Apr 21, 2023 By Mark Redfern

Now that Issue 71 is out, we’ve decided to offer 40% off our previous issue, Issue 70 (aka the My Favorite Movie Issue). The print version is available now for a limited time for only $3.60. Buy it here. More

Jan 25, 2023 By Mark Redfern

Kevin Morby has released a new soundtrack album, Music From Montana Story, and also shared a music video for one of its songs, “Like a Flower.” He has also announced some new tour dates. More

Dec 23, 2022 By Mark Redfern

Are things back to normal in 2022? They are, aren’t they? Well not quite. More

Sep 22, 2022 By Joey Arnone

Kevin Morby has shared a video for a new single, “Bittersweet, TN,” which features Nashville singer-songwriter Erin Rae. More

Jul 21, 2022 By Joey Arnone

Kevin Morby and Waxahatchee (aka Katie Crutchfield) have shared covers of Broadcast’s “Tears in the Typing Pool” and Guided By Voices’ “The Goldheart Mountaintop Queen Directory.” All proceeds from the covers will support Vote No Kansas, a political action campaign working to prevent the passing of the “Value Them Both” Amendment. If passed, Kansas legislature would be able to completely ban abortion. More

Jun 23, 2022 By Joey Arnone

Last night, Kevin Morby made an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, where he performed the song “This Is a Photograph,” from his newest album of the same name. Morby also performed his 2016 song “Beautiful Strangers,” which was written in the wake of mass shootings in Paris and Orlando, as a web-exclusive which is accepting donations to Everytown for Gun Safety. More

Apr 28, 2022 By Joey Arnone

Kevin Morby has shared a video for his new single, “A Random Act of Kindness.” It is the latest release from his forthcoming album, This Is a Photograph, which will be out on May 13 via Dead Oceans. More

Mar 30, 2022 By Joey Arnone

Kevin Morby has shared a video for his new single, “Rock Bottom.” It is the latest release from his forthcoming album, This Is a Photograph, which will be out on May 13 via Dead Oceans. More

Mar 04, 2022 By Mark Redfern (with Joey Arnone)

Welcome to the ninth Songs of the Week of 2022. It was a stellar week for new tracks and we could only narrow it down to a Top 12, with several strong honorable mentions. More

Mar 03, 2022 By Joey Arnone

Kevin Morby has announced the release of a new studio album, This Is a Photograph, which will be out on May 13 via Dead Oceans. In addition to announcing a world tour, Morby has also shared a video for the album’s title track. More

Dec 13, 2021 By Joey Arnone

Kevin Morby has shared a cover of the 1971 Bill Fay song “I Hear You Calling.” It is the second single release in a series of upcoming 7-inch singles which feature other musicians covering Fay’s work, following Steve Gunn’s cover of “Dust Filled Room.” A two-part reissue of Fay’s Still Some Light was previously announced, with the first part being released on January 14, 2022 via Dead Oceans, along with the 7-inch singles of the Gunn and Morby covers. More

Oct 15, 2021 By Mark Redfern (with Joey Arnone)

Welcome to the 39th Songs of the Week of 2021. It was a blockbuster week for new songs, although the week’s biggest song (Adele’s “Easy On Me”) didn’t make the list. But “Easy On Me” did set the all-time record for biggest single day streams for a song in Spotify history, so Adele will be fine. This week we have a supersized Top 12 and a solid honorable mentions list. More

Oct 12, 2021 By Joey Arnone

Kevin Morby and Hamilton Leithauser (formerly of The Walkmen) have shared a new song, “Virginia Beach.” It is out now via Dead Oceans. More

Sep 14, 2021 By Mark Redfern

Kevin Morby is releasing A Night at the Little Los Angeles, a new 4-track demo version of his 2020 album Sundowner, on October 8 via Dead Oceans. Now he has shared its second single, “Sundowner (4-Track Demo).” More

Aug 18, 2021 By Mark Redfern

Kevin Morby has announced A Night at the Little Los Angeles, a new 4-track demo version of his 2020 album Sundowner, and shared its first single, “Campfire (4-Track Demo).” More

