to pin down. tho, i wonder if there was a translator between the two to get shanes words down straight.

put together a muxtape focusing on the great joe strummer.

the tracklist/song info
punkrock warlord - interview snippet
english ghost - remix done by instamatic for joe
the brooding side of madness - done with the latino rockibilly war for during the wilderness years
nitcomb - live during first mescaleros tour
shouting street - wilderness years off of earthquake weather. cant write off the whole record
minstrel boy - reworked and longer for the movie blackhawk down
straight to hell - great live version
white riot - acoustic in 1985 during a busking tour
the cardcheat - promo version
rockers galore featuring mikey dread
the magnificent 7 - live during their stint at bonds. this song blew them up in america and crossed genre boundaries.

at work on a saturday.bummed.even worse i took this med for my congestion that makes it feel like my brain is getting punched when the wind blows. yesterday i made a muxtape with the focus being cops cos in philly theyre all over the news in one for or another right now.

so check it out

demos, unreleased, b-sides, live. titled: Just Look Them In The Eye And Say … POGUEMAHONE!! with pogue mahone meaning kiss my ass. pretty stoked abut this since it has been in the works for so long. a few live tracks with joe strummer on vocals. i have a crappy bootleg of one of the shows with strummer so itll be interesting to hear those since strummer did a stint replacing shane in 91. speaking of strummer there have been rumors that his wife lucinda has been working on a box set of some sort with artwork, demos, unrecorded lyrics. but who knows.

Paul Simonon the bassist for the most important band on earth, the clash, has a solo art show opening this month in london with some saying his painitings could fetch close to $60,000USD. the guardian interviewed paul about many things, i compiled some juicy bits below as well as some recent paintings.

“The day before Strummer died, he sent Paul Simonon a text message. It said, ‘Come on, Paul. Give it a try. You might even like it.’ Strummer was referring to a possible reunion of the Clash for a one-off gig to celebrate their imminent induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Simonon, though, was having none of it. ‘Joe was up for it, and so was Mick and Topper [Headon, the Clash's drummer], but I wasn’t,’ he says, without a trace of regret. ‘I was the one who always said no. In this instance, I really didn’t believe it was the right moment. A big corporate event like that, two grand a seat. Nah, that wasn’t in the spirit of the Clash, was it?’”

“‘That’s the thing about painting, it helps you work stuff out. It’s a way of making sense of the world, of yourself.’”

from his upcoming show “16th may anniversary”

from an older show called ‘From Hammersmith to Greenwich’ a piece called ‘The Thames from Millbank’