Mar 09, 2023 By Mark Redfern

Florence + The Machine (aka Florence Welch and backing band) has shared a new cover of No Doubt’s 1995 hit “Just a Girl” for season 2 of Showtime’s acclaimed drama Yellowjackets. The show returns March 24. More

Dec 09, 2022 By Joey Arnone

Florence + The Machine (aka Florence Welch and backing band) has shared a live version of the song “Morning Elvis” from her recently-released album, Dance Fever. The cover features Ethel Cain. More

Nov 15, 2022 By Mark Redfern

The nominations for the 2023 Grammy Awards have been announced. Under the Radar favorites Wet Leg got five nominations, including for Best New Artist and Best Alternative Music Album. Other artists we cover to get nominations include Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Björk, Spoon, The War on Drugs, Wilco, Big Thief, Arctic Monkeys, IDLES, Beck, Spiritualized, The Black Keys, and more. More

Oct 21, 2022 By Joey Arnone

Florence + The Machine (aka Florence Welch and backing band) has shared an IDLES remix of the song “Heaven is Here” from her newest album, Dance Fever. More

May 18, 2022 By Joey Arnone

Today, Florence + The Machine (aka Florence Welch and backing band) has released the deluxe version of her new album, Dance Fever. It features acoustic versions of four album tracks in addition to a cover of The Stooges’ 1973 song “Search and Destroy.” More

May 12, 2022 By Joey Arnone

Florence + The Machine (aka Florence Welch and backing band) made an appearance last night on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. She performed “My Love” from her forthcoming album Dance Fever and was interviewed by Fallon. Before the performance and interview, she appeared in a segment where she sang Jimmy Buffett’s 1977 song “Margaritaville” alongside Buffett himself. More

Apr 22, 2022 By Mark Redfern (with Joey Arnone)

Welcome to the sixteenth Songs of the Week of 2022. It was a nice week for new album releases, including the latest by Spiritualized, Hatchie, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, Fontaines D.C., and others, some of which gave us fodder for Songs of the Week. We ended up with 12 new songs were really liked, with some strong honorable mentions as well. This week’s artists traverse the globe: Australia, England, South Korea, Sweden, and of course America. More

Apr 20, 2022 By Joey Arnone

Florence + The Machine (aka Florence Welch and backing band) has shared a video for her new song “Free,” which stars British actor Bill Nighy. It is the latest release from Welch’s forthcoming album, Dance Fever, which will be out on May 13. More

Mar 28, 2022 By Joey Arnone

Florence + The Machine (aka Florence Welch and backing band) have announced a North American tour in support of Welch’s forthcoming album, Dance Fever. Supporting acts will include Arlo Parks, Sam Fender, King Princess, Yves Tumor, Japanese Breakfast and Wet Leg. More

Mar 10, 2022 By Mark Redfern

Florence + The Machine (aka Florence Welch and backing band) has announced a new album, Dance Fever, and shared another song from it, “My Love,” via a video for the song. More

Mar 07, 2022 By Joey Arnone

Florence + The Machine (aka Florence Welch and backing band) has shared a video for her new song, “Heaven is Here.” The video was directed by Autumn de Wilde, choreographed by Ryan Heffington, and filmed in Kyiv, Ukraine, last November. More

Feb 23, 2022 By Joey Arnone

Florence + the Machine (aka Florence Welch and backing band) has shared a video for her new song, “King.” More

Apr 17, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

Florence + the Machine (aka Florence Welch and backing band) has shared a new song, “Light of Love.” All proceeds from the track will be donated to The Intensive Care Society’s COVID-19 fund. “Light of Love” is an outtake from Welch’s last album, 2018’s High As Hope. More

Jun 06, 2019 By Joshua Mellin

Rain did little to dampen the spirits at New York City’s largest music festival. More

Apr 22, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Florence + the Machine (aka Florence Welch and backing band) has shared a new song, “Jenny of Oldstones.” It debuted during the closing credits of last night’s new Game of Thrones episode and is a version of a song Podrick Payne (played by Daniel Portman) sang on the show earlier in the episode. More

