Jul 11, 2023 By Kat Ramkumar

Courtney Barnett has announced the release of a new instrumental album, End of the Day, and shared its first three songs—“Start Somewhere,” “Life Balance,” and “First Slow”—alongside a visual accompaniment directed by filmmaker Claire Marie Vogel. More

Sep 23, 2022 By Joey Arnone

Sleater-Kinney have confirmed the details of a covers/tribute version of their 1997 album, Dig Me Out. The new version, entitled Dig Me In: A Dig Me Out Covers Album, will feature covers of album tracks from a variety of artists, including St. Vincent, Wilco, and many more. Sleater-Kinney have shared a Courtney Barnett cover of the album track “Words and Guitar.” More

Aug 11, 2022 By Joey Arnone

Courtney Barnett has announced the release of a compilation featuring B-sides, demos, and live performances from her Here and There festival, including musical contributions from Julia Jacklin, Bedouine, The Beths, Faye Webster, Sleater-Kinney, Caroline Rose, and Hana Vu. The compilation will be released as a limited edition of 600 cassette tapes, and all proceeds will benefit the National Network of Abortion Funds and Advocates For Youth. Barnett has shared a song from the compilation, a demo of her song “If I Don’t Hear From You Tonight.” More

Jul 20, 2022 By Joey Arnone

Last night, Courtney Barnett made an appearance on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, where she performed the track “Before You Gotta Go” from her most recent album, Things Take Time, Take Time. More

Jun 27, 2022 By Mark Redfern

Couldn’t make it to Glastonbury this past weekend? We have you covered, with highlights from some of the performances including ones by Wolf Alice, Jessie Ware, Courtney Barnett, Mitski, HAIM, Foals, and many more. Plus Cate Le Bon, Pet Shop Boys, beabadoobee, Dry Cleaning, First Aid Kit, Jack White, Kendrick Lamar, Fontaines D.C., Lorde, Caribou, Metronomy, St. Vincent, Olivia Rodrigo and Lily Allen, Squid, black midi, Big Thief, IDLES, Crowded House, and much more. More

Jun 27, 2022 By Joey Arnone

Climate Control Projects has announced The Big Climate Thing: Concert for People and the Planet, a three-day music concert which is set to take place from September 16-18 at Forest Hills Stadium in New York City. According to a press release, the goal of the concert is “to raise awareness, accountability and action, and to inspire real-time solutions surrounding the global climate crisis by connecting to concertgoers through the transformative power of music.” More

Mar 24, 2022 By Joey Arnone

Courtney Barnett has announced a boutique touring festival showcasing a rotating lineup of artists, including Japanese Breakfast, Waxahatchee, Faye Webster, Lucy Dacus, and more. The 15-date touring festival will kick off in August, and $1 from each ticket sale will go toward benefitting The Ally Coalition (TAC), an LGBTQ youth support organization. Tickets will go on sale next Wednesday (March 30) at 10 a.m. local time. More

Jan 07, 2022 By Mark Redfern

2021 began and ended in a state of uncertainty, but was still a fruitful year for new music. Here are Under the Radar‘s 100 favorite albums from the year. More

Dec 21, 2021 By Mark Redfern

Under the Radar is excited to announce the full details of our new print issue, which is our special 20th Anniversary Issue. It’s a double issue celebrating two decades of the magazine (our first issue came out in December 2001). The issue has shipped out to subscribers and stores and can now be bought from us directly here. The issue features two special covers, each featuring a different group of musicians together. More

Dec 07, 2021 By Joey Arnone

Last night, Courtney Barnett made an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, where she performed “If I Don’t Hear From You Tonight” from her new album Things Take Time, Take Time. More

Nov 19, 2021 By Celine Teo-Blockey

Australian indie rocker Courtney Barnett is our guest on the latest episode of Under the Radar Podcast. The 34-year-old released her third studio album, Things Take Time, Take Time, on Milk! Records/Marathon Artists/Mom & Pop last week. Barnett discusses how she wrote and recorded these new songs with fellow Australian Stella Mozgawa, the drummer of Los Angeles-based band Warpaint. More

Nov 17, 2021 By Joey Arnone

Courtney Barnett has announced the release of a new documentary titled ANONYMOUS CLUB. Shot on 16mm film, the documentary follows Barnett over a three-year period during her world tour for her previous album, Tell Me How You Really Feel. It features voiceover narration from Barnett recorded from a dictaphone which was given to her by the film’s director, Danny Cohen. The film will be released through Oscilloscope and is planned for a 2022 release. More

