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Faith Unfolds: S.C.U.M.
Bringing doomy, trippy atmospherics straight from the darkest depths of Whitechapel – S.C.U.M. are a band that only operate in widescreen. With the release of their latest ‘Again Into Eyes’, this...
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Rapture & Verse #6
Happy New Year to all Rapture & Verse followers, volume six looking to make some predictions as to who’ll blow up across the coming months and hoping to avoid miserable failure as the R&V...
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Ones To Watch: Catherine AD
Real name Catherine Anne Davies, Catherine A.D. has been on our radar for some time now. An unusual talent, Catherine A.D.'s evocative voice wraps itself around songwriting that often verges on the...
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A Letter From... Northern Ireland #6
So 2012 is upon us and if you believe the hype this is the year of the rapture and the world's going to end… but on a positive note at least we have a jolly good old amount of exciting new music to...
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The Killing Kind - Beth Jeans Houghton
Beth Jeans Houghton And The Hooves Of Destiny will steal your hearts. Given the chance, they’ll come back for the rest of you. Beth Jeans Houghton is talking about her obsession with crazed Sixties...
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Singles Round Up - January 2nd
So that was 2011... Bloody hell, eh? Political disturbances across the globe, the increased splintering of popular culture and the biggest scandal to hit British mass media in a generation. Oh, and...
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In The Studio: Liars
Liars don't so much take risks as implement enormous - impossible to predict - stylistic diversions. Placed on shuffle, the band's back catalogue moves from Freak Folk to punishing, near Industrial...
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Their Library: La Shark
According to legend, if a shark stops swimming it will die. Which perhaps explains the forward motion behind La Shark. London indie newcomers, the release of 'Magazine Cover' on shiny 45 back in...
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Given To The Wild: The Maccabees
It’s been a long time coming. The Maccabees first appeared on our radar almost five years ago, fresh faced young tykes with perfect pop songs seeping out of each pore. Yet for all their obvious...
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Tech Know - January 2012
Tech Know looks at the gadgets and gizmos that make our lives easier, this month we look at the HTC Sensation XL smart phone, the Olympus LS-100 audio recorder, the Pioneer X-SMC3 air play enabled...
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Icky Mettle: Archers Of Loaf
In retrospect it was a mistake to ask Eric Bachmann his favourite colour. He and his band have been stuck on the M5 all afternoon, and from the moment we meet, it’s clear that incremental boredom is...
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Singles Round Up - January 9th
So the New Year begins as the old one left off: with extreme weather. The ClashMusic office have had it tough these past few months, dodging objects tumbling from the sky in near hurricane conditions....
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Ones To Watch - Alt J
Leeds quartet (pronounced Alt-J, after the shortcut keystroke for the delta sign on an Apple computer) aren’t just a cryptic name. There is an unerring confidence in a band that have been developing...
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Reggae & Dancehall #3
Wondering what's in store for Reggae & Dancehall in 2012? Reshma B does some predicting... IN THE NEWS It's 50 YEARS OF JAMAICAN INDEPENDENCE this year and there's sure to be lots going on, trust...
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I Predict... Bass Culture Further Relaxes Its Form
“Predicting the future of music is never easy. Discussion relating to UK underground dance music this year has, from my perspective, focused almost entirely on an apparent stylistic fragmentation and...
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I Predict...The Continued Reformatting Of Protest Music
“Ever since the late summer 2011, the veteran pop politician Billy Bragg has been busy extolling young musicians to engage more with politics. And from YouTube raps against the NHS reforms to the...
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I Predict...The Inevitable Britpop Revival
“I fought in the Britpop Wars. Remember that. I fought so The Libertines could wear military jackets. So The Strokes could act bored and wear skinny jeans. So guitars bands could get songs on mobile...
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Introducing... Golden Grrrls
“Well we all love pop music, I think we've all grown up appreciating melodic music and it’s something we enjoy doing as a band. We all listen to a lot of different stuff but when we're all together,...
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Electric Selection - The Forecast
Every January we scatter old bones across a dancefloor and slaughter a raver for their fresh blood to thus determine who’ll be colouring our dance floors. Last year we were talking about L-Vis 1990,...
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A Letter From... Scotland #6
It’s the year that the Mayans earmarked for the apocalypse. Whichever your take on this prophecy, this year has already brought us ‘bracing’ hurricane winds and the release of a film about Margaret...
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