News
Dec 23, 2022
By Mark Redfern
Are things back to normal in 2022? They are, aren’t they? Well not quite. More
Plus Porridge Radio, Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever, Florist, and a Wrap-up of the Week’s Other Notable New Tracks
May 06, 2022
By Mark Redfern (with Joey Arnone)
Welcome to the 18th Songs of the Week of 2022. There were lots of strong contenders this week, including a new supergroup, two songs from a new album that featured no advance singles, and tracks from artists across the globe (including Sweden, Australia, New Zealand, and England). We’ve got 11 songs this week, since one artist has two different songs on the list. More
Endless Rooms Due Out This Friday via Sub Pop
May 04, 2022
By Mark Redfern
Melbourne, Australia five-piece Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever are releasing a new album, Endless Rooms, this Friday via Sub Pop. Now they are sharing its fourth single, “Dive Deep.” More
Plus Melody’s Echo Chamber, Florist, Horsegirl, and a Wrap-up of the Week’s Other Notable New Tracks
Apr 08, 2022
By Mark Redfern
Welcome to the fourteenth Songs of the Week of 2022. It was a fantastic new release day, with fresh albums by Wet Leg, Father John Misty, Jack White, Oceanator, Daniel Rossen, Orville Peck, Lucius, and others. Some of those artists end up on this week’s Songs of the Week, which is a Top 12 this week. More
Endless Rooms Due Out May 6 via Sub Pop
Apr 05, 2022
By Mark Redfern
Melbourne, Australia five-piece Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever are releasing a new album, Endless Rooms, on May 6 via Sub Pop. Now they are sharing its third single, “My Echo,” via a video for it that mainly features the band performing the song in a dark room, but some paper-maché heads are also involved. More
Plus Sharon Van Etten, Bartees Strange, Alex Izenberg, and a Wrap-up of the Week’s Other Notable New Tracks
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
Endless Rooms Due Out May 6 via Sub Pop
Mar 02, 2022
By Mark Redfern
Melbourne, Australia five-piece Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever are releasing a new album, Endless Rooms, on May 6 via Sub Pop. Now they are sharing its second single, “Tidal River,” via a video for it. More
Plus SASAMI, Lucy Dacus, Röyksopp, and a Wrap-up of the Week’s Other Notable New Tracks
Feb 04, 2022
By Mark Redfern (with Joey Arnone)
Welcome to the fifth Songs of the Week of 2022. This week saw the start of the Winter Olympics in China, Punxsutawney Phil predicted six more weeks of winter on Groundhog Day, the U.S. military took out the head of ISIS, and tensions continued between Russia and the Ukraine. More
Endless Rooms Due Out May 6 via Sub Pop; North American Tour Dates Announced
Feb 02, 2022
By Mark Redfern
Melbourne, Australia five-piece Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever have announced a new album, Endless Rooms, and shared its first single, “The Way It Shatters,” via a video for it. They have also announced some North American tour dates. More
Sideways to New Italy Out Now via Sub Pop
Jan 15, 2021
By Christopher Roberts
Melbourne, Australia five-piece Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever released a new album, Sideways to New Italy, last year via Sub Pop. Now they have shared a video for the album’s “The Only One.” Mike Ridley directed the video, which features Pie Man, a man with a giant pie for a face, as he wanders around suburban Melbourne and encounters the band. More
They Team Up to Cover “Deeper Water”
Jun 09, 2020
By Christopher Roberts
Melbourne, Australia five-piece Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever have teamed up with fellow Australian Stella Donnelly to cover “Deeper Water,” a 1999 song by Melbourne’s Deadstar. They did so in an empty cricket stadium. More
Plus Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever, Hinds, NZCA LINES, and a Wrap-up of the Week’s Other Notable New Tracks
Jun 05, 2020
By Christopher Roberts (with Mark Moody, Samantha Small, and Jake Uitti)
Welcome to the 22nd Songs of the Week of 2020. And what a trying week it was. More
Sideways to New Italy Out Now via Sub Pop
Jun 05, 2020
By Christopher Roberts
Melbourne, Australia five-piece Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever have released a new album, Sideways to New Italy, today via Sub Pop. Now that the album is out, you can stream the whole thing here. Also, today we posted a new interview with the band and our review of the album. More
Sideways to New Italy Due Out This Friday via Sub Pop
Jun 03, 2020
By Christopher Roberts
Melbourne, Australia five-piece Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever are releasing a new album, Sideways to New Italy, this Friday via Sub Pop. Now they have shared another song from it, “Cameo.” More
Sideways to New Italy Due Out June 5 via Sub Pop
May 15, 2020
By Christopher Roberts
