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Out In The Cold - Wiley
Part of our week long survey focussing on new voices in hip hop, read a recent interview with Wiley from Clash Magazine. For Wiley, success has been a fickle mistress: a lightning fast vocal spot on...
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New Voices In Hip Hop
Funny how these things start. It’s January. The temperature outside is actually unseasonably mild, but the ClashMusic office remain icebox cold. To cheer ourselves up, the office stereo begins...
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Gonjasufi: Feedin' Birds
It's the voice that grabs you. I get told to call the Warp office at three in the afternoon, but a series of mis-firing telephones begin to fray nerves on both ends of the line. Finally, a borrow...
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Singles Round Up - January 23rd
Ah, the art of the pop promo. Does anyone really watch those things? It seems that the music video has less cache than ever, with new groups bouncing into the ClashMusic Inbox every day boasting about...
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Ones To Watch - Weird Dreams
My mum was a dance teacher, and I used to do contemporary dance when I was younger,” says Doran Edwards, the vocalist of London four-piece Weird Dreams with a fine line in letterman jackets. “I wanted...
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Label Profile: Stones Throw
Signing up for the Stones Throw newsletter promises you “No Junk. Just good stuff”. A neat summary of what has always been the way of the indefatigable California label that recently passed the...
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Personality Clash: Craig Finn Vs Bob Mould
Craig Finn is the front man for epic Brooklyn rockers The Hold Steady. This month, however, sees the release of his debut solo album. Bob Mould is an alt.rock hero. From the rousing punk of Hüsker Dü,...
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I Predict...The UK’s Resurgence Of Female Rappers
“Here come the girls! I think 2012 will be a massive year for us. Personally speaking, 2011 was about finding my sound and developing what I do - I’ve worked with loads of great producers like...
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Introducing... THEESatisfaction
Few record labels existing today carry with them the sort of weight that means they only need to utter the name of a new signing and you are already safe in the assumption that their album will be...
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The Art Of The Mixtape: Paul White
The mixtape has run parallel to hip-hop in going from DIY demonstration to impress your mates with to dollar signed-addition to an artist’s arsenal. It’s a culture probably not taking into...
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A Letter From... Wales #3
Although January may nearly be over and spring is (kinda) on the horizon, there’s plenty of the year left to discover some great Welsh talent. Here are my 10 of the best Welsh artists for you to be...
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Craft Of The Lost Art: Jneiro Jarel
Hip hop was never really stagnant. Sure, there were reports that rap music had gone off the boil around the Millennium but out at the fringes, out at the edge the genre was still producing new talent...
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Attention Seekers - The Best And Worst Gimmicks In Music
In the modern, digital age, when there are more bands vying for your attention than ever before, something a little out of the ordinary needs to be done in order to endure. Nowadays, every move of...
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Their Library: Ghostpoet
Few voices have come close to defining what it feels like to be young, to be British and to be locked in the recession. But Ghostpoet has. Debut album 'Peanut Butter Blues & Melancholy Jam'...
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Beneath The Surface: GZA
The GZA. Hip Hop icon, chess lover and Kung Fu nut. 'The Genius' is many things but most importantly he's a true original. Inspiring an army of fans and artists over the past two decades The GZA as...
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Pure Magic - Errors
Two of Scotland’s proudest moments lay back to back. After Clash had battled through the globally renowned and rebranded bluster of ‘Hurricane Bawbag’ to interview Errors, we found the nation on a...
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Ones To Watch - Two Inch Punch
If the melodic swoons and adhesive-like hooks of early-Nineties R&B could be seductively transposed into our current musical landscape, Two Inch Punch could very well be the ‘lovestep’ version of...
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Attack On Memory: Cloud Nothings
For many artists, there comes a point where reckless abandon, youthful exuberance and the noble art of writing a catchy pop song all fail to satisfy the artistic impulse. Traditionally, this should...
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Rapture & Verse #7
Rapture and Verse powers through the go-slows of January blues with a no particular order hotchpotch to dive into headfirst. Let’s go snorkelling, starting with much touted grime to primetime...
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Coming Soon - 2012's Albums Worth Waiting For
Returning this year are familiar faces armed with a new collection of songs. Looking ahead, here are a selection of those to be most excited about. MAJOR LAZER “Now that people know what Major Lazer...
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