Nov 12, 2021 By Mark Redfern

Courtney Barnett has released a new album, Things Take Time, Take Time, today via Mom + Pop Music/Marathon Artists. Now that it’s out, you can stream the whole thing here. Also, yesterday we posted our review of the album. Read the review here and check out the album below. Also below is Barnett’s new session for NPR’s World Cafe, in which she performed four songs. Plus, she has shared new visualizer videos for five of the album’s songs, which feature Barnett painting the album’s artwork on glass. More

Nov 09, 2021 By Mark Redfern

Courtney Barnett is releasing a new album, Things Take Time, Take Time, this Friday via Mom + Pop Music/Marathon Artists. Now she has shared another song from it, “If I Don’t Hear From You Tonight,” via a video for it. It’s described as one of her first love songs. More

Oct 13, 2021 By Mark Redfern

Courtney Barnett is releasing a new album, Things Take Time, Take Time, on November 12 via Mom + Pop Music/Marathon Artists, but now she has shared a new song not featured on that record, “Smile Real Nice.” Instead, it’s the theme song for Harriet the Spy, a new animated show on Apple TV+ that debuts on November 19 and is based on the 1964 children’s novel by Louise Fitzhugh. More

Oct 12, 2021 By Joey Arnone

Shamir has shared a video for his new single, “Gay Agenda,” also announcing a national tour with Lucy Dacus and Courtney Barnett as supporting acts. More

Oct 01, 2021 By Mark Redfern (with Joey Arnone and Caleb Campbell)

Welcome to the 37th Songs of the Week of 2021. Old school rock was alive and well this week, with new songs from The Rolling Stones, Elton John and Stevie Wonder, Sting, John Mellencamp and Bruce Springsteen, and David Bowie, but none of those tracks made our Songs of the Week list. More

Sep 29, 2021 By Mark Redfern

Courtney Barnett is releasing a new album, Things Take Time, Take Time, on November 12 via Mom + Pop Music/Marathon Artists. Now she has shared its third single, “Write a List of Things to Look Forward To,” via a video for it featuring the Australian musician receiving lots of fun things in the mail. More

Sep 23, 2021 By Joey Arnone

Bartees Strange has announced a deluxe edition of his highly-acclaimed debut album, Live Forever, to celebrate its one-year anniversary. It will be out next Friday (Oct. 1) via Memory Music. He has also shared a new song titled “Weights,” which features production from Will Yip. More

Sep 14, 2021 By Mark Redfern

Courtney Barnett is releasing a new album, Things Take Time, Take Time, on November 12 via Mom + Pop Music/Marathon Artists. Now she has shared an amusing video for its second single, “Before You Gotta Go,” and also launched a stem mixer on her website. The stem mixer allows fans to mess around with the mix of the album’s first two singles, lowering or muting various instruments in each song, including the vocals. Check it out here. Claudia Sangiorgi Dalimore directed the “Before You Gotta Go” video, in which Barnett tries to capture field recordings in nature, until things turn surreal. More

Aug 31, 2021 By Joey Arnone

Todd Haynes’ upcoming documentary about The Velvet Underground, which was announced four whole years ago, is finally seeing its release this year, and its official trailer has just been shared. The Velvet Underground: A Documentary Film by Todd Haynes will premiere on Apple TV+ on October 15. More

Aug 18, 2021 By Mark Redfern

Courtney Barnett is releasing a new album, Things Take Time, Take Time, on November 12 via Mom + Pop Music/Marathon Artists. Last night she was the musical guest on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon where Barnett and her backing band performed the album’s first single, “Rae Street,” remotely from a cozy table lamp-lit room. More

Aug 13, 2021 By Mark Redfern (with Joey Arnone and Caleb Campbell)

Welcome to the 30th Songs of the Week of 2021. As I was on vacation last week, this week’s list covers the last two week’s worth of songs. So it’s a super-sized edition with a Top 12. More

Aug 12, 2021 By Lily Guthrie

Courtney Barnett, the songstress from down under, has graced us with four studio albums, an EP and several singles since 2012, and her latest ones, “Rae Street” and “Before You Gotta Go,” both precede her upcoming LP Things Take Time, Take Time (which is due out November 12 via Mom + Pop Music/Marathon Artists). The 33-year-old singer/songwriter/guitarist from Melbourne, Australia, is less about dividing her discography into songs you do and don’t like, and more about grouping them into the ones you love and the other ones you really really love. More

