Jul 22, 2021 By Mark Redfern

This year’s Mercury Prize nominees have been announced and they include the latest albums by Wolf Alice; Arlo Parks; Mogwai; Black Country, New Road; Floating Points and Pharoah Sanders; Laura Mvula; and more. More

Jul 14, 2021 By Mark Redfern

Britain’s Wolf Alice released an acclaimed new album, Blue Weekend, last month via Dirty Hit/RCA (stream it here). They have been releasing interconnected music videos for all of the album’s songs, all directed by Jordan Hemingway, and now they have shared one for album closer “The Beach II,” which also seems to be the last video in the series. More

Jul 06, 2021 By Mark Redfern

Britain’s Wolf Alice released an acclaimed new album, Blue Weekend, last month via Dirty Hit/RCA (stream it here). They have been releasing somewhat interconnected music videos for all of the album’s songs, all directed by Jordan Hemingway, and today they have shared one for “Feeling Myself.” More

Jun 11, 2021 By Mark Redfern

Britain’s Wolf Alice released a new album, Blue Weekend, last week via Dirty Hit/RCA. Since then they have shared new videos for the album’s “Delicious Things” and “The Beach.” They have also shared a live video for recent single “How Can I Make It OK?” More

Jun 04, 2021 By Mark Redfern (with Emma Goad)

Welcome to the 21st Songs of the Week of 2021. We figured it would be a quiet week for new songs, with Monday being a holiday here in America, but we were wrong. More

Jun 04, 2021 By Mark Redfern

Britain’s Wolf Alice have released a new album, Blue Weekend, today via Dirty Hit/RCA. Now that it’s out, you can stream the whole thing here. Also, on Wednesday we posted our new interview with Wolf Alice and yesterday we posted our rave 9/10 review of the album. More

Jun 03, 2021 By Mark Redfern

Britain’s Wolf Alice are releasing a new album, Blue Weekend, tomorrow via Dirty Hit/RCA. Now they have shared one last pre-release single from the album, “How Can I Make It Ok?,” via a video for it. They have also announced some new U.S. tour dates. More

May 14, 2021 By Mark Redfern (with Emma Goad)

Welcome to the 18th Songs of the Week of 2021. This week the CDC relaxed mask guidelines for those who have been vaccinated, helping to further pave the way for live music to return this fall. Although, right now there’s no clear way for venues or stores to check if someone is vaccinated. More

May 11, 2021 By Mark Redfern

Britain’s Wolf Alice have shared a new song, the dreamy and understated “No Hard Feelings,” via a video for the song. The band have also pushed up the release of their new album, Blue Weekend. More

May 06, 2021 By Mark Redfern

Britain’s Wolf Alice are releasing a new album, Blue Weekend, on June 11 via Dirty Hit/RCA. On Tuesday night they were the musical guest on The Late Late Show with James Corden, where they performed the album’s second single, “Smile,” and were interviewed by Corden. More

Apr 23, 2021 By Mark Redfern (with Joey Arnone and Emma Goad)

Welcome to the 15th Songs of the Week of 2021.The big Under the Radar news was that on Wednesday we announced our new print issue. The issue features Japanese Breakfast and HAIM on the two covers and is another edition of The Protest Issue, which examines the intersection of music and politics and features musicians photographed with protest signs of their own making. More

Apr 21, 2021 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 Japanese Breakfast and HAIM on the two covers and is another edition of The Protest Issue, which examines the intersection of music and politics and features musicians photographed with protest signs of their own making. More

Apr 20, 2021 By Mark Redfern

Britain’s Wolf Alice are releasing a new album, Blue Weekend, on June 11 via Dirty Hit/RCA. Now they have shared the album’s second single, the bass-heavy “Smile,” via a video for the song. More

Feb 26, 2021 By Mark Redfern (with Joey Arnone)

Welcome to the seventh Songs of the Week of 2021. This week’s big music news was probably that Daft Punk had broken up. More

Feb 24, 2021 By Mark Redfern

Britain’s Wolf Alice have announced a new album, Blue Weekend, and shared a video for its first single, “The Last Man on Earth.” 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

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

May 30, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Britain’s Wolf Alice released their sophomore album, Visions of a Life, last fall via Dirty Hit/RCA. It was our Album of the Week (also read our rave 9/10 review of the album). It was also #5 on our Top 100 Albums of 2017 list. Now they have shared a video for “Space & Time.” More

