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Aimee Phillips

Mark Rigby

Menswear Fashion Designer, Garment Technologist, Stylist & Business Consultation.

Lauren Gordon

I’m the editorial coordinator at PS UK, creating fresh beauty, lifestyle, and identity content while tracking trends.I have a journalism degree from the University of the Arts London and previously …

Gemma Cockrell

Hannah Abraham

Tenacious journalist with a passion for people and bylines in Deadline, The Guardian, Variety, NME, GRAMMY, Clash Magazine and more.

Ramy Abou-Setta

Reporter - The Argus Words: Derry Journal - CLASH - LOOP- Whynow and more. Contact: ramy.abou-setta@theargus.co.uk / ramyabousetta@outlook.com

Latest Articles

Audio Inception: 25 Artists Who Could Define 2025

With big labels, DSPs and an unregulated internet monopolizing audiences and splintering attention spans, it’s harder for emerging musicians to delineate their own space and make an impact. More than ever before, tastemaker lists feel essential; a considered, curated selection of artists, bands and collectives pushing genre conventions into thrilling …

By Gemma Cockrell
30th January 2025 • Clash Magazine

Rose Gray - Louder, Please | Review

Rose Gray’s sweaty, euphoric dance floor record, ‘Louder, Please’, is a 12-track homage to dance music and club culture, filled with hedonistic tales of all-in nights out, love lost, and love found.

By Aimee Phillips
15th January 2025 • Clash Magazine

TSHA: CLASH 129 | 20th Anniversary Edition

TSHA’s album 'Sad Girl' captures the complexities of the human experience; that pain and joy can coexist, that they are both important in shaping who we are, proving that evolution—both personal and musical—comes from embracing it all.

By Aimee Phillips
13th January 2025 • Clash Magazine

Ela Minus - DÍA | Reviews | Clash Magazine Music News, Reviews & Interviews

Opening up is never easy – especially for artists. But more often than not, those who have the capacity to scrutinise and share their most personal facets, are those who resonate with listeners on a level of authenticity that matters most. Colombian singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer, Ela Minus, reckons …

By Jamie Wilde
13th January 2025 • Clash Magazine

Next Wave #1197: CATTY

“Did I just really wish that my ex couldn’t go to see her favourite artist because I was the support act? Yes. Yes I did.” In the aftermath of an EP-inspiring breakup, rather than go to the gym (“I wish it was, but it could never be me”), London-via-Caernarfon singer …

By Caitlin Chatterton
12th November 2024 • Clash Magazine

Halsey - The Great Impersonator

Throughout their career, Halsey has been lots of different things to different people. She was the blue-haired 19-year-old singing about her Brooklyn boyfriend and lilac skies (‘Badlands’); the 23-year-old offering an elaborately stylised ‘Romeo and Juliet’ concept album (‘Hopeless Fountain Kingdom’); the 25-year-old navigating the blurring lines between Halsey, the …

By Caitlin Chatterton
24th October 2024 • Clash Magazine

Live Report: Sŵn Festival 2024

Each year, as the leaves turn to amber and rust, and your whimsical light-weather jacket puts in its final shifts before Big Coat season, Cardiff is transformed into a metropolis of music’s up, coming, and already mighty acts from far and wide. Across three days and nine stages, artists from …

By Caitlin Chatterton
21st October 2024 • Clash Magazine

Charli xcx – brat and it’s completely different but also still brat

Charli xcx’s sixth studio album hit 2024 like a runaway train. It was supposed to remain a cult classic: 2022’s ‘Crash’ was Charli’s extravagant bid for the mainstream; ‘brat’ was a return to the club. The now-iconic chartreuse cover was even a budget-conscious decision, made on the assumption that few …

By Caitlin Chatterton
11th October 2024 • Clash Magazine

Son Estrella Galicia Spotlights New Music At Paper Dress Vintage | Live | Clash Magazine Music News, Reviews & Interviews

Son Estrella Galicia’s showcases have been abundant of late – and for good reason. They’re not just about great food, music and (of course) beers, their ethos spreads much wider; focussing on what it is that brings people together through music...