Aug 11, 2021 By Mark Redfern

Courtney Barnett is releasing a new album, Things Take Time, Take Time, on November 12 via Mom + Pop Music/Marathon Artists. Now she has shared its second single, “Before You Gotta Go.” More

Jul 09, 2021 By Mark Redfern

Welcome to the 26th Songs of the Week of 2021. The American music industry pretty took Monday off due to Sunday’s July 4th holiday, so we expected slimmer pickings this week. It was not to be, thanks for some exciting album announcements. We settled on a Top 11 this week. More

Jul 07, 2021 By Mark Redfern

Courtney Barnett has announced a new album, Things Take Time, Take Time, and shared its first single, “Rae Street,” via an amusing video where Barnett plays multiple characters. More

Apr 01, 2021 By Joey Arnone

Sharon Van Etten has shared a cover of “Don’t Do It,” originally featured on her 2010 Epic album, performed by Courtney Barnett and featuring Vagabon (aka Lætitia Tamko). The new cover is the fifth song release from her upcoming anniversary album, epic Ten, which will be out on April 16 via Ba Da Bing. More

Jan 07, 2021 By Mark Redfern

Vagabon (aka Lætitia Tamko) has teamed up with Courtney Barnett to cover Karen Dalton’s version of “Reason to Believe” (the very original 1965 version of the song was by Tim Hardin). Vagabon has also announced a livestream concert. More

Aug 07, 2020 By Jennifer Irving

Australian singer/songwriter/guitarist Courtney Barnett has shared a new cover of Indegineous Australian singer/songwriter Kev Carmody’s “Just For You.” The cover comes as the first release off of Cannot Buy My Soul, a new extended version of a 2007 tribute album to Carmody out August 21. More

Aug 04, 2020 By Jennifer Irving

This weekend was the finale of the entirely virtual Newport Folk Festival, aptly dubbed “Our Voices Together,” as it features upward of 20 artists covering Burt Bacharach’s classic “What the World Needs Now Is Love.” The cover was led by Jim James of My Morning Jacket and music directed by Chris Funk of The Decemberists, wrapping up the week-long virtual fest. More

Aug 03, 2020 By Samantha Small

Music festivals are long gone, for now. And although we’re sad to miss out on overpriced beer and potential heat stroke, that isn’t stopping organizers from doing a virtual version of the events. This past weekend was the legendary Newport Folk Festival, and slotted for those events were contemporary singer/songwriter starlets Phoebe Bridgers and Courtney Barnett. The pair decided to give fans an extra treat and covered folk luminary Gillian Welch’s “Everything is Free.” More

May 22, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

Australian singer/songwriter/guitarist Courtney Barnett was the musical guest last night on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. She performed remotely and acoustically from home, doing “Sunday Roast” from 2018’s Tell Me How You Really Feel. Watch it below. More

Apr 27, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

On Saturday there was a televised and live-streamed benefit concert in Australia entitled Music From the Home Front that featured various musicians performing from home to pay tribute to Australian healthcare workers on the frontlines during the COVID-19 pandemic. Of note were performances by Tame Impala (aka Kevin Parker), who did a solo acoustic version of “On Track,” and Courtney Barnett, who did a solo version of “Depreston.” More

Jan 31, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

Welcome to the fourth Songs of the Week of 2020. There are lots of bass-heavy dance-y songs in the Top 4 this week. Some of this week’s best tracks were connected to albums newly announced this week, others were standalone singles, or additional new songs from previously announced albums. More

Jan 27, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

Anna Calvi has announced a new album, Hunted, and shared its first single, a new version of “Don’t Beat the Girl Out of My Boy” that features guest vocals from Courtney Barnett. Hunted is a new stripped down version of Calvi’s 2018 album Hunter featuring various other notable guests: Julia Holter, Charlotte Gainsbourg, and IDLES’ Joe Talbot. More

Dec 06, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Australian singer/songwriter/guitarist Courtney Barnett has surprise released a new live album, MTV Australia Unplugged Live In Melbourne. It was recorded on October 22 in her hometown and features the previously unreleased new song “Untitled (Play It On Repeat),” a duet with New Zealand singer/songwriter Marlon Williams (a cover of “Not Only I” by the Australian band Seeker Lover Keeper), and ends with a cover of Leonard Cohen’s “So Long, Marianne.” More