Mar 05, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Britain’s Wolf Alice released their sophomore album, Visions of a Life, last fall via Dirty Hit/RCA. It was our Album of the Week (also read our rave 9/10 review of the album). It was also #5 on our Top 100 Albums of 2017 list. Now they have shared a video for “Sadboy.” More

Jan 23, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Britain’s Wolf Alice released their sophomore album, Visions of a Life, last fall via Dirty Hit/RCA. It was our Album of the Week (also read our rave 9/10 review of the album). It was also #5 on our Top 100 Albums of 2017 list. Now they have announced some new U.S. tour dates for this spring. More

Jan 03, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Governors Ball has announced the lineup for their 2018 festival, which goes down in New York City’s Randall’s Island Park the weekend of June 1 - 3. The headliners are Eminem (also announced as a Coachella headliner today), Jack White, Travis Scott, and Yeah Yeah Yeahs. More

Dec 30, 2017 By Mark Redfern

2016 was regarded as a fairly rough year by many, but 2017 was no walk in the park either. 2016 was mired by the deaths of several beloved musical icons (David Bowie, Prince, Leonard Cohen, George Michael, and Sharon Jones among them) and the disappointing and divisive Presidential election, but in 2017 we had to deal with the ramifications of said election (we’d say that roughly 95% of the musicians we interview likely don’t support many, if any, of President Trump’s policies). More

Dec 07, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Back in July Charli XCX shared a catchy as hell brand new song, “Boys,” via a video she self-directed (with Sarah McColgan). Now she has stopped by Australia’s Triple J radio station to perform “Boys,” but also take part in their “Like a Version” covers series where she has covered “Don’t Delete the Kisses,” by fellow Brits Wolf Alice. More

Oct 20, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Under the Radar is excited to announce the full details of our Fall 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 Julien Baker on the cover. More

Oct 17, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Britain’s Wolf Alice released their sophomore album, Visions of a Life, a few weeks back via Dirty Hit/RCA. It was our Album of the Week (also read our rave 9/10 review of the album). Tonight the band stopped by the BBC music show Later… with Jools Holland to perform two singles from the album: “Beautifully Unconventional” and “Don’t Delete the Kisses.” More

Sep 29, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Britain’s Wolf Alice released their sophomore album, Visions of a Life, today via Dirty Hit/RCA. It was our Album of the Week (also read our rave 9/10 review of the album). This week they shared a video for the album’s opening cut, “Heavenward.” Andy DeLuca directed the clip, which follows the band on tour. More

Sep 29, 2017 By Scott Dransfield

Brandon Flowers, of The Killers fame, was recently lambasted in some indie-blog circles for claiming in a recent interview with Noisey that rock bands haven’t gained a commercial traction comparable to their own lately because there “hasn’t been anybody good enough.” More

Sep 22, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

We’re back down to eight Songs of the Week, after promising last week to stick with a Top 10 for awhile. But it was a slow week for new tracks. Still, there were some clear gems this week, as you will see below, with an easy choice for top song. More

Sep 18, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Britain’s Wolf Alice are releasing their sophomore album, Visions of a Life, on September 29 via Dirty Hit/RCA. Now they have shared the album’s opening cut, “Heavenward.” Listen below followed by the band’s upcoming tour dates.

Sep 11, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Britain’s Wolf Alice continue to surprise with the rollout for their sophomore album, Visions of a Life, (due out September 29 via Dirty Hit/RCA). Each of the three singles shared thus far have sounded remarkably different for each other and now their new video for the album’s third single, “Beautifully Unconventional,” features frontwoman Ellie Rowsell channeling Marilyn Monroe, performing the song on a soundstage looking like something out of classic 1950s Hollywood. More

Aug 18, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Charlottesville, Virginia is only just over an hour a way from Under the Radar‘s headquarters. It’s the best local city to see shows in and it’s a great little progressive college town that we visit often. So we watched in horror, disbelief, and disgust last weekend as the violent and tragic events in Charlottesville surrounding the white supremacist rally dominated the news. More

Aug 14, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Britain’s Wolf Alice are releasing their sophomore album, Visions of a Life, on September 29 via Dirty Hit/RCA. Now they have shared another song from it, the short and poppy “Beautifully Unconventional,” which sounds very little like the other two singles released from the album thus far, “Yuk Foo” and “Don’t Delete the Kisses.” More

Aug 11, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Britain’s Wolf Alice are releasing their sophomore album, Visions of a Life, on September 29 via Dirty Hit/RCA. Now they have shared a video for “Don’t Delete the Kisses.” More

