Steve Sailer linked to his "Alt-Right as Punk Rock" Taki's column over at UNZ, and hundreds of comments resulted. He added a few himself: It would be interesting to do a big statistical study of the background of rock … [Read more...]
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Happy birthday to (the late) Joe Strummer: Colossal pain in the butt, goddammit
Blasts from (my) past: Unreported at the time — especially not in [Read more...]
‘Joe Strummer’s Earthquake Weather band was all Jewish…’
The conversation is still going at Steve Sailer's "Clash tempo" post, taking [Read more...]
Somebody actually bought one of those ‘Joe Strummer’ Telecasters
The whole concept seems morbid and … [Read more...]
‘What The Clash would have been like without Joe Strummer’
Writes the loyal 5FF reader who sent in this video. Mick is smiling because he gets to wear track pants without getting yelled at. Actually, I hear a lot of "Joe" in those lyrics, although he'd have made them way more florid: (He usually wrote about "England," too, not … [Read more...]
Joe Strummer and 9/11: My NEW PJM post
If anyone can clear up my recollection in the comments, please do... If my grasp of Clash lore is still strong, I seem to recall a … [Read more...]
Except… what will ‘Joe Strummer biopic’ actually be about?
"And then I bought another hat"? "Man, we really sound terrible live"? "Jamaica was a BIG disappointment"? I don't even want to get into the [Read more...]
David Cole: What “hood pranks” reveal about the “collapsing” black “community”
David Cole writes another must-read: You may not know this, but there’s an entire subgenre of YouTube prank videos in which white, Asian, and Hispanic pranksters venture into black … [Read more...]
‘Extravagant mourning for celebrity musicians is a way to confront our own mortality’
I’ve said it before: I even miss squatters at this point…
Mark Steyn writes: On Wednesday morning, I started the day with Toronto's Number One morning man, the great John Oakley, on AM640. Click above to listen to the full interview. John and I chewed over the state's crackdown … [Read more...]
Warren Kinsella wears pro-terrorist t-shirt, uploads video of himself. Yes, in 2015.
UPDATE: Another reader writes: The timing's particularly interesting since Kinsella just reminded everyone for the umpteenth time that he "was in Montana in 1996 when the Freemen brought the state to a standstill", and some loser identifying as a Freeman just murdered an Edmonton … [Read more...]
‘You rich southern bastards, come up here and keep us waiting!’
I meant to get this up yesterday for "May Day." By accident or design, it was highlighted in yesterday's Rock's Back Pages newsletter: "Joe Strummer: Your Money or Your Life," by Robin Gibson, in Sounds, August 6 1988. Like everything at the site, the article behind their … [Read more...]