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Wu-Tang Clan - The 10 Laws Of Shaolin, Part 2
“We had to defeat the greats to be greats ourselves…”We re-join rap legends Wu-Tang Clan as they discuss how the 10 laws of Shaolin apply to their daily lives and on-going career, 20 years on from...
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Rapture & Verse #26
The latest hip-hop happenings, rounded up, for your pleasure…Rapture & Verse’s Question Time roundtable starts with the obvious: how about that wee Kendrick Lamar chap, eh? Flaming all and sundry...
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Culture Clash: Panic! At The Disco
Frontman Brendon Urie talks Breaking Bad...Culture Clash is the little corner of this here little website-cum-magazine-cum-bleedin’-app-thing that we call home where we ask bands – or, usually,...
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7 Of The Best: Debut Rap Tracks Of 1993
Clash goes back to '93, finds singles to spin 'til infinity...Clash has been feeling nostalgic of late. If we’re not dipping into our grunge collection, inspired by recently published pieces on Pearl...
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Twenty One Pilots Review The Singles
With tracks by Kanye West, Haim and Royal Canoe...Clearly we’re having something of an accidental Fueled By Ramen moment here on Clash, with coverage of Panic! At The Disco and Paramore preceding this...
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Sky Larkin's Five Mottos To Live By
Must-follow rules from the Leeds outfit…Leeds indie lovelies Sky Larkin are back with a new album right now, you know. It’s called ‘Motto’, is their third long-player overall, and comes via the...
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Polaris Music Prize 2013: The Award Profiled
Godspeed wins the top gong in Canada…September 23rd saw the eighth annual Polaris Music Prize awarded to Godspeed You! Black Emperor (pictured), for their album ‘Allelujah! Don’t Bend! Ascend!’ You can...
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Personality Clash: Chlöe Howl x Melanie C
The spicy newcomer meets a proper Spice Girl...Personality Clash is where we, Clash, pop one artist down with another and basically listen in on what they’re gassing about. It’s sort of like stalking,...
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They Don't Know: So Solid Crew
Megaman dissects the crucial UK collective...So Solid Crew are explicitly bound up in a time, a place, and a culture. Springing from London’s labyrinthine network of pirate radio stations at the turn...
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Sound Of Shockers: The Next-Hypes Who Haven't
The BBC list's less-impressive inclusions...Every year, the BBC’s Sound of (whatever year it is) list sets industry brains buzzing – from festival bookers and new band editors to publishing departments...
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Foundations: Ian Rankin
Prolific crime writer guides Clash through his musical inspirations...Music runs like an invisible thread throughout many of Ian Rankin’s books. Clash enjoyed an illuminating conversation with the...
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Next Wave #534: FTSE
With imperfection comes a singular attraction...FTSE plays Clash's free-entry EASTnotEAST event on November 14th, with Javeon and Barnaby, at Birthdays, Dalston, London – click here for information and...
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Clash DJ Mix - NYPC
Deliciously deep disco mix...With a few notable exceptions, losing things is usually bad. But when New Young Pony Club recently lost the four cumbersome words that made up their moniker and trimmed...
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John Newman: Settle For Nothing
Clash speaks to the number-one pop newcomer of 2013…Life’s been tough since the recession struck. Many of us have lost savings, or houses, or the ability to shop at Waitrose, whatever… We’ve all faced...
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Ten Years On: Jay Z's 'The Black Album'
The repercussions of the rapper’s career high…‘The Black Album’, released on November 14th, 2003, still matters. Look back at the last decade’s roster of hip-hop heavyweights and its maker, Brooklyn...
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Reggae & Dancehall #26
Lil' Kim does something, so obviously we're posting her freaky face here...The latest reggae and dancehall word(s), as told by our resident expert Reshma B...- - -NEWS Ali Campbell, founder and lead...
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Rapture & Verse #27
Hip-hop, we rarely stop. Except when the lino’s worn through…Matt Oliver never rhymes for the sake of riddlin’…- - -Rapture & Verse will never question what side KRS-One’s bread is buttered. The...
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Young Knives Review The Singles
The House Of Lords call time on JT...Another week, another fresh batch of new tracks on the slab, ready for dissection by a guest reviewer (or some). This week: returning indie-pop champions Young...
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Life At 140 #15
Grime scenes, one month at a time…Tomas Fraser with the latest…- - -In the wake of September’s ironically uniting war dub fortnight, a producer clash that drew interest from virtually every corner of...
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Five Points For Mercury Prize Reform
Because we’d rather it was changed than laid to rest…At the time of writing, the winning album of the 2013 Mercury Prize is sitting at 87 in the UK albums chart. That’s 74 places lower than James...
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