Aug 17, 2020 By Samantha Small

Earlier this year, Father John Misty (aka Josh Tillman) and Moor Mother (aka Camae Ayewa) released exclusive 7-inch singles for Sub Pop’s Singles Club. Now those A-Sides are available on all digital streaming platforms. Check out Father John Misty’s 7-inch was a double A-side release, so check out his two songs—“To S.” “To R.”—below. Moor Mother’s release was a two-part song collectively titled Forever Industries and can be heard below too. More

Jul 03, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

As announced yesterday, Father John Misty (aka Josh Tillman) has released Anthem +3, a covers EP timed to Bandcamp’s “No Revenue Share Day.” While it includes three previously released covers of songs by Leonard Cohen, Yusuf/Cat Stevens, and Link Wray, it’s led by a previously unreleased cover of Cohen’s “Anthem.” More

Jul 02, 2020 By Samantha Small

Father John Misty (aka Josh Tillman) is releasing Anthem +3 tomorrow, a cover EP made for Bandcamp’s “No Revenue Share Day.” In addition, the collection of Leonard Cohen, Yusuf/Cat Stevens, and Link Wray covers will also be released July 14 through Sub Pop. All proceeds from the EP will go to CARE Action and Ground Game LA More

Mar 23, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

Father John Misty (aka Josh Tillman) has surprise released a new live album, Off-Key in Hamburg, with all proceeds going to the MusiCares COVID-19 Relief Fund. More

Jun 20, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

At his show last night at BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival Father John Misty (aka Josh Tillman) performed a brand new song, reportedly titled “Tell It Like It Is,” and there is some good fan shot video of the performance. It’s a moody number, backed by horns. More

Jun 17, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

At his concert in Minneapolis on Friday night Father John Misty (aka Josh Tillman) performed a new song during the encore he implied was rejected for use in last year’s hit film A Star Is Born. The show was professionally filmed and live streamed by the Minnesota Public Radio station The Current and can be watched here. More

Feb 12, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

On “Mr. Tillman,” the lead single to Father John Misty‘s 2018 album God’s Favorite Customer, Jason Isbell is jokingly referenced (“Jason Isbell’s here as well/And he seemed a little worried about you”). More

Dec 30, 2018 By Mark Redfern

And here we are, the end of another year. The last 12 months tried the patience of anyone who longed for civility in politics, with divisive policies and a president beloved by only his most ardent supporters. More

Nov 02, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

At Father John Misty‘s concert at De Roma in Antwerpen, Belgium last night he ended his set by jokingly covering Coldplay’s 2002 hit “Clocks.” Josh Tillman’s backing band performed a competent cover but when he took the mic he kind of mumbled or scatted his way through the lyrics, before then joking: “This is my walk-off music from now on.” More

Sep 17, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

In September 2017 Father John Misty performed a surprise lunchtime acoustic set at Jack White’s Third Man Records in Nashville, before his show at the Ryman Auditorium that night. Third Man are known to cut and release live albums and so they captured the performance and have now officially announced a live Father John Misty album, simply titled Father John Misty: Live at Third Man Records, and shared one of its cuts, a live version of “I’m Growing Old on Magic Mountain” (from 2017’s Pure Comedy). More

Sep 04, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Castle Rock is a new TV show on Hulu that brings together various settings and characters from Stephen King’s writings. Even though the show is currently streaming, with new episodes every Wednesday and only two more episodes this season, a new trailer for the show has been shared and it features a previously unreleased Father John Misty track in which he covers Link Wray’s “Fallin’ Rain” exclusively for the show. More

Aug 15, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Father John Misty (aka Josh Tillman) released a new album, God’s Favorite Customer, back in June via Sub Pop worldwide (except for Europe, where it’s on Bella Union). Now he has done a session for Spotify where he covers Gillian Welch’s “Everything Is Free” and performs a new synth-pop version of “Mr. Tillman.” More

Aug 06, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Father John Misty (aka Josh Tillman) released a new album, God’s Favorite Customer, back in June via Sub Pop worldwide (except for Europe, where it’s on Bella Union). On Saturday he performed at Historic Fort York in Toronto. During his performance of the album’s title track, “God’s Favorite Customer,” Jenny Lewis joined him onstage, singing the part sung by Weyes Blood (aka Natalie Mering) on the album. More