Jan 30, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Marlon Williams has been supporting Florence + the Machine (aka Florence Welch and backing band) on her Australian tour and at her show in Sydney this past Saturday she brought him out on stage to perform Make Way For Love highlight “Nobody Gets What They Want Anymore” and now Welch has shared an official live video of the chill-inducing performance. More

Jan 25, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

This was a helluva week for new music. Monday was fairly quiet due to the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, but Foals officially announced two albums and shared a cinematic video for a new song. More

Jan 24, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Florence + the Machine (aka Florence Welch and backing band) released a new album, High As Hope, just last June via Republic. But now she has already shared two new songs, the James Ford-produced “Moderation” and the Daniel Siskin-produced “Haunted House.” More

Jan 07, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Governors Ball has announced the lineup for their 2019 festival, which goes down in New York City’s Randall’s Island Park the weekend of May 31 to June 2. The line-up includes Florence + the Machine; The Strokes; Tyler, The Creator; Mitski; and more. More

Oct 24, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Florence + the Machine (aka Florence Welch and backing band) released a new album, High As Hope, back in June via Republic. Last night she stopped by The Late Late Show with James Corden to perform “Patricia.” She was also interviewed on the show by Corden alongside Northern Irish actor Jamie Dornan (Fifty Shades of Grey, The Fall), where they discussed a music festival where she was wearing an animal costume and an early concert she did with Adele. More

Sep 20, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Wolf Alice have won this year’s Mercury Prize, for the best British album of the year, for 2017’s Visions of a Life. The London-based quartet beat out the latest albums by King Krule, Arctic Monkeys, Everything Everything, Noel Gallagher, Florence + the Machine, Lily Allen, Nadine Shah, Everything Is Recorded, and more (the full list of nominees is below). More

Sep 19, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Florence + the Machine (aka Florence Welch and backing band) released a new album, High As Hope, back in June via Republic. Now she has done a session for Spotify where she covers Tori Amos’ “Cornflake Girl” (from Amos’ 1994 album Under the Pink). More

Sep 16, 2018 By Julia Underwood

The first-ever Grandoozy festival continued Saturday in Denver, Colorado. We sent photographer Joshua Mellin over to check out the action. Check out his gallery of images, including Florence + The Machine, Cherry Glazerr, and more. More

Jul 26, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

This year’s Mercury Prize nominees have been announced and they include the latest albums by Wolf Alice, King Krule, Arctic Monkeys, Everything Everything, Noel Gallagher, Florence + the Machine, Lily Allen, Nadine Shah, Everything Is Recorded, and more. More

Jun 29, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Florence + the Machine (aka Florence Welch and backing band) released a new album, High As Hope, today via Republic. Last night she stopped by Late Night with Seth Meyers to perform “Hunger” and be interviewed by Meyers. Watch videos of the performance and interview below. More

Jun 29, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Florence + the Machine (aka Florence Welch and backing band) released a new album, High As Hope, today via Republic. Now that it’s out, you can stream the whole thing here. More

Jun 28, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Florence + the Machine (aka Florence Welch and backing band) is releasing a new album, High As Hope, tomorrow via Republic. She’s been making the late night TV rounds the last month or so performing the album’s main single “Hunger” and last night she stopped by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert to perform it. Watch it below. More

Jun 21, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Florence + the Machine (aka Florence Welch and backing band) is releasing a new album, High As Hope, on June 29 via Republic. On Tuesday she has shared another song from the album, “Big God.” The song was co-written by Jamie xxand features Kamasi Washington on saxophone, and now it has a video. More

Jun 19, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Florence + the Machine (aka Florence Welch and backing band) is releasing a new album, High As Hope, on June 29 via Republic. Now she has shared another song from the album, “Big God.” The song was co-written by Jamie xx and features Kamasi Washington on saxophone. More

