May 21, 2021 By Mark Redfern

Twin Shadow (aka George Lewis Jr.) has announced a new self-titled album and shared a new song from it, “Get Closer.” More

Apr 16, 2021 By Mark Redfern (with Joey Arnone, Caleb Campbell, and Emma Goad)

Welcome to the 14th Songs of the Week of 2021. In this week’s news, the case against former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin in the murder of George Floyd wound down, with closing arguments expected on Monday. More

Apr 16, 2021 By Mark Redfern

Twin Shadow (aka George Lewis Jr.) has shared a new song, “Alemania,” via a lyric video for it. The single is said to be the second taste of a new album, which has yet to be fully announced. More

Mar 12, 2021 By Mark Redfern

Twin Shadow (aka George Lewis Jr.) has shared a new song, “Johnny & Jonnie.” The single is described in a press release as a “punky take on island sound” and is said to be the first taste of a new album. More

Mar 13, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Twin Shadow (aka George Lewis Jr.) released a new album, Caer, back in April 2018 via Warner Bros./Reprise. Now he has shared a brand new song not featured on the album, “Truly.” More

Oct 24, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Twin Shadow (aka George Lewis Jr.) released a new album, Caer, back in April via Warner Bros./Reprise. Now he has shared a brand new song not featured on the album, “Hollow Days.” A press release says that sonically it finds Lewis exploring his Dominican roots “by tapping into Bachata rhythms in addition to country themes.” More

Jun 15, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Alt-J have shared a new version of “In Cold Blood” that features Twin Shadow (aka George Lewis Jr.) and Pusha T. Twin Shadow reworked the song and Pusha T raps on the new version. Listen to it below. Last night all of them stopped by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert to perform the new version. More

Jun 06, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Twin Shadow (aka George Lewis Jr.) released a new album, Caer, back in April via Warner Bros./Reprise. Now he has shared a new video for “Saturdays” (which features HAIM). Aaron Hymes directed the video, which finds Lewis reflecting on the movies and TV shows of his youth in the 1990s. There are riffs on Desperado and The Craft, among others, with new actors recreating the films, as well as Twin Peaks. HAIM show up as cartoons in an anime style. More

Apr 13, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Twin Shadow (aka George Lewis Jr.) is releasing a new album, Caer, on April 27 via Warner Bros./Reprise. Previously he shared two songs from it, “Saturdays” (which features HAIM) and “Little Woman” (the latter shared via a video). More

Mar 23, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Last week we skipped Songs of the Week. Most of the music industry was in Austin for SXSW and thus few notable songs were shared last week, leaving us with not enough contenders to even put together a Top 5 we were truly excited about. So this week’s Songs of the Week mainly covers this week, but has a few songs from last week, including the song that would’ve been our #1 last week if we’d done a list. Hence we have a Top 12 this week. More

Mar 16, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Twin Shadow (aka George Lewis Jr.) is releasing a new album, Caer, on April 27 via Warner Bros./Reprise. Previously he shared two songs from it, “Saturdays” (which features HAIM) and “Little Woman” (the latter shared via a video). Both made our Songs of the Week list. 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 22, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Twin Shadow (aka George Lewis Jr.) has announced a new album, Caer, and shared two songs from it, “Saturdays” (which features HAIM) and “Little Woman” (the latter shared via a video). More

Jul 30, 2015 By Christopher Roberts

Twin Shadow (aka George Lewis Jr. and band) stopped by Late Late Show With James Corden last night to perform “To the Top.” More

Jul 28, 2015 By Christopher Roberts

Twin Shadow (aka George Lewis Jr.) has released as a free download a new demos mixtape, Night Rally. It includes unreleased tracks recorded between 2010 and 2014. You can download it from WeTransfer here via Noisey, who premiered it. More

Jun 25, 2015 By Christopher Roberts

Back in April Twin Shadow and their crew were involved in a bus accident near Denver, Colorado. Twelve people were hospitalized (including drummer Andy Bauer and bus driver John Crawford), main creative force George Lewis Jr. had to have an operation on his hand, and a bunch of tour dates were understandably cancelled. More

May 07, 2015 By Mike Hilleary

Last night Twin Shadow, aka George Lewis Jr., gave his first live performance since being involved in a massive tour bus accident, serving as the musical guest on Seth Meyers’ Late Night program. More

May 01, 2015 By Katie LaBranche

Twin Shadow (aka George Lewis Jr.) has released the music video for “I’m Ready” from his most recent album Eclipse, out now on Warner Bros. More

Apr 20, 2015 By Katie LaBranche

Following the news of their recent tour bus accident with a tractor-trailer on Interstate 70 in Aurora, Colorado, Twin Shadow has released a statement via Warner Bros. Records Publicity regarding the conditions of the 12 people who were on the tour bus. More

