Foundations: Les Claypool of Primus
Bass legend on five essential LPs…A living legend in American underground rock, Les Claypool has helped lead Primus astray for three decades.Venturing from funk-rock to avant climes, serious...
View ArticleBack It Up: Ghost Writerz Interviewed
Tru Thoughts signings speak to Clash...A new project, Ghost Writerz - Harry 'Sleepy Time Ghost' Metcalfe and Jason 'Jimmy Screech' Bradshaw - already have a lifetime of music behind them.Rolling with...
View ArticleGood Times, Bad Times: Jimmy Page In Pictures
An audience with the Led Zeppelin guitarist…There are certain members of rock royalty whose prospects for an autobiography seem a little optimistic. That Keith Richards managed to recollect anything...
View Article7 Of The Best: Record Labels Of 2014
Some of our favourites from the year…We all have our favourite record labels, houses of aural excellence that we feel a connection with, whose catalogue we’ve come to trust. Don’t we? Perhaps, in this...
View ArticleThe Clash Film Column: A Sort Of Seventh Heaven
Star Wars, basically…Have you seen it? Peeled yourself off the ceiling?- - -That was the week in which...The first teaser trailer for Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens went live. THANKSGIVING...
View ArticleMike Shannon's Five Years Of Love Mix
A “cheeky yet serious” concoction...Deep techno-head Mike Shannon takes it down a gear for his exclusive Clash DJ mix, finding his Sunday afternoon shuffle. Or as he puts it, “tripping into the...
View ArticleJames Bay Reviews The Singles
Covering Royal Blood, Hozier and George Maple…If you’d not heard of James Bay a couple of weeks ago, chances are you have now. Nods in both the BRIT Critics’ Choice and BBC Sound Of have set the young...
View ArticlePremiere: Wilco - 'Alpha Mike Foxtrot'
Well, Disc Two...Wilco are - almost undoubtedly - an institution.The ferociously independent American band helped to pioneer and define what would become known as alt country, continually expanding...
View ArticleThe Top 100 Albums Of Clash's Lifetime: 70-61
Getting nearer the business end…Clash was born in 2004. To celebrate our 10th anniversary, and imminent 100th issue, we’re counting down the top 100 albums that pretty much everything we do is based...
View ArticleThe Best Albums Of November 2014
Choice long-players, from the likes of Dean Blunt and DELS…The best albums of November 2014, go…(Click the covers to scroll through them.)- - -DELS – ‘Petals Have Fallen’ (Big Dada, released November...
View ArticleRising From The Concrete Jungle: Lion Babe Interviewed
Collaborating with some of the finest…Jillian Hervey and Lucas Goodman have grins spread all over their faces. And not only because they’re standing in a members club in the middle of a circle of...
View ArticleThe Top 100 Albums Of Clash's Lifetime: 60-51
Finishing off the first 50…Clash was born in 2004. To celebrate our 10th anniversary, and imminent 100th issue, we’re counting down the top 100 albums that pretty much everything we do is based on....
View ArticlePulp Fiction: Through The Valley Of Darkness
The morality of Tarantino’s classic…To coincide with the 20th Anniversary Collector’s Edition of Pulp Fiction, we revisit Quentin Tarantino’s 1994 classic. There are spoilers– obviously – but it’s not...
View ArticlePersonality Clash: Thurston Moore vs Viv Albertine
Two punk icons, one Neil Young...Now based in London, Thurston Moore is a long-standing underground musician whose new solo record on Matador, ‘The Best Day’ (review), delivered on its promise to kick...
View ArticleClash DJ Mix - The Emperor Machine
Probably the freakiest, raviest, acid-drenched disco K-hole you’ll ever come across...Disco? It’s all about flares, cheesy funk and mirror balls, right? Err, no, actually, as you’ll hear when The...
View ArticleModerate Rock #3: The Month In Metal And More
It’s been a rough November…November was not a kind month for metal. In fact, it was downright horrid. It’s as if the year was holding back an existential sinus of bad news, waiting to blast it all out...
View ArticleThe Clash Film Column: Shaken, Stirred, Speculating
There’s a new Bond coming…Ghostly goings on in the Bond camp? Everything is almost certainly not what it seems…- - -That was the week in which...Details of the next James Bond film were...
View Article7 Of The Best: Single Reviews Of 2014
From our guest critics…Most Mondays, Clash hosts a singles column where we get a musician to cover a selection of newly released tracks. Look here, a bloody great archive of said pieces. With the...
View ArticlePlaylist: The Pictish Trails's Winter Home Disco
An alternative Christmas concoction...Cuddly, bearded, whimsical and capable of pulling at your heart strings like few others, The Pictish Trail has had an enjoyable 2014.The genial Scottish songwriter...
View ArticleFar Eastern Promises: On Netflix's Marco Polo
Lorenzo Richelmy heads a new TV heavyweight… Netflix’s new original series Marco Polo is one of the most expensive shows in history. Clash meets Lorenzo Richelmy, the newcomer tasked with playing the...
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