May 18, 2021 By Mark Redfern

Kevin Morby released a new album, Sundowner, last October via Dead Oceans and Hamilton Leithauser (formerly of The Walkmen) released his own new album, The Loves of Your Life, in April 2020 via Glassnote. Thanks to the pandemic, neither artist got to fully tour their albums, but now they are rectifying that with a just announced joint tour. The “Fall Mixer” tour dates go down this October and November. More

Nov 13, 2020 By Christopher Roberts (with Joey Arnone)

Welcome to the 42nd Songs of the Week of 2020. We haven’t done a Songs of the Week in three weeks. Because of last week’s presidential election there were hardly any new songs of note released and we were too on edge awaiting the outcome to be decided to focus on new music. The week before was the run up to Halloween and there were certainly some worthy songs then, but for whatever reason we didn’t get Songs of the Week finished in time and abandoned it. So this week’s Songs of the Week covers the last three weeks, but mainly songs from this week and two weeks ago. More

Oct 27, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

Kevin Morby released a new album, Sundowner, earlier this month via Dead Oceans. Now he has shared a new standalone single, “US Mail,” which is a tribute to the United States Postal Service. There’s a studio version of the song, as well as a video of him performing it live. More

Oct 07, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

Kevin Morby is releasing a new album, Sundowner, on October 16 via Dead Oceans. Now he has shared another song from it, title track “Sundowner.” Listen below. More

Sep 23, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

Kevin Morby is releasing a new album, Sundowner, on October 16 via Dead Oceans. Now he has shared two new songs from the album: “Don’t Underestimate Midwest American Sun” (via lyric video) and “Wander” (via a full-on video). More

Sep 04, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

Welcome to the 35th Songs of the Week of 2020. This week’s list is a bit more scaled back than usual, but there was still much to like. More

Sep 01, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

Kevin Morby has announced a new album, Sundowner, and shared its first single, “Campfire,” via a video for the song that also features his real life romantic partner, Katie Crutchfield (aka Waxahatchee), who has a brief vocal part in the middle of the video. Morby has also announced a virtual tour where he’ll be performing each of his albums in order. More

Apr 14, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

Waxahatchee (aka Katie Crutchfield) and Kevin Morby have done a four-song set from their home for NPR Music’s Tiny Desk (Home) Concerts series, an adjusted version of NPR Music’s Tiny Desk Concerts. They did two Waxahatchee songs from her recent Saint Cloud album (“Fire” and “Lilacs”), Morby’s 2016 gun control song “Beautiful Strangers,” and a cover of Songs: Ohia’s “Farewell Transmission.” More

Oct 15, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Kevin Morby released a new album, Oh My God, back in April via Dead Oceans. Now he has announced some new 2020 tour dates. Furthermore, he is auctioning his white suit he wore on the tour for his previous album, City Music, with proceeds going to charity. More

Apr 26, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Welcome to another Songs of the Week. There were a plethora of strong tracks to choose from this week, thanks in part to both some new albums that were announced this week and some other albums that were released today. So much so that we have expanded it to a Top 12 this week (as we’ve done from time to time in the past). More

Apr 26, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Kevin Morby has released a new album, Oh My God, today via Dead Oceans. Now that the album is out, you can stream the whole thing here. More

Apr 22, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

The lineup for the 2019 Woodsist Festival has been announced. Put on by the Woodsist label and its flagship band Woods, the festival will feature the 2009 lineup of Woods (featuring Kevin Morby and G Lucas Crane) in honor of the 10th anniversary of the band’s Songs of Shame. Morby will be performing solo as well and the lineup also features Real Estate, Whitney, Waxahatchee, Hand Habits, and others. More

Apr 19, 2019 By Mark Redfern

Welcome to another Songs of the Week. It was slim pickings this week for truly inspiring new tracks, but there were enough to recommend to put together this week’s list. We also realized their were two songs we should’ve included on recent Songs of the Week lists but neglected to, so we’ve given them special mention here. More

