Nov 10, 2023 By Mark Redfern

The nominations for the 2024 Grammy Awards have been announced. Under the Radar favorites Alvvays, boygenius, PJ Harvey, Paramore, Arctic Monkeys, Lana Del Rey, Olivia Rodrigo, Janelle Monáe, Gorillaz, James Blake, and others are all up for awards. More

Apr 21, 2023 By Mark Redfern

Now that Issue 71 is out, we’ve decided to offer 40% off our previous issue, Issue 70 (aka the My Favorite Movie Issue). The print version is available now for a limited time for only $3.60. Buy it here. More

Mar 20, 2023 By Mark Redfern

Pitchfork Music Festival has announced their 2023 lineup. The Smile, Big Thief, and Bon Iver will be headlining. Other acts include Weyes Blood, Black Belt Eagle Scout, Alvvays, Nation of Language, and more. More

Jan 11, 2023 By Mark Redfern

Toronto-based indie-pop band Alvvays made their late night TV debut last night when they performed “Belinda Says” on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. More

Dec 23, 2022 By Mark Redfern

Are things back to normal in 2022? They are, aren’t they? Well not quite. More

Dec 07, 2022 By Joey Arnone

Toronto-based indie-pop band Alvvays have shared a video for the song “Many Mirrors” from their most recent album, Blue Rev. The video was made by Stardew Valley creator Eric Barone. More

Nov 18, 2022 By Mark Redfern

Under the Radar is excited to announce the full details of our new print issue, the My Favorite Movie Issue, in which musicians and actors tell us about their all-time favorite movies. Issue 70 features Sharon Van Etten and Ezra Furman on the two covers. It also features an in-depth joint interview between singer/songwriter Kevin Morby and actor/musician Jason Schwartzman about Rushmore, Morby’s favorite film (which Schwartzman starred in). More

Oct 14, 2022 By Mark Redfern (with Joey Arnone)

Welcome to the 37th Songs of the Week of 2022. We didn’t do a Songs of the Week last week because we’ve been too busy working on our next two print issues and we also didn’t feel like there were a lot of strong contenders last week. So this week’s list encompasses songs released in the last two weeks and is thus a supersized Top 16 list. More

Oct 07, 2022 By Joey Arnone

Toronto-based indie-pop band Alvvays have released their new album, Blue Rev, today via Polyvinyl. More

Oct 05, 2022 By Mark Redfern

Toronto-based indie-pop band Alvvays are releasing a new album, Blue Rev, this Friday via Polyvinyl. Now they have shared one last pre-release single from the album, “After the Earthquake.” More

Sep 23, 2022 By Mark Redfern (with Joey Arnone)

Welcome to the 36th Songs of the Week of 2022. This week one artist has two songs in the main list, which is a Top 10 this time. More

Sep 22, 2022 By Joey Arnone

Toronto-based indie-pop band Alvvays have shared videos for two new singles: “Belinda Says” and “Very Online Guy.” They are the latest releases from the band’s upcoming third studio album, Blue Rev, which will be out on October 7 via Polyvinyl. More

Aug 19, 2022 By Mark Redfern (with Joey Arnone)

Welcome to the 31st Songs of the Week of 2022. This week’s list covers songs from the last two weeks, as I was on vacation last week. This week we’re doing things slightly differently, with just a main Top 12 list and some honorable mentions, without the longer list of songs also released in the last week. More

Aug 10, 2022 By Joey Arnone

Toronto-based indie-pop band Alvvays have shared a new single, “Easy On Your Own?” It is the latest release from their upcoming third studio album, Blue Rev, which will be out on October 7 via Polyvinyl. More

Jul 08, 2022 By Mark Redfern (with Joey Arnone)

Welcome to the 26th Songs of the Week of 2022. We didn’t do a Songs of the Week last week as pickings were slim in the run up to the long July 4th weekend, so this week’s list covers songs from the last two weeks. Thus we have a supersized Top 15. The list includes two pro-choice songs. More

Jul 06, 2022 By Joey Arnone

Toronto-based indie-pop band Alvvays have announced the release of their third studio album, Blue Rev, which will be out on October 7 via Polyvinyl. They have also shared the album’s lead single, “Pharmacist.” More

Jun 22, 2022 By Mark Redfern

It’s been almost five years since Toronto-based indie-pop band Alvvays released their last album, 2017’s Antisocialites, but now they have announced some new fall 2022 U.S. tour dates. They include October and November shows on both coasts. A press release states that “new music **may**be on the way.” More

