News
Everything Everything, Caveman, Still Corners, Julien Baker, Sunflower Bean, Petite Noir, Fear of Men, Yuck, Gwenno, Girls Names, Cullen Omori, TEEN, and Others to Play
Mar 04, 2016
By Mark Redfern
Under the Radar magazine is excited to reveal the full lineups, poster, and set times for its three SXSW 2016 events: two day parties on Wednesday, March 16 and Thursday, March 17 and one official nighttime showcase on Wednesday, March 16. The lineups include Car Seat Headrest, Julien Baker, Hinds, Eleanor Friedberger, Everything Everything, Caveman, Still Corners, Yuck, Sunflower Bean, Petite Noir, Girls Names, Gwenno, MONEY, Cullen Omori, TEEN, Mass Gothic, Younghusband, and more. More
Arms Around a Vision Out Now via Tough Love
Nov 30, 2015
By Christopher Roberts
Irish post-punk band Girls Names released their third album, Arms Around a Vision, back in October via Tough Love. Now they have shared a video for “Reticence” and announced some 2016 tour dates, including a stop at SXSW. Matthew Reed directed the clip, which a press release says “explores the contrast between human form and machinery. More
Mercury Rev, Gwenno, Petite Noir, Cullen Omori, Autre Ne Veut, Chad Valley, Girls Names, PINS, and More on List
Nov 17, 2015
By Christopher Roberts
SXSW (aka South By Southwest), the annual conference/festival in Austin, Texas, has announced the second round of artists to be performing during the music portion (there’s also film and interactive portions) in 2016 (its 30th year). The list is a little short on big names, but a huge part of SXSW is discovering new artists. More
Issue 55 Also Includes Interviews with Julia Holter, Kurt Vile, Neon Indian, Martin Courtney, The Dears, John Grant, Bruce Campbell on Ash vs Evil Dead, the Cast of Back to the Future, and More
Nov 13, 2015
By Christopher Roberts
Under the Radar is excited to announce the full details of the November/December 2015 issue, which is available digitally now (via the magazine apps Zinio and Readly), has shipped out to subscribers and stores and will be on all newsstands soon. It will also soon be available digitally via Under the Radar‘s app, as well as Readbug and Kindle. The issue features EL VY (Matt Berninger of The National and Brent Knopf of Menomena and Ramona Falls) on the cover. More
Arms Around a Vision Due Out This Friday via Tough Love
Sep 30, 2015
By Christopher Roberts
Irish post-punk band Girls Names will be releasing their third album, Arms Around a Vision, this Friday (October 2) via Tough Love. Now you can stream the whole album. Listen to it below via Noisey, who premiered it. More
Arms Around a Vision Due Out October 2 via Tough Love
Jul 07, 2015
By Christopher Roberts
Irish post-punk band Girls Names will be releasing their third album Arms Around a Vision on October 2 via Tough Love. That’s quite a long ways away, but now the Belfast band has released another song from the record, the fantastic near-six-minute long “A Hunger Artist.” More
Limited edition 12" Out May 11
Mar 26, 2015
By Mike Hilleary
Irish four-piece Girls Names have returned with the first piece of new music since their 2013 EP The Next Life. More
The Next Life EP Due Out 10/29
Oct 22, 2013
By Laura Studarus
On October 29, Girls Names will release a new EP called The Next Life. Here’s the video for the title cut. More
The Next Life Due Out Next Month
Sep 26, 2013
By Laura Studarus
Next month, Girls Names will release their new EP The Next Life. (That’s the David Bowie-cribbing artwork above.) More
May 09, 2013
By Mike Hilleary
Releasing their sophomore LP The New Life earlier this spring Belfast-based four-piece Girls Names have premiered a new music video for their latest single “Hypnotic Regression.” More
Set to Play the Third of Under the Radar’s Three Free SXSW Parties
Mar 13, 2013
By Laura Studarus
Ahead of our three SXSW day parties, we asked a few of the bands performing to participate in our mixtape project. Today’s entry is from Girls Names. More
Set to Play Under the Radar's Third SXSW 2013 Party, Friday, March 15 at Flamingo Cantina
Mar 12, 2013
By Laura Studarus
On March 15 Under the Radar will host the third of three free SXSW day parties. Leading up to the event we’re letting you know about each artist playing. Today we’re spotlighting Girls Names. More
Also Performing: Shout Out Louds, Foxygen, Marnie Stern, Doldrums, Caveman, Young Galaxy, Girls Names, IO Echo, Mister Lies, Young Dreams, and more
Mar 06, 2013
By Laura Studarus
Under the Radar magazine is excited to reveal the full lineups, poster, and set times for its three SXSW 2013 day parties, taking place on Wednesday March 13, Thursday March 14, and Friday March 15. Featured performers include Surfer Blood, DIIV, Small Black, Shout Out Louds, Foxygen, Poolside, Young Galaxy, Marnie Stern, Doldrums, Caveman, Girls Names, IO Echo, Mister Lies, Young Dreams, and more. More
Interviews
Broken Bones and Broken Hearts
Aug 30, 2018
By Christopher Roberts
My Firsts is our email interview series where we ask musicians to tell us about their first life experiences, be it early childhood ones (first word, first concert, etc.) or their first tastes of being a musician (first band, first tour, etc.). For this My Firsts we talk to Cathal Cully, frontman for Northern Irish band Girls Names. More
Jan 20, 2016
By Lily Moayeri
Cathal Cully, frontman for Belfast, Northern Ireland foursome Girls Names, is bleary-eyed. Cully has wrapped a week of 16-hour days from his side job working in television production. Plus, the previous day was Culture Night Belfast, a festival with a variety of arts events taking place over a nine-hour stretch in the cordoned-off city center. More
Reviews
Dec 17, 2015
By Austin Trunick
Clanging dissonance gives way to jangle-pop in “Reticence,” the opener to the Irish post-punkers’ second LP-a continuation down the shadowy path they took on The New Life. More
Jul 15, 2015
By Kate Bennett
Girls Names aren’t exactly a band that shy away from reinvention. They wrote off their debut album of rackety surf pop as a disaster before it had even been released, calling it Dead to Me and moving swiftly on to the hypnotic, More
Nov 14, 2013
By Dan Lucas
If you’re a vinyl collector, as I suspect a good number of Under the Radar readers are, then the 12” release of Girls Names’ new EP will set you back $11: perfectly reasonable, until you consider that this only gets you one new track (“Third Uncle”) and a couple of needless B-side-worthy remixes. More
Sep 06, 2013
By Dan Lucas
The Green Man Festival has, in the 10 years since its inception, evolved from a one-day, 300-capacity campfire folk show into a week-long, eclectic event playing home to some 22,000 guests. Amongst British festival-goers it has a reputation as one of the summer’s highlights and is spoken of as being a world away from the laddish, lager lout-infested, drug-peddling havens that make up the larger part of the Brit festival circuit. More
Mar 08, 2013
By Billy Hamilton
Clocking in at almost 50 minutes, The New Life is a long-form evolution for Girls Names. The band’s 2011 debut Dead to Me was filled with staccato bursts of ‘80s indie pop clangs, thrashed out with the sort of breathless urgency that suggested the Belfast trio-since upgraded to a quartet-had its eyes on something much more substantial. Turns out it did: the follow-up. More
