News
Dec 13, 2010
By Laura Studarus
For Under the Radar’s 8th annual Artist Survey we emailed some of our favorite artists a few questions relating to 2010. Pick up a copy of Under the Radar’s Year End issue for interviews with: The Antlers, Bon Iver, Caribou, Club 8, Delphic, Rose Elinor Dougall, Gayngs, Hot Chip, Lost in the Trees, Love is All, The Love Language, Mogwai, of Montreal, Okkervil River, Yoko Ono, Owen Pallett, Plants and Animals, Mark Ronson, Superchunk, Tame Impala, Vampire Weekend, Sharon Van Etten, and Vivian Girls. Today we posted web exclusive surveys with Jamie Stewart (Blue Water, White Death/Xiu Xiu), The Mary Onettes, and Dave Hartley (Nightlands/The War on Drugs). More
Self-Titled Debut Album Out October 12th
Oct 08, 2010
By Laura Studarus
Shearwater/Xiu-Xiu side project Blue Water White Death has released a video for “Grunt Tube,” a cut from upcoming debut album (out next Tuesday via Graveface Records). We have the clip. More
Interviews
Dec 13, 2010
By Under the Radar Staff
For Under the Radar’s 8th annual Artist Survey we emailed some of our favorite artists a few questions relating to 2010. Pick up a copy of Under the Radar’s Year End issue for interviews with: The Antlers, Bon Iver, Caribou,Club 8, Delphic, Rose Elinor Dougall, Gayngs, Hot Chip, Lost in the Trees, Love is All, The Love Language, Mogwai, of Montreal, Okkervil River, Yoko Ono, Owen Pallett, Plants and Animals, Mark Ronson, Superchunk, Tame Impala, Vampire Weekend, Sharon Van Etten, and Vivian Girls. Here’s a survey from Jamie Stewart of Blue Water, White Death & Xiu Xiu. More
Reviews
Nov 03, 2010
By Stephen Humphries
Like the shark documentary it’s named after, this collaboration between Shearwater’s Jonathan Meiburg and Xiu Xiu’s Jamie Stewart reveals a frightening menace lurking beneath a placid surface. The dulcet finger-picked acoustic guitar in “Song for the Greater Jihad,” for instance, is suddenly severed by what sounds like a vicious power tool More