Sep 06, 2024 By Mark Redfern

Under the Radar is excited to announce the full details of our new print issue, Issue 73, which features Maya Hawke and Nilüfer Yanya on the two covers. Issue 73 also features interviews with Fontaines D.C., Cassandra Jenkins, DIIV, Sparks, Camera Obscura, Alan Sparhawk, The Decemberists, Jessica Pratt, Glass Animals, Charly Bliss, Yard Act, English Teacher, Goat Girl, Hana Vu, and others. More

Apr 12, 2024 By Mark Redfern (with Andy Von Pip)

Welcome to the twelfth Songs of the Week of 2024. We didn’t do a Songs of the Week last week because we were working on other projects, so this week’s Songs of the Week covers the last two weeks. More

Apr 09, 2024 By Mark Redfern

Scottish indie-pop band Camera Obscura are releasing their first new album in 11 years, Look to the East, Look to the West, on May 3 via Merge. Now they have shared its third single, “Liberty Print,” via a music video. Frontwoman Tracyanne Campbell wrote the song about her brother who died tragically at the age of 34. More

Mar 08, 2024 By Mark Redfern (with Andy Von Pip)

Welcome to the eighth Songs of the Week of 2024. We didn’t do a Songs of the Week last week because we were deep in deadline-mode finishing our new print issue, so this week’s Songs of the Week covers the last two weeks. To be honest, we are still putting the finishing touches on the issue today and tomorrow, but there were so many notable songs released in the last two weeks that we still had to find the time to do a Songs of the Week today. More

Mar 06, 2024 By Mark Redfern

Scottish indie-pop band Camera Obscura are releasing their first new album in 11 years, Look to the East, Look to the West, on May 3 via Merge. Now they have shared its second single, “We’re Going to Make It in a Man’s World.” More

Feb 02, 2024 By Mark Redfern (with Andy Von Pip)

Welcome to the fourth Songs of the Week of 2024. This week a band’s first single in over a decade takes the top spot. More

Jan 30, 2024 By Mark Redfern

Scottish indie-pop band Camera Obscura have announced their first new album in 11 years, Look to the East, Look to the West, and shared its first single, “Big Love,” via a music video. They have also announced some new North American tour dates. More

Nov 14, 2023 By Mark Redfern

Beloved Scottish indie-pop band Camera Obscura have announced that they are returning to Merge Records and have also announced some 2024 UK tour dates. More

Jan 13, 2023 By Mark Redfern

Welcome to the second Songs of the Week of 2023. After a quiet period last week, this week was roaring with album announcements and new songs. We settled on a Top 11 this week. 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

Oct 03, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Tracyanne & Danny is a new project from Camera Obscura frontwoman Tracyanne Campbell and Danny Coughlan (who has previously released music as Crybaby). Their self-titled debut album, Tracyanne & Danny, came out back in May via Merge (it was our Album of the Week). Now they have shared a video for “Cellophane Girl.” It features footage filmed on their recent U.S. tour as the goof around America. The band has also shared two bonus tracks from the album, “Baby’s Got It Bad” and “Can’t Get Over You.” 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

Aug 31, 2018 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 Kamasi Washington on the cover. More

Jun 07, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Tracyanne & Danny, is a new project from Camera Obscura frontwoman Tracyanne Campbell and Danny Coughlan (who has previously released music as Crybaby). Their self-titled debut album, Tracyanne & Danny, came out a couple of weeks back via Merge (it was our Album of the Week). More

May 25, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Tracyanne & Danny, is a new project from Camera Obscura frontwoman Tracyanne Campbell and Danny Coughlan (who has previously released music as Crybaby). Their self-titled debut album, Tracyanne & Danny, came out today via Merge. More

May 01, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Tracyanne & Danny, is a new project from Camera Obscura frontwoman Tracyanne Campbell and Danny Coughlan (who has previously released music as Crybaby). Their self-titled debut album, Tracyanne & Danny, is due out May 25 via Merge. Now they have shared the album’s third single, string-swept duet “It Can’t Be Love Unless It Hurts.” More

