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Angles: Lee Ranaldo
Fuck. I’ve only got twenty minutes on the phone to Lee Ranaldo and the fates have already wasted five by refusing to let my phone connect. Fuck fuck fuck. Mercifully fortune intervenes, and after a...
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Ones To Watch - Patterns
For all its virtues, the Internet has made the task of a band being heard a damn sight harder than it was yesteryear. With the saturation of new music filling the ears and inboxes of labels up and...
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Lost Kids: Blood Red Shoes
Blood Red Shoes are really shooting to kill this time. They’re back with their third album and whilst sitting down for a chat with them in an East London café, it didn’t take long to realise that this...
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Rapture & Verse #9
For the introduction to this month’s Rapture & Verse, we need one of those gristly, blockbuster film voiceovers, because Naba Napalm...is...‘The Love Bullet’. Which may sound like a soft porn...
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Youth Of America - Friends
Welcome to the wonderfully ever-changing world of Friends, a band on the cusp of major success. It’s strange to see them in this specific transition, a small band from Brooklyn that is literally about...
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DJ Disasters: Dan Curtin x Pipes
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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Say You Want A Revolution
Today’s alliances between politics and music often finds artists stopping short of following through on their allegiances, or offering empty lip service to a cause that’s been adopted by the...
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A Letter From... Canada #8
There possibly couldn't be a better time to write a Canadian update for my friends across the pond! After hectic adventures at both South by Southwest Festival and Canadian Music Week in the past...
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Transverse: Carter Tutti Void
Two of the creative lynch-pins behind Throbbing Gristle, Chris Carter and Cosey Fanni Tutti come with a certain degree of history. Electronic pioneers, the pair craft music which is utterly...
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Shirley Manson's Last Day On Earth
How would you spend your last day alive? Shirley Manson from Garbage will be sipping hot chocolate. Where would you like to wake up? In Edinburgh, in my house there. It’s right on the water, so it’s...
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On Returning: Orbital
Orbital come with a certain gravitas. The Hartnoll brothers emerged from the white heat of Rave, helping to define what British electronic music could achieve. Spending the bulk of the 90s swerving...
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Distortion And Delay - Graham Coxon
Fifteen minutes late. Fifteen minutes! Chasing down one side street then another, trying to locate some obscure address which is apparently in London. A twist, then a turn - a right, then a left....
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Health Check: The UK Festival
The British festival season is the most competitive on the planet. Viewed from outer space, there must be times when Britain looks like a tiny island teeming with renovated VW vans breezing from field...
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Eyewitness: Glastonbury '94
In the first instalment of a new series, Orbital's Paul Hartnoll reminisces about the band's iconic performance at Glastonbury '94. - - - I remember seeing The Orb the year before and watching them do...
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Time And Space Machine: Taste The Lazer
For more than two decades, Richard Norris spent his life bending electronic music into extravagant, evocative shapes. Yet when the 21st century finally dawned, the producer found himself pulled back...
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Get Into The Groove: Bob Stanley
The seven inch was electronic engineering’s gift to pop, the perfect format for teenagers – hard to break, portable and it contained around three minutes of music on each side. The long playing album,...
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Dream Festival: Dry The River
With their easy going harmonies and gently strummed acoustic guitars, Dry The River are perfect campfire listening. Set to tear up the festival season this summer, ClashMusic invited the band to take...
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Festival Virginity: Reading 1994
My first festival experience was back in ‘94 at Reading. Having recently left school I was contributing to a number of local magazines and well on the way to becoming the biggest gobshite in the whole...
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Going Solo - Cillian Murphy Interview
There are two mainstays of any interview with Cillian Murphy. The first has been present since he first came to the public’s attention: those two often eulogised distinctive facial features of his....
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Singles Round Up - April 2nd
April fool's eh? THAT WERE A LARF. Whoopie cushions on the couch, pins on the seat and explosive fuses placed in nearby cigarettes. Shame it only lasts until 12... Trudging into work today, I could...
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