Melbourne, Australia five-piece Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever are releasing a new album, Sideways to New Italy, on June 5 via Sub Pop. Now they have released a video of the band performing early single “Angeline” remotely and separately from their homes. The song is not found on either of their albums, but was released as a single back in 2013. More
Plus Jenny O., I Break Horses, Cut Copy, Westerman, and a Wrap-up of the Week’s Other Notable New Tracks
May 08, 2020
By Christopher Roberts (with Samantha Small)
Welcome to the eighteenth Songs of the Week of 2020. It’s another week under quarantine, the same as the last week. There were more ridiculous politics and it still seems like the health of the economy is being put before the health of the people, with premature calls to scale back social distancing and reopen everything while COVID-19 still spreads. We’ll see how that works out. More
Sideways to New Italy Due Out June 5 via Sub Pop
May 05, 2020
By Christopher Roberts
Melbourne, Australia five-piece Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever are releasing a new album, Sideways to New Italy, on June 5 via Sub Pop. Now they have shared another song from it, “Falling Thunder,” via a video for the track featuring footage filmed in Italy. More
Plus Jess Williamson, EOB, The 1975 and Phoebe Bridgers, and a Wrap-up of the Week’s Other Notable New Tracks
Apr 03, 2020
By Christopher Roberts
Welcome to the thirteenth Songs of the Week of 2020. While more album release dates were pushed back due to COVID-19 and it seems we haven’t reached the peak number of coronavirus cases in America yet, none of that stopped artists from sharing a whole lot of new songs this week. More
Sideways to New Italy Due Out June 5 via Sub Pop
Mar 31, 2020
By Christopher Roberts
Melbourne, Australia five-piece Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever have announced a new album, Sideways to New Italy, and shared a new song from it, “She’s There,” via a video for the single. More
Plus U.S. Girls, Moaning, Anna Burch, Alex Lahey, Caroline Rose, and a Wrap-up of the Week’s Other Notable New Tracks
Feb 14, 2020
By Christopher Roberts
Welcome to the sixth Songs of the Week of 2020. It was a solid week for new tracks, but we managed to keep it reined in to our regular 10 tracks as opposed to last week’s supersized 13-song edition. And in a rarity for Songs of the Week, the same artist is #1 two weeks in a row! More
Julia Jacklin and Nick Mckk Directed the Video.
Feb 10, 2020
By Christopher Roberts
Melbourne, Australia five-piece Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever have shared a new song, “Cars In Space,” via a video for the track that finds the band performing at a drive-in movie theater in Australia. Fellow Aussie musician Julia Jacklin co-directed the video with her regular collaborator Nick Mckk. More
Plus FKA twigs, Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever, Japanese Breakfast, and a Wrap-up of the Week’s Other Notable New Tracks
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
B-Side of Single Out Today via Sub Pop
Apr 26, 2019
By Christopher Roberts
Melbourne, Australia five-piece Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever shared a new song, “In the Capital,” back in February (it was one of our Songs of the Week) and announced that it would be released as a 7-inch today via Sub Pop. Now the B-side, “Read My Mind,” has been shared via a video for the track. More
Single Due Out April 26 via Sub Pop
Feb 26, 2019
By Christopher Roberts
Melbourne, Australia five-piece Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever released their debut album, Hope Downs, back in June 2018 via Sub Pop. Now they have shared a brand new song, “In the Capital.” More
A Soccer Mommy Sends Some Snail Mail to a Flasher, a Goat Girl, and a Serpent with Feet; What a Shame
Dec 21, 2018
By Mark Redfern
Ahead of our forthcoming Top 100 Albums of 2018 list, we present our favorite debut albums of the year. To qualify, an album simply had to be the artist’s first full-length release under their current artist name. More
Hope Downs Out Now via Sub Pop
Sep 25, 2018
By Christopher Roberts
Melbourne, Australia five-piece Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever released their debut album, Hope Downs, back in June via Sub Pop. (It was our Album of the Week and you can also read our review of it.) Now they have shared a video for “Sister’s Jeans.” Riley Blakeway directed the video, which features the band traveling around in an old bus. More
Issue 64 Out Now and Also Includes Interviews with Interpol, Beach House, Wild Nothing, Death Cab for Cutie, Suede, Natalie Prass, Ethan Hawke vs. Phosphorescent, Christine and the Queens, Low, Snail Mail, and Much More
Aug 31, 2018
By Mark Redfern
Under the Radar is excited to announce the full details of our new print issue, which is out now nationwide (on newsstands, in such stores as Barnes & Noble and Books-A-Million, and elsewhere) and available to buy directly from us here. The issue features Kamasi Washington on the cover. More
