Paul Simonon

”You shouldn't even have an opinion...I think if you wanna be miserable and English, you've gotta be miserable and English. You know — really be it.” - Damon Albarn.

This will be the first album for the group, which features Damon Albarn, Paul Simonon (The Clash), Simon Tong (The Verve) and drummer/afrobeat great Tony Allen, in 11 years. It's out in November.

"Now, stores open and shut, tenants come and go. It has become a block for the rich. All that color has faded into money green" -- Omni NYC (who painted the mural).

As you may remember, former Clash members Mick Jones and Paul Simonon were in NYC a few weeks ago to celebrate (and talk about) the new Clash box set that's just out...

In what's been a busy week for leather jacket action, we've unearthed another super-limited leather jacket linked to The Clash, this one designed by the band's bassist Paul Simonon -- who is actually quite the painter -- for Sailor Jerry...

photos & video Mick Jones and Paul Simonon of The Clash fielded questions last night at new multimedia space and hybrid art gallery, Wallplay (118 Orchard Street), about the release of The Clash's Sound System and Hits Back...

N.E.R.D. in Times Square (photo by Matt Kole) Gorillaz play Boston on Wednesday (10/6) to kick off of the US leg of the Escape to Plastic Beach World Tour, hitting MSG two days later...

The third and final round of the Coachella Music & Arts Festival was funky, and not just because the port-a-potties reeked. Keeping a loose theme every day (see Friday & Saturday), Sunday focused on relentless rhythm and groovy basslines...

DOWNLOAD: Passion Pit - Sleepyhead (Streetlab mix) (MP3) today in NYC * DANCE * Neil Young, Wilco & Everest @ MSG * Architect & Tiger Flowers @ Lit Lounge * Appomattox, The Interiors & Elsinore @ Cake Shop * Shy Child, Free Blood, Pwrfl Power @ Santos Party House * Goes Cube, Rumanian Buck & Satisfier @ Santos Party House * Soft Circle, Bird Show, Sun Circle, Infinity Window @ Glasslands * John Oliver, Todd Barry, & others @ a benefit @ the Bell House * School of Seven Bells, The War on Drugs & Linfinity @ Mercury Lounge * Ted Leo, Cale Parks, Patrick Stickles (of Titus Andronicus) @ Market Hotel * Pylon, Psychic Paramount, Grouper, Christmas Decorations & more @ KF Paul Simonon of The Clash was born today in 1955...