News
With special guests Beck, Ed Droste, Victoria LeGrand, Zola Jesus, and more
Aug 29, 2011
By Mi Tran
Last night the Hollywood Bowl hosted a special tribute show to the late French singer, actor, and director Serge Gainsbourg. More
Performers Also Include Cut Copy, Beach House, Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks, Friendly Fires, Empire of the Sun, Battles, and others
Jul 26, 2011
By Margot Cooper Gruen
Today, Treasure Island Music Festival announced their 2011 lineup. More
Follows Band Curated I’ll Be Your Mirror Festival
Jul 11, 2011
By Christopher Roberts
As previously announced, British trip-hop legends Portishead will be curating and headlining ATP's I'll Be Your Mirror festival in Asbury Park, New Jersey, October 1 and 2. More
May 18, 2011
By Laura Studarus
Atlas Sound wasn’t the only one airing out new material at last weekend’s ATP fest. Beach House dropped a dreamy new number into their set. We have the video. More
Jan 24, 2011
By Laura Studarus
This week, Swedish television program Klubbland aired an episode with Beach House, who stopped by back in November to perform a few cuts from best-of list busting, Teen Dream. More
Includes Exclusive Unreleased Tracks by Rose Elinor Dougall, Motorifik, and Club 8
Jan 14, 2011
By Laura Studarus
Every issue of Under the Radar includes a free digital sampler that can be accessed via the download code printed in the issue. Our Year-End issue's sampler (which is sponsored by Shure) includes exclusive unreleased tracks by Motorifik, Rose Elinor Dougall, and Club 8, as well as songs by of Montreal, Plants and Animals, The Radio Dept., Tame Impala, Wild Nothing, Sufjan Stevens, Twin Shadow, Lost in the Trees, Beach House, Avi Buffalo, and Owen Pallett. We have the details. More
Dec 21, 2010
By Laura Studarus
Closing out their landmark year, Beach House took to the Conan stage last night. We have the clip. More
Free Seasonally Appropriate Track
Dec 16, 2010
By Laura Studarus
Capping off their banner year, today Beach House released beautifully downtrodden track, “I Do Not care For the Winter Sun." More
Nov 16, 2010
By Laura Studarus
Beach House is hitting the road one last time in support of this year’s stand-out album Teen Dream. More
Yeasayer, Spoon, Vampire Weekend, and Monsters of Folk, Among Others, Set to Play
May 18, 2010
By Laura Studarus
Festival fans rejoice, the lineup for 2010’s Austin City Limits has been announced. Lineup includes Muse, Flaming Lips, LCD Soundsystem, Spoon, and Vampire Weekend, among others. We have the full details. More
So Many Interviews, So Little Time: Phoenix, Matt and Kim, Beach House, Camera Obscura, Local Natives, and others
May 07, 2010
By Michele Yamamoto
For the past couple weeks, our writers (namely Laura Studarus, Frank Valish, and Hays Davis) have been working hard to bring you website-exclusive interviews. We've posted a total of 12 interviews since late April, 10 of which were conducted at the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival. Making it easy to keep up, we've complied an alphabetical list of our most recent interviews. Find links to our interviews with Doves, Jónsi, Vampire Weekend, Beach House, Camera Obscura, Phoenix, Matt and Kim, Florence and the Machine, Local Natives, Echo & the Bunnymen, The Big Pink, and more. More
"There's Sensual Energy, There's Violent Energy, There's Hopeful Energy"
Apr 27, 2010
By Laura Studarus
Earlier this year, vocalist/keyboardist Victoria Legrand and guitarist Alex Scally—also known as Beach House—released their third album, Teen Dream. A collection of gauzy chamber-pop songs so enchanting Grizzly Bear's Ed Droste repeatedly twittered about its "insanely perfectly gorgeous amazingness," the album has garnered the hard-working duo a string of well-deserved accolades and (very) preemptive declarations of "best album of the year." More
Openers Include: Grizzly Bear, Sonic Youth, and Beach House
Apr 23, 2010
By Laura Studarus
Didn't catch every band at Coachella you were hoping to see? Never fear! This summer, Hollywood Bowl is hosting several Under the Radar-friendly bands, including Vampire Weekend, Phoenix, and Pavement. We have the dates. More
