Rolo Tomassi Talk Relationship Of Command
Sheffield act’s James Spence on first encounters with At The Drive-In…At The Drive-In’s ‘Acrobatic Tenement’ and ‘Relationship Of Command’ albums have recently been reissued by Transgressive, on both...
View ArticleThe Weekly Mix Round Up - April 26th
The latest breaking music...It’s Friday and – for the past week, at least – Britain has been bathing in some curious weather.Sun is pouring out of an empty sky, and the Clash team is busy finding a...
View ArticleRock And Rules - Steve Cropper
Guitar legend and Stax Records mainstayGuitar legend and Stax Records mainstay Steve Cropper suggests how to stay a successful Soul man.BE A BAND PLAYER I’ve always been a band player - band meaning a...
View ArticleSingles Round Up – April 29th
Dutch Uncles are in the reviewer’s seat…A brilliantly quirky and unmistakably British band rightly on the ascent, Dutch Uncles is one of those acts Clash has been pleased to chart the progress of for...
View ArticleNew Brooklyn: DyMe-A-DuZiN
Clash meets the rising New York rapper as he jets into the UK…New York City, the birthplace of this musical and cultural monster we call hip-hop, has been enjoying a renaissance of late.But while MCs...
View ArticleOTW #497: Bishop Nehru
Sweet 16 with a smooth flow, Clash meets the rising teen rapper...New York’s Beast Coast scene – collecting the likes of DyMe-A-DuZiN, Flatbush Zombies, The Underachievers and Joey Bada$$– is as...
View ArticleConfessions Of A Fence Jumper
How to get your Glasto kicks for freeGlastonbury is the Holy Grail of all festivals and it knows it. The organizers charge over £200 for a ticket and that’s if you’re lucky enough to get one....
View ArticleStream: Arcane Roots - Blood & Chemistry
Listen to it now...Britain doesn't do rock music, not really.It's an art form best practised by our American cousins, whose ability to surrender themselves to the power chord far exceeds that dry...
View ArticleClash Premiere: ATP TVOTR Mixtape
Hear the bands playing the TV On The Radio-curated festival…Clash is heading to All Tomorrow’s Parties at Camber Sands for their TV On The Radio-curated bill of May 10th-12th.And ahead of us landing in...
View ArticleDecoding Boards Of Canada
Where next after their RSD mystery? Clash speculates…Michael Sandison and Marcus Eoin are notorious for exploiting the cavernous depths of the human imagination.For over two decades the pair has...
View ArticleOTW #498: Beatrice Eli
Scandi-pop with a dark, R&B heart...“I want to be the badass daughter of Jackie Brown,” proclaims Stockholm’s Beatrice Eli. “She’s über confident,” Eli continues, outlining her admiration for the...
View ArticleClash Premiere: Still Corners - Strange Pleasures
Plus: read their track-by-track guide...Of course, it was never supposed to be this way.Still Corners began almost by accident, a success story which owed a debt to the kinetic pace of the internet....
View ArticleTrack-By-Track: Daft Punk - Random Access Memories
Clash’s Matthew Bennett previews the most-hyped album of 2013…I’m poised. I’m psyched. And I’m worried.Daft Punk always tweak the global nipples of anticipation. Ever since 2001’s ‘Discovery’ they’ve...
View ArticleLabel Profile: Arts & Crafts
"I do believe we came up in a golden age for Canadian music..."There is an argument that the internet has diluted the importance of the record label, that the ability to self finance, self release has...
View ArticleTop Ten Def Jams
To mark LL Cool J’s new album, Clash lists 10 of Def Jam’s best…The story of Def Jam Records is almost a reflection of the culture that it has substantially enhanced over the past three decades.Founded...
View ArticlePreview: The Independent Label Market, LA
Clash speaks to IAMSOUND, Delicious Vinyl and more ahead of LA's ILM...The Independent Label Market (ILM) in London is a well-known affair, a farmer’s market for real music where you get to speak to...
View ArticleTV On The Radio ATP: Preview Part One
With Death Grips, El-P, Dark Dark Dark, Antibalas and Dragons Of Zynth...In the first of two preview pieces profiling some of the act playing the forthcoming TV On The Radio-curated All Tomorrow’s...
View ArticleWayne’s World At 21
Party time (to move out of your parents' basement)…If you grew up in the late 1980s or early 1990s, and drank in the music and surrounding culture of the time, there’s every chance that Wayne’s World...
View ArticleClashMusic DJ Mix Podcast - Walls
...ethereal electronic excellenceTreat your ears to some ethereal electronic excellence in this week’s Clash DJ podcast, served up by the awesome Walls, a production duo better placed than most to feed...
View ArticleOTW #499: East India Youth
Experimental pop courtesy of a former indie frontman...East India Youth is the alias of Bethnal Green-based 22–year-old producer William Doyle. His recent debut EP, ‘Hostel’, was issued by The Quietus...
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