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25-770: Clash is a music and fashion magazine and website based in the United Kingdom. It is published four times a year by Music Republic Ltd, whose predecessor Clash Music Ltd went into liquidation. The magazine won awards including the Best New Magazine award in 2004 at the PPA Magazine Awards, Magazine of the Year at the 2011 Record of the Day Awards, and others in England and Scotland. Clash

50-477: A Smartphone channel, the iOS Apple Magazine app of which went on to win 'Best Music Magazine' at the Digital Magazine Awards. In February 2014 it expanded into Android handsets. In November 2014, the magazine published its 99th edition, but then withdrew from print publication in favour of moving to an online-first operation. The Web-based service continued throughout the magazine's absence from

75-559: A Track of the Day feature from Monday to Friday. The website underwent a redesign in October 2012, bringing it in line with the look of the print magazine. 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". Made up entirely of albums released in

100-639: A focus on pop music rather than rock and aimed at a younger market include the now-defunct Smash Hits and the BBC 's Top of the Pops , which outlived the television show on which it was based. The longest running music magazine in the UK is BMG , founded in 1903 by Clifford Essex . BMG , which stands for banjo, mandolin, and guitar, is the oldest fretted-instrument-focused publication and actively promotes acoustic instruments of all kinds. Major music magazines in

125-552: A longstanding rival in Melody Maker , an even older publication that had existed since 1926; however, by 2001, falling circulation and the rise of internet music sites caused the Melody Maker to be absorbed into its old rival and cease publishing. Several other British magazines such as Select and Sounds also folded between 1990 and 2000. Current UK music magazines include Kerrang! and Mojo . Magazines with

150-421: A panel of music journalists and musicians. Featured artists have included David Bowie , Pink Floyd , The Beach Boys , The Who , Bruce Springsteen , and Neil Young , among many. After the success of an all-Beatles issue published to mark the release of The Beatles Anthology in 1995, many stand-alone, special editions of Mojo have been produced, devoting an entire magazine to one artist or genre. Three of

175-564: Is Melodic . Melodic has its focus mainly on hard rock , melodic metal and alternative music. Among classical music magazines, Diapason is the most read in France. An example of a nostalgia magazine is Keep Rockin' , a 1950s and 1960s nostalgia magazine. The premier issue came out in January 2009. The magazine features a mixture of current events surrounding that time period (e.g. concerts, car shows) and stories with original photos from

200-620: The Mojo Honours List , an awards ceremony that is a mixture of readers' and critics' awards, in 2004. In early 2010, Mojo was involved in a controversial move by its new parent company, Bauer, to unilaterally impose a new contract on all photographers and writers, taking away their copyright, and offloading liability for libel or copyright infringement from the publisher onto the contributor. Two hundred photographers and writers from Mojo and Bauer's other music magazines, Kerrang! and Q , were reported as refusing to work under

225-602: The United States include Rolling Stone (founded in 1967), DownBeat (founded in 1934), and Spin (founded in 1985). Clash magazine was voted Music Magazine of the Year in 2004 and is the second largest UK online presence. Clash was also awarded Magazine of the Year at the PPA Scotland Awards. Alternative Press has more of an " underground " coverage including pop punk , post-hardcore and metalcore . A major digital magazine from Sweden

250-415: The 1950s and 1960s, as well as some reader-written articles about experiences growing up during that period. Several music magazines include a free album of music (usually a compilation of tracks by various artists), known in the publishing industry as a covermount . The practice began in the 1980s with UK magazine Smash Hits giving away flexi discs , and graduated to mixtapes and compact discs in

275-426: The 1990s, with modern magazines such as NME and Mojo frequently including cover compilations. The tracks are cleared for release by the relevant record companies , and are usually released for promotional purposes. Mojo (magazine) Mojo (stylised in all caps ) is a popular music magazine published monthly in the United Kingdom, initially by Emap , and since January 2008 by Bauer . Following

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300-548: The Beatles , David Bowie and Bob Dylan , it has nevertheless featured many newer and "left-field" acts. It was the first mainstream magazine in the UK to focus on the White Stripes , and it continues to cover emerging acts. Modern cover stars of recent years have included Lana Del Rey and Arctic Monkeys . Mojo regularly includes a covermount CD that ties in with a current magazine article or theme. It introduced

325-422: The book The Beatles: Ten Years That Shook The World (Dorling Kindersley, 2004). Other special editions have focused on Pink Floyd , psychedelia , punk and the sixties. Mojo has also published four editions of "The MOJO Collection: The Greatest Albums Of All Time" ( Canongate Books ), originally edited by the magazine's founding features editor, Jim Irvin , and a series of short, definitive biographies under