Jul 15, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Father John Misty (aka Josh Tillman) released a new album, God’s Favorite Customer, last month via Sub Pop worldwide (except for Europe, where it’s on Bella Union). Now he has shared a video for “Date Night.” Chad VanGaalen directed the colorful animated video, which features various fantastical creatures and includes Tillman riding a flying piano with bat wings. More

Jul 02, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Father John Misty (aka Josh Tillman) released a new album, God’s Favorite Customer, last month via Sub Pop worldwide (except for Europe, where it’s on Bella Union). Now he has announced that all of the profits from sales in his web store this week will be donated to RAICES (Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services) to benefit migrant families, especially those separated from their children due to the divisive policies of the Trump administration. More

Jun 19, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Father John Misty (aka Josh Tillman) released a new album, God’s Favorite Customer, earlier in the month via Sub Pop worldwide (except for Europe, where it’s on Bella Union). Now he has shared a video for the album’s title track, “God’s Favorite Customer” (the song features guest vocals from Weyes Blood). More

Jun 06, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Father John Misty (aka Josh Tillman) released a new album, God’s Favorite Customer, last week via Sub Pop worldwide (except for Europe, where it’s on Bella Union). Now he has shared a documentary on the making of the album. More

Jun 01, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

There were some solid contenders for this week’s Songs of the Week list. It was a toss up between #1 and #2, it could’ve gone either way. If we were doing a “Best Use of a Song in a TV Show This Week” list, then first place probably would’ve gone to the use of U2’s “With or Without You” in the surprising and amazing series finale of FX’s The Americans. More

Jun 01, 2018 By Michael Watkins

This week we have tie for Album of the Week, with Father John Misty‘s God’s Favorite Customer (on Sub Pop) and Natalie Prass’ The Future and the Past (on ATO) both taking the top spot. More

Jun 01, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Father John Misty (aka Josh Tillman) released a new album, God’s Favorite Customer, today via Sub Pop worldwide (except for Europe, where it’s on Bella Union). Now that’s it’s out you can stream the whole thing below. Also below are his upcoming tour dates. More

May 30, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Father John Misty (aka Josh Tillman) is releasing a new album God’s Favorite Customer, this Friday (June 1) via Sub Pop worldwide (except for Europe, where it’s on Bella Union). Now he has shared another song from the album, “Please Don’t Die,” via a video for the song. Chris Hopewell directed the stop motion video in which Tillman gets dragged to hell by the Grim Reaper and encounters dancing skeletons, among other things. More

May 08, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Father John Misty (aka Josh Tillman) is releasing a new album God’s Favorite Customer, on June 1 via Sub Pop worldwide (except for Europe, where it’s on Bella Union). Last night he stopped by The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon to perform the album’s first single “Mr. Tillman.” He was backing by the New York City Gay Man’s Chorus. More

May 02, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Father John Misty (aka Josh Tillman) is releasing a new album God’s Favorite Customer, on June 1 via Sub Pop worldwide (except for Europe, where it’s on Bella Union). Now he has announced some new fall American and European tour dates to go down this September and October. King Tuff will be the support on most of the September U.S. dates, whereas Bedouine will be the opener on many of his October European dates. More

Apr 27, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

We skipped Songs of the Week last week because we were kind of on vacation, so this week’s post encompasses songs from the last two weeks. And that’s just as well, because this week was light on new tracks, whereas last week was fairly strong (only three of our Top 10 are songs from this week). More

Apr 25, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Father John Misty (aka Josh Tillman) is releasing a new album God’s Favorite Customer, on June 1 via Sub Pop worldwide (except for Europe, where it’s on Bella Union). Now he has shared a new video for the album’s first single, “Mr. Tillman” (which was first shared back in February and was one of our Songs of the Week). More

Apr 18, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Info on the new album by Father John Misty (aka Josh Tillman), God’s Favorite Customer, leaked yesterday and at midnight he shared two songs from the album to Spotify and Apple Music, “Just Dumb Enough to Try” and “Disappointing Diamonds Are the Rarest of Them All.” Now he has officially announced the album and confirmed its details. More