Sep 04, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Australian singer/songwriter/guitarist Courtney Barnett has announced some new tour dates that are billed as her first ever American solo tour, where she will perform alone on stage with just her guitar. More

Apr 15, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Australian singer/songwriter/guitarist Courtney Barnett released a new album, Tell Me How You Really Feel, back in May 2018 via Mom + Pop/Marathon Artists/Milk! Records (it was our Album of the Week and one our Top 100 Albums of 2018). For this past Saturday’s Record Store Day Barnett released a new 7-inch single “Everybody Here Hates You” and now she has shared a video for the song. Danny Cohen directed the video, which finds Barnett and her band performing in a giant brain. More

Mar 20, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

The last time there was a Woodstock festival was in 1999, to commemorate the original festival’s 30th anniversary, and it didn’t go so well, with reports of gang rapes, property destruction, violence, and fires, not to mention a fairly terrible lineup featuring Korn, Limp Bizkit, Bush, Kid Rock, Creed, and others. The organizers of Woodstock 50 are no doubt hoping for a more peaceful and loving event this time and the freshly announced lineup is noticeably less heavy, not a nu-metal band in sight. More

Feb 28, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

The full list of 2019 Record Store Day releases has been revealed. Record Store Day goes down on Saturday, April 13 and just in case you don’t already know, the basic idea is to get music fans out to their local independent record store, with the bait being a slew of exclusive limited edition releases. More

Jan 08, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Bonnaroo have announced their 2019 lineup. The festival goes down in Manchester, Tennessee from June 13-16. This year’s highlights include Beach House, Courtney Barnett, The National, Childish Gambino, Parquet Courts, and more. More

Dec 30, 2018 By Mark Redfern

And here we are, the end of another year. The last 12 months tried the patience of anyone who longed for civility in politics, with divisive policies and a president beloved by only his most ardent supporters. More

Oct 23, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Australian singer/songwriter/guitarist Courtney Barnett released a new album, Tell Me How You Really Feel, back in May via Mom + Pop/Marathon Artists/Milk! Records (it was our Album of the Week). Last night she stopped by Late Night with Seth Meyers to perform the album’s “Crippling Self Doubt and a General Lack of Self Confidence.” More

Oct 05, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

This week Sharon Van Etten and Moonface announced new albums and their lead singles both made this week’s Songs of the Week list. Joining them are new standalone singles from Julia Jacklin, Jessie Ware, and SOAK, as well as some singles from upcoming albums, and an eight-minute album track. But our #1 this week is a bonus track that probably shouldn’t have been cut from an album released earlier this year. More

Oct 04, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Australian singer/songwriter/guitarist Courtney Barnett released a new album, Tell Me How You Really Feel, back in May via Mom + Pop/Marathon Artists/Milk! Records (it was our Album of the Week). Now she has shared a brand new song, “Small Talk,” a previously unreleased track from the Tell Me How You Really Feel sessions. More

Aug 23, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Australian singer/songwriter/guitarist Courtney Barnett released a new album, Tell Me How You Really Feel, back in May via Mom + Pop/Marathon Artists/Milk! Records (it was our Album of the Week). Now she has shared a video for “Charity.” More

Aug 03, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Australian singer/songwriter/guitarist Courtney Barnett released a new album, Tell Me How You Really Feel, back in May via Mom + Pop/Marathon Artists/Milk! Records (it was our Album of the Week). Last night she stopped by Jimmy Kimmel Live! to perform two songs from the album, “Charity” and “Need a Little Time.” More

May 18, 2018 By Michael Watkins

In the now four years since her double EP A Sea of Split Peas announced Courtney Barnett as a force to be reckoned with in the indie singer/songwriter sphere, there has been little-to-no let up in the proficiency of this Australian 30-year-old. More

May 18, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Australian singer/songwriter/guitarist Courtney Barnett released a new album, Tell Me How You Really Feel, today via Mom + Pop/Marathon Artists/Milk! Records. Last night she stopped by The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon to perform the album’s first single, “Nameless, Faceless.” Watch the blistering performance below, followed by her upcoming tour dates. More

May 16, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

San Francisco’s Treasure Island Music Festival took a year off in 2017 to find a new festival site. Now it’s back, this time at Oakland’s Middle Harbor Shoreline Park as opposed to the titular Treasure Island. The two-day festival goes down October 13-14. More