Jul 28, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Britain’s Wolf Alice are releasing their sophomore album, Visions of a Life, on September 29 via Dirty Hit/RCA. Previously the band shared a lyric video for the album’s punky and profanity-laden first single, the two-minute long “Yuk Foo,” in which frontwoman Ellie Rowsell declares in the chorus “you bore me, you bore me to death, well you bore me, no I don’t give a shit.” More

Jul 07, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Most of the American music industry took Monday and Tuesday off for the long July 4th weekend, leaving only three days to produce worthy new songs this week. But that was good enough for some strong new offerings, including one song actually called “Offering.” More

Jul 05, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Britain’s Wolf Alice are releasing their sophomore album, Visions of a Life, on September 29 via Dirty Hit/RCA. Previously the band shared a lyric video for the album’s punky and profanity-laden first single, the two-minute long “Yuk Foo,” in which frontwoman Ellie Rowsell declares in the chorus “you bore me, you bore me to death, well you bore me, no I don’t give a shit.” More

Jun 16, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

So many notable new tracks this week! To help you sort through the multitude of fresh songs released in the last seven days, we have picked the seven best this week had to offer. More

Jun 12, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Britain’s Wolf Alice released their amazing debut album, My Love Is Cool, back in 2015. It made it to #3 on Under the Radar‘s Top 100 Albums of 2015 list and landed frontwoman Ellie Rowsell on the cover of our Best of 2015 print issue, in a joint cover with Father John Misty. More

Apr 13, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Alt-J are releasing their third album, Relaxer, on June 2 via Canvasback Music. Previously they shared “3WW,” which featured the vocals of Ellie Rowsell of Wolf Alice, and “In Cold Blood,” which sounded like something that could have easily been found on the band’s Mercury Prize-winning debut album from 2012, An Awesome Wave. More

Mar 06, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Alt-J have announced a new album, Relaxer, and shared its first single, “3WW.” Relaxer is the British trio’s third album and is due out June 9 via Canvasback Music. It’s the follow-up to 2014’s This Is All Yours (and 2012’s An Awesome Wave, which won the Mercury Prize). More

Nov 03, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Trainspotting 2 (or T2 Trainspotting as they seem to be calling it), the long-awaited sequel to the beloved Scottish cult classic from 1996, started shooting back in May and in July we were treated to a new teaser trailer that didn’t show much footage from the movie, beyond the main original cast (Ewan McGregor, Robert Carlyle, Jonny Lee Miller, and Ewen Bremner) standing on a rural train platform, in reference to an iconic shot in the original film. More

Jan 22, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Britain’s Wolf Alice released their excellent debut album, My Love Is Cool, back in June on Dirty Hit/RCA. Now the band has stopped by NPR’s offices to perform a Tiny Desk Concert. For the uninitiated, Tiny Desk Concerts are stripped down sets recorded at the desk of Bob Boilen, the host NPR’s All Songs Considered. 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 04, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Coachella has announced the line-up for their 2016 festival, which goes down in Indio, California over two weekends in April (with the same bill each weekend). Friday and Saturday are headlined by two newly reformed bands, LCD Soundsystem and Guns N’ Roses (featuring the reunion of Axl Rose and Slash). Calvin Harris headlines Sunday night. 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

Nov 23, 2015 By Christopher Roberts

Britain’s Wolf Alice released their excellent debut album, My Love Is Cool, back in June on Dirty Hit/RCA. Now the band has shared a colorful video for “Freazy.” In the tongue-in-cheek clip the band have a picnic in a Wonderland-esque setting, but then they take some major magic mushrooms and go on a crazy trip. More

Nov 18, 2015 By Christopher Roberts

Britain’s Wolf Alice released their excellent debut album, My Love Is Cool, back in June on Dirty Hit/RCA. Now the band has announced some spring 2016 U.S. tour dates, which are below. 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

Sep 22, 2015 By Christopher Roberts

Britain’s Wolf Alice released their excellent debut album, My Love Is Cool, back in June on Dirty Hit/RCA. Now the single “Bros” has been remixed by fellow Brit Nao, who not only messes with the instrumentation but adds her own soulful vocals to the song. More

Sep 11, 2015 By Christopher Roberts

Britain’s Wolf Alice may have only just released their excellent debut album, My Love Is Cool, back in June on Dirty Hit/RCA, but they already have a brand new song to share with you. More

Aug 20, 2015 By Christopher Roberts

Britain’s Wolf Alice have shared a video for “You’re a Germ.” The song can be found on their debut album, My Love Is Cool, which came out back in June on Dirty Hit/RCA. More