Apr 17, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Info on the new album by Father John Misty (aka Josh Tillman), God’s Favorite Customer, leaked a few hours ago. Now, as expected, he has shared two songs from the album, “Just Dumb Enough to Try” and “Disappointing Diamonds Are the Rarest of Them All.” More

Apr 17, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Back in February Father John Misty (aka Josh Tillman) shared a new song, “Mr. Tillman” (it was one of our Songs of the Week). Now he has announced a new album, God’s Favorite Customer, which is due out June 1 via Sub Pop worldwide (except for Europe, where it’s on Bella Union) and includes “Mr. Tillman.” More

Apr 03, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Outside Lands have announced their 2018 lineup. The festival goes down August 10 - 12 at San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. The headliners are Florence + The Machine, Janet Jackson, and The Weeknd. More

Mar 01, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Last week Father John Misty (aka Josh Tillman) shared a new song, “Mr. Tillman” (it was one of our Songs of the Week). The song was shared via a YouTube post that at first appeared to be a basic “Official Audio” video with the song’s title against a red background, but about two minutes in Tillman showed up and started dancing in front of still images of hotel lobbies and bars. More

Feb 23, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

It was a crazy good week for new songs. So much so that we could only narrow down this week’s Songs of the Week to 12 tracks, as opposed to our normal 10. Speedy Ortiz almost made the list with “Lucky 88,” the first single off their newly announced new album Twerp Verse, but then it would’ve been 13 songs and we gave into superstition. More

Feb 20, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Father John Misty (aka Josh Tillman) released his latest album, Pure Comedy, in April 2017 via Sub Pop (it was Under the Radar‘s #1 Album of 2017 So Far in our midyear wrap up and #9 in our final Top 100 Albums of 2017 list). More

Jan 29, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

We’re a music magazine and website and so I guess we’re supposed to report on last night’s Grammy Awards, but we really don’t want to. More

Jan 08, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

The National released their excellent new album, Sleep Well Beast, last September via 4AD. It was our Album of the Week and #7 on our Top 100 Albums of 2017 list. More

Jan 05, 2018 By Stephen Mayne

It would be inaccurate to say a lot of us started 2017 with optimism overflowing, but there was a certain relief at having put 2016 to bed. While the misery of a Trump White House still lay ahead, some comfort came from sweeping away the detritus of that car crash of an election. More

Dec 30, 2017 By Mark Redfern

2016 was regarded as a fairly rough year by many, but 2017 was no walk in the park either. 2016 was mired by the deaths of several beloved musical icons (David Bowie, Prince, Leonard Cohen, George Michael, and Sharon Jones among them) and the disappointing and divisive Presidential election, but in 2017 we had to deal with the ramifications of said election (we’d say that roughly 95% of the musicians we interview likely don’t support many, if any, of President Trump’s policies). More

Dec 04, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Father John Misty (aka Josh Tillman) released his latest album, Pure Comedy, back in April via Sub Pop (it was Under the Radar‘s #1 Album of 2017 So Far in our midyear wrap up). Now he has shared a video for the album’s centerpiece song, the 13-minute long “Leaving LA.” More

Nov 28, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

The 2018 Grammy Awards nominations have been announced. Childish Gambino, JAY-Z, Kendrick Lamar, Lorde, and Bruno Mars are all vying for Album of the Year. Arcade Fire, Gorillaz, LCD Soundsystem, Father John Misty, and The National compete for Best Alternative Music Album. More

Nov 16, 2017 By Mark Redfern

Father John Misty (aka Josh Tillman) released his latest album, Pure Comedy, back in April via Sub Pop (it was Under the Radar‘s #1 Album of 2017 So Far in our midyear wrap up). Tillman recently said he was almost done with his next album and that it would be due out in 2018. Now in a new interview with the British music magazine Uncut Tillman has shed some more light on his next album and also revealed some of its potential song titles. More

Oct 20, 2017 By Stephen Mayne

As the Harvey Weinstein fallout continues to unfold, it’s a reminder that the crimes he stands accused of are not exactly rare, nor are they confined to the world of tarnished Hollywood glitz. Like every other part of society, the music industry is also riddled with similar stories. We look at that this week, alongside President Trump insulting various people and imperiling the safety of the world. Not that he doesn’t do the same thing most weeks. More

