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Plus Aeon Station, Boy Harsher, Beauty Pill, Clinic, and a Wrap-up of the Week’s Other Notable New Tracks
Oct 22, 2021
By Mark Redfern (with Joey Arnone)
Welcome to the 40th Songs of the Week of 2021. More
Fantasy Island Due Out This Friday via Domino
Oct 18, 2021
By Mark Redfern
Liverpool post-punks Clinic are releasing a new album, Fantasy Island, this Friday via Domino. Now they have shared its fourth and final pre-release single, “Refractions (In the Rain).” More
Fantasy Island Due Out October 22 via Domino
Sep 09, 2021
By Mark Redfern
Liverpool post-punks Clinic are releasing a new album, Fantasy Island, on October 22 via Domino. Now they have shared its third single, which is a cover of Ann Peebles’ “I Can’t Stand the Rain.” The original was the title track to Peebles’ 1973 album of the same name. Clinic’s cover was shared via an Emily Evans-directed video. More
Plus Big Red Machine, Ora the Molecule, Low, illuminati hotties, and a Wrap-up of the Week’s Other Notable New Tracks
Jul 23, 2021
By Mark Redfern
Welcome to the 28th Songs of the Week of 2021. It was a nice week for new music, with some strong new singles (some connected to album announcements) and some wonderful album tracks we’ve long wanted to share with our readers and can now that the albums are out. We had enough tracks for a Top 12 this week, but many of the honorable mentions are worthy too. More
Fantasy Island Due Out October 22 via Domino
Jul 22, 2021
By Mark Redfern
Liverpool post-punks Clinic have announced a new album, Fantasy Island, and shared its title track via a video for it. More
Gone to Color Due Out October 25
Jul 19, 2021
By Mark Redfern
Gone to Color are a new electronic rock band led by Tyler Bradley Walker and Matt Heim. They are self-releasing their self-titled debut album on October 25 and now they have shared its third single, “Illusions,” which features Ade Blackburn of Clinic. More
Plus Teenage Sequence, Nation of Language, LUMP, and a Wrap-up of the Week’s Other Notable New Tracks
Jun 04, 2021
By Mark Redfern (with Emma Goad)
Welcome to the 21st Songs of the Week of 2021. We figured it would be a quiet week for new songs, with Monday being a holiday here in America, but we were wrong. More
Jun 02, 2021
By Mark Redfern
Liverpool post-punks Clinic have shared a new song, “Fine Dining,” via a video for the song. The band have also announced some new UK tour dates, which are their first dates in nine years. More
HÆLOS and Clinic Are Runner-ups (Plus Stream New Albums from Mac DeMarco, Maps, The Get Up Kids, and More)
May 10, 2019
By Christopher Roberts
Charly Bliss released a new album, Young Enough, today via Barsuk and it’s our Album of the Week. Find more info on the album below, as well as on two runner-ups that were almost our Album of the Week. Below that are streams of other notable albums released today. More
Plus Flying Lotus, Africa Express, Alex Cameron, and a Wrap-up of the Week's Other Notable New Tracks
May 10, 2019
By Mark Redfern
Welcome to another Songs of the Week. We worried we were going to be able to come up with a Top 8 this week, but a couple of album tracks were able to round out the list.
Wheeltappers and Shunters Out Now via Domino
May 10, 2019
By Christopher Roberts
Liverpool post-punks Clinic have released their first new album in seven years, Wheeltappers and Shunters, today via their longtime label Domino. Now that the album is out, you can stream the whole thing here. More
Plus Tame Impala, Amason, Wand, Clinic, Mark Ronson and Lykke Li, and a Wrap-up of the Week's Other Notable New Tracks
Apr 12, 2019
By Mark Redfern
Welcome to another Songs of the Week. We were a bit indecisive this week. There were lots of new tracks to sort through and lots of good ones, but none that immediately screamed #1 Song of the Week. But then we realized there was actually a clear winner after-all. More
Wheeltappers and Shunters Due Out May 10th via Domino
Apr 08, 2019
By Christopher Roberts
Liverpool post-punks Clinic are releasing their first new album in seven years, Wheeltappers and Shunters, on May 10th via their longtime label Domino. Previously they shared a video for its first single, “Rubber Bullets,” which was one of our Songs of the Week. Now they have shared another song from the album, opening track “Laughing Cavalier,” also via a Joseph May-directed animated video. More
Plus Vampire Weekend, Strand of Oaks, Glen Hansard, Local Natives, and a Wrap-up of the Week's Other Notable New Tracks
Mar 08, 2019
By Christopher Roberts
We’ve got another supersized Songs of the Week this week, with a Top 12 instead of the regular Top 10. Like last week we could’ve gotten it down to 10, but it felt wrong to leave out the bottom two. It was a near tie for the top two songs this week. More
Wheeltappers and Shunters Due Out May 10th via Domino
Mar 05, 2019
By Christopher Roberts