Aug 07, 2015 By Christopher Roberts

Under the Radar is excited to announce the full details of the August/September 2015 issue, which is available digitally now (via Under the Radar‘s app and the magazine apps Zinio, Readly, and Readbug), has shipped out to subscribers and stores and will be on all newsstands soon. It features CHVRCHES on the cover. Garbage’s Shirley Manson discusses the 20th anniversary of the band’s self-titled debut album. We talk to the creators and various cast members of Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp. Star Cliff Curtis and producer Gale Anne Hurd talk about The Walking Dead companion series Fear the Walking Dead. The issue also includes interviews with Beach House, New Order, Foals, Beirut, Jesse Eisenberg, Low, FFS, Destroyer, Wolf Alice, Tamaryn, Telekinesis, Ducktails, DRINKS, Briana Marela, LA Priest, Jaakko Eino Kalevi, Chelsea Wolfe, and more. More

Jun 24, 2015 By Julia Underwood

From June 19-21, Hilvarenbeek, Netherlands hosted the third edition of Best Kept Secret. More

Jun 17, 2015 By Christopher Roberts

Britain’s Wolf Alice made it across the pond and to the west coast for a performance of “Moaning Lisa Smile” on Conan last night. The song can be found on their forthcoming debut album, My Love Is Cool, which is due out next week (June 23) via Dirty Hit/RCA. More

Jun 10, 2015 By Christopher Roberts

Britain’s Wolf Alice has released a new song, “You’re a Germ.” The song can be found on their forthcoming debut album, My Love Is Cool, which is due out June 23 via Dirty Hit/RCA. More

May 28, 2015 By Christopher Roberts

Britain’s Wolf Alice has released a new video for “Bros.” The simple but effective clip was directed by ‘Sblood and features two young girls, best friends, who pal around and generally have a fun day in London. More

Feb 25, 2015 By Mike Hilleary

Following their buzz-garnering EP Creature Songs last year, London-based rockers Wolf Alice have announced the release of their proper full-length debut, My Love Is Cool. More

Dec 19, 2017 By Matt Fink

The cover of Wolf Alice‘s second full-length release is striking in its simplicity. A young girl in an idyllic garden strikes a ballerina pose beside what appears to be the skull of a large animal. The girl stares off into the distance, expressionless and seemingly lost in thought. More

Aug 10, 2017 By Austin Trunick

Following leisurely journeys across Northern England and Italy, Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon set off due south in The Trip to Spain, the third and latest entry in British filmmaker Michael Winterbottom‘s comedic Trip series. More

Mar 28, 2016 By Matt Fink

Ellie Rowsell closes her eyes and winces. Here it comes: the questions about how Wolf Alice sounds so much like a ‘90s band. She’s heard this all before—how their guitars grunt and drums crash in ways that prove they’ve mastered the loud/soft dynamic, how their sound owes so much to a generation of alt rockers that it couldn’t be anything but intentional—and she seems tired of explaining why all of this seems so strange for someone who is barely old enough to remember life before the millennium. More

Dec 02, 2015 By Mike Hilleary

Sitting in the lobby of a Best Western hotel just a few hours before his band will perform a sold-out show at Austin, TX’s Holy Mountain music venue, Wolf Alice guitarist Joff Oddie says he recently experienced a bit of an epiphany: since vocalist Ellie Rowsell first found and contacted him through local online classifieds back in 2010, the London outfit—also featuring bassist Theo Ellis and drummer Joel Amey—have already released two EPs; performed across the U.K. countless times; appeared on the bill of numerous large-scale festivals including SXSW, Reading and Leeds, and Glastonbury; opened for alt-J across Europe; and toured the U.S. on four separate occasions, all without a full-length album to their name. More

Aug 21, 2015 By Mike Hilleary

Going to school in London Ellie Rowsell knew she wanted to be in a band. Unfortunately none of the people she knew within her immediate social circle could even put a few chords together on guitar or play the drums. More

Sep 28, 2017 By Matt the Raven

On the first trip through Wolf Alice‘s sophomore album Visions of a Life, it sounds as though this London alt rock quartet doesn’t know what direction to take or what type of band they want to become. More

Jul 06, 2015 By Scott Dransfield

London four-piece Wolf Alice got their name from a 1979 short story by Angela Carter. In the story, a feral child, left in the care of a lonely werewolf, independently becomes aware of her human nature and womanhood, transcending her animalistic origins. More