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Hard Rock Corner: Megadeth

Mar 21, 2016 By Frank Valish

It was metal and total immersion at Sands Bethlehem Event Center on Saturday for the kings themselves, Megadeth.

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Anatomy of a Song: Will Toledo of Car Seat Headrest on “The Ending of Dramamine”

Mar 15, 2016 By Will Toledo Car Seat Headrest

A song is a chance overlapping of countless variables in an artist’s life. Anatomy of a Song is a place where those variables can be dissected and examined. In this edition, Car Seat Headrest frontman/main creative force Will Toledo writes about “The Ending of Dramamine.” More

Nocturnal Admittance: Matt Iwanusa of Caveman on His Most Vivid Recurring Dream

Mar 14, 2016 By Matt Iwanusa Caveman

Nocturnal Admittance is our series where an artist writes about their most vivid recurring dream or nightmare. For this Nocturnal Admittance, Matt Iwanusa of Caveman writes about pre-show jitters that have inspired a recurring nightmare. The New York five-piece are releasing a new album, Otero War, on June 17 via Cinematic Music Group. More

My Inner Geek: Tessa Murray of Still Corners on “Star Trek: Next Generation”

Mar 11, 2016 By Tessa Murray Still Corners

My Inner Geek is our recurring guest blog series where the artist writes about something geeky, such as their favorite sci-fi/fantasy TV show, film, book, or comic book; or favorite technology or other geeky thing. For this installment, Tessa Murray, singer for Still Corners, writes about Star Trek: The Next Generation, which ran from 1987 to 1991 and was the well-received follow-up to the original Star Trek series from the 1960s. More

What’s in a Name? - Cullen Omori on Going Solo and What His Name Means

Mar 10, 2016 By Cullen Omori Web Exclusive

What’s in a Name? is our recurring guest blog series where an artist writes about how they came up their band name. For this edition we hear from Cullen Omori. Of course, Omori is now recording under his own name, but he used to be the frontman of Smith Westerns and here he writes about the process of deciding to now release music simply as Cullen Omori. More

Forgotten Songs: Cullen Omori on Catatonic Youth - Piss Scene 7” Vinyl (Hozac Records) (2008)

Mar 09, 2016 By Cullen Omori Smith Westerns

Forgotten Songs is our recurring series where a musician or one of our writers examines a song they love that they feel has been overlooked. It could be a song by an artist who never made it big, or it could be a B-side/rarity or unheralded album track by a more well known artist. More

Best and Worst Show: Max Bloom of Yuck

Mar 08, 2016 By Max Bloom Yuck

Best and Worst Show is our recurring guest blog series where the artist writes about the best and worst shows they ever played. For this installment, Max Bloom of four-piece Yuck writes about a memorable CMJ show and the mad dash to make it to a festival in Ireland. The band’s third album,Stranger Things, was released a couple of week’s ago via the band’s own Mamé Records. More

The X-Files: “Home Again” Recap and Analysis

Feb 09, 2016 By Cody Ray Shafer Web Exclusive

Last week’s episode of The X-Files certainly set the high bar for this series. It was fun, weird, and told us an awful lot about where these characters are twenty-plus years into their evolution. I don’t think anyone was expecting this week’s episode to top “Mulder and Scully Meet the Were-Monster,” so it is understandable that “Home Again” is a bit uneven at times. More

Under the Radar’s Best Albums of 2015 - Individual Writer Lists Part 2

Feb 02, 2016 By Mark Redfern Web Exclusive

To calculate our Top 100 Albums of 2015 list, which we posted back in December, we asked each of our writers to submit a personal list of their favorite albums of 2015. Writers were encouraged to submit a Top 45, although both shorter and longer lists were accepted. We’ve now decided to collect all our writers’ individual best albums of 2015 lists below. More