Hope Downs Out Now via Sub Pop
Jun 15, 2018
By Adam Turner-Heffer
After last year’s excellent EP The French Press, young Melbournians Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever have amassed quite the deal of hype. And justifiably so, the title track in particular went down as of the best tracks of 2017, excelling a considerable amount of excitement towards their first full length, when it comes. More
Plus Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever, Tomberlin, Interpol, and a Wrap-up of the Week's Other Notable New Tracks
Jun 08, 2018
By Christopher Roberts
This was a strong week for new tracks, so much so that we almost expanded this week’s Songs of the Week list to a Top 13. Instead we decided to include three honorable mentions. The full list includes two legendary artists who we will soon be getting previously unreleased posthumous albums from. More
Welfare, Trade Wars, and Potential Real Wars (Plus NOFX, Bon Iver, BROCKHAMPTON, and Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever)
Jun 01, 2018
By Stephen Mayne
This week we look at a study assessing what drives hostility to social welfare programs, plus Trump has trade wars and real wars to consider, Justin Vernon teases intriguingly titled music and NOFX disgrace themselves. More
Plus Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever, Ryley Walker, Arctic Monkeys, and a Wrap-up of the Last Two Weeks' Other Notable New Tracks
May 18, 2018
By Christopher Roberts
We skipped Songs of the Week last week for various reasons, but now we’re back with two week’s worth of songs. For that reason, this week it’s a Top 15, instead of our usual Top 10. More
Hope Downs Due Out June 15 via Sub Pop
May 15, 2018
By Christopher Roberts
Melbourne, Australia five-piece Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever are releasing their debut album, Hope Downs, on June 15 via Sub Pop. Now they have shared a lyric video for another song from the album, “An Air Conditioned Man.” More
Plus Neko Case, Stuart A. Staples, Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever, Jenny Hval, Janelle Monáe, and a Wrap-up of the Week's Other Notable Tracks
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
Hope Downs Due Out June 15 via Sub Pop
Apr 10, 2018
By Christopher Roberts
Melbourne, Australia five-piece Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever have announced their debut album, Hope Downs, and shared a video for a new song, “Talking Straight.” Hope Downs is due out June 15 via Sub Pop. More
Interviews
Mar 09, 2021
By Kyle Mullin
Judging by the big bright hooks, breezy melodies, and guitar riffs that rev like top down, joy riding convertibles, it would be easy to peg a number of the cuts from Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever’s latest album as contenders for “song of the summer.” More
Jun 05, 2020
By Kyle Mullin
Just ahead of the release of the band’s new album Sideways to New Italy, we spoke to Joe White of Australian five-piece Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever about how it feels to carry on with album promotion during such troubling times, the reason why the band decided not to push that release date back despite the COVID-19 pandemic, why the band is compelled to speak out about controversial issues, and how America’s current racial reckoning is reverberating among marginalized communities in their native Australia. More
Clean Jeans and Shifting Sands
Nov 14, 2018
By Stephen Mayne
Fran Keaney, Joe White, and Tom Russo, the songwriting, singing, and guitaring part of Melbourne five-piece Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever, are late. Not for rock and roll reasons though. They’ve been at the dry cleaners because, according to their tour manager, they don’t have any good jeans left for the show in Boston later that evening. More
Reviews
May 06, 2022
By Matt the Raven
“Pearl Like You,” the short opening track on Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever’s third album Endless Rooms, opens a door and hints at a slower, dreamier sound than the broiling, agile, guitar-driven pop found on the Australian band’s 2020-released sophomore album, Sideways to New Italy. But the next four tracks quickly dispel that notion and reveal the same raw energy that, in some ways, is more dense, a little more polished and certainly more ambitious. More
Jun 15, 2018
By Adam Turner-Heffer
Somehow, despite the overly complicated name, Melbourne five-piece Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever have been building a substantial amount of hype since their 2016 Talk Tight EP. More
May 25, 2018
By Stephen Mayne
When musicians sit on the cusp of breaking out, there’s a sweet spot lasting only a moment. The collected songs are strong enough to draw larger audiences, and each performance is an electrifying experience, but the world has yet to catch up. More