May 10, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Australian singer/songwriter/guitarist Courtney Barnett is releasing a new album, Tell Me How You Really Feel, on May 18 via Mom + Pop/Marathon Artists/Milk! Records. Now she has shared another song from the album, “Sunday Roast,” via a funny little video of her playing the song on guitar in front of a purple blanket being held up by band mates as she teaches the viewer how to play the guitar. More

May 07, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Australian singer/songwriter/guitarist Courtney Barnett is releasing a new album, Tell Me How You Really Feel, on May 18 (that’s only next week!) via Mom + Pop/Marathon Artists/Milk! Records. This past weekend she performed four songs on Live From Here, the public radio show hosted by Chris Thile formerly known as Prairie Home Companion before its named was changed to disassociate itself from former host Garrison Keillor after sexual harassment allegations against him. More

Apr 27, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

We skipped Songs of the Week last week because we were kind of on vacation, so this week’s post encompasses songs from the last two weeks. And that’s just as well, because this week was light on new tracks, whereas last week was fairly strong (only three of our Top 10 are songs from this week). More

Apr 19, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Australian singer/songwriter/guitarist Courtney Barnett is releasing a new album, Tell Me How You Really Feel, on May 18 via Mom + Pop/Marathon Artists/Milk! Records. Now she has shared another song from the album, “City Looks Pretty.” The song will be released on 12-inch vinyl on Record Store Day (this Saturday). More

Mar 23, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Last week we skipped Songs of the Week. Most of the music industry was in Austin for SXSW and thus few notable songs were shared last week, leaving us with not enough contenders to even put together a Top 5 we were truly excited about. So this week’s Songs of the Week mainly covers this week, but has a few songs from last week, including the song that would’ve been our #1 last week if we’d done a list. Hence we have a Top 12 this week. More

Mar 20, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Australian singer/songwriter/guitarist Courtney Barnett is releasing a new album, Tell Me How You Really Feel, on May 18. Now she has announced some new fall tour dates. They mainly happen this October and Waxahatchee will support. More

Mar 15, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Australian singer/songwriter/guitarist Courtney Barnett is releasing a new album, Tell Me How You Really Feel, on May 18 via Mom + Pop/Marathon Artists/Milk! Records. Previously she shared its first single, “Nameless, Faceless,” via a video for the song. More

Mar 13, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Chicago’s the Pitchfork Music Festival has been slowly announcing their lineup via a mural with the artists’ names being painted on it over the last few weeks. Now the final and full lineup has been revealed for the festival, which goes down July 20 to 22 in Chicago’s Union Park. More

Mar 06, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

The full list of 2018 Record Store Day releases has been revealed. Record Store Day goes down on April 21 and just in case you don’t already know, the basic idea is to get music fans out to their local independent record store, with the bait being a slew of exclusive limited edition releases. More

Mar 02, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Australian singer/songwriter/guitarist Courtney Barnett and American singer/songwriter/guitarist Kurt Vile teamed up for a new collaborative album, Lotta Sea Lice, which came out last October via Matador, as well as a collaborative fall tour featuring an “all-star band.” More

Mar 02, 2018 By Stephen Mayne

This week we’re keeping it in the family before moving on to security risks, resignations, bunga bunga, op-eds, and Frankie Cosmos. More

Feb 26, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Australian singer/songwriter/guitarist Courtney Barnett is releasing a new album, Tell Me How You Really Feel, on May 18 via Mom + Pop/Marathon Artists/Milk! Records. Previously she shared its first single, “Nameless, Faceless,” via a video for the song. (It was our #1 Song of the Week.) Now she has covered a song by her fellow countrymen INXS, “Never Tear Us Apart” from their 1987 album Kick. Her cover appears in a new one-minute long Australian iPhone X ad entitled “First Dance” that celebrates marriage equality, as same-sex marriage was legalized in the country late last year. More

Feb 22, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

FORM Arcosanti is returning this year and its 2018 lineup has been announced. The band Hundred Waters created the festival and they also curate the lineup and are performing. Other notable performers include Courtney Barnett, Beach House, Fleet Foxes, Chance the Rapper, Charli XCX, Blood Orange, Zola Jesus, Dirty Projectors, Jay Som, Mount Kimbie, Mitski, Julianna Barwick, Caroline Polachek, and more. More

Feb 20, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Australian singer/songwriter/guitarist Courtney Barnett is releasing a new album, Tell Me How You Really Feel, on May 18 via Mom + Pop/Marathon Artists/Milk! Records. Previously she shared its first single, “Nameless, Faceless,” via a video for the song. (It was our #1 Song of the Week.) Now she has announced some new North American tour dates to go down this July. More

