Album Reviews
Bnny
One Million Love Songs
Apr 18, 2024 Web Exclusive
Bnny’s Jessica Viscius has said that her new record, One Million Love Songs, is an album “about love after loss, getting older, and just trying to have fun with a broken heart.”
Grateful Dead
American Beauty (Rhino High Fidelity)
Apr 17, 2024 Web Exclusive
It’s rare that one gets to listen to old albums anew again. But that’s exactly what these Rhino High Fidelity vinyl reissues provide.
Alice in Chains
Jar of Flies EP (30th Anniversary Reissue)
Apr 16, 2024 Web Exclusive
Reissued now, 30 years later, Jar of Flies hits with the same immediacy as it did in 1994.
News
Fontaines D.C. Announce New Album, Share Video for New Song “Starburster”
Apr 17, 2024
Irish five-piece Fontaines D.C. have announced a new album, Romance, and shared the album’s first single, “Starburster,” via a music video.
Interviews
Cheekface on “It’s Sorted” and the State of Our Human Condition
Apr 12, 2024 Web Exclusive
The ubiquitous Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson almost didn’t make the cut for one of the cleverest rhymes on the Los Angeles-based Cheekface’s fourth album, It’s Sorted.
Director Fernando Meirelles on ‘Sugar’
Apr 10, 2024 Web Exclusive
The Brazilian auteur made his name co-directing the crime saga, City of God, with Sugar, now he’s working with some of Hollywood’s biggest names, including fellow Oscar nominee, Colin Farrell.
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
Johnny Marr @ Rock City, Nottingham, UK, April 14, 2024
Apr 15, 2024
Johnny Marr played a career spanning set including both solo material and Smiths classics at Nottingham’s Rock City last weekend. Support came from Gaz Coombes.
Blog
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Apr 10, 2024
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Media
- Spacey Jane – Listen to Our Interview in the New Episode of Our Under the Radar Podcast
- Tim Burgess – Listen to Our Interview in the New Episode of Our Under the Radar Podcast
- Phoenix – Listen to Our Interview in the New Episode of Our Under the Radar Podcast
- Bloc Party – Listen to Our Interview in the New Episode of Our Under the Radar Podcast
Cinema Reviews
Damaged
Apr 08, 2024 Web Exclusive
Catching a serial killer goes international in some interesting ways in this by-the-numbers thriller directed by Terry McDonough.
DVD Reviews
Affliction
Studio: Shout! Factory
Apr 16, 2024 Web Exclusive
A difficult to watch, nuanced look at how childhood trauma manifests and resurfaces throughout one’s adulthood.
Television Reviews
Under the Bridge
Hulu, April 17, 2024
Apr 17, 2024 Web Exclusive
The allure of the ‘90s continues with Under the Bridge, an eight-part limited series based on the late Rebecca Godfrey’s 2009 true-crime book of the same name, about Reena Virk, 14-year-old Indian-Canadian girl who went to a party and never returned home, only to be found dead over a week later.