Jul 09, 2020
By Matt Conner
Issue #66 - My Favorite Album - Angel Olsen and Sleater-Kinney
To hear Max Kakacek and Julien Ehrlich discuss their favorite album is to also discuss Whitney’s latest album, Forever Turned Around. The Chicago-based duo at the center of the indie folk band are obsessed with all things Neil Young these days and that includes an inability to arrive at a single favorite album. More
Jul 08, 2020
By Dom Gourlay (As Told To)
Issue #66 - My Favorite Album - Angel Olsen and Sleater-Kinney
The reason I chose this record was because when I was in New York I saw his exhibition at the Jewish Museum. Which is just a genius installation. Within that was a series of around 300 self-portraits. I don’t think he started making self-portraits until the last 20 years of his life. More
Jul 07, 2020
By Frank Valish
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Anna Burch spoke with Under the Radar during the height of pandemic stress about her new solo album, If You’re Dreaming. More
Jun 30, 2020
By Kyle Mullin
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From collaborating with Oasis to playing Live Aid, it might seem like Paul Weller has seen and done it all in his near 50-year career. Yet the ever-debonair, silver-haired elder English rock statesman, with a penchant for blue-eyed soul and a fixation on The Beatles, currently faces an unprecedented predicament. More
Jun 26, 2020
By Coco Freeman
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Seattle rock ‘n’ roll front woman, Eva Walker, can really talk. And that’s good because everything she has to say is valuable. Walker, who fronts the Pacific Northwest band, The Black Tones, is also a DJ at famed indie radio station, KEXP. But what caught our eye most recently was the band’s 8-Bit desktop video game, They Want Us Dead. More
Jun 25, 2020
By Mark Redfern and Lily Guthrie
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We are checking in with musicians during the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic to see how they are dealing with everything. What has their home quarantine experience been like so far and how is the crisis impacting both their career and art? Here we check in with Jessy Lanza. More
Jun 24, 2020
By Ellen Kempner
Issue #66 - My Favorite Album - Angel Olsen and Sleater-Kinney
I grew up on a steady diet of classic rock. My dad, who was a teenager in the ’70s, would tell me all about the times he was first in line to see The Rolling Stones, the night he saw John Lennon join Elton John on stage at Madison Square Garden, and many other dazzling stories. More
Jun 19, 2020
By Raphaelle Standell-Preston and Austin Tufts
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For our recurring Self-Portrait feature, we ask musicians to take a self-portrait photo (or paint/draw a self-portrait) and write a list of personal things about themselves, things that their fans might not already know about them. This Self-Portrait is by Raphaelle Standell-Preston and Austin Tufts of Braids. The whole band also submitted a self-portrait photo. More
Jun 17, 2020
By Dom Gourlay
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Twelve months is a long time in music. This time last year, FEWS had just released their critically acclaimed second album Into Red. However, what should have been a marked step up and continuation of the band’s achievements after 2016’s highly feted debut Means turned out to be a grinding halt instead. More
