They’ve made a set from Chuck Prophet’s I’m-so-pissed-I-missed-it tour, where he covered Clash songs all night. Check it out here. It’s awesome.

And hit the break for tons of Clash covers!

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First and foremost, Rock God Cred is back–one of my favorite aggregators.  Welcome back!

Secondmost, RGC led me here which led me to this….

Some goings on about “town:”

• No Depression interviews Zoe Muth
• Passion has a piece on Nas and Rick Ross….
• TeaLeigh has a free covers EP including the gem below, a Postal Service song that lots and lots of folks have covered….

What looks to me like the source for the new My Morning Jacket live album, is actually up for free at the archive.  Among other good tunes is a cover of The Clash.  Me love Clash.  Rock the Casbah-My Morning Jacket

Here’s some interesting environmental music.

The Decembrists cover The Grateful Dead.

Oh, and here’s Yo Yo Ma and a Wombat.  You’re welcome.

Last week, this blog scored bigg on Digg.com. Yet the post I did wasn’t all that different from a lot of other posts I do here. If any of you have any idea why or how the rocker/rappers post garnered so much attention, I’d love to hear your thoughts. I mean, I’m not unhappy with my regular numbers here, but why did that post get so popular on Digg whereas most of my posts only get three or four dugg votes? I’m also asking all of you to help by giving good ratings to my site at wherever you play (stumbleupon, digg, blogtopsites, etc.).

Okay, now on with the post: I thought I’d thrown these up before, but I guess I haven’t. “Street rats” is a collection of unreleased promos, demos, and live recordings by the world’s greatest band, The Clash. The quality of each track varies, but there’s definitely some gems here. As usual, some tastes and a zip:

Cost of Living
London’s Burning (Polydor Demo version)
Cool confusion (alt. version)
white riot (1977 video promo)
Safe european home (06-09-81)
Janie Jones (06-09-81)
Washington Bullets (06-09-81)
Junko Pardner (11-27-82)
One More Time (11-27-82)
BankRobber (11-27-82)
Kill Time.
Pressure Drop (alternate version)
White man in hammersmith palais (live version)
King of the Road (Roger Miller cover)
Revolution rock (instrumental)
Oh Baby Oh
The Beautiful People are Ugly Too
Louie Louie (The Kingsmen cover)
Sitting at my party (09-05-76)
Deadly Serious (09-05-76)
ZIP FILE.

1. Not content to leave it all to us amateurs, the avant garde, offbeat, and sometimess brilliant Baby Teeth want you to know about their new Baby Teeth blog! Check out “Is This Love” (not a Bob Marley cover), among the other songs they are posting there. (One new song per week!)

2. I said before I’m not liking the new M.I.A. album as much as her first–there are a few solid cuts on it, but much of it leaves me cold. Still, I dig this mash up. Courtesy of The Hood Internet.

M.I.A. vs. Ocelot

3. No Woman No Cry (Bob Marley)-Afghan Whigs cover

4. New Chuck Prophet! If you’ve never heard him (or never heard of him) it’s time! A great singer/songwriter. Freckles-Chuck Prophet. Here he is with Papa Mali on the soul classic, “People Get Ready.” And if that isn’t proof enough that he’s a cool muthafucka, he’s played live with Ryan Adams, the deacon of cool. Or, at least he was yesterday.

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6. Passion of the Weiss always has good stuff. Now he’s offering a list of his 5 favorite animated shows, and the movies that followed them. I’m totally on board with his #1 and 2, but for the others he doesn’t seem to care if the movie that followed was actually any good . . . His omission of The Transformers is unforgivable. But at least he left off Fat Albert! When it comes to making little cartoons into good big movies, though, I guess there isn’t much to choose from.

And if cartoons are your thing, WFMU’s Beware the Block has a tribute to Hannah Barbara, complete with mp3s!

7. Retro Music Snob has The Nerves’ Hangin’ On The Telephone, which he says is the original of the Blondie tune. I haven’t verified that, but the tune sounds good.

8. Fierce Drama-MF Doom vs. Ghostface (from “Operation Ironman”)

9. Y’all know I’m a huge Clash fan. So I’m excited that Mick Jones’ new venture, Carbon/Silicon (he teamed up with Generation X’s Tony James) will finally release a new album, titled “The Last Post.” It drops October 8, but in the meantime they’re offering a bunch of songs for download at their site, including the great song, “The System” and “Falun Gong Love Song.” I can’t wait.

10. Never Let me Down (Depeche Mode cover)-The Smashing Pumpkins