The Clash: The Last Gang in Town from Fred Armisen
Fred Armisen knows his punk rock, and before getting into comedy, he played drums for the Chicago group Trenchmouth. Last season on 'SNL,' he debuted a character called Ian Rubbish, a U.K. punk lifer with a fondness for Margaret Thatcher, and he reprises the role in a new Funny or Die video featuring Mick Jones and Paul Simonon of the Clash.
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Had Joe Strummer not died in 2002, the Clash might have reunited and made a new album. At least that's the tantalizing takeaway from Mick Jones' interview yesterday with BBC 6Music.
You can't have too much of a good thing. That's the thinking behind the Clash's new 'Sound System' box set, which comes stuffed with just about everything the legendary London punks ever recorded, and more specifically, it applies to the collection's extended, unedited version 'Ghetto Defendant,' a previously unreleased nugget Diffuser.fm is thrilled to premiere today (listen below).