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Waysides Due Out Tomorrow via The Orchard
Oct 21, 2021
By Joey Arnone
Bedouine (aka Azniv Korkejian) has shared a video for her new song “The Solitude.” It is the latest release from her forthcoming third studio album, Waysides, which will be out tomorrow (Oct. 22) via The Orchard. More
Waysides Due Out October 15 via The Orchard
Sep 29, 2021
By Mark Redfern
Bedouine (aka Azniv Korkejian) is releasing a new album, Waysides, on October 15 via The Orchard. Now she has shared its second single, “It Wasn’t Me,” via a video for it. Allyson Yarrow Pierce directed the video, which has a distinctly retro feel to it. More
Waysides Due Out October 15 via The Orchard
Aug 18, 2021
By Mark Redfern
Bedouine (aka Azniv Korkejian) has announced a new album, Waysides, and shared its first single, “The Wave,” via a lyric video. More
Issue 68 Out Now and Also Includes Julien Baker, Wolf Alice, Tegan and Sara, Arlo Parks, Fleet Foxes, Jessie Ware, Shamir, Lucy Dacus, Valerie June, David Byrne, Julian Casablancas, and Much More
Apr 21, 2021
By Mark Redfern
Under the Radar is excited to announce the full details of our new print issue, which is out now nationwide (on newsstands, in such stores as Barnes & Noble and Books-A-Million, and elsewhere) and available to buy directly from us here. The issue features Japanese Breakfast and HAIM on the two covers and is another edition of The Protest Issue, which examines the intersection of music and politics and features musicians photographed with protest signs of their own making. More
“What concerns me most is how science and facts have become politicized.”
May 19, 2020
By Mark Redfern
We are checking in with musicians during the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic to see how they are dealing with everything. What has their home quarantine experience been like so far and how is the crisis impacting both their career and art? Here we check in with Bedouine, the project of singer/songwriter Azniv Korkejian. More
A Song Revived From Watergate to Self-Isolation, via Spacebomb
Apr 17, 2020
By Lily Guthrie
While Margo Guryan’s 1972 “The Hum” was written about President Nixon’s tape machine during the Watergate scandal, Bedouine (aka Azniv Korkejian) has recycled the song and applied it to today’s COVID-19 quarantine. More
Bird Songs of a Killjoy Out Now via Spacebomb
Jun 21, 2019
By Christopher Roberts
Bedouine, the project of singer/songwriter Azniv Korkejian, has released a new album, Bird Songs of a Killjoy, today via Spacebomb. Now that the album is out, you can stream the whole thing here. More
Plus Stream New Albums from Mark Ronson, Bedouine, Hot Chip, The Raconteurs, Kirin J Callinan, Richard Reed Parry, and 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
Bird Songs of a Killjoy Due Out June 21 via Spacebomb
Jun 04, 2019
By Christopher Roberts
Bedouine, the project of singer/songwriter Azniv Korkejian, is releasing a new album, Bird Songs of a Killjoy, on June 21 via Spacebomb. Now she has shared another song from the album, “One More Time.” She’s also shared a video of the strings being recorded for the album at Capitol Studios. More
Bird Songs of a Killjoy Due Out May 31 via Spacebomb
Apr 24, 2019
By Christopher Roberts
Bedouine, the project of singer/songwriter Azniv Korkejian, is releasing a new album, Bird Songs of a Killjoy, on May 31 via Spacebomb. Now she has shared another song from the album, “Echo Park,” via a video for the track. More
Plus Cage The Elephant and Beck, Bibio, Bedouine, and a Wrap-up of the Week's Other Notable New Tracks
Mar 29, 2019
By Mark Redfern
This week’s Songs of the Week list stars with a 24-minute first movement of a symphony featuring a trip-hop icon, but most of the songs in the Top 10 are by artists that have already made the list in recent weeks with previous songs. More
Bird Songs of a Killjoy Due Out May 31 via Spacebomb
Mar 28, 2019
By Christopher Roberts
Bedouine, the project of singer/songwriter Azniv Korkejian, has announced a new album, Bird Songs of a Killjoy, and shared a video for a new song from it, “Bird.” More
Plus Vampire Weekend, Strand of Oaks, Glen Hansard, Local Natives, and a Wrap-up of the Week's Other Notable New Tracks
Mar 08, 2019
By Christopher Roberts