Liverpool post-punks Clinic have announced their first new album in seven years, Wheeltappers and Shunters, and shared a video for its first single, “Rubber Bullets.” More
Jul 24, 2013
By Laura Studarus
Clinic is hitting the road in support of this year’s Free Reign II. More
Alternative Version of Album Features New Mixes and Tracks
Jan 21, 2013
By Mike Hilleary
Masked Liverpool foursome Clinic have announced that they will embark on a upcoming tour through North America this spring. More
Clinic’s Free Reign out Today
Nov 13, 2012
By Sara Heflin
Today, the Liverpool band, Clinic, is releasing their seventh album, Free Reign. In its honor, also premiering today is Peaking Lights’ remix of the Free Reign single “Miss You.” More
On Pussy Riot, Protest Songs, and News Sources
Nov 01, 2012
By Christopher Roberts
In conjunction with our Protest Issue we asked several artists the same set of politically-themed questions. These answers were provided by Ade Blackburn of the British band Clinic. The Liverpool-based band is releasing their seventh album, Free Reign, November 13 via Domino. The self-produced album was mixed with help from Daniel Lopatin (Oneohtrix Point Never). More
First Single Off Upcoming Album Free Reign
Oct 11, 2012
By Mike Hilleary
Leading up to the release of their seventh full-length album Free Reign Liverpool-based experimentalists Clinic have unveiled a trippy music video for their lead single “Miss You.” More
Aug 22, 2012
By Mike Hilleary
Returning with their seventh full-length album, Clinic have announced the arrival of Free Reign on Nov. 13. More
Includes Bonus Joanna Newsom vs. Robin Pecknold Interview, Plus Articles on The Dears, Dntel/The Postal Service, The Fiery Furnaces, of Montreal, Okkervil River, Saint Etienne, Elliott Smith, Sonic Youth, and more
Nov 23, 2011
By Laura Studarus
The digital version of Under the Radar‘s 10th Anniversary Issue includes the same articles that appear in the printed version—plus 70 extra pages of editorial content not found in the print version, including extra full page photos, 13 bonus articles, and 11 bonus reviews. The digital version includes exclusive bonus articles on Arab Strap, Clinic, The Dears, The Delgados, DNTEL/The Postal Service, The Fiery Furnaces, Robin Pecknold of Fleet Foxes vs. Joanna Newsom, Mogwai, of Montreal, Okkervil River, Saint Etienne, Elliott Smith, and Sonic Youth. More
Plus: Paul Rudd vs. The Divine Comedy, plus interviews with Broadcast, Grandaddy, The Flaming Lips, Bat For Lashes, Rilo Kiley, Broken Social Scene, and much more
Oct 19, 2011
By Mark Redfern
Under the Radar is excited to announce the release of the indie music and entertainment print magazine’s 10th Anniversary Issue which hits newsstands next week. The extra-sized 10th Anniversary Issue features cover artists Joanna Newsom and Fleet Foxes’ Robin Pecknold together in an exclusive photo shoot and joint interview. Exclusive video taken during the cover shoot of Robin Pecknold and Joanna Newsom arm wrestling can be found here. More
Sep 30, 2010
By Wendy Lynch Redfern
Under the Radar‘s Summer 2010 Issue is a special issue named the Wasted on the Youth Issue that features musicians and actors talking about their childhood memories and things they loved when they were kids. We’re also posting web-exclusive essays that were not printed in the issue, including this one by Brian Campbell, bassist for Liverpool, England’s Clinic. More
Interviews
Jun 20, 2019
By James Thornhill
“That’s the main thing, you come away with isn’t it [confusion]. It seems, at least, like every couple of weeks it swings one way or another. You really can’t predict what is going to happen, I still wouldn’t know. More
On Pussy Riot, Protest Songs, and News Sources
Nov 01, 2012
By Christopher Roberts
In conjunction with our Protest Issue we asked several artists the same set of politically-themed questions. These answers were provided by Ade Blackburn of the British band Clinic. The Liverpool-based band is releasing their seventh album, Free Reign, November 13 via Domino. The self-produced album was mixed with help from Daniel Lopatin (Oneohtrix Point Never).
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Reviews
May 21, 2019
By Dom Gourlay
Liverpudlian quartet Clinic have bewildered listeners and confounded expectations for over two decades now. So it shouldn’t come as any surprise that Wheeltappers and Shunters continues that trait. More
Apr 04, 2013
By Dan Lucas
Remix albums have something of a deserved bad name: often lazily tossed off cash cows trying to convince the consumer to pay out for the same product twice. Yet another Blade Runner Director’s Cut, if you like. More
Nov 09, 2012
By J. Pace
Clinic are as known-quantity as a band can get. They are one of those antidote bands designed for fans who get mad when a band evolves too much. If they are changing, it’s at a scarcely detectable speed, like an exciting glacier (apologies to any geologist Under the Radar readers). More