May 05, 2023 By Mark Redfern

Welcome to the sixteenth Songs of the Week of 2023. There weren’t any tracks this week that screamed, “This is the very best song of the week!” But still there was plenty to like. More

May 04, 2023 By Mark Redfern

Australian singer/songwriter Alex Lahey is releasing a new album, The Answer Is Always Yes, on May 19 via Liberation. Now she has shared another song from it, “The Sky Is Melting,” via a lyric video. More

Mar 31, 2023 By Mark Redfern

Welcome to the twelfth Songs of the Week of 2023. The pickings were a little slimmer this week, but we found enough singles (and one album track) to come up with a solid Top 10. More

Mar 30, 2023 By Mark Redfern

Australian singer/songwriter Alex Lahey is releasing a new album, The Answer Is Always Yes, on May 19 via Liberation. Now she has shared another song from it, “They Wouldn’t Let Me In,” via an amusing music video featuring Lahey working in a furniture store. More

Feb 03, 2023 By Mark Redfern

Welcome to the fifth Songs of the Week of 2023. There were lots of strong contenders this week, the Top 7 is especially solid. We settled on a Top 12 this week. More

Jan 31, 2023 By Mark Redfern

Australian singer/songwriter Alex Lahey has announced a new album, The Answer Is Always Yes, and shared a new song from it, “Good Time,” via a music video. She has also announced a North American tour. More

Nov 11, 2022 By Mark Redfern (with Joey Arnone)

Welcome to the 39th Songs of the Week of 2022. We didn’t do a Songs of the Week last week because I was out sick. So once again this week’s list encompasses songs released in the last two weeks (although all but three of the songs are from this week). More

Nov 10, 2022 By Mark Redfern

Australian singer/songwriter Alex Lahey has shared a new song, “Shit Talkin’,” via a lyric video. More

Sep 02, 2022 By Mark Redfern (with Joey Arnone and Caleb Campbell)

Welcome to the 33rd Songs of the Week of 2022. Lots of British artists this week! Including the entire Top 3. This week after much inner-dialogue, we settled on a Top 12. More

Aug 31, 2022 By Mark Redfern

Australian singer/songwriter Alex Lahey has shared a new song, “Congratulations,” via a video for the single in which she marries herself. It’s a song about the complicated emotions than ensue when an ex-lover moves on and settles down with someone else. More

Mar 04, 2022 By Mark Redfern

Covers of Covers, our first album, came out today on CD and digitally via American Laundromat. You can stream it now. You can also buy it directly from American Laundromat, via Bandcamp, or on Amazon. Today we posted a track-by-track article on the album, in which all 20 artists discuss their contribution. More

Dec 21, 2021 By Mark Redfern

Under the Radar is proud to announce Covers of Covers, which is the magazine’s first ever album. In honor of our 20th anniversary we approached some of our favorite musicians and asked them to cover any song by any artist who had been on the front or back cover of our print issue over the years. Covers of Covers is due out March 4, 2022 via American Laundromat, but today we are sharing two of its tracks: Grandaddy’s cover of Metric’s “Blindness” and EMA’s cover of Modest Mouse’s “Trailer Trash.” More

Oct 22, 2021 By Mark Redfern (with Joey Arnone)

Welcome to the 40th Songs of the Week of 2021. More

Oct 21, 2021 By Joey Arnone

Australian singer/songwriter Alex Lahey has shared a video for her new single “Spike the Punch.” The song was produced by Lahey alongside John Castle and is out now via Liberation. More

May 07, 2021 By Mark Redfern (with Emma Goad)

Welcome to the 17th Songs of the Week of 2021. This week wasn’t overly eventful, in terms of U.S. news. More

May 07, 2021 By Mark Redfern

Australian singer/songwriter Alex Lahey has shared a lyric video for her anthemic new song “On My Way.” The track plays during the end credits of the critically acclaimed new animated movie The Mitchells vs. the Machines, which debuted last Friday on Netflix. More

Mar 19, 2021 By Joey Arnone

Australian singer/songwriter Alex Lahey has shared a cover of Faith Hill’s 1998 song “This Kiss.” The cover is an Amazon Music exclusive, and is a part of their Women’s History Month programming. More

Feb 12, 2021 By Mark Redfern (with Joey Arnone and Emma Goad)

Welcome to the fifth Songs of the Week of 2021. The week’s big news was the second impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump. More

