Album Reviews
Taylor Swift
The Tortured Poets Department
Apr 20, 2024 Web Exclusive
How does one approach reviewing a Taylor Swift album? Well, with great difficulty, especially when there are no advance review copies or streams. It gets even more complicated when, just two hours after the release of The Tortured Poets Department, Swift casually announces The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology, featuring 15 additional songs.
Cloud Nothings
Final Summer
Apr 19, 2024 Web Exclusive
There is something inherently cathartic in the unbridled guitar rock of Cloud Nothings.
Bnny
One Million Love Songs
Apr 18, 2024 Web Exclusive
Bnny’s Jessica Viscius has said that her new record, One Million Love Songs, is an album “about love after loss, getting older, and just trying to have fun with a broken heart.”
News
Under the Radar Announces The ’90s Issue with The Cardigans and Thurston Moore on the Covers
Apr 19, 2024
Under the Radar is excited to announce the full details of our new print issue, Issue 72, The ’90s Issue, which features interviews with musicians and film directors known for their work in that decade and has The Cardigans and Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth on the two covers. As well as articles on Britpop, shoegaze, and the TV show Twin Peaks (for which we spoke to much of the cast), the issue includes interviews with Garbage, The Cranberries, Pavement, Lisa Loeb, Supergrass, Spiritualized, Lush, Ride, Velocity Girl, Gus Van Sant, Penelope Spheeris, Terry Gilliam, Stereo MC’s, Semisonic, Blonde Redhead, Sleater-Kinney, and more.
Interviews
Cheekface on “It’s Sorted” and the State of Our Human Condition
Apr 12, 2024 Web Exclusive
The ubiquitous Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson almost didn’t make the cut for one of the cleverest rhymes on the Los Angeles-based Cheekface’s fourth album, It’s Sorted.
Director Fernando Meirelles on ‘Sugar’
Apr 10, 2024 Web Exclusive
The Brazilian auteur made his name co-directing the crime saga, City of God, with Sugar, now he’s working with some of Hollywood’s biggest names, including fellow Oscar nominee, Colin Farrell.
Pleased to meet you
Eaves Wilder on a Year of Growth and New Experiences
Feb 01, 2024 Web Exclusive
Emerging UK singer/songwriter Eaves Wilder had a memorable 2023. It was a year in which she grew as an artist and discovered what it takes to become a touring musician. Under the Radar sat down to have a chat with her just before Christmas, and we delved into her early musical influences and how they informed the music she writes today.
Lists
Under the Radar’s Top 40 TV Shows of 2023
Jan 29, 2024
Last year was a challenging one for the entertainment industry with the Writers Guild of America and Screen Actors Guild strikes. While this double blow—albeit for good causes—had detrimental snowball effects on the industry, there was still a solid grip of high quality material that made it to the not-so-small screen airwaves and streamers. Award-winning series like The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel and Barry took their last bows, and we’re still waiting for a trifecta from Vince Gilligan to round out Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, but there was plenty to keep viewers glued to the tube. From superheroes to science fiction, political intrigue to teenage hijinks and dramatized jury service to historical dramas, we continue to be spoiled for choice. It was a battle for Under the Radar’s top television shows of 2023, but we’ve managed to narrow it down to 40 solid watches.
Live reviews
Festival Preview: Sharpe Festival, Bratislava, Slovakia, April 25-27, 2024
Apr 22, 2024
Under the Radar heads to Bratislava this week for the 2024 edition of Sharpe Festival. Here’s seven acts we’re most looking forward to seeing.
Blog
Under the Radar Announces The ’90s Issue with The Cardigans and Thurston Moore on the Covers
Apr 19, 2024
Under the Radar is excited to announce the full details of our new print issue, Issue 72, The ’90s Issue, which features interviews with musicians and film directors known for their work in that decade and has The Cardigans and Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth on the two covers. As well as articles on Britpop, shoegaze, and the TV show Twin Peaks (for which we spoke to much of the cast), the issue includes interviews with Garbage, The Cranberries, Pavement, Lisa Loeb, Supergrass, Spiritualized, Lush, Ride, Velocity Girl, Gus Van Sant, Penelope Spheeris, Terry Gilliam, Stereo MC’s, Semisonic, Blonde Redhead, Sleater-Kinney, and more.
Current Issue
Issue #72
Apr 19, 2024 Issue #72 - The ‘90s Issue with The Cardigans and Thurston Moore
Media
- Spacey Jane – Listen to Our Interview in the New Episode of Our Under the Radar Podcast
- Tim Burgess – Listen to Our Interview in the New Episode of Our Under the Radar Podcast
- Phoenix – Listen to Our Interview in the New Episode of Our Under the Radar Podcast
- Bloc Party – Listen to Our Interview in the New Episode of Our Under the Radar Podcast
Cinema Reviews
Challengers
Apr 22, 2024 Web Exclusive
Challengers represents an enjoyable and original diversion from the cult-like worship of professional sport’s biggest names prevalent in many of the formulaic sports docs and biopics currently cluttering up streamers.
DVD Reviews
I Am Cuba [4K UHD]
Studio: The Criterion Collection
Apr 22, 2024 Web Exclusive
I Am Cuba is a seminal piece of cinematic history and a criminally overlooked film.
Television Reviews
Under the Bridge
Hulu, April 17, 2024
Apr 17, 2024 Web Exclusive
The allure of the ‘90s continues with Under the Bridge, an eight-part limited series based on the late Rebecca Godfrey’s 2009 true-crime book of the same name, about Reena Virk, 14-year-old Indian-Canadian girl who went to a party and never returned home, only to be found dead over a week later.