By Jamie Wilde
16th September 2024 • Clash Magazine

Next Wave #1192: Murdo Mitchell | Next Wave | Clash Magazine Music News, Reviews & Interviews

Cutting your teeth as a new artist is far from easy. Glaswegian singer songwriter Murdo Mitchell is certainly aware of this. An endearingly honest musician, his home city’s burgeoning troubadour scene has been something of a phenomenon of late, spawning the likes of Scottish superstar Gerry Cinnamon and more recently …

By Jamie Wilde
16th September 2024 • Clash Magazine

The Dare - What's Wrong With New York? | Review

A ‘Party Rock Anthem’ record for the Indie Sleaze renaissance, The Dare’s hedonistic and uninhibited debut album, ‘What’s Wrong With New York?’ wears an unapologetic attitude towards desire and penchant for feral behaviour.

By Aimee Phillips
5th September 2024 • Clash Magazine

Mal Not Bad – This Is Your Life | Reviews | Clash Magazine Music News, Reviews & Interviews

Mal Not Bad (aka Theodora Mallory Fleming-Hauser) is an endearing artist in all true senses of the word. They may seem relatively low-key, but that makes discovering Mal’s music all the better...

By Jamie Wilde
13th August 2024 • Clash Magazine

Next Wave #1179: NATI. | Next Wave

Scotland may be relatively small, but its five-and-a-half million inhabitants sure know how to use their voice. From the inimitable rasp of Paolo Nutini to the chart-topping melodies of Lewis Capaldi – or even those twin brothers from Leith who havered about walking 500 miles – Scottish artists have some …

By Jamie Wilde
16th July 2024 • Clash Magazine

Camille Jansen – The Loose Screws | Reviews | Clash Magazine Music News, Reviews & Interviews

Being a distinct artist is becoming harder than ever among today’s saturated pool of musicians. But French-British artist Camille Jansen knows a thing or two about standing out. With Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen soundtracking the road trips of her youth, her innate blend of folk, country, and experimental rock …

By Jamie Wilde
4th July 2024 • Clash Magazine

Margo Raats | Next Wave

Margo Raats strives for profound connection. For the past two years, the alt-pop singer-songwriter has been working hard on her debut EP, ‘Paper Paradise,’ unwaveringly dedicated to building her own universe, all while studying and working several jobs to make ends meet. Having moved from a ranch in the Belgian …

By Aimee Phillips
25th June 2024 • Clash Magazine

Hermanos Gutiérrez – Sonido Cosmico | Reviews

Instrumental music always invites the listener to engage in acts of imagination. With guitar-slinging duo Hermanos Gutiérrez, the canvas teems with possibilities...

By Jamie Wilde
18th June 2024 • Clash Magazine

Next Wave #1172: Pem | Next Wave

Turning life’s dark moments into cherishable art is one of music’s most powerful qualities. Bristol-based singer-songwriter Pem is acutely aware of this. Her new project ‘Cloud Work’ teems with the pain she experienced after the passing of her father last year. The depth of vulnerability she showcases on the EP …

By Jamie Wilde
5th June 2024 • Clash Magazine

Live Report: Jalen Ngonda - KOKO, London | Live

It’s rare to find a modern artist who embodies all of the talent and soul of the legends who came before them. Jalen Ngonda belongs in this rare breed. From the raspy howls of Marvin Gaye to the tender melodies of Al Green, Ngonda’s voice is extraordinary. His debut album …

By Jamie Wilde
23rd May 2024 • Clash Magazine

Ghostly Kisses – Darkroom | Reviews

Without sounding too esoteric, when you think about it, music is all about bringing people together. It’s easy to forget this sometimes, whilst we’re living amidst the most saturated time in music making history; the points of connection closer than ever, yet somehow feeling ever further apart. But when projects …