Feb 12, 2021 By Joey Arnone

Australian artists Alex Lahey and Gordi have shared a video for their new single “Dino’s,” named after an East Nashville dive bar. More

May 29, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

Australian singer/songwriter Alex Lahey has surprise released a new EP, Between the Kitchen and the Living Room, which features new home recordings of some of her previous songs. She has also shared a lyric video for “Let’s Go Out (Bedroom Version).” The EP is out now digitally via Dead Oceans. More

Feb 14, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

Welcome to the sixth Songs of the Week of 2020. It was a solid week for new tracks, but we managed to keep it reined in to our regular 10 tracks as opposed to last week’s supersized 13-song edition. And in a rarity for Songs of the Week, the same artist is #1 two weeks in a row! More

Feb 10, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

Australian singer/songwriter Alex Lahey has shared a new song, “Sucker For Punishment,” via a lyric video for track. She has also announced some new U.S. tour dates. More

Sep 27, 2019 By Mark Redfern

Under the Radar is excited to announce the My Favorite Album Issue, our new print issue in which we speak to musicians and actors about their all-time favorite album. The issue features Angel Olsen and Sleater-Kinney on the two covers and is available to buy directly from us here, as well as being distributed in stores nationwide (on newsstands, in such stores as Barnes & Noble and Books-A-Million, and elsewhere). More

May 17, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

The National released a new album, I Am Easy to Find, today via 4AD and it’s our Album of the Week. Find more info on the album her, as well as on a strong runner-up that was almost our Album of the Week. There are also streams of other notable albums released today. More

May 17, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Welcome to another Songs of the Week. We weren’t blown away by too many new tracks this week, beyond the Top 4 on the list below, hence a slightly shorter list this week. More

May 17, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Australian singer/songwriter Alex Lahey has released a new album, The Best of Luck Club, today via Dead Oceans. Now that the album is out, you can stream the whole thing here. More

May 10, 2019 By Mark Redfern

Welcome to another Songs of the Week. We worried we were going to be able to come up with a Top 8 this week, but a couple of album tracks were able to round out the list.

May 08, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Australian singer/songwriter Alex Lahey is releasing a new album, The Best of Luck Club, on May 17 via Dead Oceans. Now she has shared another song from the album, the ballad “Unspoken History,” which is the third and final pre-release single from the album. More

Apr 05, 2019 By Mark Redfern

Welcome to another Songs of the Week. There were a slew of notable new tracks to choose from this week, but our #1 is a song we’ve been planning to add to the Songs of the Week list for a while now and finally could now that the album has been released today. More

Apr 04, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Australian singer/songwriter Alex Lahey is releasing a new album, The Best of Luck Club, on May 17 via Dead Oceans. Previously she shared a video for its first single, “Don’t Be so Hard on Yourself,”which features a prominent saxophone solo from Lahey and was one of our Songs of the Week. Now she has shared another song from the album, “Am I Doing It Right.” More

Mar 26, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Outside Lands have announced their 2019 lineup. The festival goes down August 9 - 11 at San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. The headliners are Paul Simon, Childish Gambino, and Twenty One Pilots. More

Feb 22, 2019 By Mark Redfern

There were many strong contenders for this week’s Songs of the Week. We could’ve gone as high as a Top 15 instead of the regular Top 10 and as it is there are a whopping 11 honorable mentions, with some good tracks that also almost made the honorable mention list to. More

Feb 20, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Australian singer/songwriter Alex Lahey has announced a new album, The Best of Luck Club, and shared a video for its first single, “Don’t Be so Hard on Yourself,” which features a prominent saxophone solo from Lahey. More

Mar 19, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Alex Lahey is a promising new Australian singer/songwriter. She released her debut album, I Love You Like a Brother, last fall via Dead Oceans (it was our joint Album of the Week). Now Lahey has shared a video for the album’s title track, “I Love You Like a Brother.” More

Feb 09, 2018 By Stephen Mayne

Things have gone south and then been rescued in Washington (again) as yet another attempt not to shut down the government fell short. It’s also not been a good week for economic benchmarks, or Chiefs of Staff. For that reason, we close by getting away from the swamp to hit up “Middle America.” More

Jan 09, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Bonnaroo have announced their 2018 lineup. The festival goes down in Manchester, Tennessee from June 7-10 and this year, their 17th year, the headliners are Eminem, The Killers, and Muse. More