Feb 16, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

This week Under the Radar favorite Courtney Barnett announced her new album and shared a new song and fellow favorites Beach House announced that a new album was coming and shared a new song. More

Feb 15, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Australian singer/songwriter/guitarist Courtney Barnett has announced a new album, Tell Me How You Really Feel, and shared its first single, “Nameless, Faceless,” via a video for the song. Tell Me How You Really Feel is due out May 18 via Mom + Pop/Marathon Artists/Milk! Records. More

Feb 12, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Australian singer/songwriter/guitarist Courtney Barnett has shared a new video that appears to tease her new album. The two-and-a-half minute video features Barnett in a room filled with different instruments, which she picks up to perform snippets of new songs. More

Jan 09, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

The Breeders have announced a new album, All Nerve, and shared its title track, “All Nerve.” All Nerve is due out March 2 via 4AD. It’s the band’s first album in a decade and the first to feature the band’s classic lineup since their beloved 1993 album, Last Splash. 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

Dec 08, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Australian singer/songwriter/guitarist Courtney Barnett and American singer/songwriter/guitarist Kurt Vile have teamed up for a new collaborative album, Lotta Sea Lice, which came out in October via Matador, as well as a collaborative fall tour featuring an “all-star band.” Now they have stopped by NPR’s offices to perform four songs as a Tiny Desk Concert. More

Nov 03, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Last night the duo and band stopped by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert to perform “Over Everything” on the broadcast show (although the restrictions of TV performances means it’s a shorter version of the song). More

Oct 13, 2017 By Scott Dransfield

When news first broke that Kurt Vile and Courtney Barnett were teaming up for a collaborative project, it was met with an unusually high amount of excitement. The last few years have seen dozens of reunions, team-ups and supergroups in the indie world, some of them good, most of them completely missable; yet even those who know the bare minimum about these two artists could see them for an unnaturally easy pair. More

Sep 29, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

It wasn’t the strongest week for truly compelling new tracks, but there was still enough of note to make us rally and put together a decent Songs of the Week post. To help you sort through the multitude of fresh songs released in the last seven days, we have picked the seven best this week had to offer, along with highlighting other notable new tracks shared this week. More

Sep 26, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Australian singer/songwriter/guitarist Courtney Barnett and American singer/songwriter/guitarist Kurt Vile have teamed up for a new collaborative album, Lotta Sea Lice, which is due out October 13 via Matador, as well as a collaborative fall tour featuring an “all-star band.” Now they have shared a video for another song from the album, “Continental Breakfast.” The video features footage of Barnett and Vile in their respective homes in their respective countries. More

Sep 01, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

What a packed week for great new tracks. We could have easily done a Top 15. Some artists that almost made the cut include A. Savage, Bully, John Maus, Father John Misty (remixed by The Haxan Cloak), Tricky, Wolf Parade, and Zola Jesus. More

Aug 30, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Australian singer/songwriter/guitarist Courtney Barnett and American singer/songwriter/guitarist Kurt Vile previously announced they were teaming up for a new collaborative album, as well as a collaborative fall tour featuring an “all-star band.” More

Jun 07, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Australian singer/songwriter/guitarist Courtney Barnett and American singer/songwriter/guitarist Kurt Vile are teaming up for a new collaborative album, which will be supported by a collaborative fall tour featuring an “all-star band.” More

May 15, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Australian singer/songwriter/guitarist Courtney Barnett released her debut full-length album, Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit, via Mom + Pop in 2015 and landed at #6 on Under the Radar‘s Top 100 Albums of 2015 list. Now she has shared a new song, “How to Boil An Egg.” More

Jul 06, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Last year Australian singer/songwriter/guitarist Courtney Barnett released her debut full-length album, Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit, via Mom + Pop and landed at #6 on Under the Radar‘s Top 100 Albums of 2015 list. Now she has shared a video for “Elevator Operator,” which fittingly features Barnett as an elevator operator and features some cool cameos. More

May 31, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Australian singer/songwriter/guitarist Courtney Barnett stopped by The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Friday night to cover Grateful Dead’s “New Speedway Boogie.” More

May 23, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Saturday night saw the season finale to Saturday Night Live. Former cast member Fred Armisen was the guest host and Australian singer/songwriter/guitarist Courtney Barnett was the musical guest. Below are some highlights of the episode. More