Mar 30, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Last week we crammed two weeks into Songs of the Week, but this week we’re back on track with a regular one-week wrap-up. There was plenty to choose from this week. Our #1 is a funky feminist anthem and our #2 was a close second. Artists whose songs almost made the Top 10 include Hinds, Air Waves (feat. Kevin Morby), mastersystem (remixed by Mogwai), The Lemon Twigs, Sam Evian, and Bernice. More

Mar 28, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Tracyanne & Danny, is a new project from Camera Obscura frontwoman Tracyanne Campbell and Danny Coughlan (who has previously released music as Crybaby). Their self-titled debut album, Tracyanne & Danny, is due out May 25 via Merge. More

Feb 27, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Yesterday we reported that Camera Obscura frontwoman Tracyanne Campbell had announced Tracyanne & Danny, a new project with Danny Coughlan (who has previously released music as Crybaby), and we shared a teaser trailer for the project. Now Tracyanne & Danny have announced their self-titled debut album and shared its lovely first single, “Home & Dry.” More

Feb 26, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Camera Obscura understandably haven’t had much activity since the tragic and untimely passing due to cancer of founding member and keyboardist Carey Lander in 2015. The band’s last album was 2013’s Desire Lines. But now frontwoman Tracyanne Campbell has announced Tracyanne & Danny, a new project with Danny Coughlan (who has previously released music as Crybaby). More

Oct 11, 2015 By Mark Redfern

There is very sad news to report from the Camera Obscura camp. We are saddened to write that keyboardist Carey Lander passed away this morning after a long battle with bone cancer, the band has shared on its Facebook page. The Scottish band, Under the Radar favorites, recently canceled their planned October shows in Mexico and California because Lander had to have more treatments. More

Aug 21, 2015 By Christopher Roberts

Sad news from the Camera Obscura camp. The Scottish band, Under the Radar favorites, have been forced to cancel their planned October shows in Mexico and California because keyboardist Carey Lander’s fight with bone cancer is ongoing and she has to have more treatments. More

Mar 19, 2014 By Laura Studarus

Camera Obscura is hitting the road in support of last year’s excellent album Desire Lines. More

Mar 19, 2014 By Laura Studarus

As if Camera Obscura going on tour isn’t already enough to make all our pop dreams come true, today the band also announced that they’re putting out a live EP in honor of Record Store Day. More

Jan 03, 2014 By Mike Hilleary

While the days of watching music videos on television are long gone, over the past several years the visual art form has certainly found second life (like so many other things) as an excellent online commodity. More

Nov 25, 2013 By Cody Ray Shafer

Camera Obscura are wrapping up the year on a high note, after recently receiving the King Tuts Songwriting Award at the Scottish music industry’s Tartan Clef Awards ceremony. More

Oct 09, 2013 By Mike Hilleary

Delivering one of the year’s best pop album with their latest record Desire Lines, Camera Obscura have premiered a new music video for their included single “Troublemaker.” More

Sep 26, 2013 By Laura Studarus

While on their American tour a few months ago, Scottish heartbreakers Camera Obscura performed a live session for Wild Honey Pie at Electric Ladyland Studios. More

Aug 14, 2013 By Mike Hilleary

Camera Obscura have premiered a playfully sweet music video for their new Desire Lines single “Break It To You Gently.” More

May 15, 2013 By Mike Hilleary

With less than a month to go before the release of their newest LP Desire Lines, Camera Obscura have debuted another track off the record called “Fifth In Line to the Throne.” More

Apr 16, 2013 By Mike Hilleary

Desire Lines, Camera Obscura‘s first album in four years, is scheduled to drop on June 4 on 4AD. More

Mar 05, 2013 By Mike Hilleary

Camera Obscura have announced that they have been forced to cancel their initial set of tour dates in support of their forthcoming new album Desire Lines. More

