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| Editor | Simon Harper |
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| Categories | Music Monthly Magazine |
| Frequency | monthly |
| First issue | 2004 |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Website | Official site |
| ISSN | 1743-0801 |
Clash is a popular music and fashion magazine based in the United Kingdom. Its magazine title is published 12 times a year.[1] It has a circulation of around 40,000.[2]
The magazine alternates between modern bands such as The Horrors, Florence & The Machine and Jamie xx as well as hip-hop artists like DJ Shadow, Kanye West and Beastie Boys, who have all had cover spots in recent issues.[3] It concentrates on music and fashion, and often their effect on surrounding culture, as well as film and technology. The magazine won the Best New Magazine award in 2004 at the PPA Magazine Awards and has won further awards in England and Scotland. Most notably, Magazine Of The Year at the 2011 Record Of The Day Awards.
At the turn of 2011, Clash Magazine took on an entirely new look, ditching the previous glossy feel and music led design, for an altogether more artistically led approach.
The publication is based around the larger Clash brand, which extends to live events around the country and festival partnerships/parties (such as RockNess, Snowbombing, SXSW), and the website ClashMusic.com. 2011 saw Clash partner Levi's and Spotify to bring Primal Scream to London's Electric Brixton for one of their final shows with the former Stone Roses member, Mani.
The Clash Live brand's London activity incorporates a once-monthly club night at The Lexington, based around their tastemaking Ones To Watch section, which has played host to acts including Swimming, Three Trapped Tigers, Alpines and Wild Palms.
In September 2008, the magazine received a grant of £230,000 from the Scottish government, to develop its online presence.[4]
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John O'Rourke, Iain Carnegie, Jon-Paul Kitching, Simon Harper.
Clash magazine was bred out of long running free listings magazine Vibe based in Dundee, Scotland. The rise of Vibe's popularity throughout the UK lead to naming issues with the popular Hip-Hop/RnB magazine Vibe and the design company behind it, Vibe Media, had to rename the publication; re-launching as Clash Magazine in 2004 and winning Best New Magazine award in 2004 at the PPA Magazine Awards and Music Magazine of the Year – Record of the Day Awards 2005 and 2011.
Full credits available in Clash magazine.
ClashMusic.com launched in early 2008. The website often encompasses a wider variety of genres than its parent magazine, with pieces on left field acts like Gonjasufi and Perfume Genius, as well as emerging artists, appearing alongside content that ties in with magazine-featured artists. The website features numerous ongoing features such as "DJ Disasters", "Rapture & Verse" and "A Letter From...". It runs a Track of the Day feature from Monday to Friday.
On 30 March 2009, ClashMusic began publishing the Essential 50 – fifty albums which the website considered "the 50 greatest, most significant, downright brilliant albums of Clash's lifetime".[5] Made up entirely of albums released in the past five years,[6] the list was published in sections of three, with the top ten being released individually between 15–24 April 2009.[6][7] The list contained Arctic Monkeys, Bloc Party, Portishead and Radiohead amongst others, culminating in Arcade Fire's Funeral being named number one.[6]
ClashMusic.com was nominated for a pair of awards at the 2008 BT Digital Music Awards.
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