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Does It Matter If Metal Never Makes The Mercury?
Or does nobody give a shit…Look at the graph above, sent to me by Paul Piggott of La Digit PR, breaking down all of the albums to have been shortlisted for the (Barclaycard) Mercury Prize since 1992,...
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Spotlight: Queens Of The Stone Age - S/T
Stone-cold classic that continues to give…Queens Of The Stone Age are embarking on the final stretch of an extensive and triumphant world tour celebrating the their sixth full-length album, ‘…Like...
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The Clash Film Column: Rock Of Classical Ages
Dwayne’s heroic Hercules, and more…Swords and sandals and sweat and fun… Unless you’re a Secret Cinema goer.- - -That was the week in which...New research demonstrated a decline in the number of women...
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Red Hot Chili Peppers: The Complete Guide
There’s more to them than cocks in socks…From strip clubs to the Superbowl, the spectacular ascent of LA’s funk rockers Red Hot Chili Peppers has been a particularly knotted and fractured journey.Their...
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Clash Reviews The Singles (Of July 28)
Lykke Li falls over in a car park...Quite often some marvellous musician type fills in here. But, today, you’re stuck with me. Sorry.- - -Lykke Li – ‘Gunshot’“I am longing for your poison / Like a...
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Premiere: Hyde & Beast - 'Keep Moving'
Interactive album stream...There’s an old saying that the minute the drummer starts writing songs, then a band should call it quits.But Hyde & Beast started primarily because two drummers started...
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Album Premiere: Talons - 'New Topographics'
Listen to the Brits’ astounding new LP…Several moons ago – as many as to stretch back to the summer of 2009 – I put on the odd gig or two for Clash at London’s Notting Hill Arts Club. On Saturday, June...
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In Conversation: Slint's Britt Walford
Ten minutes to talk touring…Slint was a band. And then, it wasn’t – its members went away and did other bands. But then, Slint was a band again. And then it wasn’t. And now, it is, again. The...
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Life At 140: Sector 7 Sounds Special
Clash’s grime column focuses on Bristol’s scene…Boofy and Lemzly Dale, figureheads of Bristol’s new-school generation of grime producer-DJs, have made quite an impact since first releasing the...
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Rapture & Verse #36: The Hip-Hop Latest
Dilla, Dilated Peoples, Busdriver, Busta…From over the fence… Death Grips broke up via a napkin, Flavor Flav got a ticking off for over-exuberant July 4th fireworks, the Wu were supposedly looking for...
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Playlist: Grant Nicholas
Feeder frontman selects favourites gone solo...Feeder got big, eh? I remember the days when they’d play Eastleigh’s Home Tavern on a tour – and that’s not even a gig venue these days (it’s a...
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The Continuing Rise Of Tinchy Stryder
Talking career tactics with the grime artist…Five years ago, Tinchy Stryder was crowned Britain’s highest-selling solo artist. A year later, he embarked on his second sold-out national tour. And then,...
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Kiran Leonard: They Were Killed In An Auto Wreck
'Ugly American music made by beautiful Americans in the 80s and 90s...'The American Dream?The American Nightmare, more like. The decline of the pristine, white picket fence vision of Americana has led...
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Good Trip, Bad Trip: The Black Angels
Don't rub mint in your face...To fans, life on the road is a hopelessly romantic experience.To bands, though, it's often a chore. The touring circuit can offer up all kinds of pleasures, but it can...
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Shouldn't Our Pop Stars Be Saying Something About Gaza?
Today's most-influential are remaining silent...I’ll save you the effort of stating the obvious: no, of course they’ve no responsibility to highlight what’s happening to thousands of people in a...
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Stadium Slanging: Raekwon Interviewed
Wu-Tang rapper on solo endeavours…Seventeen years after Biggie’s ‘Life After Death’ and with Rick Ross still at the height of his career, it feels like rap has always had a Mafioso air about it....
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Matrixxman's 12" Mix: Reviewing The Best New Releases
Guesting on the Electric Selection for June/July…Famed for its fish, fog and cable cars, San Francisco is also home to Charles McCloud Duff AKA Matrixxman, our guest vinyl selector for this edition of...
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Playlist: To Rococo Rot's Modern History Of German Music
Essential sounds, post-reunification…Berlin experimentalists To Rococo Rot have just recently issued their eighth studio LP, ‘Instrument’, through City Slang. A study of delicate minimalism, buzzing...
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Clash DJ Mix - Coma Coast
A ‘shoulder-shaking’ selection of disco, funk, electro, synth-pop and jackin’ houseRising, disco-delving duo Coma Coast offer up a ‘shoulder-shaking’ selection of disco, funk, electro, synth-pop and...
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The Clash Film Column: Space Is The Place
Guardians Of The Galaxy is our pick…Comic movies get a kick up the butt by one of Marvel’s best yet…- - -That was the week in which...Film and stats nerds alike rejoiced at the publication of the BFI...
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