Oct 16, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Father John Misty (aka Josh Tillman) has shared a new version of “Pure Comedy,” the title track to his latest album, Pure Comedy (released back in April via Sub Pop and Under the Radar‘s #1 Album of 2017 So Far). Entitled “Pure Country,” the new version is a country music take on the song. More

Oct 05, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Tom Petty, the singer/songwriter/guitarist who found success in the 1970s and 1980s with his band as Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, died Monday night after suffering cardiac arrest Sunday night in his home in Malibu, Los Angeles. More

Sep 13, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Father John Misty (aka Josh Tillman) was the guest last night on Late Night With Seth Meyers. Not only did he perform “Things It Would Have Been Helpful To Know Before The Revolution,” he was also interviewed by Meyers, a rarity for indie musicians (Sub Pop says he’s the first of their artists to do a late night TV interview). More

Aug 31, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Father John Misty (aka Josh Tillman) has shared a new remix of “Things It Would Have Been Helpful To Know Before The Revolution.” For the remix he has partnered with The Haxan Cloak (aka British producer and musician Bobby Krlic). As a press release points out, “the rework strips the song of its lush instrumentation and glib tone.” The remix makes the song much more ominous, especially when heard with the accompanying visual that includes stock footage of melting icecaps, riots, and animal attacks, juxtaposed with millennials partying at music festivals. More

Aug 03, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Father John Misty (aka Josh Tillman) has shared a new video for “Things It Would Have Been Helpful To Know Before The Revolution,” a song from Pure Comedy (released back in April via Sub Pop and Under the Radar‘s #1 Album of 2017 So Far) about how yuppies would deal with the aftermath of a true revolution. More

Jul 24, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Father John Misty (aka Josh Tillman) only just released a new 75-minute long album, Pure Comedy, back in April via Sub Pop. It was Under the Radar‘s #1 Album of 2017 So Far. At a show yesterday at the Metro Theatre in Sydney, Australia, Tillman told the audience that he was already almost done with his next album. “I’m mixing it next week,” he said, and then joked it was called “Pure Comedy 2.” More

Jul 13, 2017 By Mark Redfern

In the past we’ve avoided posting midyear best albums lists. It seemed somehow impatient and premature to evaluate the year’s albums halfway through. And how do you decide which period the list covers, which arbitrary release date do you work out is the cut off point, as every midyear list seems to cover a different period? But 2017 is a year that demands a partial evaluation. More

May 10, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Father John Misty (aka Josh Tillman) is no stranger to political commentary and he has now shared a brief video to Twitter that features him eating pizza (perhaps a reference to the Pizzagate conspiracy theory) and singing a short song about James Comey, the FBI Director who was fired by President Donald Trump last night. More

May 05, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Here we highlight nine albums due out today that we feel are most worth hearing. We have also included Amazon links for each album. If you click through those links and buy the album (or anything else on Amazon once you’ve clicked through) then Amazon rewards us with a sales percentage. More

Apr 26, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

If you support Under the Radar‘s Patreon page at the minimum contribution of at least $1.00 a month you get access to our Patreon-only feed featuring exclusive content only available to Patreon supporters. More

Apr 26, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Father John Misty (aka Josh Tillman) released a new 75-minute long album, Pure Comedy, at beginning of the month via Sub Pop worldwide (except in Europe, where it’s a Bella Union release). More

Apr 07, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Father John Misty (aka Josh Tillman) has released a new 75-minute long album, Pure Comedy, today via Sub Pop worldwide (except in Europe, where it’s a Bella Union release). More

Apr 07, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Under the Radar is excited to announce the full details of our Spring 2017 Issue, which is out now digitally via Under the Radar’s app and the magazine app Readly. The print version is about to ship out to subscribers and stores and will be on all newsstands soon (as well as available soon digitally via the magazine apps Zinio and Readly). More

Apr 05, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Father John Misty (aka Josh Tillman) is releasing a new 75-minute long album, Pure Comedy, this Friday (April 7) via Sub Pop worldwide (except in Europe, where it’s a Bella Union release). More

Apr 05, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Father John Misty (aka Josh Tillman) is releasing a new 75-minute long album, Pure Comedy, this Friday (April 7) via Sub Pop worldwide (except in Europe, where it’s a Bella Union release). Last night Tillman stopped by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert to perform “Ballad of the Dying Man.” More