We’ve got another supersized Songs of the Week this week, with a Top 12 instead of the regular Top 10. Like last week we could’ve gotten it down to 10, but it felt wrong to leave out the bottom two. It was a near tie for the top two songs this week. More
On Tour This Spring and Summer
Mar 07, 2019
By Christopher Roberts
Bedouine is the project of singer/songwriter Azniv Korkejian. She released her self-titled debut album in 2017 via Matthew E. White’s Spacebomb label. It was one of our Top 100 Albums of 2017and one of our Top 15 Debut Albums of 2017. More
God’s Favorite Customer Due Out June 1 via Sub Pop; King Tuff and Bedouine Among Support Acts
May 02, 2018
By Christopher Roberts
Father John Misty (aka Josh Tillman) is releasing a new album God’s Favorite Customer, on June 1 via Sub Pop worldwide (except for Europe, where it’s on Bella Union). Now he has announced some new fall American and European tour dates to go down this September and October. King Tuff will be the support on most of the September U.S. dates, whereas Bedouine will be the opener on many of his October European dates. More
Bedouine Out Now via Spacebomb
Feb 06, 2018
By Christopher Roberts
Bedouine is the project of singer/songwriter Azniv Korkejian. She released her self-titled debut album last June via Matthew E. White’s Spacebomb label (also home to Natalie Prass). It was one of our Top 100 Albums of 2017 and one of our Top 15 Debut Albums of 2017. Last night she stopped by Late Night with Seth Meyers to make her TV debut performing “One of These Days.” More
Plus The Weeknd, Eminem, Fleet Foxes, alt-J, Perfume Genius, Moses Sumney, Angel Olsen, First Aid Kit, Japanese Breakfast, and Others
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
Our Favorite First Full-Lengths From the Last Year
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
Issue 61 Also Includes Interviews with The War on Drugs, The National, Broken Social Scene, Slowdive vs. Ariel Pink, Phoenix, Beach House, and Much 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
Plus King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard and Jeff Tweedy
Jun 23, 2017
By Christopher Roberts
Here we highlight six albums due out today that we feel are most worth hearing. We have also included Amazon links for each album. If you click through those links and buy the album (or anything else on Amazon once you’ve clicked through) then Amazon rewards us with a sales percentage. More
Bedouine Due Out June 23 via Spacebomb
Jun 01, 2017
By Christopher Roberts
Bedouine is the project of singer/songwriter Azniv Korkejian. She was born in Aleppo, Syria to Armenian parents, but spent her childhood in Saudi Arabia and then moved to America when her family won a Green Card lottery. More
Interviews
Nov 10, 2021
By Azniv Korkejian
For our recurring Self-Portrait feature, we ask musicians to take a self-portrait photo (or paint/draw a self-portrait) and write a list of personal things about themselves, things that their fans might not already know about them. This Self-Portrait is by Bedouine (aka Azniv Korkejian). More
“What concerns me most is how science and facts have become politicized.”
May 19, 2020
By Mark Redfern
We are checking in with musicians during the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic to see how they are dealing with everything. What has their home quarantine experience been like so far and how is the crisis impacting both their career and art? Here we check in with Bedouine, the project of singer/songwriter Azniv Korkejian. More
Aleppo's Solitary Daughter Finds a Home in Her Music
Sep 20, 2017
By Natasha Aftandilians
2017 has been a period of nascency for Azniv Korkejian, a.k.a. Bedouine-as we’re settling in for our interview, the Syrian-Armenian singer is in Houston with her family, welcoming her newborn nephew into the world. Between that and the release of her self-titled debut album, Korkejian is in the midst of a very fruitful season. More
Reviews
Jun 28, 2017
By Stephan Wyatt
Great albums originate from fortuitous circumstances. Bedouine‘s Azniv Korkejian, the Aleppo-born Armenian singer/songwriter by way of Boston, Houston, and eventually Los Angeles, went to Gus Seyffert’s studio in hopes of purchasing a reel-to-reel tape machine. More