Album Reviews
Highasakite
Silent Treatment
Mar 07, 2014 Issue #49 - February/March 2014 - Portlandia
Silent Treatment is the international debut full-length from Oslo five-piece Highasakite. It follows a couple of Norwegian releases and 2012's excellent In and Out of Weeks EP, the latter of which includes the band's majestic, soaring pop song "Indian Summer."
Eagulls
Eagulls
Mar 06, 2014 Issue #49 - February/March 2014 - Portlandia
If guitar bands are finished, no one bothered to tell the band Eagulls. Eagulls, their debut album after forming in 2009, is built to make damn sure someone will be paying attention.
The Casket Girls
True Love Kills the Fairytale
Mar 05, 2014 Issue #49 - February/March 2014 - Portlandia
The sophomore full-length from The Casket Girls is the rare kind of second album that manages to maintain the charm and mystery of the debut while expanding and refining its sonic formula.
Classic Interviews
Tegan and Sara
Their Excellent Adventure
Jan 05, 2010
Tegan and Sara Quin are sitting together in the artists lounge at Warner Bros. Records in Burbank when they're pitched a fantasy film premise.
Comic Book Reviews
Demon Knights: Vol. 3: The Gathering Storm
DC
Feb 20, 2014 Web Exclusive
At the fringes of DC's New 52 reboot is Demon Knights, which DC canceled last year after 23 issues. Vol. 3: The Gathering Storm collects the final 10 issues, starting with the last three by initial writer Paul Cornell and concluding as Robert Venditti took over scripting duties for the final seven, with Bernard Chang ably drawing all 10.
Book Reviews
Bruce Pavitt
Experiencing Nirvana: Grunge in Europe, 1989
Feb 11, 2014 Web Exclusive
In Experiencing Nirvana, SubPop Records co-founder Bruce Pavitt documents the 1989 Mudhoney and Tad/Nirvana tours through Europe in 1989.
News
Announcing the Under the Radar App - The New Interactive Digital Magazine
Mar 07, 2014
The Under the Radar App is available now from the iTunes store. It features a new and improved digital version of the magazine. For the new digital magazine format our print issues have been redesigned to be more reader- and user-friendly when viewed on tablets (such as iPads) and phones.
Interviews
2013 Artist Survey: ...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead
Mar 08, 2014 Web Exclusive
For Under the Radar's 11th annual Artist Survey we emailed some of our favorite artists a few questions relating to the important issues of the last year, as well as some quirkier subjects. Check out our current print issue and digital issue for surveys from My Morning Jacket, Foals, Amanda Palmer, Local Natives, Wild Nothing, These New Puritans, Lanterns on the Lake, Xiu Xiu, and Summer Camp.
2013 Artist Survey: World’s End Press
Mar 08, 2014 Web Exclusive
For Under the Radar's 11th annual Artist Survey we emailed some of our favorite artists a few questions relating to the important issues of the last year, as well as some quirkier subjects. Check out our current print issue and digital issue for surveys from My Morning Jacket, Foals, Amanda Palmer, Local Natives, Wild Nothing, These New Puritans, Lanterns on the Lake, Xiu Xiu, and Summer Camp.
Pleased to meet you
Cheatahs Discuss Their Self-Titled Debut Album
Feb 18, 2014 Web Exclusive
Most Anglophiles tend to worship from afar. Three of the London-based Cheatahs did just the opposite—vocalist/guitarist Nathan Hewitt originally hails from Edmonton, Canada, bassist/producer Dean Reid is from San Diego, California, and from Dresden, Germany is drummer Marc Raue. The only local, so to speak, from Leicester, U.K., is guitarist James Wignall.
Lists
Ranked: 2014 Oscar Nominated Live Action Short Films
Feb 28, 2014
The 86th Annual Academy Awards ceremony will happen this Sunday, March 2nd. This week we've taken a look at this year's short film competitions. The Academy defines a short film as an original motion picture running 40 minutes or less, and excludes all advertisments, unaired or unsold television episodes, or credit sequences from feature-length films. Our critic, Shawn Hazelett, watched and ranked all of this year's Oscar-nominated shorts. In this final installment, he'll look at this year's live action category.
Live reviews
by:Larm Day Three: First Aid Kit, Jaakko Eino Kalevi, Ice Cream Cathedral, and Kate Boy
Mar 06, 2014
The music on Saturday night was pretty impressive: First Aid Kit, Jaakko Eino Kalevi, Ice Cream Cathedral, and Kate Boy.
Blog
Genesis and Beyond: Q&A with Wendy Flower of Wendy and Bonnie
Mar 07, 2014
Wendy Flower reflects on the making of the newly-revived 1969 album Genesis and her long-awaited return to music.
Media
- Premiere: The Mary Onettes Mixtape (SXSW Party Edition) The Mary Onettes
- Premiere: “Tes Histoires Invisibles” Video Watoo Watoo
- “Del Rio” (B-side) MP3 Stream St. Vincent
- “Shape (MP Williams Remix)” MP3 Stream Glasser
- “Nothing to Give” Video Rebeka
- Premiere: THUMPERS Mixtape (SXSW Party Edition) Thumpers
Cinema Reviews
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Mar 07, 2014 Web Exclusive
The Grand Budapest Hotel may be Wes Anderson’s most finely-crafted film to date, and is one that even the filmmaker’s detractors should be able to appreciate.
DVD Reviews
Thief Blu-ray/DVD
Studio: Criterion
Feb 25, 2014 Web Exclusive
In what will likely go down as one of the most assured cinematic debuts, Michael Mann's Thief (from 1981) is a neon-drenched neo-noir heist flick, magnificently restored to its initial luster by the Criterion Collection.
Television Reviews
The Walking Dead: “Still” (Season 4: Episode 12) Recap/Analysis
AMC, Sundays 9/8 Central
Mar 05, 2014 Web Exclusive
Tony Soprano, Don Draper, Walter White, Frank Underwood—for whatever reason, modern audiences like their protagonists conflicted, duplicitous and deeply flawed. Despite the moral ambiguity inherent in having to live in a world where you have to kill other humans as a necessity, The Walking Dead is remarkable for just how traditional the show is in portraying its central struggle as being essentially between the good Rick Grimes fighting against the bad, in both zombie and human form.