Apr 04, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Father John Misty (aka Josh Tillman) is releasing a new 75-minute long album, Pure Comedy, this Friday (April 7) via Sub Pop worldwide (except in Europe, where it’s a Bella Union release). More

Mar 31, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Father John Misty (aka Josh Tillman) is releasing a new 75-minute long album, Pure Comedy, on April 7 via Sub Pop worldwide (except in Europe, where it’s a Bella Union release). More

Mar 19, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Father John Misty (aka Josh Tillman) is releasing a new 75-minute long album, Pure Comedy, on April 7 via Sub Pop worldwide (except in Europe, where it’s a Bella Union release). More

Mar 15, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Father John Misty (aka Josh Tillman) is releasing a new 75-minute long album, Pure Comedy, on April 7 via Sub Pop worldwide (except in Europe, where it’s a Bella Union release). Now he’s shared a funny new “unboxing” video where he shows off the packaging of the deluxe vinyl edition of the album, while dressed in his pajamas. More

Mar 06, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Father John Misty (aka Josh Tillman) is releasing a new 75-minute long album, Pure Comedy, on April 7 via Sub Pop worldwide (except in Europe, where it’s a Bella Union release). More

Feb 28, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Father John Misty (aka Josh Tillman) is releasing a new 75-minute long album, Pure Comedy, on April 7 via Sub Pop worldwide (except in Europe, where it’s a Bella Union release). More

Feb 03, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Father John Misty (aka Josh Tillman) is releasing a new 75-minute long album, Pure Comedy, on April 7 via Sub Pop worldwide (except in Europe, where it’s a Bella Union release). He’s already shared the six-and-a-half minute title track, “Pure Comedy,” which comments on our current society, politics, and religion, via an accompanying video featuring images of President Donald Trump, among others. More

Feb 01, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Father John Misty (aka Josh Tillman) is releasing a new 75-minute long album, Pure Comedy, on April 7 via Sub Pop worldwide (except in Europe, where it’s a Bella Union release). Tillman has now shared another song from the album, “Ballad of the Dying Man.” More

Jan 30, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Father John Misty (aka Josh Tillman) is releasing a new 75-minute long album, Pure Comedy, on April 7 via Sub Pop worldwide (except in Europe, where it’s a Bella Union release). More

Jan 24, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Yesterday Father John Misty (aka Josh Tillman) shared a six-and-a-half minute new song, “Pure Comedy,” which comments on our current society, politics, and religion. There was also an accompanying video featuring images of President Donald Trump, among others. More

Jan 23, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Father John Misty (aka Josh Tillman) has shared a six-and-a-half minute new song, “Pure Comedy,” which comments on our current society, politics, and religion. It is accompanied by a video. More

Jan 04, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Coachella has announced the line-up for their 2017 festival, which goes down in Indio, California over two weekends in April (with the same bill each weekend). Friday April 14 and 21 is headlined by Radiohead, Saturday April 15 and 22 is headlined by Beyoncé, and Sunday April 16 and 23 is headlined by Kendrick Lamar. More

Dec 05, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

The ever prolific Father John Misty (aka Josh Tillman) performed solo at the annual Seattle Musicians for Children’s Hospital benefit (aka SMooCH) on Saturday night, joining The New Pornographers, Naked Giants, and J Mascis. More

Nov 21, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Father John Misty has shared a brand new song, “Holy Hell.” The piano-ballad seems to be commenting on the current political climate and the media coverage of the election, referring to the “highly effective rhetoric” and the “perverts who get off on it.” More

Nov 15, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Reality TV singing competition shows rarely feature contestants performing original songs and almost as rarely include them singing indie rock songs, but last night on The Voice contestant Aaron Gibson, who is on Miley Cyrus’ team, covered Father John Misty‘s “Hollywood Forever Cemetery Sings,” from his 2012 album Fear Fun. More

Nov 07, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Comedian/musician Tim Heidecker (of Tim & Eric and Heidecker & Wood) has shared a new song as part of the “30 Days, 30 Songs” (now expanded to 50 songs) anti-Donald Trump campaign put together by author/publisher Dave Eggers and Death Cab for Cutie manager Jordan Kurland. More

