Aug 18, 2023 By Mark Redfern

Welcome to the 25th Songs of the Week of 2023. Songs of the Week was on hiatus for the last month because Wendy and I were on a much needed vacation to England and Iceland. I received several reader emails worried we had killed Songs of the Week, but have no worries, it’s back. As well as a regular Songs of the Week, we have put together an additional Spotify playlist featuring all the songs we also liked while Songs of the Week was taking a break. More

Aug 16, 2023 By Mark Redfern

Wild Nothing (aka Jack Tatum) has announced a new album, Hold, and shared its first single, “Headlights On,” which features Hatchie and was shared via a music video. He’s also announced a November tour. More

Mar 17, 2023 By Mark Redfern

Welcome to the tenth Songs of the Week of 2023. We didn’t do a Songs of the Week last week because I was sick with a bad cold (which still lingers) and we were putting the finishing touches on our latest print issue. So this week’s Songs of the Week encompasses songs from the last two weeks. More

Mar 08, 2023 By Mark Redfern

Hatchie, the shoegaze/dream pop project of Australian musician Harriette Pilbeam, has announced a deluxe edition of her 2022-released sophomore album, Giving the World Away, and shared a new song from it, “Rooftops,” which features Liam Benzvi. More

Dec 23, 2022 By Mark Redfern

Are things back to normal in 2022? They are, aren’t they? Well not quite. More

Nov 11, 2022 By Mark Redfern (with Joey Arnone)

Welcome to the 39th Songs of the Week of 2022. We didn’t do a Songs of the Week last week because I was out sick. So once again this week’s list encompasses songs released in the last two weeks (although all but three of the songs are from this week). More

Nov 09, 2022 By Mark Redfern

Hatchie, the shoegaze/dream pop project of Australian musician Harriette Pilbeam, has shared a new song, “Nosedive,” via a video for the single. It’s the first new Hatchie song since the April release of her sophomore album, Giving the World Away, on Secretly Canadian. More

Apr 22, 2022 By Mark Redfern (with Joey Arnone)

Welcome to the sixteenth Songs of the Week of 2022. It was a nice week for new album releases, including the latest by Spiritualized, Hatchie, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, Fontaines D.C., and others, some of which gave us fodder for Songs of the Week. We ended up with 12 new songs were really liked, with some strong honorable mentions as well. This week’s artists traverse the globe: Australia, England, South Korea, Sweden, and of course America. More

Apr 22, 2022 By Mark Redfern

Hatchie, the shoegaze/dream pop project of Australian musician Harriette Pilbeam, has released a new album, Giving the World Away, today via Secretly Canadian. Now she has shared a video for the album’s “The Rhythm,” which wasn’t a pre-release single. More

Mar 25, 2022 By Mark Redfern (with Joey Arnone)

Welcome to the twelfth Songs of the Week of 2022. This week two icons from the 1980s united for a single and another artist from that era released their first new song in 14 years. There were also a couple of album tracks we loved. Tally it all up and we settled at 13 favorite songs this week. More

Mar 22, 2022 By Mark Redfern

Hatchie, the dream pop project of Australian musician Harriette Pilbeam, is releasing a new album, Giving the World Away, on April 22 via Secretly Canadian. Now she has shared its fourth single, album opener track “Lights On,” via a video for it. More

Mar 04, 2022 By Mark Redfern

Covers of Covers, our first album, came out today on CD and digitally via American Laundromat. You can stream it now. You can also buy it directly from American Laundromat, via Bandcamp, or on Amazon. Today we posted a track-by-track article on the album, in which all 20 artists discuss their contribution. More

Feb 18, 2022 By Mark Redfern (with Joey Arnone)

Welcome to the seventh Songs of the Week of 2022. We were very indecisive this week, there were too many songs we liked and had trouble narrowing it down to only 10. So this week we have an expanded Top 13. More

Feb 15, 2022 By Mark Redfern

Hatchie, the dream pop project of Australian musician Harriette Pilbeam, is releasing a new album, Giving the World Away, on April 22 via Secretly Canadian. Now she has shared its second single, title track “Giving the World Away,” via a lyric video for it. More

Jan 25, 2022 By Mark Redfern

It is confounding that so many outlets insist on posting best songs of the year lists in early December. Not only are there several more weeks left in the year, in which a number of potential great songs could be released, it also takes time to digest all the tracks released in November and earlier in the fall. We’ve obviously taken too much time. More