Apr 10, 2015 By Christopher Roberts

Under the Radar is excited to announce the full details of the April/May 2015 issue, which is about to hit newsstands. It features Tame Impala on the cover. Actor Charlie Cox talks about his starring role in the new Netflix series, Marvel’s Daredevil. We interview The Jesus and Mary Chain‘s Jim Reid and Creation Records’ founder Alan McGee about the 30th anniversary of the Scottish band’s iconic debut album, 1985’s Psychocandy. The issue also includes interviews with Death Cab For Cutie, Mew, My Morning Jacket, Father John Misty, Domhnall Gleeson of Ex Machina, Courtney Barnett, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Laura Marling, Django Django, Will Butler, Purity Ring, San Fermin, TORRES, Twin Shadow, Matthew E. White, Amason, Jacco Gardner, Tobias Jesso Jr., Petite Noir, Natalie Prass, SOAK, and more. More

Mar 09, 2015 By Mike Hilleary

Following his 2012 LP Confess, musical artist George Lewis Jr., aka Twin Shadow, will release his third studio album Eclipse this month. More

Feb 18, 2015 By Laura Studarus

Feb 16, 2015 By Mike Hilleary

Ahead of his forthcoming third LP Eclipse, Twin Shadow, a.k.a. George Lewis Jr., has premiered the included single, “I’m Ready” in the form of a black and white lyric video. More

Jan 27, 2015 By Mike Hilleary

Musical artist George Lewis Jr., a.k.a. Twin Shadow, has officially announced the release of his third studio album, Eclipse. More

Dec 08, 2014 By Mike Hilleary

Commencing his rescheduled “Eclipse” tour this spring Twin Shadow, a.k.a. George Lewis Jr., has dropped a brand new track titled “Turn Me Up.” More

Nov 03, 2014 By Laura Studarus

In August, Twin Shadow’s George Lewis, Jr. announced he was postponing his upcoming tour dates. Today he reassured the world that it wasn’t us, it was him. More

Aug 13, 2014 By Laura Studarus

Uh, so about those Twin Shadow tour dates? Yeah, not so much. More

Aug 01, 2014 By Mike Hilleary

On the latest episode of Scott Aukerman’s Comedy Bang! Bang! podcast Twin Shadow‘s George Lewis Jr. was welcomed as the program’s musical guest. More

Jun 23, 2014 By Mike Hilleary

Musical artist George Lewis Jr., a.k.a Twin Shadow, has announced plans for a new tour this fall. More

Jun 04, 2014 By Laura Studarus

Okay, so don’t get too excited yet—Twin Shadow (George Lewis, Jr.) hasn’t announced a new album. But last night he did stop by Conan to perform his new track “To the Top.” More

Apr 15, 2014 By Mike Hilleary

Taking a break from his monthly covers series, Twin Shadow, a.k.a. George Lewis Jr., has shared a brand new original track titled “To the Top.” More

Mar 14, 2014 By Mike Hilleary

Injecting some much needed humor to the proceedings of this year’s SXSW, Twin Shadow teamed up with Funny or Die to poke some fun at the festival’s propensity for surprise shows, pitting songwriter George Lewis Jr. and some bandmates in parking lot dumpster. More

Feb 21, 2014 By Mike Hilleary

Next month on March 24 Goldfrapp will release a digital EP of remixes that take on her Tales of Us track “Thea.” More

Feb 14, 2014 By Mike Hilleary

For the past several months now George Lewis Jr., a.k.a. Twin Shadow, has been delivering his own unique series of cover songs with UNDER THE CVRS. More

Jan 07, 2014 By Mike Hilleary

Continuing his monthly installments of performing works by both well-known and obscure artists, Twin Shadow‘s George Lewis Jr. has posted another video for his ongoing UNDER THE CVRS series. More

Nov 27, 2013 By Mike Hilleary

Over the past couple months Twin Shadow‘s George Lewis Jr. has been posting a number of excellent covers to his YouTube channel. More

Oct 29, 2013 By Mike Hilleary

As artists continue to express their respect and adoration for the work of the late Lou Reed, Twin Shadow has surfaced once again with his ongoing “UNDER THE CVRS” series, posting a hushed rendition of Reed’s “Perfect Day.” More

Sep 27, 2013 By Mike Hilleary

Continuing where he left off with Bruce Springsteen’s “I’m On Fire” and 10cc’s “I’m Not In Love,” Twin Shadow has premiered a new video of himself covering Tori Amos’ “Silent All These Years,” taken off her 1991 album Little Earthquakes. More

Sep 13, 2013 By Mike Hilleary

Finding some time between his monthly covers-by-request series New York artist Twin Shadow has premiered a brand new piece of original material titled “Old Love / New Love.” More