Sep 14, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

The ever prolific Father John Misty (aka Josh Tillman) has written an amusing new song, “This Is America,” for the strangely titled Adult Swim show Brad Neely’s Harg Nallin’ Sclopio Peepio. More

Jul 07, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

The strange Adult Swim animated comedy Squidbillies returns for a new season this Sunday, July 10, at 11:30 PM EST. As they’ve done in the past, this season they are having different musicians covering the opening theme for each episode. More

Jun 29, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

St. Vincent (aka Annie Clark) performed at a benefit concert at Le Poisson Rouge in New York City last night, dressed as a toilet. She did a new song, as well as “Bring Me Your Loves,” “Marry Me,” and others. More

Jun 02, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

The long awaited follow-up to Since I Left You, the acclaimed 2001 debut album by Australia’s The Avalanches, has finally been announced after years of rumors. Wildflower is due out July 8 via Astralwerks/Modular/EMI/XL and features Father John Misty, Toro Y Moi, Jennifer Herrema of Royal Trux, Camp Lo, Biz Markie, Mercury Rev’s Jonathan Donahue, and Warren Ellis of the Bad Seeds/Dirty Three. More

May 23, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

The long awaited follow-up to Since I Left You, the acclaimed 2001 debut album by Australia’s The Avalanches, has been rumored for years. It’s one of the most talked about delayed albums of the last 15 years and at various points it seemed like the album might be finally coming. More

May 19, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Father John Misty (real name Josh Tillman) has shared another new song to his Soundcloud, entitled “Real Love Baby.” Unlike the new song he shared on Tuesday, “Prius Commercial Demo 1,” which was likely a joke, this one could be a serious new Father John Misty song. More

May 17, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Father John Misty (real name Josh Tillman) has shared a new song to his Soundcloud that may or may not be a joke. Firstly, it’s entitled “Prius Commercial Demo 1,” indicating that it’s either a demo he submitted to the car company or is a swipe at car commercial music. More

May 12, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Father John Misty (real name Josh Tillman) has written lyrics to the instrumental theme song for the Netflix political drama House of Cards. He has posted them to Twitter, claiming they were official lyrics, but considering what a prankster Tillman is who knows if that’s true. More

Mar 31, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Father John Misty (real name Josh Tillman) kicked off his latest round of tour dates last night at the Observatory in Santa Ana, California. During the show he covered Rihanna’s “Kiss It Better,” from her latest album, ANTI, and of course a fan captured video of the performance. Watch it below. More

Mar 29, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

FYF Fest has announced its 2016 lineup and it’s another impressive one. The event is due to take place August 27 and 28 at LA Sports Arena and Exposition Park. Saturday will be headlined by Kendrick Lamar and Tame Impala and Sunday will be headlined by LCD Soundsystem (who seem to be playing every festival this year) and Grace Jones. More

Feb 18, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Beloved New Zealand musical comedy duo Flight of the Conchords (Bret McKenzie + Jemaine Clement) have announced their first U.S. show in three years: they will be headlining the Newport Folk Festival. The long-running festival goes down July 22 - 24 at Fort Adams State Park in Newport, Rhode Island. More

Feb 10, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Lana Del Rey has shared an 11-minute long video for “Freak” that costars Father John Misty (real name Josh Tillman). The song is from Del Rey’s 2015 album, Honeymoon. The video starts simply enough with duo hanging out near the ocean, but then things get trippy. Eventually the music turns into Claude Debussy’s “Clair de Lune” for a long sequence underwater. Watch it below. More

Jan 23, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Father John Misty (real name Josh Tillman) has shared a humorous and nightmarish new song “Maybe, Sweet One, You Won’t Have Nightmares.” The song was originally written for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, as Tillman explained when the song was posted to Soundcloud: “I was asked to write a lullaby for Stephen Colbert as part of a skit for the show. Unfortunately the bit was cut for time/content.” The song is pretty much the opposite of a lullaby, with creepy lyrics about detachable penises and piles of dead birds, backed by some scary musical tones. More

Jan 20, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Bonnaroo have announced their 2016 lineup. The festival goes down in Manchester, Tennessee from June 9-12 and this year, their 15th year, the lineup includes LCD Soundsystem, M83, Tame Impala, CHVRCHES, Father John Misty, HAIM, Death Cab For Cutie, Kurt Vile, Natalie Prass, Purity Ring, Pearl Jam, and many others. More