Sep 05, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Back in February Scotland’s Belle and Sebastian told fans they were considering launching a Belle and Sebastian cruise in 2019 and wanted their fans’ opinions on it via a survey on their website. Then in May the band announced The Boaty Weekender, a floating festival to set sale from Barcelona to Sardinia and back again on August 8-12, 2019. Now Belle and Sebastian have announced the initial line-up. Most notably, it features Camera Obscura, who are making their return to performing live for the first time since the 2015 death of the band’s Carey Lander from cancer. More

Jan 08, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

The lineup for the 2018 Shaky Knees Music Festival has been announced. The festival goes down in Atlanta, GA’s Central Park May 4-6. The headliners are The National, Jack White, and Queens of the Stone Age. More

Jan 08, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

The National released their excellent new album, Sleep Well Beast, last September via 4AD. It was our Album of the Week and #7 on our Top 100 Albums of 2017 list. More

Jan 03, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Governors Ball has announced the lineup for their 2018 festival, which goes down in New York City’s Randall’s Island Park the weekend of June 1 - 3. The headliners are Eminem (also announced as a Coachella headliner today), Jack White, Travis Scott, and Yeah Yeah Yeahs. More

Jan 03, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Coachella has announced the lineup for their 2018 festival, which goes down in Indio, California over two weekends in April (with the same bill each weekend). Friday April 13 and 20 is headlined by The Weeknd, Saturday April 14 and 21 is headlined by Beyoncé, and Sunday April 15 and 22 is headlined by Eminem. More

Dec 30, 2017 By Mark Redfern

2016 was regarded as a fairly rough year by many, but 2017 was no walk in the park either. 2016 was mired by the deaths of several beloved musical icons (David Bowie, Prince, Leonard Cohen, George Michael, and Sharon Jones among them) and the disappointing and divisive Presidential election, but in 2017 we had to deal with the ramifications of said election (we’d say that roughly 95% of the musicians we interview likely don’t support many, if any, of President Trump’s policies). More

Sep 15, 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. Now our friends at Polyvinyl have also donated a vinyl copy of the new album by Toronto-based indie-pop four-piece Alvvays, Antisocialites, to give away to one lucky Under the Radar Patreon supporter. More

Sep 13, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Toronto-based indie-pop four-piece Alvvays released a new album, Antisocialites, last Friday via Polyvinyl. Now the band has shared a video for “Dreams Tonite.” Matt Johnson directed the video, which expertly makes it seem like the band are performing at the 1967 Montreal Expo (aka Expo 67) by cutting together newly shot images of the band performing with archival footage from 1967. More

Sep 08, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Of late we’ve been presenting the eight best songs of the week, but last week we expanded it to a Top 9 because there were so many strong choices. This week we kept it as nine, but because we had trouble narrowing the list down in a week of solid new songs, but few obvious standouts. More

Aug 18, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Charlottesville, Virginia is only just over an hour a way from Under the Radar‘s headquarters. It’s the best local city to see shows in and it’s a great little progressive college town that we visit often. So we watched in horror, disbelief, and disgust last weekend as the violent and tragic events in Charlottesville surrounding the white supremacist rally dominated the news. More

Aug 17, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Toronto-based indie-pop four-piece Alvvays are releasing a new album, Antisocialites, on September 8 via Polyvinyl. Previously the band shared its first single, album opener “In Undertow,” as well as a trippy lo-fi video for the song, and its second single, “Dreams Tonite.” More

Jul 28, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

It was a busy week for new tracks, with two pop singers (Jessie Ware and Charli XCX) making a strong showing. A couple of classic rockers made a return, and while Ringo Starr’s new song (featuring Paul McCartney and others) was pretty standard old rocker fare, one of Mick Jagger’s new songs (either “Gotta Get a Grip” or the remix of it by Tame Impala’s Kevin Parker) surprisingly almost made our Top 8. More

Jul 25, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Toronto-based indie-pop four-piece Alvvays are releasing a new album, Antisocialites, on September 8 via Polyvinyl. Previously the band shared its first single, album opener “In Undertow,” as well as a trippy lo-fi video for the song. More

Jul 18, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Under the Radar is excited to announce the full details of our Summer 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 Grizzly Bear on the cover. More

Jul 13, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Toronto-based indie-pop four-piece Alvvays are releasing a new album, Antisocialites, on September 8 via Polyvinyl. Previously the band shared its first single, album opener “In Undertow.” Now “In Undertow” has a trippy lo-fi video. Watch it below, followed by the band’s upcoming tour dates. More