Apr 17, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Kevin Morby is releasing a new album, Oh My God, on April 26 via Dead Oceans. Now he has shared a video for another new song from it, “OMG Rock n Roll.” Morby says it’s a song about gun violence. More

Mar 29, 2019 By Mark Redfern

This week’s Songs of the Week list stars with a 24-minute first movement of a symphony featuring a trip-hop icon, but most of the songs in the Top 10 are by artists that have already made the list in recent weeks with previous songs. More

Mar 27, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Kevin Morby is releasing a new album, Oh My God, on April 26 via Dead Oceans. Previously he shared a video for its first single, “No Halo” (which was one of our Songs of the Week). Now he has shared another song from the album, “Nothing Sacred / All Things Wild,” also via a video. More

Mar 01, 2019 By Mark Redfern

The big news in Under the Radar land this week was that we announced our new print issue today. The issue features Mitski on the front cover and boygenius (Julien Baker + Phoebe Bridgers + Lucy Dacus) on the back cover. More

Feb 27, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Kevin Morby has announced a new album, Oh My God, and shared a video for its first single, “No Halo.” Oh My God, which is billed as “his first true concept-album” and tackles religion, is due out April 26 via Dead Oceans. More

Nov 05, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Kevin Morby released two excellent albums in back-to-back years: Singing Saw in 2016 and City Music in 2017, both via Dead Oceans. Now he has announced some 2019 tour dates. More

Aug 24, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Kevin Morby has shared a new song, “24th Amendment.” It’s part of an upcoming compilation album, 27: The Most Perfect Album, in which different artists write songs about the 27 amendments to the U.S. Constitution. More

Jul 17, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Waxahatchee (aka Katie Crutchfield) has announced a new EP, Great Thunder, and shared a video for its first single, “Chapel of Pines.” The video features Kevin Morby (although he does not sing on the song). More

Jan 26, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

After two weeks of a plethora of tracks vying to be one of our Songs of the Week, this week the pickings were slimmer. Thus this week we have only nine best songs, instead of 10. There were also a lot of covers this week. More

Jan 25, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Kevin Morby and Waxahatchee (aka Katie Crutchfield) have teamed up to cover two songs by Jason Molina, who died in 2013. The digital 7-inch is being released via Dead Oceans, with proceeds going to MusiCares, which “was established by the Recording Academy to safeguard the health and well-being of all music people.” More

Oct 26, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Kevin Morby released an excellent album, Singing Saw, just last year via Dead Oceans, but he’s already released a new one, City Music, back in June also via Dead Oceans. Now he has shared a new song, “Baltimore,” in two different versions. “Baltimore (Sky At Night)” was recorded during the Singing Saw sessions, while “Baltimore (County Line)” was recorded during the City Music sessions. More

Aug 14, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Kevin Morby released an excellent album, Singing Saw, just last year via Dead Oceans, but he’s already released a new one, City Music, back in June also via Dead Oceans. Now he has shared a video for “Downtown Lights.” More

Jul 18, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Under the Radar is excited to announce the full details of our Summer 2017 Issue, which is out now digitally via Under the Radar’s app and the magazine app Readly. The print version has shipped out to subscribers and stores and will be on all newsstands soon (as well as available soon digitally via the magazine app Zinio). The issue features Grizzly Bear on the cover. More

Jun 16, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Here we highlight five 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

Jun 06, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Kevin Morby released an excellent album, Singing Saw, just last year via Dead Oceans, but he’s already releasing a new one, City Music, on June 16 also via Dead Oceans. More

Jun 01, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Kevin Morby released an excellent album, Singing Saw, just last year via Dead Oceans, but he’s already releasing a new one, City Music, on June 16 also via Dead Oceans. More

May 16, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Kevin Morby released an excellent album, Singing Saw, just last year via Dead Oceans, but he’s already releasing a new one, City Music, on June 16 also via Dead Oceans. More

Apr 25, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

“Our First 100 Days” is an anti-President Donald Trump project. The good folks behind the “30 Days, 30 Songs” anti-Trump campaign during the election have teamed up with Secretly Group for “Our First 100 Days.” More