Jan 15, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Father John Misty (real name Josh Tillman) launched his excellent February 2015-released sophomore album, I Love You, Honeybear, by performing “Bored in the USA” in November 2014 on The Late Show with David Letterman. More

Jan 07, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Father John Misty (real name Josh Tillman) has announced a slew of new North American tour dates. They take up all of April (and are followed by some previously announced May European dates). Tickets go on sale next Friday, January 15 at 12 PM local time, but Pandora listeners get early access starting next Monday, January 11 at 12 PM local time. More

Jan 05, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Forever the prankster, Father John Misty (real name Josh Tillman) has shared some jokey rejected promos for his Pandora Internet radio station. Whether or not they were ever actually submitted to Pandora is questionable, but they are quite funny. More

Dec 07, 2015 By Christopher Roberts

This morning nominations for the 58th Annual Grammy Awards were announced, with the ceremony to go down on February 15, 2016. Kendrick Lamar is nominated 11 times. Other nominees include Mark Ronson, Tame Impala, Wolf Alice, Courtney Barnett, Florence and the Machine, The Weeknd, Caribou, Jamie xx, Alabama Shakes, Death Cab for Cutie, The Dead Weather, and more. More

Oct 15, 2015 By Christopher Roberts

Last night Father John Misty (real name Josh Tillman) stopped by Jimmy Kimmel Live to perform on their outdoor stage with his whole band. He did “The Ideal Husband,” a song from his excellent sophomore album, I Love You, Honeybear, which is out now via Sub Pop. It was a high energy and passionate performance, with Tillman singing on his knees and again on his back towards the end of the song, while his band rocked out. More

Oct 08, 2015 By Christopher Roberts

A couple of weeks back Father John Misty (real name Josh Tillman) made fun of Ryan Adams covering Taylor Swift’s 1989 in its entirety by covering Ryan Adams covering Taylor Swift, but in the style of The Velvet Underground, briefly posting covers of “Blank Space” and “Welcome to New York.” More

Sep 30, 2015 By Christopher Roberts

A couple of weeks back Father John Misty (real name Josh Tillman) shared the amusing “The Night Josh Tillman Came to Our Apartment” video, in which he picked himself up in a bar. Now he has shared a behind-the-scenes video that shows how the Drew Pearce directed clip was made. More

Sep 25, 2015 By Christopher Roberts

Father John Misty (real name Josh Tillman) has shared a brand new song, “The Memo.” This tops a week or so where he released the amusing “The Night Josh Tillman Came to Our Apartment” video, then covered Ryan Adams covering Taylor Swift before swiftly taking them down, and then gettingaccused of ripping off a Funny or Die video for the “Night Josh Tillman…” clip. More

Sep 21, 2015 By Christopher Roberts

Father John Misty (real name Josh Tillman) has shared two covers of songs from the “the classic Ryan Adams album 1989.” No wait, that’s not right. Tillman has released two songs in the style of The Velvet Underground. Well, actually, no, they are covers of two songs by an obscure pop singer namedTaylor Swift. More

Sep 18, 2015 By Christopher Roberts

Follow an amusing teaser trailer released for it on Wednesday, Father John Misty (real name Josh Tillman) has shared a video for “The Night Josh Tillman Came to Our Apartment,” one of the standouts from this year’s I Love You, Honeybear album. In it Tillman meets Tillman in a bar and brings him home with him. The two Tillman’s do coke, swim in his pool, make-out, and seemingly sleep together. More

Sep 16, 2015 By Christopher Roberts

A video for Father John Misty‘s “The Night Josh Tillman Came to Our Apartment” seems imminent, as the singer/songwriter (real name Josh Tillman) has shared a teaser trailer for it. In it Tillman doesn’t sing the I Love You, Honeybear track. Instead he sings “Silent Night” (it’s a little early for Christmas songs, isn’t it?). More

Jul 16, 2015 By Christopher Roberts

Father John Misty was on Conan last night. He performed “I Love You, Honeybear,” the title track to his acclaimed second album from earlier this year. Although it’ll be hard for him to match the brilliance of his Late Show with David Letterman performance of “Bored in the USA” last November, Josh Tillman still delivered a spirited rendition for Mr. O’Brien, singing while standing on top of the drum kit at one point and getting down on his knees at another. More

