Whole Life Story: Passion Pit
Michael Angelakos talks - PLUS, brand new video...Passion Pit were never meant to last this long, to progress this far. Fresh from releasing new album 'Kindred', the project initially began as a...
View ArticleGood Trip, Bad Trip: Hooton Tennis Club
Heavenly newcomers reveal touring tales...Try as it might, Clash can't quite wean itself away from the ideal of the classic seven inch single.It doesn't help, of course, when Hooton Tennis Club are...
View ArticleSPOT Festival Memories
Five of the best sets...From dapper rock to unaccompanied ladies and beats in a rainbow: Denmark’s Spot Festival really mixes it up.Aarhus regular Si Hawkins selects his five favourite shows from the...
View ArticleA Quick Catch Up With Kiasmos
Music that touches your heart and moves your feet...Minimally-inclined Erased Tapes duo Kiasmos have a busy summer ahead with more than 20 gigs scheduled across two different continents planned,...
View ArticleClash DJ Mix - Mungo's Hi Fi
A truly incredible tribute to the rub-a-dub sound...Mungo's Hi Fi is, without putting too fine a point on it, a bit of a remarkable institution.For some time now, one of the loudest, proudest, most...
View ArticlePremiere: A Grave With No Name - 'Feathers Wet, Under The Moon'
Listen to it now...Alexander Shields has been making music for some time now.A spectral presence on London's music scene, the songwriter has largely chosen to release material under his A Grave With No...
View ArticlePlaylist: Tess Parks
Picking her favourite Anton Newcombe cuts...Anton Newcombe and Tess Parks are a perfect pairing.Deeply individual artists, both are from North America – one from California, one from Toronto – with...
View ArticleGraham Parker Reviews The Singles
"Get rid of these producers, people..."Graham Parker's career spans the decades.Already an angry young man when punk was in its infancy, the songwriter scored numerous barbed, subversive hits as the...
View ArticleIn Conversation: Death And Vanilla
Reclusive Swedes talk cinema and psychedelia...There's been a buzz about Death And Vanilla ever since their fantastically eerie self-titled EP arrived in 2010.The Swedish trio (originally a duo,...
View ArticleInfluences: Nosaj Thing
From DJ Rashad to silence...Nosaj Thing– real name Jason Chung – first began catching wider attention some six years ago.A producer loosely linked to the Low End Theory coterie – itself governed more...
View ArticleWhile We're Young: Adam Horovitz
Acting, production and the legacy of Beastie Boys...Adam Horovitz has always been a man of many talents.After all, the Beastie Boys rapper has spent his life creating art – musical or otherwise – and...
View ArticlePremiere: Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes - 'Rotten' EP
Plus: check out a track-by-track guide...Frank Carter remains deeply, furiously independent.As the frontman of Gallows, the singer helped push a uniquely UK-centric hardcore vision into the Top 40....
View ArticleEverything Everything Review The Singles
From Pulled Apart By Horses to Snoop Dogg...Critics often dwell on the more cerebral moments in Everything Everything's music.It's true, the Manchester group embark on twists and turns that few other...
View ArticleClash DJ Mix - Submotion Orchestra
Crafted for the tenth anniversary of Farmfest...Ten years is a long time.Ten years ago the inaugural instalment of Farmfest kicked off, an ad hoc party which started for friends and became an...
View ArticleScoring Birdman: Antonio Sánchez
Behind one of the year's finest soundtracks...With its bold, frenetic drum score, few films released in the past twelve months have been blessed with soundtrack work quite as unique and cliché free as...
View ArticleAlbum Stream: Crocodiles - 'Boys'
Check it out now...Crocodiles have always thrived on a stripped down template.A band formed by just two people, their enticing noise-pop veers from shoegaze to punk and back again.New album 'Boys' will...
View ArticleAlbum Stream: Barbarossa - 'Imager'
Listen to it now...Barbarossa has been a singular but never solitary figure on the British music scene for some time.The chosen alter ego of James Mathé, the project matches his high, keening yet...
View ArticleBlur: The Complete Guide
Each album explored...As Blur - one of Britain’s finest bands - release their first album in twelve years, Clash thought it was the ideal time to take a jog round and round their wondrous back...
View ArticleIn Conversation: Throwing Shade
Ethnomusicology, production and more...‘Honeytrap ft. Emily Bee’ - the lead video from Throwing Shade’s‘Fate Xclusive’ EP - roars with vibrant reds, making a very clear statement.London-based artist...
View ArticleFoundations: Tyondai Braxton
Left field figure reveals his influences...Tyondai Braxton is almost continually creative.The Guggenheim Museum in New York invited the musician to compose a series of pieces for an installation named...
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