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Album Reviews

Happiness Bastards

The Black Crowes
Happiness Bastards

Mar 18, 2024 Web Exclusive

It’s been 15 long years since The Black Crowes have released an album, brothers Chris and Rich Robinson seeming to have parted for good after the release of 2009’s Before the Frost…Until the Freeze.

Boeckner!

Boeckner
Boeckner!

Mar 15, 2024 Web Exclusive

Nobody in indie rock has a knack for sing-along refrains like Dan Boeckner.

Sound and Fury (Deluxe Edition)

Youth Brigade
Sound and Fury (Deluxe Edition)

Mar 14, 2024 Web Exclusive

Following their previous, much anticipated and justifiably praised deluxe reissues of the first two 7 Seconds 12 inches (see my review of Walk Together Rock Together) and the first two Circle Jerks LPs, Trust has done it again by reissuing yet another crucial, timeless, West Coast punk rock classic that’s been long out of print.

Classic Interviews

Basketball Legend Craig Hodges on Phil Jackson, Kyrie Irving, and Life After the NBA

Basketball Legend Craig Hodges on Phil Jackson, Kyrie Irving, and Life After the NBA
Long Range

Feb 02, 2023 Web Exclusive

Today, it’s widely acknowledged that the National Basketball Association (the NBA) is the most star-studded sports league in America, if not the world. From Julius “Dr. J” Erving to Magic Johnson and Larry Bird to Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, LeBron James, and Stephen Curry, the league is a veritable hotbed for big names. But one name many NBA fans—especially those now under, say, 30-years-old—who may not be as widely known is Craig Hodges.

Comic Book Reviews

Home to Stay!: The Complete Ray Bradbury EC Stories

Home to Stay!: The Complete Ray Bradbury EC Stories
Fantagraphics

May 02, 2023 Web Exclusive

In 1952 EC publisher Bill Gaines received a hilarious letter from Ray Bradbury gently requesting $50 in payment for the rights to his two stories “The Rocket Man” and “Kaleidoscope.”

Book Reviews

Your Absence is Darkness

Jón Kalman Stefánsson
Your Absence is Darkness

Mar 11, 2024

Your Absence is Darkness expounds on themes of life, death, love, loneliness, mistakes, and the search for meaning, those of which great novels are made. It will be one of the best books you read this year.

Interviews

Ride on Forthcoming Seventh Album “Interplay”

Ride on Forthcoming Seventh Album “Interplay”

Mar 10, 2024 Web Exclusive

Ride release their seventh album Interplay at the end of March, so Under the Radar caught up with singer, guitarist and songwriter Mark Gardener to discuss the new record, his studio, and the band’s tour plans for this year.

Slowdive on “everything is alive,” Critical Reappraisal, and Finding a New Younger Fan Base

Slowdive on “everything is alive,” Critical Reappraisal, and Finding a New Younger Fan Base

Feb 09, 2024 Web Exclusive

Since reforming in 2013, Slowdive has now been around longer than their initial run in the early ’90s. The music industry they now inhabit has morphed into something that would have been completely unrecognizable to their younger selves. But Slowdive’s guitarist, singer (alongside Rachel Goswell), and primary lyricist, Neil Halstead, has never been the type of musician to dwell on the past.

Pleased to meet you

Eaves Wilder on a Year of Growth and New Experiences

Feb 01, 2024 Web Exclusive

Emerging UK singer/songwriter Eaves Wilder had a memorable 2023. It was a year in which she grew as an artist and discovered what it takes to become a touring musician. Under the Radar sat down to have a chat with her just before Christmas, and we delved into her early musical influences and how they informed the music she writes today.

Lists

Under the Radar’s Top 40 TV Shows of 2023

Jan 29, 2024

Last year was a challenging one for the entertainment industry with the Writers Guild of America and Screen Actors Guild strikes. While this double blow—albeit for good causes—had detrimental snowball effects on the industry, there was still a solid grip of high quality material that made it to the not-so-small screen airwaves and streamers. Award-winning series like The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel and Barry took their last bows, and we’re still waiting for a trifecta from Vince Gilligan to round out Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, but there was plenty to keep viewers glued to the tube. From superheroes to science fiction, political intrigue to teenage hijinks and dramatized jury service to historical dramas, we continue to be spoiled for choice. It was a battle for Under the Radar’s top television shows of 2023, but we’ve managed to narrow it down to 40 solid watches.

Live reviews

Peel Slowly And See, Leiden, Netherlands, March 1-2, 2024

Peel Slowly And See, Leiden, Netherlands, March 1-2, 2024

Mar 08, 2024 By Dom Gourlay

Peel Slowly And See delivered on its promise that nobody leaves the festival without discovering something outside of their regular musical comfort zone.

Blog

20% Off Subscriptions This Week as Under the Radar’s New Issue is Shipping Soon

20% Off Subscriptions This Week as Under the Radar’s New Issue is Shipping Soon

Mar 11, 2024 By Mark Redfern

Under the Radar’s new print issue (Issue 72) is shipping out soon and to encourage readers to subscribe or re-subscribe before it’s sent out, we are offering 20% off subscriptions this week. It saves us money if issues are sent directly from the printer, rather than after they’ve been sent to our headquarters, and so we are passing on those savings to you.




Cinema Reviews

Problemista

Problemista

Mar 08, 2024 Web Exclusive

With so many gimmicks, you might assume all meaning is lost, but Problemista‘s messages of devotional love and holding out hope while on an impossible path shine through.

DVD Reviews

Eric Rohmer’s Tales of the Four Seasons

Eric Rohmer’s Tales of the Four Seasons
Studio: The Criterion Collection

Feb 26, 2024 Web Exclusive

Tales of the Four Seasons represents some of the finest of Rohmer’s work, highlighting the qualities that make his films and scripts some of the best French cinema has to offer.

Television Reviews

The Girls on the Bus

The Girls on the Bus
Max, March 14, 2024

Mar 12, 2024 Web Exclusive

The timely The Girls on the Bus is a political drama focused on four women, of different generations, covering the race for the White House on the campaign trail for the Democratic National Convention from varying perspectives for dramatically divergent outlets. The 10-episode series is based on co-creator and writer Amy Chozick’s 2018 memoir about her experience reporting on Hillary Clinton’s campaign for presidency, Chasing Hillary.