Feb 07, 2011
By Matt Fink
Issue #34 - Year End 2010 - Sufjan Stevens
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Great artists have to suffer for their craft, and the greater the artist, the greater the suffering. Or at least that’s the cliché. True or not, the history of popular music is littered with such tales. From the two years The Beatles spent as the amphetamine-fueled house band at a German strip club to Bruce Springsteen’s tireless years of touring before finding mainstream success, it is part of the accepted lore that artists have to invest a little sweat equity into their profession to earn their success. But with the rise of the Internet and the instant connection of everyone to everything, suddenly anybody with a good idea has a chance of immediately finding someone else who also finds that idea interesting.
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Feb 03, 2011
By Lily Moayeri
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You can always hear Damon Gough, aka Badly Drawn Boy, smoking cigarettes—even if you can't see him. Speaking from his home in Manchester, England, the crackle of the 41-year-old British musician's omnipresent cigarette punctuates his sentences as he blows smoke into the phone. We interview Gough about his new album (It's What I'm Thinking Pt. 1), living life in the public eye, developing humility, and how he thinks he's wrong about everything. More
Feb 02, 2011
By Frank Valish
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James frontman Tim Booth speaks with Under the Radar about the band's two recent mini-albums, The Night Before and The Morning After, the resurgence of James, and his own musical future, which includes a new as-yet-untitled solo album due in the spring. More
Jan 28, 2011
By Hays Davis
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While three-and-a-half years have passed since the Manchester band
Working for a Nuclear Free City released their second album, 2007's Businessmen & Ghosts (which was really just an expanded version of their self-titled debut), theirs has hardly been a case of idle hands. As co-founding keyboard player/producer Phil Kay describes it, there's so much on their slate at the moment that the picture here is more like shaking a bottle for a thousand days and finally releasing the cork. More
Jan 18, 2011
By Under the Radar Staff
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For Under the Radar’s 8th annual Artist Survey we emailed some of our favorite artists a few questions relating to 2010. However our printed pages weren’t enough to hold all the great responses we got. Pick up a copy of Under the Radar’s Year End issue for interviews with: The Antlers, Bon Iver, Caribou, Club 8, Delphic, Rose Elinor Dougall, Gayngs, Hot Chip, Lost in the Trees, Love is All, The Love Language, Mogwai, of Montreal, Okkervil River,Yoko Ono, Owen Pallett, Plants and Animals, Mark Ronson, Superchunk, Tame Impala, Vampire Weekend, Sharon Van Etten, and Vivian Girls. Then check here for bonus responses not found in the magazine. Here are additional answers from Cassie Ramone of Vivian Girls.
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Jan 18, 2011
By Under the Radar Staff
Web Exclusive
For Under the Radar’s 8th annual Artist Survey we emailed some of our favorite artists a few questions relating to 2010. However our printed pages weren’t enough to hold all the great responses we got. Pick up a copy of Under the Radar’s Year End issue for interviews with: The Antlers, Bon Iver, Caribou, Club 8, Delphic, Rose Elinor Dougall, Gayngs, Hot Chip, Lost in the Trees, Love is All, The Love Language, Mogwai, of Montreal, Okkervil River,Yoko Ono, Owen Pallett, Plants and Animals, Mark Ronson, Superchunk, Tame Impala, Vampire Weekend, Sharon Van Etten, and Vivian Girls. Then check here for bonus responses not found in the magazine. Here are additional answers from Sharon Van Etten. More
Jan 14, 2011
By Mark Redfern (Interview by Mark Redfern and Nick Hyman)
Fall 2003 - Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
This interview with Broadcast was conducted in 2003 and originally ran in our Fall 2003 Issue. We’re reposting it in honor of Broadcast’s Trish Keenan, who passed away today. More
Jan 07, 2011
By Under the Radar Staff
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For Under the Radar’s 8th annual Artist Survey we emailed some of our favorite artists a few questions relating to 2010. Pick up a copy of Under the Radar’s Year End issue for interviews with: The Antlers, Bon Iver, Caribou,Club 8, Delphic, Rose Elinor Dougall, Gayngs, Hot Chip, Lost in the Trees, Love is All, The Love Language, Mogwai, of Montreal, Okkervil River, Yoko Ono, Owen Pallett, Plants and Animals, Mark Ronson, Superchunk, Tame Impala, Vampire Weekend, Sharon Van Etten, and Vivian Girls. Here’s a survey from Josh Epstein of Ted Feldman of Bear Hands. More
Jan 07, 2011
By Under the Radar Staff
For Under the Radar’s 8th annual Artist Survey we emailed some of our favorite artists a few questions relating to 2010. Pick up a copy of Under the Radar’s Year End issue for interviews with: The Antlers, Bon Iver, Caribou,Club 8, Delphic, Rose Elinor Dougall, Gayngs, Hot Chip, Lost in the Trees, Love is All, The Love Language, Mogwai, of Montreal, Okkervil River, Yoko Ono, Owen Pallett, Plants and Animals, Mark Ronson, Superchunk, Tame Impala, Vampire Weekend, Sharon Van Etten, and Vivian Girls. Here’s a survey from Josh Epstein of Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr.
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