Jun 09, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

What a packed week for new songs and album announcements, enough to help you ignore all the James Comey/Donald Trump (but at least the Conservatives stumbled at the U.K. general election). More

Jun 06, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Toronto-based indie-pop four-piece Alvvays have announced a new album, Antisocialites, and shared its first single, album opener “In Undertow.” Antisocialites is due out September 8 via Polyvinyl is the follow-up to their well-received 2014-released self-titled debut album. More

Aug 27, 2015 By Laura Studarus

Last weekend Los Angeles hosted FYF Festival. Check out Robert Redfield’s gallery of day one, featuring images of Alvvays, Bloc Party, Chet Faker, Dinosaur Jr, Goldroom, Mikal Cronin,Metz, Purity Ring, Savages, Tennis, and The Drums. More

Sep 22, 2014 By Mike Hilleary

Canadian garage pop outfit Alvvays have posted a b-side track online titled, “Underneath Us.” More

Sep 19, 2014 By Mike Hilleary

Summer may be coming to a close but Canadian garage pop outfit Alvvays continue to channel the feel of sun-drenched vibes with the music of their self-titled debut. More

Sep 12, 2014 By Christopher Roberts

Under the Radar is excited to announce the full details of the September/October issue, which is on newsstands now. It features alt-J on the cover. Arcade Fire’s Richard Reed Parry does a joint interview with Peter Gabriel. We talk to Lush‘s Miki Berenyi and Emma Anderson about their 1996 album, Lovelife. More

Jul 31, 2014 By Laura Studarus

Canadian fuzz-pop quintet Alvvays hangs out at the sea in their new video for “Archie, Marry Me.” More

May 23, 2014 By Mike Hilleary

Rising Canadian fuzz-pop quintet Alvvays have officially announced the release of their self-titled debut. More

Apr 25, 2014 By Mike Hilleary

Newly signed to Polyvinyl, Toronto-based surf-pop outfit Alvvays garnered a plenty of breakthrough accolades at this year’s SXSW. More

Sep 06, 2017 By Matthew Berlyant

It’s time-honored wisdom that sophomore albums are more difficult to record than a band’s debut and this certainly appears to be the case for the Toronto-based band Alvvays and their sophomore album Antisocialites. More

Sep 05, 2017 By Matthew Berlyant

The Undertones sang “it’s not so easy knowing we’ll be heard” and “a lot less time, but a lot more care” on “More Songs About Chocolate and Girls,” the opening track of their second album, 1980’s Hypnotised. More

Dec 03, 2014 By Melody Lau

“I don’t really have any fear of using the P-word,” declares Molly Rankin, vocalist for Toronto-based quintet Alvvays. Over the past few years, the band has grown accustomed to being described as a “jangle-pop” act, but rather than swat away the descriptors, Rankin openly embraces them. More

Aug 13, 2014 By Melody Lau

Molly Rankin and Kerri MacLellan were childhood friends before they were bandmates, growing up together and both playing the fiddle. More

May 21, 2024 By Laura Studarus

Under the Radar photographer Laura Studarus went to Just Like Heaven Festival in Pasadena last weekend. Here’s a selection of her best shots. More

Sep 17, 2023 By Mark Moody

Under the Radar did Hopscotch Music Festival last weekend and was blown away by some of the stellar names on display. More

Nov 19, 2022 By Matthew Berlyant

Alvvays sparkle in the Kings Theater. More

Oct 06, 2022 By Andy Von Pip

It’s always a little concerning when a critically lauded band pretty much disappear from view. But beloved Canadian indie-poppers Alvvays hadn’t expected their third album, Blue Rev, to take five years. More

Oct 10, 2018 By Max Freedman

Putting Alvvays, Snail Mail, and Hatchie on the same bill is like asking that Twitter-viral bot (okay, it’s clearly not a bot) that keeps pumping out the world’s most hilarious scripts for Olive Garden commercials and Donald Trump rallies to spend 10,000 hours in the college rock sphere and create a dream lineup of its own. More

Jul 24, 2014 By Melody Lau

In John Green’s The Fault In Our Stars, eye cancer patient Isaac expressed his love for his then-girlfriend Monica by incessantly exchanging the phrase “always,” indicating their devotion to one another. It’s a word that’s often drenched in hyperbolized romance, one that simultaneously signifies yesteryear and hopes for tomorrow. It also makes something of a perfect name for Toronto-based band Alvvays (pronounced “always”).