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Spotlight: Nas - Illmatic
20 years young and still one of rap's greatest...Ahead of something rather more substantial on Nas and his amazing debut album ‘Illmatic’ (you’re gonna have to wait until issue 94 for that, mind),...
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Out Now: Clash Meets Metronomy
21st century dreamers lead our issue 93 charge…Adorning this month’s Clash cover is a 21st century dreamer indebted to his quixotic forebears. Joe Mount’s appreciative nods to pop’s innovators –...
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The Clash Film Column: Checking In, Wes Anderson Style
The Grand Budapest Hotel is our pick of the week…Apparently there were some awards, or something…- - -That Was The Week In Which…Coverage of the Oscars went into overload.Fighting against the Oscars is...
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Next Wave #562: Haraket
Floating freely between piercing indie, trip-hop, IDM...Southeast London is a warren, a hive of streets, roads and avenues, sprawling with new ideas, new sounds. Haraket were born in this area,...
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Clash Reviews The Singles (Of March 10)
Cheer up Dave, it might never happen. Oh...It’s not like anyone queues for these things outside Our Price anymore, but still…- - -Angel Haze – ‘Battle Cry’“An inevitable single-to-be” is how we called...
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Interview: Clash Talks Art With Hanni El Khatib
The man behind Elton John's favourite LP of the last five years...Confirming that rock remains a visceral proposition, Hanni El Khatib is a multi-disciplinary creative who has moved away from a career...
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Reggae & Dancehall #30: I-Octane, Mavado, Rick Ross
From Sicily to Miami in a single month…This month’s goings on in dancehall and reggae…- - -NEWS Just a few months ago it was starting to look like Vybz Kartel would soon be a free man. He’d already...
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Engendered Species: Clash Meets Planningtorock
Jam talking, about 'All Love's Legal'...Changing her name from Janine to Jam (Rostron) then hurling out a gender-bending album livid with ideas and pertinent modern questions of equality,...
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Premiere: Polar Bear - 'Don't Forget' Mixtape
Listen to it now...Jazz is all about evolution, about absorbing the boundaries placed in your way and re-presenting them as style.Polar Bear are all about evolution. Each album, each step from the...
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Super Vision: Foster The People Find The Answers
LA band discusses ‘Supermodel’…Having a smash debut LP, 2011’s ‘Torches’ (review), championed by the likes of Elton John and U2 might send some budding rock stars into a haze of partying and...
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Rapture & Verse #32: The Hip-Hop Latest
ScHoolboy Q's back, and he's brought some pals...Matt Oliver doesn’t miss a thing, so you readers can get on with the important business of listening to records and that…- - -The headlines...Lil Wayne...
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Clash DJ Mix - E.M.M.A
Glistening grime sounds alongside gritty beats...Taking the reins of the Clash DJ Mix today is forward-thinking grime-glitcher E.M.M.A, who drip-feeds us some futuristic filth.Last year, the rising...
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Culture Clash: Max Cooper
Producer on his literary and cinematic loves…Now carrying his debut long-player ‘Human’ album like a newborn, carefully ensuring it reaches its absolute potential, London producer Max Cooper is...
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Metronomy: Breaking The Fourth Wall
Clash’s issue 93 cover feature…It’s the late 1960s. Apollo 11 is pointed towards the Moon – a lunar landing beckons, and space is on the tip of our planet’s collective tongue. The question a la mode –...
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Playlist: Owls
Chicago indie legends return - and here are some lovely songs...Bands happen, and then they don’t. Happens all the time. Sometimes, though, these disappeared acts take on a kind of legendary status....
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Evian Christ: Keeping It Surreal
On the journey from Cheshire to Kanye’s inner circle…In 2008, now defunct e-zine The Milk Factory interviewed Aaron Funk a.k.a. Venetian Snares. On the subject of how he fuses numerous genres into a...
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The Clash Film Column: Stunning Bones, Oily Mass
Under The Skin is our pick of the week…Time was, he could eat a peach for hours…- - -That Was The Week In Which…Nicolas Cage complained about the nature of fame while speaking at SXSW (in support of...
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Clash Reviews The Singles (Of March 17)
After Eminem and Beyoncé collaborations, Sia's back...When was the last time you bought a song after reading about it in one of these columns? Come to think of it, when did you last buy a single?...
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Spotlight: De La Soul - 3 Feet High And Rising
Has it really been 25 years? Yes. Yes, it has…Although they’re very much an active rap act in the present day, there’s no doubting that De La Soul’s moment came at the first time of asking, when they...
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Clash Meets Jesse Eisenberg
The social nightmare of the doppelganger…Ask any actor how they feel about doing the rounds on a press circuit and it’s more than likely that you’ll receive a shrug of indifference. After all, to most...
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