May 29, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Florence + the Machine (aka Florence Welch and backing band) is releasing a new album, High As Hope, on June 29 via Republic. Tonight she performed on the long running BBC music show Later… with Jools Holland, where various musicians take turns in the round, performing in a TV studio in front of a live audience. More

May 29, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Florence + the Machine (aka Florence Welch and backing band) is releasing a new album, High As Hope, on June 29 via Republic. Now she has announce some North American tour dates that stretch from August until October. More

May 23, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Last night was the season finale of NBC’s singing competition show The Voice. It wasn’t all that surprising to Florence + the Machine (aka Florence Welch and backing band) performed recent single “Hunger” as a means to promote her upcoming new album High As Hope. After all she is a theatrical pop vocalist with stage presence to spare. Less likely was rock singer/songwriter/guitarist Ryan Adams, clad in a Sonic Youth T-shirt, performing “Be Without You” (from last year’s Prisoner album) as a duet with 17-year-old contestant Britton Buchanan, who ended up coming in second place this year. More

May 17, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Florence + the Machine (aka Florence Welch and backing band) is releasing a new album, High As Hope, on June 29 via Republic. Previously she shared a video for its single “Hunger” (which was one of our Songs of the Week). Last night she stopped by The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon to perform “Hunger.” It was a fantastic performance with a full backing band, including a harp, that featured Welch making complete use of the stage and the space between the stage and the audience, dancing around and getting closer to the audience than most performers on TV shows usually do. More

May 04, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Last week’s Songs of the Week encompassed two week’s worth of songs. This week we’re back to normal. This week’s list features lots of Songs of the Week alumni, with three of the top four being former #1s. More

May 03, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Florence + the Machine (aka Florence Welch and backing band) has announced a new album, High As Hope, and shared a video for a new song, “Hunger.” High As Hope is due out June 29 via Republic. The album features Kamasi Washington, Sampha, Tobias Jesso Jr, Kelsey Lu, and Jamie xx. More

Apr 26, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Florence + the Machine (aka Florence Welch and backing band) shared a brand new song, “Sky Full of Song,” a couple of weeks ago and it was released on limited edition 7-inch on Record Store Day last Saturday. It was one of our Songs of the Week. Now Welch has announced some May tour dates, with some proceeds going to various homeless charities. More

Apr 13, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

The top songs in this week’s Songs of the Week list were readily apparent, it was just a case of working out the order, with the Top 5 switching order several times before being finalized. Many of this week’s new songs are initial singles from albums or EPs also announced this week. More

Apr 12, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Florence + the Machine (aka Florence Welch and backing band) has shared a brand new song, “Sky Full of Song.” It will be released on limited edition 7-inch on Record Store Day (April 21). 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 30, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

FYF Fest has announced its 2018 lineup. The event is due to take place July 21 and 22 at Los Angeles’ Exposition Park. The headliners are Florence and the Machine and Janet Jackson. More

May 03, 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 17, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Over 100 artists have signed an acoustic guitar for Planned Parenthood and for $10 you can buy a drawing ticket to enter to win the guitar. More

Mar 16, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

The xx released a new album, I See You, back in January via Young Turks. This week they’ve been performing a series of shows in a residency at London’s Brixton Academy they were calling “Night + Day” and have been bringing out some cool special guests each night. More

Aug 25, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Florence and the Machine have shared a brand new song, “Wish That You Were Here.” It’s taken from the soundtrack to the forthcoming Tim Burton film, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, which stars Eva Green (Penny Dreadful, Casino Royale) and is based on Ransom Riggs’ 2001 novel of the same name. More

May 23, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Florence and the Machine‘s Florence Welch surprised a sick fan who had tickets to her concert in Austin last week, but couldn’t make it due to her health. So Welch went by Hospice Austin’s Christopher House and gave the young fan a private concert instead. More

