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Open Season
2012. not just another year. In the five years since 2007, the ticker tape dropping in ecstatic bursts on Trafalgar Square, David Beckham and Dame Kelly Holmes and Lord Seb Coe beaming in...
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Tragicomedies: Rudi Zygadlo
Aside from creating an eloquent midway house between baroque, Eastern Europe and electronic music, Rudi Zygadlo is also a fervent reader. The Scottish musician, who now plies his trade in Berlin, has...
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July 2012 - A Quick Guide
So that was July. Record rainfall, yet more financial turmoil... oh, and the greatest sporting ceremony on Earth came to London. While all this was going on, the Clash team were busy sifting through...
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Bugging The Bandwidths - Animal Collective
We’re getting psychedelic in our lunch-hour with Animal Collective. Walking around the Barbican with Avey Tare, Geologist, Panda Bear and Deakin, it’s good to see all four members of this porous...
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A Letter From... Wales #4
Everybody likes an A to Z, so here’s one of Welsh bands and artists. They’re mostly current but the occasional bit of poetic licence may have been used in timings and letters (X anyone?). A – Al Lewis...
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Classic Albums: Big Brother & the Holding Company - Cheap Thrills
There’s a moment, three songs into ‘Cheap Thrills’, when Janis Joplin’s voice practically breaks in two. It’s at the start of their cover of George Gershwin’s ‘Summertime’, when she utters that...
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A Love Supreme: Lianne La Havas
“It was quiet,” says Lianne La Havas. “I was definitely less busy.” Clash has caught a few minutes with the 22-year-old singer-songwriter and we’ve asked how her life had changed in the past 12...
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Have A Go: Swindle
With releases on both Butterz and Mala's legendary Deep Medi imprint, recent collaborations with Silkie, Footsie, Toddla T and Sam Frank and a newly christened weekly show on Rinse FM, South London's...
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Culture Clash - Toddla T
The Sheffield decksmith’s ‘WatCh Me Dance’ album has been ‘Agitated' by his local dj heroes, Ross Orton and Pipes. Here are T’s other favourite things: BOOK “Now, I don’t really read unless I’m on...
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Private Passions - Angel
R&B hombre Angel shares his enthusiasm for the Discovery Channel. "I love the Discovery Channel and more specifically the programmes that come on Discovery Channel. You’ve got things like 48...
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King Of Queens - The Hip-Hop Hype Of Remy Banks
From the hustler mentality of 50 Cent to the political leanings of Pharoahe Monch, Queens, New York has been home to some of hip-hop’s greatest MCs. Nicki Minaj seems to be the current reigning champ...
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A Celebration: Jamaican Independence
It’s hard to overstate the impact that Jamaican musicians have had on popular culture. Simply put: the songwriting techniques, the studio techniques, the sheer attitude which lies underneath some of...
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Family: The Cast Of Cheers
There’s some slightly dubious terminology being banded about surrounding The Cast Of Cheers’ latest album, ‘Family’. The album is being almost universally referred to as the band’s first ‘proper’...
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Ones To Watch - Piff Gang
Dressed head to toe in vintage Polo and modern streetwear, Piff Gang are putting their own swag on UK hip-hop. Released last month, their third mixtape, ‘Plant Life’, saw the world through glazed, red...
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DJ Disasters: Dogtanion
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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Straight Outta Compton - The All Seeing Eyes Of Kendrick Lamar
Like a religious zealot waiting for the second coming, hip-hop has been waiting for Kendrick Lamar. Emerging quietly from the shadows of the hip-hop giants who came before him, the Compton native is...
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Introducing... fiN.
Funny thing, transcribing. Listening back to this recording, I can hear cars rush by outside the Lexington, the odd siren interrupting a Thursday evening conversation. In between, though, I can hear...
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Artist Profile: Shed
Nope, not another generic term for something house but not quite garage. Shed, for the uninitiated, is a Berlin-resident named Rene Pawlowitz. However, the personification of a genre he may as well...
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Soulsavers Pt. 1: Rich Machin
They die but they live. - Frank Stanford, 'The Light The Dead See', 1991 Rich Machin from Soulsavers is perturbed. "I am trying to tidy up my studio at the moment. I can't see the floor in here," he...
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Swan Song - Kaiser Chiefs' Ricky Wilson
How would you spend your last day? Kaiser Chief Ricky Wilson will be mucking about on boats. Where would you like to wake up? My house by the sea to the sound of ropes pinging against boat masts and...
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