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Nov 15, 2017 Issue #62 - Julien Baker

Tricky looks like he’s carved out of teak wood, his visible body parts scribbled with tattoos. He cuts an incongruous figure in Berlin, his home of the last two years. Once he starts holding forth about his adopted city, however, it sounds like he’s getting paid by the Berlin tourist board. More

Nov 15, 2017 Madeline Kenney

“We’re all just an amalgamation of salt ions and that’s pretty cool,” Madeline Kenney says over the phone from her Oakland, California home. It’s not a line you’d necessarily expect to hear from a musician, but Kenney is hardly your average singer/songwriter. More

Nov 13, 2017 Sean Baker

Since Sean Baker‘s film The Florida Project debuted at Cannes in late May, the superlatives have been abundant on the festival circuit. The much-anticipated follow-up to 2015’s Tangerine depicts a different side of marginalized society: Florida’s hidden homeless. More

The End: Kelcey Ayer of Jaws of Love. and Local Natives on Endings and Death

Nov 03, 2017 Web Exclusive

To end out the week, we ask Kelcey Ayer some questions about endings and death. Ayer is Local Natives’ vocalist, pianist, and one of the band’s primary songwriters, but in September he released his debut solo album as Jaws of Love. (the period at the end of the name is intentional). More

John Carpenter

Nov 03, 2017 Web Exclusive

For someone with such a looming influence on both film and film music, Carpenter doesn’t spend much time dwelling on the past. He quite famously doesn’t watch his films once he’s finished them, and offers modest, straight-forward answers when pressed about past works. And thus, Anthology: Movie Themes 1974 – 1998 – a new album on which Carpenter re-recorded many of his best-known scores with his son, keyboardist Cody Carpenter, and godson, guitarist Daniel Davies – may be the closest thing we ever see to Carpenter reflecting on his career. More

The End: Bebban Stenborg of Shout Out Louds on Endings and Death

Oct 27, 2017 Web Exclusive

To end out the week, we ask Bebban Stenborg, multi-instrumentalist/vocalist of Shout Out Louds, some questions about endings and death. The Swedish band released their latest album, Ease My Mind, last month via Merge. The album, the band’s fifth, is another deliriously fun collection of irresistible indie-pop tunes. More

OMD on “The Punishment of Luxury”

Oct 13, 2017 Web Exclusive

Though the members of Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD) are known for being one of Britain’s top selling synth pop pioneers, a far different sound can be found on one of the best songs from their new album, The Punishment of Luxury. More

Grizzly Bear on “Painted Ruins” - The Under the Radar Cover Story Bonus Q&A

Oct 06, 2017 Grizzly Bear

When Grizzly Bear released their debut, Horn of Plenty, in 2004, it would have been difficult to predict that they’d still be making records 13 years later. Essentially a solo album by vocalist and multi-instrumentalist Ed Droste, with drummer Chris Bear adding percussion and backing vocals, there was little indication that their future work would be defined by collaboration and the contributions of four unique creative personas. More

Grizzly Bear on “Painted Ruins” - The Under the Radar Cover Story

Oct 05, 2017 Grizzly Bear

On January 5, 2014, Grizzly Bear performed at the iconic Sydney Opera House, bringing to a close a two-year cycle of writing, recording, and touring that had brought them to new creative and commercial heights while exposing fault lines within the band itself. More