The Children of Woody Guthrie: Interview with Antonino D'Ambrosio by Alexander Billet Socialist Worker Never underestimate the ability for pop culture to water down its most firebrand figures--especially after they're dead. Luckily, there are people like Antonino D'Ambrosio. His book Let Fury Have the Hour: The Punk Rock Politics of Joe Strummer, released in 2003, is essential reading for anyone who...
On an emotionally dark and dreadful day in 1987, one what was then quite possibly the worst day so far in my life, certainly in my personal Top 10 list of bad days now, as my car slowly descended the winding roads out of the mountains and the tears were still drying on my cheeks, my attention was unexpectedly caught by a song that seemed to suddenly come bursting out of the car speakers. Buoyed by...
Ian Bone brings details of what will be the Must See Film of 2015 . (I'm pegging it for a 2015 release date unless the lottery commission is still doling out the revenue from the poverty tax for funding British films that won't make any money.) The suggested chapter headings look intriguing. It looks like a mix of Green Street Hooligans and Channel 4's 80s comedy Dream Stuffing. If the filmmaker,...
Evidently Captain Sensible is unaware that there are more snakes than ladders in the railway industry . This from thequietus posted on Tuesday... One of these independent companies, Cotswold Rail, the owner is a punk fan. He called one of his locos Joe Strummer, another one called John Peel, and then there's mine. They invited me along on the unveiling of the name plaque, and we did it on an excursion...
With a speculative & highly ambiguous NME article dangling the prospect of a re-staged Morrissey concert at the Echo Arena ( http://www.nme.com/news/morrissey/48330 ), which has already been given the cold water treatment by Simon's excellent No Rock And Roll Fun blog ( http://xrrf.blogspot.com/2009/11/morrissey-stop-me-if-youve-heard-this.html ), it's unsurprising to see that Oldham Hall Street...
Here are some of the other 73 artworks on show at the Destroy exhibition which opens to the public today. The auction is on Saturday (this Sat 14th) at Phillips de Pury & Company which you can attend by rsvp destroy@youthmusic.org.uk. There is a Damien Hirst canvas of Joe Strummer and a Matt Collishaw piece for Kitty, Daisy and Lewis . Here Ive snapped some of my personal faves just from remembering...
Image via Street Dogs MySpace page. Photo: Bryan Sheffield. Street Dogs hail from Boston's Dorchester neigorborhood, and are damn proud of it. The band features original Dropkick Murphys vocalist Mike McColgan (who left the Murphys for several years work as a fireman before returning to music) and features a mixture of punk and folk stylings in their songs, many of which have a definite political...
Read Part 3 of the Brazil series on Truth and Rocket Science. It's pretty brilliant and enlightening stuff written by John Guidry. Brazil is a country of inspired appropriation. Its peoples, cultures, sounds, and visions grind against each other. They rise up and smash together like tectonic plates. In the collision of Brazil and Brasília, the city of candangos gave the country Renato Russo....
Pogues/MySpace The Pogues with Justin TownesEarle Wednesday, October 28 Stubbs ( 801 Red River ) $45, AA, Doors at 7pm [ info ] | [ tickets ] What is left to say that hasn’t been said, written, or sung about this motley crew? Rumors of Shane MacGowan’s death have been greatly exaggerated, and 27 years on from their founding, The Pogues remain one of the rare bands that deserve to be on...
Thou Shalt Always KillThanks to Holly W for finding this.Lyrics......Thou shalt not steal if there is direct victim.Thou shalt not worship pop idols or follow lost prophets.Thou shalt not take the names of Johnny Cash, Joe Strummer, Johnny Hartman, Desmond Decker, Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix or Syd Barret in vain.Thou shalt not think that any male over the age of 30 that plays with a child that is
I can remember the first time I heard a Rocket From The Crypt song. I was 15. It was about half one in the morning and I was about to go to sleep (school in the morning). Darragh Purcell was presenting a music program at the time and I happened to be watching that night. As I got up to turn the television off, he appeared on screen and began musing about a rock band from San Diego out to conquer the...
Raise a toast to Saint Joe Strummer! I think he might have been our only decent teacher. Every time I hear this line, I'm reminded of a documentary I saw on the Sundance Channel a few years ago. Let's Rock Again followed Joe Strummer in what would surprisingly turn out the be the last year of his life, on the road with his new band The Mescaleros. For the most part, Let's Rock Again is a pretty typical...
Today in alliteration: Republicans for Rape GritTV: Can we turn pain to power in the Congo? It’s nothing new but still nice to listen to: Johnny Cash and Joe Strummer, Redemption Song The Wooster Collective brings you video-painting If you are in the UK, go see the exhibit titled Signs of Revolt Creative Resistance and Social Movements since Seattle On [...]
When I moved here I considered smoking in casinos anachronistic and have advanced to viewing it as a necessary evil. I remember an interview with the late Joe Strummer (of Clash fame) who told me that allowing smoking inside casinos...
A FAVORITE FROM FIVE YEARS AGO "Me and Mia" from the album Shake the Sheets Original release date: October 19, 2004 iTunes November 2, 2004: Regrettably, there is no better way to describe "Me and Mia," the opening song on Ted Leo and the Pharmacists ' new record, than to cuss it out. In italics. Uncreative, emphasized profanity. It's wicked fuckin' catchy. The blistering minor-key...
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