Mar 24, 2016 By Joshua M. Miller

Last week The National revealed the tracklist and release date for for their Grateful Dead tribute compilation Day Of The Dead. Now they’ve shared five songs featuring some well-known musicians: The War On Drugs’ “Touch Of Grey,” Courtney Barnett’s “New Speedway Boogie,” Bruce Hornsby and Justin Vernon’s old band DeYarmond Edison’s “Black Muddy River,” The National’s “Morning Dew,” and Phosphorescent, Jenny Lewis and Friends cover of “Sugaree.” More

Feb 18, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Australian singer/songwriter/guitarist Courtney Barnett may have been robbed at the Grammys on Monday, losing the Best New Artist award to mainstream pop star Meghan Trainor, but last night she made a triumphant return to U.S. late night TV, performing “Nobody Really Cares If You Don’t Go to the Party” on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. More

Jan 11, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Australian singer/songwriter/guitarist Courtney Barnett has shared a new song, “Three Packs a Day,” which is her ode to instant ramen noodles, not cigarettes. The song will be featured on Good for You, a new 6-song compilation album to be released by her Australian label, Milk! Records. More

Jan 04, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Coachella has announced the line-up for their 2016 festival, which goes down in Indio, California over two weekends in April (with the same bill each weekend). Friday and Saturday are headlined by two newly reformed bands, LCD Soundsystem and Guns N’ Roses (featuring the reunion of Axl Rose and Slash). Calvin Harris headlines Sunday night. More

Dec 07, 2015 By Christopher Roberts

This morning nominations for the 58th Annual Grammy Awards were announced, with the ceremony to go down on February 15, 2016. Kendrick Lamar is nominated 11 times. Other nominees include Mark Ronson, Tame Impala, Wolf Alice, Courtney Barnett, Florence and the Machine, The Weeknd, Caribou, Jamie xx, Alabama Shakes, Death Cab for Cutie, The Dead Weather, and more. More

Oct 05, 2015 By Christopher Roberts

Australian singer/songwriter/guitarist Courtney Barnett will release a new single that’s been produced by Jack White and is being released on October 16 as part of Third Man’s Blue Series. The A-side, “Boxing Day Blues Revisited,” is an epilogue to “Boxing Day” (a song found on Barnett’s debut full-length album, Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit, which is out now via Mom + Pop). More

Aug 20, 2015 By Christopher Roberts

Australian singer/songwriter/guitarist Courtney Barnett has shared a video for “Nobody Really Cares If You Don’t Go to the Party.” Jon White directed the video, which was shot 48 hours ago in London. More

Jul 03, 2015 By Christopher Roberts

Back on May 15 Courtney Barnett played a hometown show at the Forum Theatre in Melbourne, Australia. The good folks over at Moshcam filmed the whole show. Today we’re premiering video of one song from the show, “An Illustration of Loneliness (Sleepless in NY).” The whole show goes live on Monday, July 6, at Moshcam.com. More

Jun 29, 2015 By Christopher Roberts

A couple of weeks ago Australian singer/songwriter/guitarist Courtney Barnett stopped by The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon to perform “Pedestrian at Best.” More

Jun 17, 2015 By Christopher Roberts

Australian singer/songwriter/guitarist Courtney Barnett stopped by The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon last night to perform “Pedestrian at Best” on a night when Fallon also welcomed Republican presidential hopeful Jeb Bush and comedy icon Billy Crystal. More

Jun 02, 2015 By Christopher Roberts

Australian singer/songwriter/guitarist Courtney Barnett stopped by Conan last night to perform “Dead Fox.” “Dead Fox” can be found on Barnett’s debut full-length album, Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit, which is out now. More

May 29, 2015 By Mike Hilleary

While she’s currently back in the states touring in support of her excellent new album Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit, while spending some time in Europe not too long ago, Courtney Barnett took part in a “Take Away Show” session for French music site La Blogothèque. More

May 11, 2015 By Christopher Roberts

Australian singer/songwriter/guitarist Courtney Barnett has released an animated video for “Dead Fox.” Rory Kerr and Paul Ruttledg directed and animated the video, which humorously plays off the song’s lyrics. More

Apr 15, 2015 By Trevor Flynn

Australian singer/songwriter Courtney Barnett has just premiered a haunting music video for her song “Kim’s Caravan,” from her new album Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit. More

