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Clash DJ Mix - Last Japan
“Get the Hennessy and enjoy.”“Get the Hennessy and enjoy.”Wise words from this week’s mix artist, Last Japan, on how best to enjoy his smoky, engulfing selection.One of the brightest lights in the...
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Clash's Top Albums Of 2013: 10-1
The final countdown...This is the end, friends. Clash’s top 10 albums of 2013, as voted for by our team of writers.Read about the rest of the top 40…40-3130-2120-11The ones that got awayClick artist...
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Blue Daisy Reviews Earl Sweatshirt's 'Doris'
Rising rapper on Clash’s number one of 2013…Earl Sweatshirt’s ‘Doris’ – Clash’s number one album of 2013 – is an often dark, somewhat menacing listen. It’s a record that creeps from the margins,...
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Banging On: Clash Meets Efrim Menuck
Thee Silver Mt. Zion and Godspeed man in conversation…“You have to keep banging on that door,” says Efrim Menuck, sitting backstage at the Brixton Academy in London.In a couple of hours, his band, the...
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The Family Rain Review The Singles
Tracks by Drake, James Arthur and Say Lou Lou...Bath-based all-brothers bandThe Family Rain are bubbling under right now, with a breakthrough on the cards for 2014.The trio’s mix of alt-rock and blues...
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Reggae & Dancehall #27
December’s fix, with Lady Saw and RDX…Clash’s resident expert on these things, Reshma B, is doing this so that you don’t have to. So read, learn, listen… and enjoy.- - -NEWS After being held in custody...
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Despacio Me: Clash Meets 2ManyDJs' David Dewaele
On the art of listening...Clubbing is about dancing. It’s about meeting people, and experiencing something new. But in essence, above all else, clubbing is about listening.With their new project,...
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Samantha Crain Pays Tribute To Jason Molina
"I am overwhelmed with sadness at his passing..."Jason Molina was never famous.But then, he didn't need to be. It seems that each song, each release from the American artisan found its way to those who...
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Out Now: Clash Presents... Winter Double Issue
Featuring BANKS and Earl Sweatshirt...The final gasps of another eventful year and the birth of a brand new one. Time to look back, forward and sideways, to appreciate the highs and lows of the last 12...
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In Conversation: Earl Sweatshirt
The Odd Future rapper on 'Doris' and more...When his music broke through during the great Odd Future explosion of 2010, Thebe Kgositsile never witnessed the rise to fame that his peers enjoyed. Exiled...
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Re-Creation: Alan McGee Speaks Out
Behind his new book, 359 Music and more...Alan McGee is a name that almost transcends the music industry. Arguably as famous as the Creation label he steered to global infamy, the McGee brand is a...
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Into The Light: Clash Meets BANKS
Out of the dark, into the glare of expectation...BANKS has done the unthinkable. While the 21st century has taught us that it’s perfectly acceptable to broadcast your thoughts en masse and check in...
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Life At 140 #16
Logos, Murlo, Boofy and more make the grade...Grime at Christmas. What could be more classic…- - -November was an exceptionally busy month in the world of grime, with Japanese war dubs, ‘Lord Of The...
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Clash DJ Mix - Ivan Smagghe
Festive Music for Sad Little Girls...Tired of hearing Noddy Holder strain his larynx to welcome in Christmas? Then you’d best unwrap this mighty gift of eccentric festive electronics from our latest...
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The Best Mixtapes Of 2013
From Bishop Nehru to Chance The Rapper...Doing the rounds online this year were these not-quite-albums: collections of music that don’t make the charts but drop like influential bombs on a frenzied...
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In Conversation With Massive Attack's 3D
Behind the band's new visual retrospective...Massive Attack isn’t a ‘band’ – not in any narrow, drums-and-bass-and-guitars-and-vocals definition of the word. Owing their origins to the Wild Bunch...
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Next Wave #541: Hawk House
The British rebirth of neo-soul...“Change, musicality and dopeness.” Quite the straightforward mission statement, yet it’s true that Hawk House are defined by what they wish to evoke. Hip-hop fuelled...
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2014: The Clash Almanac
Predictions for the year to come…In 1964, Isaac Asimov predicted quite a few things pretty accurately for 2014. Wireless technology, 3D TV, microwave meals and coffee machines were all spot on. One...
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Rave Tapes: The Best Clash DJ Mixes Of 2013
Juan Atkins, Moderat and more…Clash’s DJ Mix series is such a longstanding feature of this website that, sometimes, it’s easy to forget just how magnificent it actually is. (Almost) every week, Clash...
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Clash's Top Albums Of 2013
Click through to our expanded articles...Clash is no different when it comes to the year-end mixer: we, too, argued the toss about a bunch of albums, and then assembled a 'best of' list. A top 40. A...
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