Sep 06, 2013 By Mike Hilleary

Last month singer/songwriter George Lewis Jr., a.k.a. Twin Shadow, posted a video of himself covering “I’m Not in Love,” by 10cc. More

Aug 16, 2013 By Mike Hilleary

Singer/songwriter George Lewis Jr., a.k.a. Twin Shadow, has posted a video of himself covering the soft rock track, “I’m Not in Love,” originally written by British group 10cc in 1975. More

Feb 07, 2013 By Mike Hilleary

Twin Shadow‘s George Lewis Jr. has come up with a rather interesting approach to a newly announced set of live performances to support last year’s sophomore LP Confess. More

Dec 11, 2012 By Mike Hilleary

Today Twin Shadow has released a stripped-down rendition of his latest Confess single “The Ones.” More

Oct 12, 2012 By Laura Studarus

Solange continues her quest to clench the title as top Knowles. More

Oct 11, 2012 By Mike Hilleary

Readying the release of his debut full-length Young Hunger, Chad Valley, a.k.a. Hugo Manuel, has premiered “I Owe You This,” a new single that finds the UK songwriter teaming up with Twin Shadow. More

Sep 06, 2012 By Laura Studarus

Do you like glam synth rock? Do you live in Texas? Great, Twin Shadow is marketing to you. More

Aug 28, 2012 By Mike Hilleary

This September pop duo Niki & the Dove will be serving as tourmates with Twin Shadow‘s George Lewis Jr. More

Jul 10, 2012 By Mike Hilleary

When we last left Twin Shadow‘s George Lewis Jr. in his storied-based video “Five Seconds,” he and a cohort were taking on a rough-looking gang of bad guys and riding off into the sunset on a motorcycle. More

Jul 03, 2012 By Mike Hilleary

Set to release his sophomore album Confess next week, Twin Shadow has jumped the gun a bit early by streaming the new record in its entirety online. More

Jun 19, 2012 By Mike Hilleary

Last night, as promised, Twin Shadow debuted the music video for his propulsive and synthy new single “Five Seconds” on the big screens of New York City’s Times Square. More

May 09, 2012 By Mike Hilleary

Recently announcing the release of Confess, the sophomore follow-up to his much-praised debut Forget, Twin Shadow‘s George Lewis Jr. has now revealed he will begin an extensive summer tour in support of the new work starting in July. More

May 07, 2012 By John Everhart

We caught up with Twin Shadow frontman George Lewis Jr. earlier this year for an in-depth cover story discussing Confess, now slated for release July 10th on 4AD. Here’s a teaser for the article. More

Mar 15, 2012 By Mike Hilleary

A beautifully shot performance of current cover co-star George Lewis Jr. (aka Twin Shadow) playing Peter Gabriel’s 1977 song “Here Comes the Flood” surfaced yesterday amidst all the hubbub and excitement going on in Austin. More

Mar 12, 2012 By Laura Studarus

Under the Radar’s Winter (March/April) Issue will be hitting the stands soon. The issue features an In the Studio 2012 themed cover with the frontmen of three notable acts set to release new albums later this year—Dirty Projectors’ Dave Longstreth, Grizzly Bear’s Ed Droste, and Twin Shadow’s George Lewis Jr. The issue also features interviews with Air, Bear in Heaven, Best Coast, Andrew Bird, Chairlift, Dan Deacon, First Aid Kit, Grimes, of Montreal, Frankie Rose, Spiritualized, Tame Impala, Tegan and Sara, and much more. More

Mar 05, 2012 By Laura Studarus

Check out Twin Shadow’s take on Neon Indian track, “Hex Girlfriend.” More

Oct 21, 2011 By Laura Studarus

A slew of indie and indie-approved artists are busy remixing Lady Gaga’s Born this Way. More

Sep 20, 2011 By Wendy Lynch Redfern

Check out photos from Day Two of ACL Music Festival 2011 in Austin, TX including Stevie Wonder, Alexander, Chromeo, Cut Copy, Iron and Wine, My Morning Jacket, Telekinesis, Twin Shadow, and more. More

Sep 15, 2011 By Kyle Lemmon

Twin Shadow issued a new single today. It’s called “Changes” and you can grab it at this site. We also have the tune. More

Jul 25, 2011 By Margot Cooper Gruen

CANT, Grizzly Bear‘s Chris Taylor’s solo effort, includes George Lewis Jr. of Twin Shadow and is due to release first album, now titled Dreams Come True, September 13 via Taylor’s Terrible Records. More

Jun 22, 2011 By Margot Cooper Gruen

Grizzly Bear bassist, vocalist, and producer Chris Taylor has released information regarding his solo effort CANT. More

