Sep 03, 2021 By Mark Redfern (with Joey Arnone)

Welcome to the 33rd Songs of the Week of 2021. We liked enough new songs this week to form a Top 11. More

Sep 02, 2021 By Joey Arnone

Beak> (the trio consisting of Portishead’s Geoff Barrow, Billy Fuller, and Will Young) have shared a new song titled “Ah Yeh.” The song was released as a B-side to a two-track single shared by the band on Bandcamp, with its A-side being the previously released “Oh Know.” More

Mar 30, 2021 By Joey Arnone

Beak> (the trio consisting of Portishead’s Geoff Barrow, Billy Fuller, and Will Young) have shared a video for their new song “Oh Know.” The video is a collaboration between the band and Echo Panda films from Canada, who they previously collaborated with on the video for their 2019 song “The Gaol.” More

Jun 21, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Hatchie is the dream pop project of Australian musician Harriette Pilbeam. Her debut album, Keepsake, was released today via Double Double Whammy and it’s our Album of the Week. Find more info on the album below. More

Jun 21, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Beak>, the trio featuring, but definitely not led by Portishead‘s Geoff Barrow (along with Billy Fuller and Will Young) have released a new EP, Life Goes On, today via Invada Records/Temporary Residence Ltd. Now they have shared a creepy video for the EP’s title track. And now that the EP is out you can also stream it here. More

May 31, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Beak>, the trio led by Portishead‘s Geoff Barrow (along with Billy Fuller and Will Young) have shared a new song, “We Can Go,” and confirmed the details of a previously announced EP, which is due out June 21 via Invada Records/Temporary Residence Ltd. More

Apr 24, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Beak>, the trio led by Portishead‘s Geoff Barrow (along with Billy Fuller and Will Young) released a new album, >>>, last September via Invada Records/Temporary Residence Ltd. (it was our joint Album of the Week). Now they have shared a brand new song, “Life Goes On.” More

Jan 24, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Beak>, the trio led by Portishead‘s Geoff Barrow (along with Billy Fuller and Will Young) released a new album, >>>, last September via Invada Records/Temporary Residence Ltd. It was our joint Album of the Week. Now they have shared a video for its single “Brean Down.” Joe Volk directed the video, which was shot in one-take and features the Russian dancer Vladislav Platonov (aka Bullet From Space) as he stumble dances down an empty street. More

Sep 22, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

In many instances an album’s strongest songs are shared before the album’s release. There were several albums released this week, however, that featured standout tracks that were not advance singles and so this week’s Songs of the Week features some of those, filtered in with other new singles released this week. More

Sep 21, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

We were in a quandary about this week’s Album of the Week. There were a multitude of solid choices and we were racked with indecision. We narrowed it down to six choices: the new albums by Beak>, Christine and the Queens, Frontperson, Richard Reed Parry, Suede, and Villagers. More

Jul 11, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Beak>, the trio led by Portishead‘s Geoff Barrow (along with Billy Fuller and Will Young) have announced a new album, >>>, and shared its first single, “Brean Down.” >>> is due out September 21 via Invada Records/Temporary Residence Ltd. More

Nov 30, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

BEAK>, the trio led by Portishead‘s Geoff Barrow (along with Billy Fuller and Will Young) have shared a video for a new Christmas song, “(Merry Xmas) Face the Future.” The video features the faces of the three band members put on computer generated dancing elves. More

Sep 27, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Ex Machina was one of our favorite films of 2014 and now its writer/director Alex Garland is coming back with a new film, Annihilation. It also has a sci-fi theme to it and is based on Jeff VanderMeer’s 2014 novel of the same name (Garland adapted it into a screenplay and is directing). The film stars Natalie Portman as a biologist searching for her missing husband, played by Oscar Isaac (an Ex Machina alumni, remember his great dance moves in that film?). Geoff Barrow of BEAK>and Portishead is scoring the movie, alongside Ben Salisbury. More

