Joe Strummer Interview
This two-part interview presents the polar extremes of Joe Strummer. The first part most likely takes place in late 1983, after Mick Jones left the band but before the new Clash line-up started touring together. read more
Found in: FeaturesJulie Delpy Will Direct Joe Strummer Biopic
Yesterday NYMag reported that Julie Delpy, director of Beyond Sunrise and Beyond Sunset, has signed on to direct The Right Profile, the upcoming biopic about The Clash frontman Joe Strummer. Delpy's involvement comes after a two-year period of relative inactivity since the relative failure of her last film The Countess. read more
Found in: Industry, NewsThe Clash's 18 Best Songs
London Calling coming to Rock Band 3 tomorrow has given us a convenient reason to put together a best songs list for these famed English punk rockers. read more
Found in: Blogs, List of the DayClash Biopic in the Works
We recently told you about an upcoming Joe Strummer biopic, and now it looks like Strummer’s bandmates will be headed to the silver screen as well.... read more
Found in: Movies, NewsJoe Strummer Biopic in the Works
The Clash’s Joe Strummer will serve as the subject of an upcoming biopic called Joe Public.... read more
Found in: Movies, NewsTen Songs We Wish Johnny Cash Had Lived to Cover
There are countless songs floating around out there that Cash might've put his indelible stamp on... read more
Found in: Blogs, List of the DayClassic Paste: The Best of Issues 1-10 (2002-2004)
(JUST A FEW MORE REASONS TO HELP SAVE PASTE)In a little more than two weeks, I'll celebrate my 6th anniversary at this magazine. When I started as Paste's second-ever intern on June 1, 2003, we were still a tiny operation. Only five of us were in the office full-time: publisher Nick Purdy, editor Josh Jackson, assistant editor Jason Killingsworth, myself (who would go on to become associate editor) and my intern cohort, Steven Bevilaqua. Other important folks—like senior/film editor and future Paste president Tim Porter, design director José Reyes, and future associate publisher Joe Kirk—were working part-time, since Paste... read more
Found in: Blogs, List of the DayClash's Mick Jones opens music public library
"The Only Band That Matters." Not many bands could get away with this slogan—let alone a "punk" band—but then again, The Clash was in a league all its own. While the late Joe Strummer is more widely recognized and referenced, some people forget there were two frontmen—two necessary halves that made The Clash work. And when Strummer and bassist Paul Simonon booted that other half, guitarist and vocalist Mick Jones, out of the group after the last official Clash album, Combat Rock, they gave us Cut the Crap, an album so bad and so incomplete, it had fans begging the... read more
Found in: NewsJoe Strummer & The Mescaleros - Streetcore
With the release of the posthumous Streetcore, Joe Strummer fans have another bittersweet reminder of just what was lost last year... read more
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