Sep 17, 2021 By Mark Redfern

Ezra Furman has surprise released a new EP that features songs she has written for season 3 of the Netflix show Sex Education. It’s fittingly titled Sex Education - Songs from Season 3 and features three new songs, alongside two songs previously released with her former band Ezra Furman & The Harpoons in 2011. More

Apr 21, 2021 By Mark Redfern

Under the Radar is excited to announce the full details of our new print issue, which is out now nationwide (on newsstands, in such stores as Barnes & Noble and Books-A-Million, and elsewhere) and available to buy directly from us here. The issue features Japanese Breakfast and HAIM on the two covers and is another edition of The Protest Issue, which examines the intersection of music and politics and features musicians photographed with protest signs of their own making. More

Feb 05, 2021 By Mark Redfern (with Joey Arnone, Emma Goad, and Jimi Arundell)

Welcome to the fourth Songs of the Week of 2021. It was a fairly low-key week, news wise, although crackpot Q-Anon believing Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene was removed from her committee assignments, thanks in part to 11 Republicans who crossed the aisle and voted with Democrats, and the Senate passed a budget resolution early this morning that paved the way for President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 relief package to be passed without any votes from Republicans. More

Feb 04, 2021 By Joey Arnone

Du Blonde (aka Beth Jeans Houghton) has shared a new song “I’m Glad That We Broke Up,” which features Ezra Furman. The song will be featured on Houghton’s upcoming album as Du Blonde, Homecoming, which releases on April 2 via Moshi Moshi. More

Dec 03, 2020 By Celine Teo-Blockey

This year we launched a new podcast, simply titled Under the Radar, and also announced that as well as being available on all podcasting platforms the podcast will also be airing on WLUR, an NPR affiliate based in Lexington, VA (the city where Under the Radar is currently based). Our sixth episode, featuring an interview with Fran Healy, frontman of Scotish rockers Travis is airing today (Thursday, December 3) at 5 p.m. EST. More

Aug 20, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

We recently launched a new podcast, simply titled Under the Radar, and also announced that as well as being available on all podcasting platforms the podcast will now also be airing on WLUR, an NPR affiliate based in Lexington, VA (the city where Under the Radar is currently based). Our first episode, which featured an in-depth story on Black Belt Eagle Scout (aka Katherine Paul), broadcasted last month. Our second episode, featuring an interview with gender non-conforming, indie rocker Ezra Furman, is airing today ( More

Jun 23, 2020 By Mark Redfern

To celebrate Pride Month and last week’s ruling on the Supreme Court landmark case— that existing civil rights law protects LGBTQ workers against job discrimination—we have dropped episode two of our new podcast that’s simply titled Under the Radar, and it features gender non-conforming, indie rocker Ezra Furman. More

Feb 24, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

Ezra Furman recently released the soundtrack to the acclaimed Netflix show Sex Education on Bella Union. Now Furman has shared an animated video for the album’s “Every Feeling.” More

Jan 21, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

Ezra Furman has announced the release of her soundtrack to the acclaimed Netflix show Sex Education and shared a track from it, “Every Feeling.” More

Sep 17, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Ezra Furman released a new album, Twelve Nudes, last month via Bella Union (stream it here). Now Furman has shared a video for the album’s “Thermometer” and announced some more tour dates for next February. More

Aug 30, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Ezra Furman has released a new album, Twelve Nudes, today via Bella Union. Now that the album is out, you can stream the whole thing here. You can also read our review of it. More

Jul 19, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Welcome to another Songs of the Week. There were a slew of solid tracks to choose from this week, making it extra hard to narrow the list down. Hence there are a whopping 11 honorable mentions. But we had some self-control and kept the main list to a Top 10. More

Jul 15, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Ezra Furman is releasing a new album, Twelve Nudes, on August 30 via Bella Union. Now he has shared two more songs from it: “I Wanna Be Your Girlfriend” and “Evening Prayer.” “I Wanna Be Your Girlfriend” is accompanied by an Alix Spence-directed video. More

May 24, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Welcome to another Songs of the Week. Last week we only had a Top 7 instead of our usual Top 10 and this week it’s only a little better with a Top 8. More

May 21, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Ezra Furman has announced a new album, Twelve Nudes, and shared a video for its first single (and opening track) “Calm Down aka I Should Not Be Alone.” He’s also announced some tour dates. More

Mar 01, 2019 By Mark Redfern

Under the Radar is excited to announce the full details of our new print issue, Issue 65, which is out now nationwide (on newsstands, in such stores as Barnes & Noble and Books-A-Million, and elsewhere) and available to buy directly from us here. The issue features Mitski on the front cover and boygenius (Julien Baker + Phoebe Bridgers + Lucy Dacus) on the back cover. More

Aug 29, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Ezra Furman released a new album, Transangelic Exodus, back in February via Bella Union. Now Furman has shared a cover of Vampire Weekend’s “Unbelievers” (a song from their last album, 2013’s Modern Vampires of the City). He has also added a few more tour dates to his schedule. More

Jul 11, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Ezra Furman released a new album, Transangelic Exodus, back in February via Bella Union. Now Furman has announced some new fall tour dates. They go down this October, November, and December and include two shows in Canada. More

Mar 28, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Under the Radar is excited to announce the full details of our Spring 2018 Issue, which is out now digitally via Under the Radar’s app and the magazine apps Readly and Zinio. The print version has shipped out to subscribers and stores and will be on all newsstands soon. The issue features Courtney Barnett on the cover. More

Jan 10, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

SXSW (aka South By Southwest), the annual conference/festival in Austin, Texas, previously announced the first round of 2018 musical performers, as well as the second round. Now they have announced the third round of artists to be performing during the music portion (there’s also film and interactive portions) in 2018 and it’s a long list featuring 570 artists! More

Jan 08, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

The lineup for the 2018 Shaky Knees Music Festival has been announced. The festival goes down in Atlanta, GA’s Central Park May 4-6. The headliners are The National, Jack White, and Queens of the Stone Age. More

May 29, 2018 By Lee Adcock

first time I try to call Ezra Furman in Belgium, I’m greeted by his voicemail: “This is Ezra, leave a message. Don’t be shy, it’s just you and me.” I was, in fact, hella nervous: the gender-fluid frontman had directed several incarnations of his backing band for 11 years before I’d stumbled into his sphere. More

Feb 20, 2017 By Mark Redfern

For Under the Radar‘s 14th annual Artist Survey we emailed some of our favorite artists a few questions relating to 2016. We asked them about their favorite albums of the year and their thoughts on various notable 2016 news stories involving either the music industry or world events, as well as some quirkier personal questions. Here are some answers from Ezra Furman. Furman’s last full-length was 2015’s Perpetual Motion People, but in 2016 he released the Big Fugitive Life EP on Bella Union.

Feb 09, 2018 By Ellen Peirson-Hagger

Transangelic Exodus is a record just as dramatic as its title. It is Ezra Furman’s seventh album, his second on Bella Union, and his first under a new band name. Ezra Furman’s Boy-Friends are dead: enter The Visions. More

Jul 27, 2015 By Zach Hollwedel

Ezra Furman‘s third solo album is about youth, discontentment, and longing. A little scattered and with occasionally mediocre lyrics, it congeals into a fun, extremely varied, and repeatedly listenable album. More