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Obsession Sessions
Looking back, it was probably a good thing that Michael Jackson died. Not for Michael, obviously - bad day at the office - but it definitely did Dan Wright a favour, even if he wouldn’t agree. Wright...
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Balance Beam - Matthew Dear
“I try to make pop music, no doubt about that, but it’s coming through a weird little warped lens,” Dear tells Clash. “It’s one-part chameleon, one-part intuition, figuring it out on my own. I dunno,...
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Cosmic Bridge: Om Unit
Jim Coles’ genesis into the world of wonkily moving basslines and dub-worshipping drum patterns was more quietly substantial than most. An oxymoron maybe, but his remix of Joker’s headjerker,...
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This Piece Of Mind: Two Door Cinema Club
Hard bleedin’ graft, mate. That’s what Two Door Cinema Club owe their success to. For almost 18 months the band practically glued themselves to their tour bus, travelling around the world countless...
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Ones To Watch - Ryat
These days the word ‘artist’ is a prosaic makeshift for any junior that can strum a half-decent A-major chord. However, with FlyLo’s latest signing to his Brainfeeder posse of leftfield chieftains in...
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Folk Hero Schtick: Yeasayer
Throughout my interview with Yeasayer's fidgety, restless Chris Keating, he namechecks a pefectly-formed list of influences that range from kosmische pioneers Popol Vuh, post-punk groups like Gang Of...
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In The Works - Darkstar
Somewhere deep in the pennines, the progressive trio that is Darkstar are mulling over the final one percent of their second album in an old Victorian gentleman’s residence. Despite being a tad more...
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A Letter From... Northern Ireland #10
The summer months have gone and we are now looking to the new autumn releases, along with the weird and wonderful things that have been happening all over Northern Ireland this summer. First up lets...
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Artist Profile: Beneath
Whilst funky house rots away in a cemetery of similarly deceased genres, a newer and fresher sibling preens its predecessor’s grave with scoops of newfound drum patterns and old school dubstep....
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DJ Disasters: Kasket
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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Reggae & Dancehall #11
The Month's Goings-On In Dancehall and Reggae... NEWS Boy, what a month! With the JA Jubilee celebrations still ringing in people’s ears a well-deserved congrats to Jamaica for breaking the world...
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Write On - Simon Raymonde
Ex-Cocteau Twin SIMON RAYMONDE presents his personal diatribe, ‘Video May Have Killed The Radio Star (But Now Everyone’s Dead What Shall We Do?)’ "Seventy-five years ago, one single radio show caused...
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The Seer Returns: Swans
Swans are just about to release their 12th studio album: The Seer. It’s one of the most uncompromising, yet accessible records of their 30-odd year career. Just four hours before he was due to set off...
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Their Library: Karine Polwart
Scotland has a rich, strong, diverse literary tradition. It's a lineage which touches on almost every area of Scottish life, with those tender, beautiful phrases impacting on visual arts, education,...
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Who's Bad? - Michael Jackson's Classic Album At 25
Behind closed doors in his home studio, twenty-seven year-old Michael Jackson began meticulously working on ‘Bad’ - the follow-up to the biggest-selling album of all time, ‘Thriller’. It was 1985, and...
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Berberian Sound Studio - Toby Jones Interview
One of the year’s most deliciously offbeat films, Berberian Sound Studio sees sound producer Gilderoy travel to Italy to work on The Equestrian Vortex, an archetypal giallo movie in the traditions of...
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Ones To Watch - Funeral Suits
These four Dubliners aren’t lacking in passion: “It’s hard for ordinary people to understand that this is our fucking life. It’s not whowe are, it’s whatwe are,” says multi-instrumentalist Brian...
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Victim Culture: Gallows
There are many things a band cannot survive, one of them being the loss of a frontman. The lead singer, in essence, is the embodiment of the band; a prominent figure that leads the interviews, holds...
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Swings And Roundabouts - Metronomy
Fresh from Coldplay’s U.S. tour, Metronomy are finely honed for festival season. Here main man Joseph Mount recalls the rocky road to success. The Best Gig I Ever Played “Probably one of the first. I...
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A Letter From... Liverpool #6
Greetings comrades! The late summer sun pours forth its resplendent glory, reflecting off the computer screen and making it irritatingly difficult to see what we’ve just typed, but minor quibbles...
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