Apr 10, 2015 By Christopher Roberts

Under the Radar is excited to announce the full details of the April/May 2015 issue, which is about to hit newsstands. It features Tame Impala on the cover. Actor Charlie Cox talks about his starring role in the new Netflix series, Marvel’s Daredevil. We interview The Jesus and Mary Chain‘s Jim Reid and Creation Records’ founder Alan McGee about the 30th anniversary of the Scottish band’s iconic debut album, 1985’s Psychocandy. The issue also includes interviews with Death Cab For Cutie, Mew, My Morning Jacket, Father John Misty, Domhnall Gleeson of Ex Machina, Courtney Barnett, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Laura Marling, Django Django, Will Butler, Purity Ring, San Fermin, TORRES, Twin Shadow, Matthew E. White, Amason, Jacco Gardner, Tobias Jesso Jr., Petite Noir, Natalie Prass, SOAK, and more. More

Mar 27, 2015 By Christopher Roberts

Under the Radar‘s own Wendy Lynch Redfern was down in Austin for SXSW last week. Here’s a selection of her live photos from non-Under the Radar events. More

Mar 19, 2015 By Trevor Flynn

Currently attending SXSW, earlier this week Australian singer/songwriter Courtney Barnett appeared on The Ellen Degeneres Show to play her song “Depreston” from her upcoming record, Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit. More

May 16, 2018 By Matt Fink

Courtney Barnett’s second full-length release starts in a dark place. Opening with the groan of a guitar being tuned, a soft gasp, and the growl of feedback, “Hopefulessness” is the sound of tension searching for a place to escape. “You know what they say, no one is born to hate,” Barnett sings over ominously askew guitar lines. More

Dec 08, 2017 By Matt Fink

A strange sort of math seems to underlie the chemistry of creativity. Any time two great artists are added to each other in equal measures, the product of their union almost always yields something less than what either of them could create on their own. More

May 20, 2016 By Mike Hilleary

The last time Courtney Barnett and Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy saw one another face-to-face was at the November 2014 Crossing Border Festival in the Netherlands city of Den Haag. More

Dec 04, 2015 By Mark Redfern

To end out the week, we ask Courtney Barnett some questions about endings and death. Earlier this year the Australian singer/songwriter and guitarist released her debut full-length album, Sometimes I Sit and Think, and Sometimes I Just Sit, via Mom + Pop. It’s the follow-up to 2013’s EP collection, The Double EP: A Sea of Split Peas, and once again displays Barnett’s mastery as a lyricist and witty storyteller. More

Jan 22, 2014 By Chris Tinkham

Last May, Melbourne-based singer/songwriter Courtney Barnett earned an APRA (Australasian Performing Right Association) Song of the Year nomination for “History Eraser,” a lyrically vivid composition that she recorded with her band and released on her own label, Milk! Records. More

Sep 19, 2023 By Matt the Raven

If you’re here expecting a new Courtney Barnett album filled with her signature gritty guitar hooks, satirical wit, and wry delivery you’re in the wrong place. More

Feb 10, 2022 By Mark Moody

My first live music coverage since February 2020 brought an especially auspicious bill to Atlanta’s The Eastern for a sold out Saturday night show. It’s always nice when the opener and main set artist graced your best albums list of the prior year and here we had Australia’s Courtney Barnett supported by New York’s Cassandra Jenkins. More

Nov 11, 2021 By Mark Moody

As the follow-up to Courtney Barnett’s pulse-pounding Tell Me How You Really Feel, she delivers her third solo album, Things Take Time, Take Time, through a sea of tranquility. More

May 17, 2018 By Ellen Peirson-Hagger

“I’m not your mother! I’m not your bitch!” drools Courtney Barnett on the opening to the sixth track of Tell Me How You Really Feel. Her voice is devoid of any expression, but, with her distinctive Australian twang, it’s still unmistakably hers. More

Apr 02, 2015 By Mark Redfern

Even though she is only just over two years old, this was the third SXSW for my daughter Rose (she first attended as a two-and-a-half-month-old, spending most of the time in the hotel room with my wife Wendy’s mother). More

Mar 20, 2015 By Billy Hamilton

Just where did Courtney Barnett come from? One moment she’s an anonymous Australian singer/songwriter with a tangled mop of hair, the next she’s at the helm of the new grunge revival. For someone who has released only a few—relatively impressive—EPs, it has been a meteoric rise. More

Oct 24, 2013 By Hays Davis

On her recorded output to date, singer/songwriter Courtney Barnett has shaped an identity with too many edges to neatly define her. More