Apr 25, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Florence and the Machine (aka Florence Welch) has released a 40-minute short film entitled “The Odyssey.” Vincent Haycock directed the film, which collects all the interconnected videos he shot for Florence and the Machine’s 2015-released album, How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful (“What Kind of Man,” “How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful,” “St. Jude,” “Ship to Wreck,” “Queen of Peace,” and “Delilah”). More

Mar 31, 2016 By Joshua M. Miller

Florence and the Machine have covered the Ben E. King classic “Stand By Me” in a new trailer for Final Fantasy XV, which is out September 30th. More

Jan 12, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

The Sasquatch! Music Festival has revealed the lineup for their 2016 festival, their 15th year. Once again it will be going down Memorial Day Weekend (May 27 - 30) at the Gorge Amphitheater in Quincy, Washington. It’s a stacked lineup, including The Cure, M83, Sufjan Stevens, Grimes, Florence and the Machine, Wolf Alice, Julia Holter, Jamie xx, Caribou, Yeasayer, Savages, Kurt Vile, Mac DeMarco, and others.

Jan 11, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Florence and the Machine (aka Florence Welch) have announced some new tour dates in support of their 2015-released album, How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful. Support on some dates is to come from Grimes (aka Claire Boucher), who released her new album, Art Angels, last fall. (Both albums ended up on our Top 100 Albums of 2015 list, by the way.) More

Dec 18, 2015 By Christopher Roberts

Eagles of Death Metal recently asked for other bands to cover their song “I Love You All the Time,” with proceeds going to victims of the Paris terror attacks via the Sweet Stuff Foundation’s “Play It Forward” campaign. Now the band has shared covers of the song by Florence and the Machine(feat. The Maccabees), My Morning Jacket, Savages, Kings of Leon, Jimmy Eat World, Ed Harcourt, and others. 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 29, 2015 By Christopher Roberts

Foals’ new album, What Went Down, came out at the end of August via Warner Music. Now the British band has covered Florence and the Machine’s “What Kind of Man.” It was performed this morning in BBC Radio 1’s “Live Lounge.” More

Oct 21, 2015 By Christopher Roberts

Fresh off their very cool performance in a pool on Ellen yesterday, Florence and the Machine have shared a video for “Delilah.” Vincent Haycock directed the clip, which features Florence Welch in a strange apartment complex and has lots of religious and cult imagery, including Welch being visited by a demon. More

Oct 20, 2015 By Christopher Roberts

Florence and the Machine performed on Ellen earlier today and their performance was a little…wet. Kudos to Florence Welch and the band for not delivering a standard daytime TV performance of “Ship to Wreck.” More

Oct 16, 2015 By Christopher Roberts

Since 1992 the Mercury Prize has been awarded to the best British album of the year, meaning an album created by a citizen of the U.K. and Ireland. It’s become one of the biggest honors a British musician can receive and can also boost an album’s sales in the U.K., especially if it wins. Now this year’s nominees have been announced. More

Oct 07, 2015 By Christopher Roberts

Florence and the Machine was on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert last night. She performed “What Kind of Man,” a track from Florence’s recently released third album, How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful. More

Sep 29, 2015 By Christopher Roberts

The video for “Boob Spelled Backwards is Boob” comes off almost like it’s a British comedy skit put together by Ricky Gervais or Jarvis Cocker (see Pulp’s amazing video for “Bad Cover Version”), but this is a real charity song raising money for a genuine worthwhile cause. The song features contributions from Florence and the Machine‘s Florence Welch, Noel Gallagher, Grace Potter, Michael Franti, Graham Nash, Steve Earl, Hozier, Vance Joy, and members of Bleachers, Spandau Ballet, The Grateful Dead, and more. More

Sep 29, 2015 By Christopher Roberts

Florence and the Machine stopped by BBC Radio 1’s Live Lounge to do a session. Florence Welch and band performed “Ship to Wreck,” “Sweet Nothing,” “What Kind of Man,” “Queen of Peace,” and “Delilah,” the majority of which can be found on Florence’s latest album, How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful. More