Aug 31, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Back in June Arcade Fire frontman Win Butler remixed “Sex Music,” a song by BEAK>, the trio led by Portishead‘s Geoff Barrow (along with Billy Fuller and Will Young). More

Jun 16, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Arcade Fire are releasing a new album, Everything Now, on July 28 via their new label Columbia. They have previously shared a video for the album’s title track, “Everything Now,” announced a tour, and shared a funny fake cereal ad/teaser video for another song from the album, “Creature Comfort.” More

Jun 08, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

BEAK>, the trio led by Portishead‘s Geoff Barrow (along with Billy Fuller and Will Young) are releasing a new single, “Sex Music,” on Friday via Invada. More

Jun 07, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Here’s a roundup of all the other news items we couldn’t get to today and yesterday, including stories on Arcade Fire, Radiohead, Swervedriver, Thee Oh Sees, BEAK>, Phoebe Bridgers, Susanne Sundfør, and Shabazz Palaces. More

Mar 07, 2012 By Cody Ray Shafer

Geoff Barrow, founding member and instrumentalist of Portishead, is uniting with composer Ben Salisbury on an electronic soundtrack inspired by 2000 AD, a British Sci-Fi comic featuring the long running character Judge Dredd. More

Jul 29, 2010 By Mark Redfern

Under the Radar‘s Summer 2010 issue is a special issue we’re calling the Wasted on the Youth Issue. The basic idea of the issue was to talk to musicians and actors about various facets of their childhood/teenage years, from their first favorite bands/concerts to childhood memories to movies/TV shows of their youth, etc. We were interested in talking to musicians and actors about some of their earliest memories and their childhood passions. Many of the articles include childhood or teenage photos of the musicians interviewed. We have the full details on the issue that includes these artists: The National, The Antlers, Fred Armisen, Camera Obscura, Judah Friedlander, Fucked Up vs. Devo, Here We Go Magic, Jim James, Jónsi, Kele, The Kids in the Hall, Liars, Local Natives, Menomena, Chloë Grace Moretz, Elisabeth Moss, Portishead, Robert Rodriguez, School of Seven Bells, Tegan and Sara, Russell Tovey, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Edgar Wright, and many more! More

Mar 25, 2010 By Laura Studarus

All Tomorrow’s Parties NY is set to take place September 3rd though the 5th at Kutsher’s Country Club in Monticello New York. The third day of the event will be guest curated by filmmaker Jim Jarmusch who has handpicked favorites SUNN O))) and Hope Sandoval among others to perform. Meanwhile, September 3rd is “Don’t Look Back” day, where musicians perform classic albums in full. We have the line up. Other recent additions include Tortoise, Avi Buffalo, Bardo Pond, BEAK>, Dungen, and others. More

Nov 10, 2009 By Matt Fink

Though it’s reputed to be the most widely spoken musical language in the world today, rock and roll was born on the margins. More

Aug 13, 2019 By Michael James Hall

A swift follow-up to last year’s rightly acclaimed >>> album, here on the Life Goes On EP we get a brief, bountiful insight into the current mindset of Beak> (Geoff Barrow of Portishead, Billy Fuller, and Will Young) as they push their Krautrock-inspired experimental psych band into further and further reaches of retro-referencing paired with a freshness; a newness as bright as a fresh coat of paint. More

Sep 20, 2018 By Michael James Hall

On only their third full-length in the last decade, Beak>, the Bristol trio led by Portishead’s Geoff Barrow, meld their overt Krautrock obsessions with a slice of subdued psychedelia. Spotted with muffled, R. Stevie Moore-like vocals and bathed in warm, low electronica, >>> holds some of the band’s most immersive and enveloping material to date. More

Jan 14, 2010 By Nick Hyman

Portishead’s Geoff Barrow joined with fellow Bristol musicians Billy Fuller and Matt Williams in January 2009 to create a disciplined soundscape called Beak>. More