Feb 28, 2013 By Laura Studarus

Camera Obscura will release their new album Desire Lines June 4 via 4AD. More

Feb 21, 2012 By Laura Studarus

Since one great pop act deserves another, check out Camera Obscura’s rerub of Princeton song, “Remembrance of Things to Come.” More

Dec 23, 2011 By Mark Redfern and Laura Studarus

Under the Radar‘s Best of 2011 Issue has shipped out to subscribers and will be hitting newsstands soon. The issue features three unique covers, each featuring an artist behind one of our Top 5 albums of the year: M83, The Horrors, and Bon Iver. The issue also takes a look back at other artists who have made a splash in 2011, including Beirut, Anna Calvi, EMA, Florence and the Machine, Gang Gang Dance, Neon Indian, PJ Harvey, R.E.M., SBTRKT, Slow Club, St. Vincent, Summer Camp, tUnE-yArDs, and Yuck. More

Oct 19, 2011 By Mark Redfern

Under the Radar is excited to announce the release of the indie music and entertainment print magazine’s 10th Anniversary Issue which hits newsstands next week. The extra-sized 10th Anniversary Issue features cover artists Joanna Newsom and Fleet Foxes’ Robin Pecknold together in an exclusive photo shoot and joint interview. Exclusive video taken during the cover shoot of Robin Pecknold and Joanna Newsom arm wrestling can be found here. 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

May 20, 2010 By Laura Studarus

“Please to Meet You” artist The Love Language (aka Stuart McLamb) is heading out for a series of dates in support of upcoming second album Libraries (July 13th on Merge). We have the dates. More

May 07, 2010 By Michele Yamamoto

For the past couple weeks, our writers (namely Laura Studarus, Frank Valish, and Hays Davis) have been working hard to bring you website-exclusive interviews. We’ve posted a total of 12 interviews since late April, 10 of which were conducted at the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival. Making it easy to keep up, we’ve complied an alphabetical list of our most recent interviews. Find links to our interviews with Doves, Jónsi, Vampire Weekend, Beach House, Camera Obscura, Phoenix, Matt and Kim, Florence and the Machine, Local Natives, Echo & the Bunnymen, The Big Pink, and more. More

Apr 27, 2010 By Laura Studarus

One of the bands lucky enough to be Stateside before the Icelandic volcano eruption cut off flights from the U.K., Scottish indie poppers Camera Obscura were counting their blessings when we caught up with them at Coachella. “We do feel for them because that’s the sort of shit that would happen to us!” said keyboardist Carey Lander with a laugh. More

Apr 20, 2010 By Wendy Lynch Redfern

Staff photographer and Under the Radar’s Co-Publisher/Co-Founder, Wendy Lynch Redfern, was down in Coachella, CA for Coachella 2010. Check out a gallery of her photos from the second day of Coachella 2010. The gallery includes photos of Devo, The Dead Weather, Muse, MGMT, Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros, Dirty Projectors, Beach House. Click here to view the full gallery. More

Apr 14, 2010 By Laura Studarus

On April 11th, Camera Obscura rocked Houston Texas, a stop on their slowly concluding world tour. We sent Under the Radar photographer Iman Mannie Saqr down to cover the action. Check out a full gallery of her photos here. More

Jan 19, 2010 By Mark Redfern

One of North America’s most anticipated music festivals, Coachella, has announced its 2010 line-up. The three-day festival, which takes place in the California desert near Palm Springs April 16 - 18, will feature Jay-Z, Muse, and Gorillaz as the headliners. Other highlights include: Public Image Limited, The Specials, Grace Jones, Echo and the Bunnymen, Pavement, Sly and the Family Stone, Devo, LCD Soundsystem, Vampire Weekend, Grizzly Bear, Fever Ray, She & Him, Yeasayer, MGMT, Hot Chip, Dirty Projectors, Mew, Camera Obscura, Edward Sharp and the Magnetic Zeros, Thom Yorke????, Phoenix, Spoon, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Yo La Tengo, Deerhunter, The Big Pink, Florence and the Machine, Owen Pallett, and Local Natives.

