INTERVIEW: Nick Yulman (Clash)

"It’s mindboggling to think of all the creative music that has sprung out of New York. Whether it’s John Cage or Laurie Anderson or Raymond Scott or the Bomb Squad, there’s definitely something about the City that’s inspired some pretty radical approaches to working with sound and music."

I spoke to Brooklyn sound artist Nick Yulman about New York and his use of musical robotics, among other things. Read here.

INTERVIEW: Iceage (Clash)

"During our telephone call, I ask Surrballe Wieth if he’s pleased with You’re Nothing. “Oh yeah - very, very pleased with it,” he replies with genuine enthusiasm before going on. “But I think it seems like we did it quite a long time ago now. I think we’re already in a new place, we’re already writing a lot of new songs. We feel really great about how it turned out, it turned out exactly how it should, but we’re just moving on constantly.”"

I spoke to Iceage guitarist Johan Surrballe Wieth for this feature for Clash in the run up to the band's excellent second album You're Nothing. Read it here.

Clash One to Watch #464/NME Buzz Artist: Nadine Shah

I wrote these bits  for clash about Nadine Shah, who is just fantastic (includes Shirley Bassey references and some Cheryl Cole aggression, a precursor to when she did that racist attack on a toilet attendant in Guildford before she became England's rose and then America's most short-lived X-Factor judge - Cheryl, not Nadine).

"What Shah's music really shares with the members of that venerable roll call is a rich and at times devastating emotional intensity – that and occasional hints of a Bassey-esque snarl."

As well as the Clash piece, a short piece I wrote on Nadine coincidentally appeared in the NME on the same day. Here's the scan:

Now go and give Nadine's EP 'Aching Bones' a listen.