Jul 06, 2015 By Christopher Roberts

Last week we posted a video of Father John Misty covering Arcade Fire’s “The Suburbs,” the title track to the Canadian band’s 2010-released third album. More

Jul 06, 2015 By Marie Noble

Last weekend, Gdynia, Poland hosted Open’er Festival—the country’s largest four-day music event. More

Jul 25, 2017 By Matt Fink

Josh Tillman is nervous. In five days he’ll perform “Total Entertainment Forever” on Saturday Night Live, but he can already see the headlines from Monday morning from his hotel room in New York City. More

Mar 31, 2016 By Matt Fink

On November 3, 2014, Josh Tillman performed “Bored in the USA” on The Late Show with David Letterman, thereby officially kick-starting his promotional cycle for I Love You, Honeybear, an album that wouldn’t be released for another three months. More

Feb 24, 2016 By Mark Redfern

For Under the Radar’s 13th annual Artist Survey we emailed some of our favorite artists a few questions relating to 2015. We asked them about their favorite albums of the year and their thoughts on various notable 2015 news stories involving either the music industry or world events, as well as some quirkier personal questions. Here are some answers from Josh Tillman, who records as Father John Misty. Father John Misty’s excellent February 2015-released sophomore album, I Love You, Honeybear, was Under the Radar’s #1 album of 2015. More

Jul 22, 2015 By Matt Fink

It’s only three shows into his tour, and Josh Tillman is struggling. The songs from I Love You, Honeybear-his critically-acclaimed second release as Father John Misty-are proving to be “inhospitable environments,” and he can’t find the right way to inhabit them on stage every night. More

Jul 21, 2015 By Matt Fink

No one wants to hear this shit from me.” That’s what Josh Tillman says the more uncharitable voices in his head were telling him as he was working on I Love You, Honeybear, his second release as Father John Misty. More

Aug 14, 2012 By Laura Studarus

Earlier this year, Josh Tillman dropped what—to many Fleet Foxes fans—felt like a bomb: he was leaving the band. A little more than a week later, Tillman announced his triumphant return to the music world, this time as a solo artist playfully dubbed Father John Misty. Under the Radar caught up with Tillman at his Laurel Canyon home to discuss the newest chapter in his musical career. More

Apr 05, 2017 By Stephen Mayne

After a number of solo albums as J. Tillman and a stint as Fleet Foxes’ drummer, Josh Tillman created Father John Misty to find his real voice. It seems to be paying off as he moves to the third album under his eccentric moniker, a musically quieter and lyrically more expansive follow-up to 2015’s I Love You, Honeybear. More

Jun 06, 2016 By Austin Trunick

Photos and highlights from a truncated Governors Ball 2016. More

Feb 09, 2015 By Jim Scott

Only in this day and age could the most human album in a long time be produced by an alter-ego. Joshua Tillman’s second go-round as Father John Misty, I Love You, Honeybear, finds the character going through every cycle of life, from lust to love to fear to hopelessness to depression to loneliness, only interrupted by the occasional bout of happiness. More

Aug 05, 2013 By Laura Ferreiro

The final day of a three-day music festival is usually a bitter-sweet affair. While there’s a part of you doesn’t want the incredible performances and time-out-of-time experience to end and real life to take over again, another part of you is utterly relieved not to have to trek for miles across muddy fields, eat overpriced festival food and stand in long lines for porta potties. More

Apr 22, 2013 By Laura Studarus

Mental haze threatening to become an impermeable fog, I took the quality over quantity approach to the final day of Coachella, and caught impressive sets from DIIV, Jessie Ware, and Father John Misty. More

Jan 10, 2013 By Danielle Sills

Halfway through the show, Father John Misty (aka J. Tillman) looked to the back of the venue, where there’s a bar lined with mirrors. He gazed at his reflection, wondering out loud, “Who is that anorexic homeless person dancing around in his long underwear?” More

May 01, 2012 By Hays Davis

Father John Misty is Josh Tillman, former drummer for Fleet Foxes, and for the heightened level of likeminded approach to his previous band mates displayed here, Tillman could be pegged as a blood relative. More