By Jamie Wilde
15th May 2024 • Clash Magazine

A Free Spirit: Amen Dunes Interviewed | Features

Amen Dunes is something of an anomaly. The New York based artist, aka Damon McMahon, is a shapeshifter of sound; a forward-thinker who’s never content on churning out the same product album after album. From Brian Jonestown Massacre style psych rock to folk infused gospel, his previous album ‘Freedom’ (2018) …

By Jamie Wilde
14th May 2024 • Clash Magazine

"There's Where I Find Solace" Eric Nam Interviewed | Features

Contrary to most K-pop interviews, there are no PR executives watchfully monitoring this Zoom. There is only Eric Nam, frantically trying to find a bench in the streets of New Zealand. Nam has just landed in the country after a whirlwind outing in Europe as part of his House on …

By Hannah Abraham
14th May 2024 • Clash Magazine

Dua Lipa - Radical Optimism | Reviews

“Highly-anticipated” is a chronically overused phrase in reference to pending music releases, but Dua Lipa’s third album, ‘Radical Optimism’, has had us on the edge of our seats. Does it live up to the hype?

By Aimee Phillips
2nd May 2024 • Clash Magazine

The Most Anticipated Albums To Look Forward To In 2024 | Features

If 2023 was shaped by flux, by a deluge of new music, then the coming 12 months could bear witness to the return of a few icons. Looking at the release schedule, we can already anticipate some massive releases, alongside some much-hyped introductions.

By Aimee Phillips
5th January 2024 • Clash Magazine

Live Report: SOFY - The Grace, London | Live

It might seem unexpected to come across Timothée Chalamet in an intimate North London venue on a Tuesday night, but not at a SOFY gig. Here, he’s more of a regular than that old bloke down your local pub. Well, the cardboard version of him is, anyway… Such is SOFY’s …

By Aimee Phillips
7th December 2023 • Clash Magazine

Live Report: Lucia & The Best Boys – SWG3, Glasgow

Walking into SWG3 feels like entering the Berghain of Glasgow’s alternative scene. Dim lights, low ceilings, brutalist architecture and more micro-fringes than you can shake a stick at sets the tone for the night ahead. Delivering the music – scratch that – delivering one of the city’s hottest gigs of …

By Jamie Wilde
27th November 2023 • Clash Magazine

Sex And The City: George Riley Interviewed | Print issue #126

George Riley is embracing her “Sexy Era”. Doing away with what she terms her “Sad Gurl” phase, the London artist is moving beyond a period of introspection and embodying the uninhibited spirit of a club siren.

By Aimee Phillips
10th November 2023 • Clash Magazine

“World Domination!” SOFY Is Seizing Her Ambitions

Chaos & Commotion… it’s an accurate description for most of our mad, modern lives where things don’t always make sense. In SOFY’s world however, things are a little bit brighter. Navigating moments of transience over the last 18 months with her indelibly tongue-in-cheek tone, the artist’s new mixtape offers a …

By Jamie Wilde
3rd November 2023 • Clash Magazine

"I Like Pushing The Boundaries" Cobrah Interviewed | Features

Swedish underground artist on her love of alternative culture, signing to a label and her new pop focused music...

By Emma Thimgren
24th October 2023 • Clash Magazine

Say She She - Silver | Reviews

The group’s retro-driven pop truly stands out in the era of Dua Lipa’s more commercialised brand of disco.

By Emma Thimgren
29th September 2023 • Clash Magazine

Next Wave #1134: Georgia Gets By | Next Wave

“Out of all the music I was making, this made me feel the most me.” This is how artist Georgia Notts, one half of New Zealand electronic pop titans BROODS, describes her new solo project Georgia Gets By. Her debut EP ‘Fish Bird Baby Boy’ is due for release on …

By Jamie Wilde
25th September 2023 • Clash Magazine