Jan 21, 2022 By Mark Redfern (with Joey Arnone)

Welcome to the third Songs of the Week of 2022. This week there were some exciting new album announcements (Hatchie, Daniel Rossen, Melody’s Echo Chamber, Jenny Hval) and Beach House put out another five songs from their new album. More

Jan 19, 2022 By Mark Redfern

Hatchie, the dream pop project of Australian musician Harriette Pilbeam, has announced a new album, Giving the World Away, and shared a new song from it, “Quicksand,” via a video for the single. She’s also announced some North American tour dates. More

Dec 21, 2021 By Mark Redfern

Under the Radar is proud to announce Covers of Covers, which is the magazine’s first ever album. In honor of our 20th anniversary we approached some of our favorite musicians and asked them to cover any song by any artist who had been on the front or back cover of our print issue over the years. Covers of Covers is due out March 4, 2022 via American Laundromat, but today we are sharing two of its tracks: Grandaddy’s cover of Metric’s “Blindness” and EMA’s cover of Modest Mouse’s “Trailer Trash.” More

Oct 08, 2021 By Mark Redfern

Hatchie, the dream pop project of Australian musician Harriette Pilbeam, has shared a new cover of Jennifer Paige’s 1998 hit “Crush.” It is the latest installment in SC25 Singles, Secretly Canadian’s 25th anniversary singles series. The Oakland, CA-based band Meernaa has also shared a new song today, “Bells,” as part of the singles series. More

Sep 17, 2021 By By Mark Redfern (with Joey Arnone)

Welcome to the 35th Songs of the Week of 2021. It was a blockbuster week for new songs, with lots of strong contenders. We tried to show a bit of restraint and keep it to an already over-stuffed Top 12, but then we just went for it with a Top 14. I mean, whose going to tell us we can’t pick 14 favorite songs? It’s our website and we have no corporate overlords. More

Sep 14, 2021 By Mark Redfern

Hatchie, the dream pop project of Australian musician Harriette Pilbeam, has shared a new song, “This Enchanted,” via a video for it. It is her first single for Secretly Canadian and her signing with the label has also been announced today. 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

Feb 02, 2021 By Joey Arnone

RINSE (aka Joe Agius) has shared a video for his new song “Tamaryn (Wherever I Am).” The song is from his upcoming EP, Wherever I Am, which will be out on March 5. More

Nov 13, 2020 By Christopher Roberts (with Joey Arnone)

Welcome to the 42nd Songs of the Week of 2020. We haven’t done a Songs of the Week in three weeks. Because of last week’s presidential election there were hardly any new songs of note released and we were too on edge awaiting the outcome to be decided to focus on new music. The week before was the run up to Halloween and there were certainly some worthy songs then, but for whatever reason we didn’t get Songs of the Week finished in time and abandoned it. So this week’s Songs of the Week covers the last three weeks, but mainly songs from this week and two weeks ago. More

Jun 04, 2020 By Samantha Small

Although The Pains of Being Pure at Heart have recently broken up, they have teamed up with Hatchie to cover “Sometime Always,” The Jesus and Mary Chain’s collaboration with Mazzy Star’s Hope Sandoval from 1994. 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

Jun 21, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Welcome to another Songs of the Week. It’s a supersized edition, with a Top 12 instead of a Top 10. A ton of new albums were announced in the last week and then there were some albums and EPs released today featuring non-single tracks we’ve been dying to share in Songs of the Week. 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

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. Now that the album is out, you can stream the whole thing here. You can also read our rave review of it. More

May 17, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Welcome to another Songs of the Week. We weren’t blown away by too many new tracks this week, beyond the Top 4 on the list below, hence a slightly shorter list this week. More

May 16, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Hatchie is the dream pop project of Australian musician Harriette Pilbeam. Her debut album, Keepsake, is due out June 21 via Double Double Whammy. Now she has shared another song from the album, “Obsessed,” via a fun video for the track that features footage of Pilbeam and her band on tour in America and elsewhere. Hatchie has also announced some new U.S. tour dates for this September. More

Apr 05, 2019 By Mark Redfern

Welcome to another Songs of the Week. There were a slew of notable new tracks to choose from this week, but our #1 is a song we’ve been planning to add to the Songs of the Week list for a while now and finally could now that the album has been released today. More

