Daniel Pemberton: Scoring Steve Jobs
British composer speaks to Clash...With an eclectic list of credits to his name, British composer Daniel Pemberton has rapidly made a name for himself as one of the most exciting musical talents...
View ArticleExperience Is Key: Rabit Interviewed
"I'm playing with the stories and contours that have defined humanity for the past few hundred years."Houston-based Eric Burton a.k.a Rabit grew up between Philly and Jersey, nourished by the golden...
View ArticleA Quick Guide To The Bugged Out Weekender
Featuring Lemmy Ashton, Erol Alkan and Dusky...January is a time for reflection, for slowly easing your way back into working life after the carefree debauchery of the festive season.But the team at...
View ArticleBrick By Brick: Roger Waters Interviewed
Legend discusses new live film, Roger Waters The WallIn 2010, Roger Waters began touring the world’s stages, formidably bringing to life ‘The Wall’, the rock opera that was first introduced in 1979...
View ArticleThe Duke Spirit Review The Singles
"They do their own thing.... which is cool with me."The Duke Spirit are back.One of the great survivors in English indie rock, the band recently went back into the studio, emerging renewed, excited and...
View ArticleNext Wave #669: Emilie & Ogden
Montreal harpist with a sense of the intimate...Emilie Kahn always knew she had music inside her – after all, it was what she studied in her native Montreal. But it was only when the aspiring...
View ArticleAlbum Stream: Ethan Johns - 'Silver Liner'
Super-producer takes a solo bow...Ethan Johns is perhaps best known as a producer – but then, perhaps that's to be expected.After all, his glittering career includes credits on work from Kings Of Leon,...
View ArticleBehind The Scenes: Mercury Prize '15
What really goes on...It’s always strange to suddenly find yourself part of something that you usually watch from the sidelines.As Clash ducks into a side-door of the BBC building for the Mercury...
View ArticleIn Conversation: Vince Staples
"I just want to be an artist..."Vince Staples is a clear example of how defining the individual can lead to something universal. Need some evidence? The rapper is in town for his biggest London show...
View ArticleNext Wave #670: Connie Constance
A raw talent with exciting possibilities...“I'm kind of like, No Fixed Abode on paper.”Connie Constance is nothing if not honest. Delivered with a wry grin, it's clear that she actually relishes the...
View ArticleInvisible Britain: Sleaford Mods On Film
Documentary reveals band's rising success amid UK's growing political dissatisfaction“There is no hope in politics and I have no hope in the structure of control because it’s a fucking comedy club,”...
View ArticleDigital Farm Animals Picks Out Old School Bangers
Each one a party favourite...The first time you hear loud electronic music in a tiny, enclosed space is one of those moments when life changes forever.It's like your first sip of alcohol, your first...
View ArticleExcursions: Talkin' All That Jazz
The continual communion between jazz and hip-hop...The news that the legendary Herbie Hancock has once again hooked up with experimental west coast mainstays Flying Lotus and Thundercat is but only the...
View ArticleGood Trip, Bad Trip: Naytronix
Tales from the road...Nate Brenner is one of American underground music's most recognisable figures.A member of tUnE-yArDs, his own Naytronix project has reached no small degree of acclaim.The...
View ArticleFinding Its Niche: The State Of Bassline
“I don't think it’s come back. I think it’s moved on.”A genre seemingly in a perpetual state of threatening a resurgence, bassline is a curious cultural beast and one that is in many ways similar – in...
View ArticleClash DJ Mix - Branko
Portuguese producer delivers a sensational mix...Lisbon is a port city, an area that is used to continually reaching out to the world.It's led to the Portuguese city developing a unique, extremely...
View ArticleAlbum Stream: Rob Bravery - 'Esque'
Something soulful but definitively modern...Debut albums don't just fall out of the sky - artists spend their entire lives building towards them.So when Rob Bravery began piecing together 'Esque', he...
View ArticleYACHT Review The Singles
"We were raised to only say nice things or nothing at all."YACHT make conceptual pop music.Even at its most arch, its most urbane, the project is still resolutely, definitively pop in almost every...
View ArticleClash DJ Mix - Under The Label x J-Cush
Slick selection from the Lit City Trax boss...A city of 14 million, Shanghai has long had a burgeoning electronic music scene. One example of this being its very own SVBKVLT - a music, clothing and art...
View ArticleIndian Summer: Calvin Johnson Interviewed
Beat Happening, K Records and the future...Interviewing a musician can often be a strange business. A voice so carefully hewn on record can seem remarkably different on the telephone – the curves and...
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