Sep 03, 2015 By Christopher Roberts

Hot Chip have remixed the Florence and the Machine song “Queen of Peace.” The original version can be Florence’s recently released third album, How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful and previously also got the video treatment. More

Aug 19, 2015 By Julia Underwood

Last weekend Helsinki hosted Flow Festival. More

Jul 27, 2015 By Christopher Roberts

As we previously reported, Vampire Weekend frontman Ezra Koenig has his very own show on Apple Music’s Beats 1 radio station, the intriguingly titled Time Crisis with Ezra Koenig. More

Jul 27, 2015 By Christopher Roberts

Florence and the Machine has released a new short film that doubles as a combined video for two of her songs, “Queen of Peace” and “Long and Lost.” Both songs are taken from Florence’s recently released third album, How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful. More

Jun 26, 2015 By Christopher Roberts

Florence and the Machine were elevated to headliner status at Glastonbury tonight after Foo Fighters cancelled their European tour and Glastonbury headlining slot when Dave Grohl fell off the stage and broke his leg at a concert in Gothenburg, More

Jun 17, 2015 By Christopher Roberts

As we reported on yesterday, Foo Fighters have cancelled their European tour and Glastonbury headlining slot after Dave Grohl fell off the stage and broke his leg at a concert in Gothenburg, Sweden last Friday. Glastonbury wasted little time finding a replacement, elevating Florence and the Machine to headliner status (they were set to perform just before Foo Fighters). More

Jun 05, 2015 By Christopher Roberts

Florence and the Machine’s third album, How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful, came out this week and Florence Welch and her band have now announced a slew of fall North American tour dates that cover October and are mainly on the west coast. More

Jun 03, 2015 By Christopher Roberts

Florence and the Machine’s third album, How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful, came out yesterday and in honor of that she performed single “Ship to Wreck on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon last night. More

May 19, 2015 By Christopher Roberts

Florence and the Machine has shared yet another song from her forthcoming third album, How Big How Blue How Beautiful, due out June 2 via Republic. More

May 11, 2015 By Christopher Roberts

Florence Welch broke her foot the first weekend of Coachella when she jumped off the stage after encouraging the audience to all remove one item of clothing. More

Apr 30, 2015 By Mike Hilleary

Last night Florence and the Machine were featured as music guests on UK late night program Later ...with Jools Holland. More

Apr 20, 2015 By Katie LaBranche

Florence Welch of Florence and the Machine was a sight to see during the first weekend of Coachella as she constantly ran across the stage and even into the crowd during her set. More

Apr 13, 2015 By Katie LaBranche

Florence and the Machine, aka Florence Welch, has released a brand new music video for her latest single, “Ship to Wreck.” More

Apr 08, 2015 By Trevor Flynn

Earlier today, the newest single from Florence and the Machine, “Ship To Wreck” was released, riding the impressive wake of “What Kind of Man,” the first single off of the band’s upcoming album. More

Mar 23, 2015 By Mike Hilleary

Florence and the Machine, aka Florence Welch, has premiered a brand new music video featuring her latest single “St. Jude,” taken from her forthcoming new album, How Big How Blue How Beautiful. More

Mar 05, 2015 By Mike Hilleary

Last night Florence and the Machine performed an intimate hometown show in London where Florence Welch delivered several tracks from her upcoming studio album How Big How Blue How Beautiful. More

Feb 26, 2015 By Mike Hilleary

This summer Florence and the Machine‘s Florence Welch returns with her anticipated new album How Big How Blue How Beautiful, featuring the standout single, “What Kind of Man.” More

Feb 12, 2015 By Christopher Roberts

Here’s the good news Florence and the Machine fans, after teasing her third album earlier in the week with a teaser video and potential artwork, the album has now been officially announced with a tracklist, title, video, and everything. The bad news? You have to wait until June 2nd (or a day earlier if you’re in the U.K.) to hear the whole thing. More

Feb 10, 2015 By Mike Hilleary

Fresh off the news that a new album is increasingly imminent, Florence and the Machine have premiered a brand new music video for the track “How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful.” More