Jun 16, 2011 By Laura Studarus

Twin Shadow recently did a rad (in both location and quality) video session. We have the viceo. More

Jun 11, 2011 By Wendy Lynch Redfern

Bonnaroo 2011 kicked off this Thursday June 9th in Manchester, TN and photographer, Matt Jones, was there to capture the action. Check out photos from Day One’s performances here.
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May 06, 2011 By Mike Hilleary

Twin Shadow, aka George Lewis Jr., made his television debut last night with an appearance on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. More

Apr 27, 2011 By Mark Redfern

While backstage at the 2011 Coachella Music and Arts Festival, Under the Radar‘s publisher/senior editor Mark Redfern conducted video interviews with some of the fest’s most noteworthy bands including Twin Shadow. More

Apr 19, 2011 By Raymond Flotat

On the final day of the 2011 Coachella Music and Arts Festival, the big guns were all stacked up together. Almost in perfect sequence on various stages, Death From Above 1979, Trentemoller, Duran Duran, Ratatat, The Strokes, PJ Harvey and Kanye West were an excellent finale to this year’s festival. More

Mar 31, 2011 By Laura Studarus

Today, the Twin Shadow camp released a director’s commentary version of the video for “At My Heel.” We have the upgraded video. More

Mar 22, 2011 By Wendy Lynch Redfern

Check out photos from Day Two the of SXSW 2011 Music Festival, including shots of James Blake, Glasser, Twin Shadow, Cults and tUnE-YarDs. Photos by Wendy Lynch Redfern. Check out the full gallery here. More

Mar 18, 2011 By Mike Hilleary

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Mar 11, 2011 By Mike Hilleary

Brooklyn indie-pop upstarts The Pains of Being Pure at Heart have made their upcoming second LP, Belong available for everyone to stream in its entirety. More

Oct 21, 2010 By Laura Studarus

“Pleased to Meet You” artist Twin Shadow (see our current issue for the story) is heading out to see the world. We have the tour dates. More

Aug 24, 2010 By John Everhart

Twin Shadow, the brainchild of George Lewis Jr., have rushed their album out digitally in advance of its physical release on September 28, and you can buy it for $1. We have the details More

Aug 16, 2010 By Brie Savard

George Lewis Jr. (aka Twin Shadow) is a busy man these days. With the September 28th release of his debut LP Forget on Terrible Records (run by Grizzly Bear’s Chris Taylor), and his making of the Time Out New York‘s 2010 “Most Stylish New Yorker List,” it’s no wonder he is chomping at the bit to tour. And who might be accompanying George on this escapade? It’s none other than Jamie Lidell, who Twin Shadow will be opening for. More

Mar 17, 2012 By John Everhart

Twin Shadow, aka Brooklyn-based songwriter George Lewis Jr., emerged in 2010 with the stunning debut LP Forget. The album is an intimate glimpse at the deterioration of a transcontinental relationship, and it saw significant critical acclaim and commercial success. Despite its gravitas, the record’s ebullient synth hooks and universal theme of love lost caught on with increasingly larger and more fervent audiences worldwide. More

Mar 16, 2015 By Scott Dransfield

Almost a year ago, Twin Shadow (aka George Lewis, Jr.) released “To the Top,” a sonically massive, emotionally direct ballad that foretold a new direction for his in-progress third album. More

Jul 10, 2012 By Laura Studarus

Call it puppy rock: that unexpected bevy of warm feelings that makes an otherwise glam musician pump out an album full of love songs. But for George Lewis, Jr. (aka the sole proprietor of Twin Shadow), romance has taken a sharp left turn, leaving him with 10 tracks of sheep-in-wolf’s-clothing love(ish) songs. More

Apr 20, 2011 By Mark Redfern

Day three of Coachella 2011 was already the weakest day in terms of the lineup, so this year’s festival ended with more of a whimper. There were highlights, including some ’80s New Wave legends, and some dancing Danes. And then there was Kanye West. More

Mar 18, 2011 By Laura Studarus

After a long—and incredibly enjoyable—day at our first of two Under the Radar SXSW parties, the magazine trouped en mass over to Central Presbyterian Church to check out Pitchfork’s impressively stacked lineup: Glasser, Cults, tUnE-yArDs, Twin Shadow, and James Blake.

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Oct 14, 2010 By J. Pace

George Lewis, Jr., aka Twin Shadow, is a Dominican-born small-town Floridian who found his way to Brooklyn, a sensible home for a multi-instrumentalist musician type accused of packing Phil Lynott’s hair and Simon Le Bon’s voice. Forget features Grizzly Bear’s Chris Taylor in the role of producer and label operator, no doubt an added turbo boost for this fashionable fella already circumnavigating the blogosphere. More