No Comprende: The Return Of Low
Alan Sparhawk in conversation...Low are – to borrow John Peel’s famous phrase about The Fall – always different and yet always the same. The group have spent two decades ploughing a lone furrow, the...
View ArticleGlobal Reach: TĀLĀ
Behind the new 'MALIKA' project...TĀLĀ has never been content to sit in one place. Both as an artist and as a person the London singer has pushed herself into new time zones, new avenues of...
View ArticleDreamily Yours: Dan Auerbach
“It's something that we've built over the years...”Dan Auerbach has been involved in music for almost two decades now. The singer/guitarist has helped steer ramshackle blues two-piece The Black Keys to...
View ArticleAlbum Stream: Motion City Soundtrack - 'Panic Stations'
Check it out now...Motion City Soundtrack have released five studio albums across a fifteen year career.Put simply: the Minneapolis band know what they're doing. The title of new album 'Panic Stations'...
View ArticleNext Wave #654: Hinds
Ludicrously infectious garage pop from Madrid...“It's funny because we started Hinds because we wanted to. We had the idea of doing a band – then we just did it.”As master plans go, the formation of...
View ArticleIn Conversation: Alvvays
Clash catches up with Molly Rankin...Both literally and figuratively Alvvays have come a long way.Only 12 months ago the band were virtual unknowns, plying a fine line in C86 inspired indie pop with...
View ArticleGood Trip, Bad Trip: PINS
Manchester girl gang talk touring tales...PINS are a gang, a tight knit unit forged by days, weeks and months on the road.Recording their second album 'Wild Nights' out by the Joshua Tree in the...
View ArticlePlaylist: Shannon And The Clams
Way out rock 'n' roll gems...Shannon And The Clams represent the spirit of rock 'n' roll, the re-animated corpse of doo wop jivin' down by the candy store.Blessed with outrageous energy levels and more...
View ArticleBig Gold Dream: Lost Gems Of Scottish Post-Punk
Hand-picked by director Grant McPhee...The late 70s were an astonishingly strange time to be both young and Scottish.Punk had washed against the nation's edges, but – thanks to conservative (with a...
View ArticleIn Conversation: Lou Barlow
“I like that people think I’m prolific, but I’m not.”When Clash calls Lou Barlow, lo-fi legend of Dinosaur Jr. and Sebadoh, sound-tracker to perhaps the most gritty film ever, Kids, he’s in the middle...
View ArticleRevolution Grrrl Style: Bikini Kill
The defining moments from the Riot Grrrl pioneers...Pioneers of the female front, Bikini Kill, return with the re-release of ‘Revolution Girl Style Now’ later this month.Unashamedly provocative and...
View ArticleAlbum Premiere: Roseau - 'Salt'
Stream the Big Dada signing's debut in full. For some people, music is totally ingrained in them from childhood. Big Dada newcomer Roseau is no exception, having been raised on a diet of story-songs...
View ArticleConstructive Mayhem: Logan Sama talks FABRICLIVE
Grime legend on the new wave of MCs...To anyone with grime on their radar, Logan Sama needs no introduction.From his early days as a pirate radio DJ, to his spell as the curator of the underground on...
View ArticleBenga, Mental Health And Supporting Young Artists
As the dubstep pioneer faces up to his demons...Life on the road is, for many, an absolute dream. A different city every night, with flights criss-crossing different countries, even entire continents....
View ArticleClash DJ Mix - Cosmin TRG
Berlin-based producer teases his fabric set...Romanian-born and Berlin-based, Cosmin TRG has enjoyed a whimsical, decade-long career in electronic music.Releasing material on everyone from Hessle Audio...
View ArticleAlbum Stream: Aphrohead - 'Resurrection'
Felix Stallings returns to his techno monikor...Felix Stallings has spent more than two decades blasting back the boundaries of electronic music.Perhaps more readily known as Felix Da Housecat, the...
View ArticleTalkin' About Heart And Soul: Otis Redding
‘Otis Blue’, and the making of a supernova...Rome, we are assured, was not built in a day, but over the course of 24 hours across one hot and humid July weekend in 1965, Otis Redding put to tape what...
View ArticleAlbum Stream: Casually Here - 'Kept'
Check it out now...Nic Nell's work could well be familiar to you already.After all, the London-based artist operates as one half of Rainer, as well as one half of Young Colossus. Always eager to...
View ArticleIn Conversation: Little Simz
The resolute independence of a true star...The afternoon I arrive in East London, Little Simz is in the midst of a come down. Drop 4, the concluding chapter of her Age 101 EP series was uploaded to her...
View ArticleGood Trip, Bad Trip: Prides
Stewart Brock writes for Clash...Prides don't really fit into any one bracket or pigeon-hole – so the band carved one out for themselves.Maintaining a near relentless touring schedule, the Scottish...
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