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Jan 17, 2010 By Laura Studarus

Scottish twee-mopers Camera Obscura are hitting the road again in support of their most recent release, My Maudlin Career. The trek will see the band playing festivals and shows in Australia, Japan, Indonesia, Portugal, and Mexico, before arriving stateside in April. More

Nov 25, 2009 By Laura Studarus

We know Thanksgiving isn’t until tomorrow, but maudlin rockers Camera Obscura are already looking forward to Christmas. On December 8th, the band will release mope-worthy holiday single “The Blizzard”—available as either a digital single or 7” with B-side, “Swans.” More

Aug 20, 2009 By Laura Studarus

In support of their recent release My Maudlin Career, Scottish sextet Camera Obscura is hitting the road for a worldwide tour. We have dates in full. More

Apr 11, 2009 By Mark Redfern

Under the Radar‘s Spring Issue will be hitting stands soon. Bat For Lashes’ Natasha Khan graces the cover and the issue features an in-depth nine-page interview with Khan that traces the long road to her amazing new album Two Suns. More

Mar 23, 2009 By Mark Redfern

Under the Radar‘s 2009 SXSW party was presented by JanSport and featured spirited sets from Mumford and Sons, Frances, Viva Voce, Loney Dear, Chairlift, Jason Lytle (of Grandaddy), and Camera Obscura. More

Oct 15, 2018 By Laura Studarus

Camera Obscura’s Tracyanne Campbell, and Danny Coughlan, who records as Crybaby, were set up on a blind date of sorts, by a manager and publisher who thought the two musicians’ guitar pop might make for a fruitful collaboration. More

Feb 06, 2015 By Mark Redfern

For Under the Radar’s 12th annual Artist Survey we emailed some of our favorite artists a few questions relating to 2014. We asked them about their favorite albums of the year and their thoughts on various notable 2014 news stories involving either the music industry or world events, as well as some quirkier personal questions. More

Aug 19, 2013 By Austin Trunick

When Camera Obscura’s Tracyanne Campbell interviewed Lloyd Cole for the June/July 2013 issue of Under the Radar, the two spoke as if they were close friends; we were surprised to find out they’d only briefly met. After Cole had answered Campbell’s questions, both artists stayed on the line to answer a few more from us about their history, hobbies, and current albums. Last Friday we posted the main print magazine Q&A between Cole and Campbell. These are extra portions of our interview, quotes that didn’t make it into the print article. More

Aug 16, 2013 By Austin Trunick

Lloyd Cole broke out on the Glasgow, Scotland scene in the mid-‘80s, releasing a string of successful albums with his band, The Commotions, before embarking on a remarkably deep solo career. His 1984 debut record with The Commotions, Rattlesnakes, closed with a song titled “Are You Ready to Be Heartbroken?” Twenty-two years later, another Glasgow artist would answer that question. More

Jul 17, 2013 By Laura Studarus

“There’s a big misconception that I’m some sort of doomhead,” says Camera Obscura frontwoman Tracyanne Campbell, firing a preemptive shot against those tempted to compare the singer/songwriter to the characters of her bittersweet pop. More

Aug 06, 2010 By Frank Valish (as told to)

I think Grease was the first film I actually was taken to the cinema to see, which seems kind of bizarre to me because I must have been about three or four years old. More

Aug 02, 2010 By Frank Valish

Everyone can point to formative experiences from childhood that influence his or her future endeavors. More

Jul 30, 2010 By Hays Davis

Musicians reflect on their first concerts. Includes stories from Tegan & Sara, Camera Obscura, Girl Talk, Owen Pallett, Art Brut, The Hold Steady, MGMT, Broken Social Scene, Ariel Pink, !!!, Mew, Real Estate, The Dears, Vivian Girls, Mayer Hawthorne, The Drums, Telekinesis, Fuck Buttons, El Guincho, and more. More