Dec 31, 2017 By Mark Redfern

The majority of 2017’s best debut albums came from female artists or bands fronted by women, from London-based all-female indie-pop teenaged trio Girl Ray and Syria-born singer/songwriter Bedouine (aka Azniv Korkejian) to Australian indie rocker Alex Lahey and New Zealand bedroom pop artist Fazerdaze (aka Amelia Murray). Midnight Sister, Priests, and Charly Bliss are all female-fronted bands as well, on top of other women solo artists on our Top 15 Debut Albums of 2017 list. More

Nov 17, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Alex Lahey is a promising new Australian singer/songwriter. She released her debut album, I Love You Like a Brother, last month via Dead Oceans (it was our joint Album of the Week). Last night Lahey stopped by Late Night with Seth Meyers to make her TV debut and perform “Every Day’s the Weekend.” More

Oct 20, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Under the Radar is excited to announce the full details of our Fall 2017 Issue, which is out now digitally via Under the Radar’s app and the magazine app Readly. The print version has shipped out to subscribers and stores and will be on all newsstands soon (as well as available soon digitally via the magazine app Zinio). The issue features Julien Baker on the cover. More

Oct 06, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

If you support Under the Radar‘s Patreon page at the minimum contribution of at least $1.00 a month you get access to our Patreon-only feed featuring exclusive content only available to Patreon supporters. More

Oct 06, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

This week we have a tie for Album of the Week, two albums we’ve been digging for awhile and both by artists who hail from south of the equator: Australia’s Alex Lahey and New Zealand’s Yumi Zouma. Below is info on each album. More

Sep 15, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Okay, okay. Since starting our Songs of the Week posts, we’ve slowly increased from having five songs, then six songs, then seven songs, then eight songs, and then for the last couple of weeks, nine songs. We think it’s time to just settle on an even Top 10. More

Sep 14, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Alex Lahey is a promising new Australian singer/songwriter. She is releasing her debut album, I Love You Like a Brother, on October 6 via Dead Oceans. Previously we posted the video for “Every Day’s the Weekend” and the audio for “Lotto in Reverse” (which was one of our Songs of the Week). Now she has shared another song from the album, “I Haven’t Been Taking Care of Myself,” via a video. More

Sep 01, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

What a packed week for great new tracks. We could have easily done a Top 15. Some artists that almost made the cut include A. Savage, Bully, John Maus, Father John Misty (remixed by The Haxan Cloak), Tricky, Wolf Parade, and Zola Jesus. More

Aug 29, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Alex Lahey is a promising new Australian singer/songwriter. She is releasing her debut album, I Love You Like a Brother, on October 6 via Dead Oceans. Previously we posted the video for “Every Day’s the Weekend.” More

Mar 04, 2022 By Mark Redfern

When hatching plans to celebrate Under the Radar’s 20th anniversary I knew I wanted to go beyond just producing a special 20th anniversary issue. Despite two decades of writing about albums, one thing we’d never done is actually put one out ourselves. Thus I came upon the idea for Covers of Covers. The concept was so perfect and simple that I’m surprised we hadn’t thought of it before. We approached some of our favorite musicians and asked them to cover any song by any artist who had been on the front or back cover of our print issue over the years, including artists that had appeared in group cover shots. More

Oct 06, 2020 By Frank Valish (As Told To)

I think I was about 12 or 13 when it came out, but I think I really got into it when I was about 14. I was sort of resistant to it for a little while, I think because it was a really successful record and I was sort of getting into my stage, you know how we all go through that stage—some people never get out of it—where they try to resist what’s popular. More

Dec 14, 2017 By Laura Stanley

Alex Lahey is honest on her debut album I Love You Like a Brother. “I’ve gained weight and I drink too much, maybe that’s why you don’t love me as much,” she speculates on “I Haven’t Been Taking Care of Myself.” “Am I scared of losing you or am I scared to be alone?” she asks on the biting “Lotto in Reverse.” More

May 16, 2019 By Michael James Hall

Somewhere in the wake of Courtney Barnett’s hundred-foot-wave of cultural impact lies an entire fleet of Australian artists, poised for invasion, disparate in all but heritage, offering up the sounds of down under to sun-starved shores. More

Oct 04, 2017 By Laura Stanley

For many, your early 20s is a time for self-discovery. It’s for late nights and late mornings, sleeping with the wrong people and sometimes sleeping with the right people. It’s a time for falling down but getting back up and trying again. More