A mean ol' bastard who reportedly knocked Tanya Tucker's front teeth out because she went out with friends without telling him. But dude played a mean guitar, and those songs with Jimmy Webb still sound incredible.

Totally. And that was definitely Simonon in his earliest days — Mick Jones would literally just teach him the bass parts note-by-note, and he would play exactly what he was told. And yet, just a couple years later, he went on to create some of my favorite basslines of all time. Would a more traditionally competent…

There's a (possibly apocryphal) story about one of the Clash's earliest gigs, where Paul Simonon was lighting his cigarette as the band counted off a song, and came in three beats late. For the whole song, Mick Jones and Joe Strummer kept looking at each other, trying to figure out who was out of tune, and why the…

Jesus, cool it down with the puns, guys.

I will eagerly pay American currency to watch this movie.

Why…why would you do this?

I clicked on this Q&A prepared to roll my eyes and snicker…and I absolutely did, a few times.

Also a great one. And I appreciate the plainspoken succinctness of "Everyone thinks Phil Collins is a c—t. And if they don't, they fucking should."

I’m kind of happy to hear that Julian Casablancas let himself go a bit. “Chubby fortysomething former rock star” feels a lot less depressing to me than “grey-skinned coke-and-Marlboros-thin fortysomething former rock star still squeezing into his old leather jacket.”

That's an all-timer.

Hot take: Ryan Adams is a very good — at times even great — songwriter with absolutely no sense of quality control and a tendency toward the most insufferable type of self-sabotage, who also seems like a real drag to be around in real life. Stranger's Almanac, Heartbreaker, and half of Ashes & Fire are still killer…

Jack White vs. the dude from the Black Keys was pretty hilarious. (It was no Jack White vs. the dude from the Von Bondies, but still.)

Yesterday Diplo got into a Twitter war with Denny's, and Denny's won out in the end.

I know my wife is partial to the original German version of Mostly Martha (definitely not the grease-fire American remake). Mostly because it correctly posits that in order for a woman to run a kitchen, she has to go more than a little insane.

I work at a magazine; my wife is a chef. "The Devil Wears Prada's" insistence that the lazy, low-key life of a chef would clash with the frantic late hours demanded by a magazine job has always kept me from engaging with that movie.

Wes Anderson's career is unimaginable without Jules and Jim.

One of the most famous scenes from her most famous role, and helps convey her essential mischievousness that distinguished her from so many of her contemporaries. I would've used the same image.

Ooooh, inexcusable omission.

Aside from Jessie J, I can't remember an aspiring pop star who put such exhausting, eternally visible effort into becoming an A-list pop star without actually becoming an A-list pop star than Charli XCX. Unlike Jessie J, I actually find most of Charli's music pretty decent, and no one, no matter how seemingly chill,…

Plus, the guy he kills with a shoe is Method Man.