Mar 22, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Kevin Morby released an excellent album, Singing Saw, just last year via Dead Oceans, but he’s already announced a new one, City Music, and shared a lyric video for its first single, “Come to Me Now.” More

Jan 11, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Bonnaroo have announced their 2017 lineup. The festival goes down in Manchester, Tennessee from June 8-11 and this year, their 16th year, the lineup includes U2 performing The Joshua Tree (which was announced on Monday), More

Oct 27, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Kevin Morby released his excellent latest album, Singing Saw, back in April via Dead Oceans. Now he has shared a brand new single, “Beautiful Strangers,” which is in honor of the victims of the Orlando nightclub mass shooting in June. More

Sep 12, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Kevin Morby released his excellent new album, Singing Saw, back in April via Dead Oceans. Now he has shared a brand new song, “Tiny Fires.” More

May 06, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Under the Radar is excited to announce the full details of our May/June 2016 issue (out May, June, and into July), which has shipped out to subscribers and stores and will be on all newsstands soon. It will also soon be available digitally via Under the Radar‘s app, and the magazine apps Zinio, Readly, and Readbug. The issue features M83 on the cover. More

Apr 13, 2016 By Michael Wojtas

Singer/songwriter Kevin Morby has shared “Destroyer,” a new song from his forthcoming LP Singing Saw, which is due out this Friday. More

Apr 05, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Outside Lands have announced their 2016 lineup. The festival goes down August 5 - 7 at San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. Highlights of the lineup include Radiohead, LCD Soundsystem, Air, Grimes, Sufjan Stevens, Beach House, Ryan Adams, Duran Duran, The Last Shadow Puppets, Foals, Peaches, Kevin Morby, Lana Del Rey, DIIV, Big Grams, Julien Baker, Lionel Richie, Major Lazer, Jason Isbell, Lord Huron, Vince Staples, Years & Years, HÆLOS, POLIÇA, Ra Ra Riot, Rogue Wave, Caveman, Whitney, Miguel, and Chance the Rapper. More

Mar 24, 2016 By Joshua M. Miller

Today Kevin Morby has shared the video for his second single “Dorothy,” which is off his forthcoming album Singing Saw. More

Jan 23, 2014 By Laura Studarus

Recently Woods member Kevin Morby put out his debut solo album Harlem River. More

Sep 05, 2013 By Laura Studarus

Kevin Morby has taken a breather from sunshine folk project Woods in favor of releasing a solo album. More

Sep 04, 2017 By Ed McMenamin

Kevin Morby is calling during a rare moment of relaxation—a day off at his drummer’s place in upstate New York. The next morning he’ll fly to Barcelona for a festival gig, but his easy speaking voice jumps when he talks about the last four shows. More

Jun 16, 2017 By Ed McMenamin

For the Track-by-Track feature, we go in-depth with an artist about each song on their new album. This week we are featuring Kevin Morby‘s City Music, out today on Dead Oceans. More

Jul 08, 2016 By Matt Fink

As a soft-spoken, unassuming guy from the Midwest, Kevin Morby isn’t the kind of songwriter you’d expect to write one of the fieriest political anthems of the Black Lives Matter era. More

May 01, 2019 By Ben Jardine

Although he doesn’t consider himself necessarily “religious,” Kevin Morby has noticed the general devotional theme running through his music. On Morby’s latest album, Oh My God, the singer/songwriter further explores this dynamic with 14 new tracks. More

Jun 13, 2017 By Charles Steinberg

On his fourth album, City Music, Kevin Morby continues to pencil in the definition of his artistic persona. The Kansas City transplant already offered his musical homage to New York City with 2013’s Harlem River. More

Apr 14, 2016 By Nate Rogers

I used to imagine Kevin Morby‘s arrival in New York from Texas sort of like Jon Voight’s at the beginning of Midnight Cowboy. Big ideas, big plans, big boots. If you’ve seen the movie, you know that maybe this isn’t the most flattering comparison. More