Out Now: Clash Meets M.I.A.
Our latest issue explored...From last month’s jaunt to the vibrant plant Pop we’ve careered to the periphery of music’s vast universe to uncover more outsiders and edgy agitators intent on penetrating...
View ArticleZed Bias's Best-Ever Remixes
Selecting some outstanding examples of the art…Zed Bias is a name that means so much to dance music – particularly the domestic garage scene, within which it is probably fair to call him a...
View ArticleM.I.A.: Shifting To A Higher Ground
Clash speaks to the ever-inspirational artist…If M.I.A. actually was a super heroine, she’d rarely hit the crime scene on time. She’s nearly two hours late for Clash’s four-hour cover shoot (check the...
View ArticleSpotlight: Snoop Doggy Dogg - 'Doggystyle'
20 years of the D-O-double-G…Although officially credited as Snoop Dogg’s debut album, November 1993’s ‘Doggystyle’ was by no means the first time Calvin Broadus Jr’s voice was heard by the masses. His...
View ArticleSame Coin, Two Sides: Clash Meets Jonwayne
Stones Throw artist on balancing beats and rhymes…Initially coming across more like an unenthusiastic videogame store employee than the creator of one of the year’s best rap albums, it doesn't come as...
View ArticleClash DJ Mix - Pink Skull
It’s all about the acid-washed ghost-rave...It’s all about the acid-washed ghost-rave in today’s Clash mix, from shape-shifting electronic outfit Pink Skull.Pink Skull is one of those delightfully...
View ArticleThe Most Disappointing Albums Of 2013
Because we can’t be happy all of the time…Before Clash gets into the business of celebrating 2013’s finest albums – which we’ll be doing soon– we’re taking five to reflect on some of the albums that,...
View ArticleClash Reviews The Singles (Of November 25)
PAPA, but no Nicole to be heard preaching...Usually there’s a guest reviewer here. Someone from the pop world, plonked down with a bunch of tracks we’ve sent them, spewing words on why said songs are...
View ArticleKnow The Score: The Music Of Grand Theft Auto V
Plus! Win amazing GTA V goodies…“Rockstar gives the composer full creative freedom to make pure timeless music,” divulges Woody Jackson, one of the composers involved in producing the stem-based score...
View ArticleNext Wave #535: Sam Smith
A few streets away from being a household name...The word ‘pop’ used to conjure images of pencil-thin microphones, squalls of dry ice and terrible Technicolor swaying excused as dancing.But time has...
View ArticleNext Wave #536: Foxes
More than a mere blip on the pop radar…Born Louisa Rose Allen in Southampton, the 23-year-old singer who goes by the moniker of Foxes has already won America’s hearts and dancefloors with a song by...
View ArticleFoundations: Robert Glasper
Grammy-winner on his most inspirational LPs...Foundations is Clash’s series uncovering the albums that make our favourite artists tick – the records that have influenced them in ways that others...
View ArticleNext Wave Special: Ja Ja Ja Festival
Profiling the best new Nordic music…Nordic music currently has London locked in a bit of a pincer movement, much like the Red Army did to the Nazis at Stalingrad back in the freezing winter of ‘42....
View ArticleClash DJ Mix - Optimo's JG Wilkes
A very special vinyl-only mix...Classic, killer club sounds from Glasgow’s finest today, as Optimo’s JG Wilkes tears it up with a solid-as, vinyl-only mix.Back in 1997 JG (Jonnie) Wilkes and JD Twitch...
View ArticleClash DJ Mix - Jamie Blanco
Defected Records DJ creates promo mix for Never Alone event Jamie Blanco has created a special mix to celebrate the forthcoming party in Shoreditch, hosted by fashion label Blood Brother, Defected...
View ArticleIn Conversation: Beck
On 'Morning Phase' and returning to live action...Beck needs no introduction. What does is his first studio album since 2008’s ‘Modern Guilt’. Titled ‘Morning Phase’, the LA-born musician’s 12th...
View ArticlePatterns Review The Singles
Tracks from Gaz Coombes, Paramore, CHVRCHES...After last week’s singles column swerve-ball, where we actually reviewed the tracks in-house (wanna read?), Clash is back to business with a band taking up...
View ArticleTrack-By-Track: Yuck - 'Glow & Behold'
Max Bloom is our guide to the band’s second LP…Back in September, nostalgia-hued indie-rock sorts Yuck, straight out of London but sounding more like Californian kids raised on a diet of Dinosaur Jr,...
View ArticleNext Wave #537: Neon Jungle
An in-your-face, hyperactive girl band...“Harry Styles, if you’re reading this I am single and I’m now an adult.”Asami, who turned 18 yesterday, leans right into Clash’s dictaphone to yell her...
View ArticleIn Conversation: John Lydon
Punk icon on Virgin’s 40th and the Pistols’ legacy… Virgin Records may be celebrating the 40th anniversary of its first album release this year, Mike Oldfield’s debut ‘Tubular Bells’, but no...
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