Apr 26, 2010 By Laura Studarus

One of the bands lucky enough to be Stateside before the Icelandic volcano eruption cut off flights from the U.K., Scottish indie poppers Camera Obscura were counting their blessings when we caught up with them at Coachella. “We do feel for them because that’s the sort of shit that would happen to us!” said keyboardist Carey Lander with a laugh. Under the Radar sat down with the ladies of Camera Obscura—Lander and bandleader Tracyanne Campbell—to chat further about acts of God, record sales, and why Yo La Tengo might hold the key to their future (maudlin) career. More

Mar 22, 2010 By Frank Valish

Whatever the perception, as any parent will tell you, raising children is hard work, and for a working musician, balancing writing, recording, and touring with being a full-time mom or dad can be extra tricky. More

Jul 01, 2006 By August Brown

If you’re in a Scottish band and the gray, miserable weather of Glasgow in late Fall bums you out, there are few options for feeling better. If you’re Stuart Murdoch, you fill notebooks with stories of funny little frogs and goateed baseball catchers until the sun comes out again. If you’re Mogwai, you turn your amps up until your ears bleed and you can’t feel much of anything. But if you’re Tracyanne Campbell of sweet-tempered sweater-rockers Camera Obscura, you simply skip town to make a record in Sweden. More

Jul 04, 2013 By Laura Studarus

Because good things (well varying shades of good, anyway) come in threes, Festival International de Jazz de Montréal offered three Under the Radar favorites on the same evening: Camera Obscura, She & Him, and Austra.

May 31, 2013 By Susannah Young

Typically, Tracyanne Campbell writes Camera Obscura’s lyrics from an omniscient narrator’s perspective, but even when she gets more personal, there’s still a bit of a guarded tone at play. More

Apr 18, 2010 By Mark Redfern

Day two of Coachella 2010 alas offered few highlights. This year Coachella has put way too many great artists on Sunday’s bill, which will inevitably lead to a lot of Sophie’s Choice-like moments of picking between which favorite artists to see. Whereas Saturday’s bill suffered from a lack of must see artists, there was no shortage of artists worth checking out, it’s just that few of them delivered. Matters were not helped by the fact that the best set I saw was also the first set I saw. Almost everything underwhelmed after that. More

Apr 18, 2010 By Laura Studarus

Day two started out much like day one, in fulltilt. Despite a bevy of physical ailments left over from yesterday’s marathon, making it to Camera Obscura’s set on time was worth another painful sprint across the field. However day two was light on the heavy hitters, and after the initial close call, I didn’t have to hustle to see sets from Beach House, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, Hot Chip, MGMT, and Muse. More

Nov 24, 2009 By Laura Leebove

Camera Obscura’s Tracyanne Campbell crooned, “I don’t wanna be sad again” in “My Maudlin Career,” the set opener of the band’s Nov. 22 show at Brooklyn’s Music Hall of Williamsburg (and title track of its latest record), but her claim wasn’t very convincing. More

Mar 28, 2009 By Mark Redfern

SXSW is a guessing game. There are many hundreds of bands playing at so many different venues, that you can have a fantastic or a lousy time depending on who you see and how well you second guess how long it will take to get into each venue. The goal is to spend most of your time seeing as many great bands as possible, and as little time possible waiting in line or sitting through sets from bands you don’t want to see just to make sure you’re in the venue in time to see the bands you do want to see. Your enemies are late set times and the varying degrees of sound quality at Austin’s many venues. More

Mar 23, 2009 By Mark Redfern

Under the Radar‘s 2009 SXSW party was presented by JanSport and featured spirited sets from Mumford and Sons, Frances, Viva Voce, Loney Dear, Chairlift, Jason Lytle (of Grandaddy), and Camera Obscura. More

Feb 16, 2007 By Nate Daly

Throughout the night, eyes were locked on Tracyanne Campbell, and although she maintained an unyielding straight face the entire show, the moments she actually did smile sent a ripple through the crowd. More