Feb 10, 2015 By Mike Hilleary

After some early teasing, Florence and the Machine, a.k.a. Florence Welch, seems poised to properly announced her highly anticipated third album. More

Jan 05, 2015 By Mike Hilleary

Relatively quiet over the past two years, it seems Florence and the Machine, a.k.a. Florence Welch, is due to return with a brand new record sometime in 2015. More

Dec 10, 2014 By Laura Studarus

Today Way Out West announced the first round of artists slated to play the Swedish festival. More

Jul 22, 2013 By Laura Studarus

Who are Sourberry? Well, friends of Florence Welch for starters. More

Apr 17, 2013 By Mike Hilleary

The soundtrack to Baz Luhrmann’s stylish film adaptation of the The Great Gatsby boasts a varied list of all-star contributors, featuring songs from Jay-Z (who executive-produced the collection), Beyoncé, Andre 3000, Jack White, The xx, and Lana Del Rey. More

Apr 04, 2013 By Laura Studarus

Today Great Gatsby (aka the movie that keeps giving) got an impressive sountrack. More

Jan 10, 2013 By Mike Hilleary

No stranger to adding a little extra oomph to a fellow musical artist’s work, Florence Welch have joined forces with New York hip-hop fixture A Rocky for a special bonus cut called “I Come Apart,” featured on his upcoming new album Long.Live.A. More

Nov 30, 2012 By Mike Hilleary

Performing in London last night celebrating their 50th anniversary The Rolling Stones brought out Florence Welch as a special guest to lend her wailing pipes to the band’s classic number “Gimme Shelter.” More

Nov 19, 2012 By Mike Hilleary

Her second album Ceremonials may have been released over a year ago, but that hasn’t stopped UK songstress Florence Welch from reminding us of it’s excellence. More

Oct 13, 2012 By Wendy Lynch Redfern

On Friday October 12, the Austin City Limits Music Festival kicked off in Austin, TX. We sent photographer Robert Redfield down to capture the action. Check out his photos of Tegan and Sara, M83, Florence and the Machine, The War on Drugs, First Aid Kit, Patrick Watson, Alabama Shakes and Esperanza Spalding here. More

Oct 09, 2012 By Julia Underwood

Last night, October 8, Florence and the Machine hit the Hollywood Bowl. We sent photographer Helen Boast down to cover the action. More

Sep 21, 2012 By Mike Hilleary

EDM heavyweight Calvin Harris closing in on the arrival on his new full-length album 18 Months on Oct. 29. More

Aug 09, 2012 By Julia Underwood

From August 7-11 Oslo, Norway is hosting the Øya Festival. We sent social media editor Laura Studarus over to cover the action. Check out her shots of Sondre Lerche,Willis Earl Beal, Mathias Eick, Oberhofer, Friends, Bob Mould, Thurston Moore, Florence and the Machine, Feist, The Stone Roses, and Purity Ring. More

Jul 25, 2012 By Mike Hilleary

Running Oct. 13-14 this year at the Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez, Mexico City’s annual Capital Corona Music Festival has announced its fully-loaded line-up of artists for the event. More

Jul 02, 2012 By Mike Hilleary

Florence and the Machine has debuted a brand new music video taken from the artist’s Ceremonials track “Breaking Down.” More

Jun 28, 2012 By Laura Studarus

First Lady of melodramatic song Florence Welch announced recently that she’s got a dance project in the works. More

May 30, 2012 By Mike Hilleary

It becomes pretty clear in Florence and the Machine‘s music video for the Ceremonials cut “Spectrum,” things would have turned out really different if filmmaker Darren Aronofsky had chosen to cast Ms. Welch in his 2010 flick Black Swan. More

May 29, 2012 By Laura Studarus

Florence Welch has the kind of pipes that could set just about any dance floor on fire. Thus, it’s not surprising that pal Calvin Harris decided to help her do just that. More

