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7 Of The Best: Beastie Boys
A brat. A Buddhist. A vegan. A film maker. An MC. During his short lifetime, Adam Yauch carried many roles, many labels. One third of the Beastie Boys, the MC’s flow and imagination sat on top of some...
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The Fall Of The Outsider: Luke Haines
Where have all the outsiders gone? The savants, the nut jobs, the angel-headed hipsters fit to burn the heavenly cosmos of night? All are sadly lacking in the UK right now, with chequebook indie and...
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Ones To Watch - Keaton Henson
Furtively writing songs to alleviate the pain of existence, tortured songwriter Keaton Henson penned songs under Heathrow’s flight path that only he was meant to hear. Here he makes a statement about...
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Singles Round Up - 7th May
It's a fine May day here made better by the fact that i can finally say "Richard Hawley's 'Leave Your Body Behind' is single of the week". Yes I like it that much. In other news I also listened to new...
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Label Profile: Ghost Box
Since 2004, Julian House and Jim Jupp have been putting out myriad weird and wonderful music under the Ghost Box Records label. Ghost Box releases stick to a very idiosyncratic style; a...
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Write On - Mark Stewart
“I see ideas and ideals as kind of viral contagions which are transmitted/mutate through contact/our syntactic memory banks continually hyperlinking between this and the other. The working title of...
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Caspar Brotzmann Massaker
It’s a sunny Friday afternoon and I’m en-route to meet up with Caspar Brötzmann Massaker before their show at Café Oto. I’m quite excited. It’s a show that many people, myself included, never dreamed...
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Death Grips x Alec Empire
Earlier today, ClashMusic received a phone call. "We've got an interview" the voice on the other end informed us, "which might be of interest". Intrigued, we probed further. Turns out, Death Grips...
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Swan Song - Bonnie 'Prince' Billy
How would you spend your last day? Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy will be spiking the whole world with acid. Where would you like to wake up? This has all happened so suddenly. I expected more time. I had...
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Go Your Way: Anne Briggs
It's impossible to conceive of any real Outsider list which doesn't include Anne Briggs. A female singer in a folk world dominated by masculine ideals, Anne Briggs stood out by combining incredible...
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A Letter From... Scotland #8
Welcome to May 2012. Welcome to a world where we’ve just lost Maurice Sendak, where Barack Obama has voiced his support for marriage equality and where most magic of all, the Xcerts have just been...
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Fifty Outsiders : 1 - 10
Read the first part of Kris Needs' Fifty Outsiders, a departure point for your own investigation into outsider artists. 1. SUN RA Claiming to come from Saturn, Sun Ra was an outsider all his life,...
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We'll Be The Moon: Fixers
"I've never been super into the idea of doing a Track By Track for 'We'll Be The Moon'" admits Fixers singer Jack Goldstein. "I like the nature of letting the music do all the talking, it just feels...
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On And Off Bass: Mike Watt
I could waste my word count here simply listing the number of bands (or ‘projs’ to use the man’s own parlance) that Mike Watt has formed, shaped, joined, helped or been a part of. Suffice it to say,...
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Fifty Outsiders : 11 - 20
Read part two of Kris Needs Fifty Outiders list for Clash magazine's Outsider issue taking in Joe Meek, Allen Ginsberg, The Fugs and more. 11. KENNETH ANGER One of the most influential independent...
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Spanner In The Works: Roska
"Shorter tracks, more vocals, a shift in tempos and smoother flows", says Roska of his forthcoming second album on Rinse recordings, a project he has been itching to put out since the release of his...
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Global Playlist: Cumbia
South America is a torrent of musical influences, intersections. The continent's indigenous population forged their own rhythms, their own sounds, before the influx of Spanish conquerors - and their...
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Fifty Outsiders : 21 - 30
Read part three of Kris Needs Fifty Outiders list for Clash magazine's Outsider issue with appearances by George Clinton, Can, Suicide, Patti Smith and more. 21. TIM ROSE Drunken bad boy of the...
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DJ Disasters: Jack Beats
Every DJ has one. A night when everything that can possibly go wrong does - and it does so in spectacular fashion. ClashMusic brings you DJ Disasters, featuring some of the most respected figures in...
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We Could Go Far: The Sound
On the 18th of May of each year, fans from all over the world make a pilgrimage to the pit of Lancashire known as Macclesfield to pay tribute to Ian Curtis. Coming up to the thirty second year since...
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