Plus Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros, Dirty Projectors, Beach House
Apr 19, 2010
By Wendy Lynch Redfern
Staff photographer and Under the Radar's Co-Publisher/Co-Founder, Wendy Lynch Redfern, was down in Coachella, CA for Coachella 2010. Check out a gallery of her photos from the second day of Coachella 2010. The gallery includes photos of Devo, The Dead Weather, Muse, MGMT, Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros, Dirty Projectors, Beach House. Click here to view the full gallery. More
Teen Dream Out January 26th on Sub Pop
Jan 11, 2010
By Kyle Lemmon
Word comes today that the luxuriously downbeat Baltimore duo Beach House are taking Georgia's Washed Out out on the road for the first time this spring. More
Teen Dreams is Out January 26th
Oct 20, 2009
By Kyle Lemmon
We're pretty avid Beach House fans here at UTR Towers, so when they hooked up with the indie juggnernaut Sub Pop earlier this year, our ears perked up like the ice cream man was coming 'round the bend. Now we have more salivation-worthy news: the gauze-pop duo's third album is coming January 26, 2010 on CD/LP. More
Sep 10, 2009
By Laura Studarus
After releasing two albums for Carpark Records, Alex Scally and Victoria Legrand, aka Beach House, have announced their third album will be released on Sub Pop in early 2010. We have album info and tour dates. More
Interviews
Sex, Inspirations, and Video Collaborations
Apr 27, 2010
By Laura Studarus
Earlier this year, vocalist/keyboardist Victoria Legrand and guitarist Alex Scally—also known as Beach House—released their third album, Teen Dream. A collection of gauzy chamber-pop songs so enchanting Grizzly Bear's Ed Droste repeatedly twittered about its "insanely perfectly gorgeous amazingness," the album has garnered the hard-working duo a string of well-deserved accolades and (very) preemptive declarations of "best album of the year." Under the Radar caught up with the pair at Coachella between their set and a well-deserved dinner to discuss youth, sex, and working on the road. More
Reviews
Serge Gainsbourg Tribute: Beck, Zola Jesus, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Victoria Legrand and more
Aug 29, 2011
By Laura Studarus
It’s deceptively easy to see the career of French musician Serge Gainsbourg as one continuous punchline. With his distinctive vocal style—a muttered sing-speech—parodied almost into oblivion since his rise to popularity in the 1960s, the inclusion of his music in film or television seems to automatically indicate the horny bachelor, the ill-conceived seduction, or (horror of horrors) hipsters aiming to embrace kitsch with both hands. Last night at the Hollywood Bowl however, cool was the name of the game—as Beck, Zola Jesus, Victoria Legrand (of Beach House), Mike Patton, Ed Droste (of Grizzly Bear), The Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger, Lulu Gainsbourg, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt, sang, spoke and cooed their tributes to the late performer. More
Vampire Weekend, Beach House, and The Very Best at The Hollywood Bowl, Hollywood, CA
Oct 01, 2010
By Laura Studarus
Although autumn had officially hit several days earlier, one would have been hard pressed to find any signs of the new season at Vampire Weekend’s unseasonably hot Hollywood Bowl debut Sunday night. Also making their sweat-drenched bowl debuts were African/Swedish band The Very Best, and Baltimore, Maryland’s Beach House. More
Coachella 2010 Day 2 Recap: Beach House, Camera Obscura, Muse, and More
Apr 18, 2010
By Laura Studarus
Day two started out much like day one, in fulltilt. Despite a bevy of physical ailments left over from yesterday's marathon, making it to Camera Obscura's set on time was worth another painful sprint across the field. However day two was light on the heavy hitters, and after the initial close call, I didn't have to hustle to see sets from Beach House, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, Hot Chip, MGMT, and Muse. More