350-463: The former the Stone Roses member, Mani . The Clash Live brand's London activity used to incorporate a once-monthly club night at The Lexington , part of their tastemaking Ones To Watch section, which has played host to acts including Swimming, Three Trapped Tigers , Alpines and Wild Palms. More recently, this activity re-branded to be called 'Next Wave' in order to reflect internal changes in

375-503: The imprint Mojo Heroes, starting in 2002 with Neil Young: Reflections In Broken Glass , written by Sylvie Simmons , a longtime Mojo contributing editor. The company behind the magazine, Bauer, also produced a digital radio station . This station was called Mojo Radio, and was transmitted on the digital television networks in the UK ( Freeview channel 721 and Sky Digital channel 0182, though not Virgin Media ) and online. The output of

400-459: The inspiration for Blender and Uncut . Many noted music critics have written for it, including Charles Shaar Murray , Greil Marcus , Nick Kent , David Fricke , Jon Savage and Mick Wall . The launch editor of Mojo was Paul Du Noyer and his successors have included Mat Snow , Paul Trynka , Pat Gilbert and Phil Alexander. The current editor is John Mulvey. While some criticise it for its frequent coverage of classic rock acts such as

425-487: The list make up the most influential and inspirational recordings ever made". Hailing "" as the sound of the birth of rock 'n' roll , the editors went on to state that "one can only imagine how it must have sounded when the song exploded across the airwaves!" The top ten on Mojo's "100 Records That Changed the World" list are: Other lists include a Top 50 of songs by a particular artist from time to time, usually compiled by

450-488: The magazine and now enjoys a residency at Hackney's new Oslo venue. 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

475-517: The magazine set out to determine "The Top 100 Records That Changed the World". The list was compiled and voted on by an eclectic panel of superstars, including Björk , Tori Amos , Tom Waits , Brian Wilson , Pete Wentz and Steve Earle . Little Richard 's 1955 hit " Tutti Frutti " took the number one spot. Richard's record beat the Beatles' " I Want to Hold Your Hand " (2nd) and Elvis Presley 's " Heartbreak Hotel " (3rd). The magazine's editors claimed that "the 100 albums, singles and 78s that made up

500-499: The most successful were the series (produced by then special editions editor Chris Hunt ) telling the story of the Beatles – one thousand days at a time. Featuring contributions from many of the world's leading rock critics and Beatles experts, such as Hunter Davies , Mark Lewisohn , Richard Williams , Ian MacDonald , Peter Doggett and Alan Clayson , the three magazines were published between 2002 and 2003, before being collected together by editor-in-chief Paul Trynka and published as

525-421: The new terms. More recently, the magazine has taken to publishing many "Top 100" lists, including the subjects of drug songs ( Mojo #109), rock epics ( Mojo #125), protest songs ( Mojo #126) and even the most miserable songs of all time ( Mojo #127). To celebrate 150 issues, the magazine published a "Top 100 Albums of Mojo's Lifetime" list (essentially 1993 to 2006). The top five for this list were: In 2007,

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550-528: The news-stands. In late 2015 it was announced that Clash would return to print as a bimonthly magazine from February 2016, beginning its revived run with a 100th issue special. The publication draws on the larger Clash brand, which extends to live events around the country and festival partnerships/parties (such as RockNess , Snowbombing , and 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

575-513: The past five years, the list was published in sections of three, with the top ten being released individually between 15 and 24 April 2009. Clash was nominated for Best Music Magazine and Best Podcast at the 2008 BT Digital Music Awards . Music magazine Music magazines were very prolific in the United Kingdom , with the NME leading sales since its first issue in 1952. NME had

600-490: The success of the magazine Q , publishers Emap were looking for a title that would cater for the burgeoning interest in classic rock music. The magazine was designed to appeal to the 30 to 45-plus age group, or the baby boomer generation. Mojo was first published on 15 October 1993. In keeping with its classic rock aesthetic, the first issue had Bob Dylan and John Lennon as its first cover stars. Noted for its in-depth coverage of both popular and cult acts, it acted as

625-658: Was founded by John O'Rourke, Simon Harper, Iain Carnegie and Jon-Paul Kitching. It emerged from the long-running Dundee, Scotland-based free-listings magazine Vibe . Re-launching as Clash Magazine in 2004, it won Best New Magazine award at the PPA Magazine Awards and Music Magazine of the Year at the Record of the Day Awards in 2005 and 2011 respectively. At the turn of 2011, Clash took on an entirely new look, ditching its previous glossy feel and music-led design for an altogether more artistically-led approach. In 2013, it launched

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