Up 2 Doing Time: What's Next For Vybz Kartel?
As the dancehall star goes down for murder…On the evening of Thursday March 13th, shortly after his client Vybz Kartel was found guilty for the murder of Clive ‘Lizard’ Williams, lead defence attorney...
View ArticleAglow With Happiness: Clash Meets Tensnake
Marco Niemerski’s in the market for joy fantastic…Authoritarianism and hedonism don’t go largely hand in hand. Unless, that is, you find yourself in Friedrichshain in east Berlin, inside the concrete...
View ArticlePremiere: Jamie Isaac - Blue Break
Listen to it now...Murky, nocturnal, electronic balladry - that's Jamie Isaac.The South London native specialises in twilight songwriting, in production which reeks of the wee, small hours, when the...
View ArticleCulture Clash: Tycho
Cali producer on the appeal of Atoms For Peace...We’re always talking to people about music, us. Sometimes it’s nice, too, to chat about everything else around music – and there’s where our regular...
View ArticleSpotlight Special: Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Elton, Bernie and more discuss their greatest album...Celebrating its 40th anniversary right about now, Elton John’s ‘Goodbye Yellow Brick Road’ remains the British artist’s most enduring LP, a...
View ArticleClash DJ Mix - Cuartero
Deep and dirty grooves...Deep and dirty grooves is what you’ll be getting in the latest Clash DJ mix, and plenty of ‘em, from Spanish house ace Cuartero.Working heady techno vibes through a house...
View ArticleNext Wave #563: Lyla Foy
Hushed, confessional dream-folk from London...Burrowed beneath the eaves in a tiny little countryside cottage, Lyla Foy’s whispers have been caught, just. Quietly recording vocals with a mic by the...
View ArticleNext Wave #564: Babe
Pure pop with left field leanings, from north of the border...The search for the perfect pop song never ends. Gerard Black should know – the Scottish songwriter spent a good few years chasing after it....
View ArticleDestiny Rising: In Conversation With Lizzo
Minneapolis rapper talks to Clash…Internet comments. What are they good for? Typically a cavalcade of hot-aired one-upmanship, outright snobbery and blinkered balderdash, scouring the below-video text...
View ArticlePremiere: Steve Mason - Rescue
A new poem written by Nick Power...There was always much more to The Coral than met the eye.Lumped in with the indie boom, their astute mixture of influences both classic and outré was matched by a...
View ArticleThe Clash Film Column: Prison, Poltergeists And Pianos
Starred Up is our pick of the week… Not to be confused with a ‘Starry Eyed’ night with Ellie Goulding. That’s a whole other date entirely…- - -That Was The Week In Which…Ghostbusters III was thrown...
View ArticleClash Reviews The Singles (Of March 24)
We're pretty sure ancient Egypt didn't look like this at school...Stack ‘em high, sell ‘em cheap…- - -Katy Perry – ‘Dark Horse’There’s some sort of fancy insert-yourself-into-the-video project...
View ArticlePremiere: The Skints - 'Short Change' EP
Listen to it now...Whilst it might be summer outside, the sun is certainly beginning to pour down upon the Clash office.And that means one thing and one thing only: the Clash reggae collective gets...
View ArticlePremiere: Ghostpoet - Dial Tones (Guy Andrews Remix)
Taking tenderness to the club via a contemplative taxi ride…Something of a perennial favourite around these parts, Ghostpoet’s been up to that releasing-and-remixing business again, issuing his new...
View ArticleNext Wave #565: Sega Bodega
Intricately produced dance music with a twist...In the abyss of electronic dance music, hovering somewhere between hip-hop and two-step, stands Glaswegian DJ and producer Salvador Navarrete, who...
View ArticleHuw Stephens' Top SXSW Picks
Radio 1 DJ heads to Texas, reports on the rock for Clash…South By Southwest happened. You might have noticed. From March 11th to the 16th, the word’s music press descended on Austin, Texas to drink in...
View ArticleRenewed Moon: The Twilight Sad Return To The Source
Discussing ‘Fourteen Autumns & Fifteen Winters’…Amongst the bounty of beautiful discs released this coming Record Store Day, April 19th, one reissued-and-expanded debut set stands out: that of The...
View ArticleLife At 140: DJ Milktray Interview
After the hotel lobby comes the party proper…Best known for his throwback 8-bar edits and a love of Burberry, DJ Milktray has taken instrumental grime by storm since Slackk started playing his bootleg...
View ArticleElectric Selection: 12" Reviews of March 2014
Four Tet and Terror Danjah is just the tip of the iceberg...March’s sunny spells have seen strands of grime bubbling up, with Four Tet and Terror Danjah collaborating in addition to Ruff Sqwad’s Dirty...
View ArticlePremiere: Ben Watt - Dark Field Illumination: Deep Folk Mixtape 2
Pastoral, acoustic fare...Ben Watt has done it all.A musician, producer, DJ, label boss and author, Watt has spent more than thirty years at the frontline of new music.Recently, though, the songwriter...
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