Jan 05, 2011 By Kyle Lemmon

Excellent Danish art-rock trio Mew will digitally release Eggs Are Funny next week on January 11 via Columbia We have the details. More

Aug 08, 2010 By Laura Studarus

Day two I managed to will away my jet lag. Good thing—Muchy, Tunng, Hey, Mew and The Radio Dept. demanded my full attention. More

Apr 23, 2010 By Kyle Lemmon

Mew's creepy new music video for "Beach" cements the fact that the Danish trio make the best music videos in indie rockdom. For evidence of Jonas Bjerre's former job as a film animator and special effects artist, check out the very professional clips for "Repeaterbeater" and "Introducing Palace Players." "Beach" starts with some Children of the Corn-esque kids chanting in a born with a storm brewing outside. We have the video. More

Apr 13, 2010 By Laura Studarus

Last night, Coachella released set times for this year's festival (this weekend, April 16th-18th). While we were busy agonizing over the inevitable conflicts (Charlotte Gainsbourg vs. Jónsi? Local Natives vs. Owen Pallet? Sly and Family Stone vs. Phoenix? C'mon!), one thing quickly became clear—Under the Radar favorites Mew (previously announced to play on Saturday) were no longer on the list. Today the band released a statement via their MySpace, confirming that their absence from the schedule was no mere typo. More

Jan 19, 2010 By Mark Redfern

One of North America's most anticipated music festivals, Coachella, has announced its 2010 line-up. The three-day festival, which takes place in the California desert near Palm Springs April 16 - 18, will feature Jay-Z, Muse, and Gorillaz as the headliners. Other highlights include: Public Image Limited, The Specials, Grace Jones, Echo and the Bunnymen, Pavement, Sly and the Family Stone, Devo, LCD Soundsystem, Vampire Weekend, Grizzly Bear, Fever Ray, She & Him, Yeasayer, MGMT, Hot Chip, Dirty Projectors, Mew, Camera Obscura, Edward Sharp and the Magnetic Zeros, Thom Yorke????, Phoenix, Spoon, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Yo La Tengo, Deerhunter, The Big Pink, Florence and the Machine, Owen Pallett, and Local Natives.

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Oct 15, 2009 By Kyle Lemmon

In November and December, the Danish art rock unit Mew will bring their stadium-ready tunes from the album-of-the-year contender, No More Stories..., to live venues across the U.S. They will also be giving local bands a chance to open for them. More

Sep 02, 2009 By Mark Redfern

The Danish trio Mew (who are a five-piece live) took the Troubadour stage for a sold-out show and launched right into "New Terrain," the opening track to the band's lengthily titled new album, No more stories/Are told today/I'm sorry/They washed away/No more stories/The world is grey/I'm tired/Let's wash away. On record the song is awash with backwards vocals and, live, singer Jonas Bjerre seemed to warp his pipes in a similar fashion. Guitarist Bo Madsen started "New Terrain" playing bongo drums, before switching to the guitar. The song was loud—its bass and drums tickling at the ears and making the $2 earplugs sold at the bar briefly tempting. More

Sep 01, 2009 By Mark Redfern

This week the Zune L.A. gallery/performance space is hosting the Mewseum, an exhibition of Mew's music videos, including three filmed for their lengthily titled new album, No more stories/Are told today/I'm sorry/They washed away/No more stories/The world is grey/I'm tired/Let's wash away. The three videos are directed by Martin De Thurah and also displayed are photos from the videos. Mew performed a short set Monday night at Zune L.A. to a grouping of fans and industry folk. Before the Danish trio took the stage, the three No more stories videos were shown. More

Aug 18, 2009 By Michele Yamamoto

Danish trio Mew will be presenting for Los Angeles fans the Mewseum at the Zune L.A. Space from August 29th through September 3rd. It will feature a multimedia gallery of Mew's videos and work, as well as a live performance from the band. More

Jul 14, 2009 By Kyle Lemmon

Last July, the Danish prog-pop trio Mew posted a strange Video Diary clip, entitled 'Recording in Brooklyn.' Like many of the clips on the band's website, the video pairs band-shot footage with news reel-like audio. In this specific entry a voice discusses the The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), which went online last September. Talk of the ominous LHC, string theory and bending temporal space and time is just the type of stuff Mew's music evokes, and the comparison seems all the more appropriate after listening to their new time-warping LP several times over. More

May 15, 2009 By Michele Yamamoto

Come summer, Danish post-rock band Mew will be releasing its lengthily titled new album—which is the third one to be released in America and which was recorded last summer in Brooklyn, NY—on August 25th.  More

Mar 21, 2010 By Frank Valish

Whatever the perception, as any parent will tell you, raising children is hard work, and for a working musician, balancing writing, recording, and touring with being a full-time mom or dad can be extra tricky. More

Aug 07, 2009 By Frank Valish

On August 25th, Danish band Mew will release perhaps the most ambitious (and ambitiously-titled) album in the group's decade plus history. No more stories/Are told today/I'm sorry/They washed away/No more stories/The world is grey/I'm tired/Let's wash away marks a sonic left turn from the more aggressive guitar-based textures of the band's last album, 2005's And the Glass Handed Kites. Mew's Jonas Bjerre talked to Under the Radar about the band's new album, continuing without bassist Johan Wohlert, and being invited to support Nine Inch Nails on that band's final U.S. tour. More

Dec 17, 2009 By Laura Studarus

The quote of the evening goes to the girl next to me—who just before Mew took the stage emphatically announced "Mew aren't Danish! They're from Denmark!" Errr...pardon? Audience confusion aside, the three Danes men from Denmark known as Mew (along with two touring members on bass and keyboard) put on one heck of a show-even after a delayed entrance post curtain-rise caused the (much saner) girl next to me to mutter, "Concerts—you're doing it wrong!" More

Sep 09, 2009 By Kyle Lemmon

Don't let the cumbersome album title or the pictographic clown-butterfly intermezzos fool you. Danish trio Mew is surely grandiose, but still a few concept albums shy of bat-shit crazy. In fact, No More Stories is fairly tame in comparison to 2005's labyrinthine and gloomy song suite, And the Glass Handed Kites. Where Kites stockpiled instrumentation, No More Stories cuts the fat and makes do with the group's new orientation (bassist Johan Wohlert left the band to concentrate on fatherhood). More

Sep 02, 2009 By Mark Redfern

The Danish trio Mew (who are a five-piece live) took the Troubadour stage for a sold-out show and launched right into "New Terrain," the opening track to the band's lengthily titled new album, No more stories/Are told today/I'm sorry/They washed away/No more stories/The world is grey/I'm tired/Let's wash away. On record the song is awash with backwards vocals and, live, singer Jonas Bjerre seemed to warp his pipes in a similar fashion. Guitarist Bo Madsen started "New Terrain" playing bongo drums, before switching to the guitar. The song was loud—its bass and drums tickling at the ears and making the $2 earplugs sold at the bar briefly tempting. More

Sep 01, 2009 By Mark Redfern

This week the Zune L.A. gallery/performance space is hosting the Mewseum, an exhibition of Mew's music videos, including three filmed for their lengthily titled new album, No more stories/Are told today/I'm sorry/They washed away/No more stories/The world is grey/I'm tired/Let's wash away. The three videos are directed by Martin De Thurah and also displayed are photos from the videos. Mew performed a short set Monday night at Zune L.A. to a grouping of fans and industry folk. Before the Danish trio took the stage, the three No more stories videos were shown. More