May 22, 2012 By Mike Hilleary

Announcing that she and her band would be headlining one of the four days of this year’s Bestival festival in the UK, the normally fashion-forward Florence Welch decided to dress herself and few of her backing mates in oversized animal costumes, all while playing a cover of Talking Heads’ “Wild Wild Life.” More

May 15, 2012 By Laura Studarus

On June 1, Snow White and the Huntsman—a fantasy thriller twist on the Snow White tale staring Charlize Theron and Kristen Stewart—will see the light of day. Before that, we have the video for Florence and the Machine’s “Breath of Life,” an epic song featured in the film. More

May 10, 2012 By Mike Hilleary

Yesterday Florence and the Machine successfully made it through customs (Dave’s joke) appearing as the latest musical guest on The Late Show with David Letterman. More

May 07, 2012 By Mike Hilleary

Despite spending every waking moment on the road for much of 2012, Florence and the Machine has announced several more months of tour dates in support of her sophomore album Ceremonials, including a new leg of North American performances from August to October. More

Apr 22, 2010 By Laura Studarus

For Florence Welch, also known as Florence and the Machine, the past few years have been a whirlwind, transforming her from art-school dropout to Mercury Prize nominee for debut album, Lungs. Still flush from her dynamic Coachella performance, the redhead songstress sat down with Under the Radar to discuss her new “scientific” sound, cover songs, and collaborating with her hero, David Byrne. More

Dec 02, 2009 By Chris Tinkham

“I’m going to be so high after this coffee,” Florence Welch says with a laugh. “I’ve drunk so much coffee today already, just trying to stay awake.” The English singer/songwriter and darling of the British music press has spent the last four days in New York and Los Angeles doing promotion, while also securing a U.S. label for her debut LP Lungs, due in the States this fall. About 15 minutes after the arrival of her coffee mug, Welch holds out her trembling hand and comments: “Look, I’ve got caffeine shakes.” More

Jul 09, 2015 By Hays Davis

The first two albums by Florence and the Machine were hardly feeble constructs, with Florence Welch’s vocals front and center and demanding the attention of anyone within earshot. More

Oct 10, 2012 By Laura Studarus

It all comes down to otherworldly adjectives. Witchy. Ethereal. Pixie-like. Call it what you want, but if the high number of weeping, dancing, and otherwise hysterical females in attendance at Monday night’s Florence and the Machine show at The Hollywood Bowl was any indication, one thing’s for certain—frontwoman Florence Welch does have some kind of power. More

Aug 09, 2012 By Laura Studarus

Welcome to the first official day of the Øya Festival—or as I like to call it: shock the American. Check out reviews from the day including: Sondre Lerche, Willis Earl Beal, Oberhofer, Thurston Moore, Friends, Florence and The Machine, Feist, Stone Roses, and Purity Ring. More

Nov 11, 2011 By Jessica Misener

Florence Welch and her machine are here to take you to church with Ceremonials, the bombastic and bruising second album from the flame-haired British singer and her band. And you should get in the car, because with a record this epic, it’s not like you have a choice: Ceremonials is like a musical Category 5 hurricane tearing through a bat mitzvah. More

Apr 20, 2010 By Mark Redfern

Day three of Coachella 2010 more than made up for a lackluster day two, with set after set of strong artists and ending with perhaps the three best performances of the whole festival, all in a row: Pavement, Thom Yorke, and Gorillaz. It would have been nice if the wealth of great artists had been spread out a little bit more over the three days, but then again, Sunday wouldn’t have been so strong if they had scheduled it that way. Here’s what I saw on the last day of Coachella: Local Natives, Owen Pallett, Mayer Hawthorne, Deerhunter, Florence and the Machine, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Jonsi, Spoon, Phoenix, Pavement, Thom Yorke, and Gorillaz. More

Oct 29, 2009 By Laura Leebove

It’s no surprise that Florence and the Machine’s first proper New York show sold out quickly, as this performance was way overdue but very much worth the wait. More