Apr 02, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Hatchie is the dream pop project of Australian musician Harriette Pilbeam. Her debut album, Keepsake, is due out June 21 via Double Double Whammy. Previously she shared a video for its first single, “Without a Blush,” which was our #1 Song of the Week. Now she has shared another song from the album, danceable breakup song “Stay With Me,” via a video for the track. More

Mar 01, 2019 By Mark Redfern

The big news in Under the Radar land this week was that we announced our new print issue today. The issue features Mitski on the front cover and boygenius (Julien Baker + Phoebe Bridgers + Lucy Dacus) on the back cover. More

Feb 26, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Hatchie is the dream pop project of Australian musician Harriette Pilbeam. Back in May 2018 she released her debut EP under the Hatchie name, Sugar & Spice, via Double Double Whammy. Despite it being an EP, it made it on our Top 100 Albums of 2018 list. Now she has announced her debut full-length album, Keepsake, and shared a video for its first single, “Without a Blush.” More

Oct 26, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

This week’s Songs of the Week list is a supersized edition, with a Top 12 rather than our regular Top 10. Various new album announcements this week, as well as some excellent albums being released today, resulted in the need to make room for two extra tracks. More

Oct 24, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Hatchie is the dream pop project of Australian musician Harriette Pilbeam. Back in May she released her debut EP under the Hatchie name, Sugar & Spice, via Double Double Whammy. Now she has shared a brand new song, “Adored.” It was shared via the Adult Swim Singles Program. 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 27, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Hatchie is the project of Australian musician Harriette Pilbeam. Last month she released her debut EP under the Hatchie name, Sugar & Spice, via Double Double Whammy. Now she has shared a video for “Bad Guy” and announced some U.S. tour dates, including some shows opening for Snail Mail and Alvvays. More

May 25, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

It was a bit tough putting together a Songs of the Week this week. Chalk it up to the Memorial Day three-day weekend I guess, but for whatever reason artists, publicists, and labels weren’t overeager to release a lot of great new tracks this week. More

May 25, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Hatchie is the project of Australian musician Harriette Pilbeam. Today she released her debut EP under the Hatchie name, Sugar & Spice, via Double Whammy. You can now stream it below. It features “Bad Guy,” the EP’s closing track, which is the only song from the EP not to be previously shared. 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

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 25, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Hatchie is the project of Australian musician Harriette Pilbeam. She previously played in the bands Babaganouj and Go Violets and on May 25 she is releasing her debut EP under the Hatchie name, Sugar & Spice, via Double Whammy. More

Apr 06, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Songs of the Week is fairly easy to put together, there are obviously standout tracks and it’s just a case of working out the order. Other weeks there are few great tracks and it’s a real struggle. This week there was an obvious #1 in Beach House and then there were so, so many other tracks to decide between to come up with a Top 10. More

Apr 04, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Hatchie is the project of Australian musician Harriette Pilbeam. She previously played in the bands Babaganouj and Go Violets and on May 25 she is releasing her debut EP under the Hatchie name, Sugar & Spice, via Double Whammy. Now she has shared its title track via a video for the song. More

Mar 04, 2022 By Mark Redfern

When hatching plans to celebrate Under the Radar’s 20th anniversary I knew I wanted to go beyond just producing a special 20th anniversary issue. Despite two decades of writing about albums, one thing we’d never done is actually put one out ourselves. Thus I came upon the idea for Covers of Covers. The concept was so perfect and simple that I’m surprised we hadn’t thought of it before. We approached some of our favorite musicians and asked them to cover any song by any artist who had been on the front or back cover of our print issue over the years, including artists that had appeared in group cover shots. More

Sep 11, 2020 By Frank Valish

For 26-year-old Australian songwriter Harriette Pilbeam, Carole King’s 1971 album Tapestry might seem an odd choice for favorite album. But for Pilbeam, who last year released the dance-y dream pop Keepsake, her full-length debut under the moniker Hatchie, it came down to family. More

Nov 20, 2018 By Max Freedman

“Even he would make fun of himself for being a grumpy old guy!” Hariette Pilbeam, the 25-year-old Brisbane-based dream pop songwriter known as Hatchie, is recalling how surprisingly down to earth and welcomingly ordinary she found Robin Guthrie, whose band Cocteau Twins—perhaps the foremost act in the extensive dream pop canon—is a blatant influence. More

Jun 19, 2019 By Michael Watkins

Off the back of some really strong early singles and EPs, it’s fair to say that Hatchie’s debut album Keepsake was always going to be one to look out for this year. More