Jun 14, 2023 By Kat Ramkumar

“One Of These Things First” by Emeli Sandé and “Day is Done” by John Grant is the final double A-sided 7-inch single from The Endless Coloured Ways - The Songs of Nick Drake. These covers, which were released today, are a part of an anthology of 23 of Nick Drake’s best loved songs. 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

Nov 10, 2021 By Dom Gourlay

Deer Shed announces its first names for 2022. More

Jun 25, 2021 By Mark Redfern

Welcome to the 24th Songs of the Week of 2021. Today was a blockbuster new album release day. It saw the release of new full-lengths by Modest Mouse, Lucy Dacus, The Mountain Goats, John Grant, SPELLLING, Faye Webster, Matthew Dear, Lightning Bug, Pom Pom Squad, Hiss Golden Messenger, Gaspard Augé, Hiatus Kaiyote, Squirrel Flower, and more. But it was also a strong week for new singles. More

Jun 25, 2021 By Mark Redfern

John Grant has released a new album, Boy from Michigan, today via Partisan in the U.S. (and Bella Union in the U.K.). Now that the album is out you can stream the whole thing here. Also, this week we posted an interview with him on the Why Not Both podcast we present. More

May 21, 2021 By Mark Redfern

Welcome to the 19th Songs of the Week of 2021. This week there was finally a ceasefire in the latest Israeli Palestinian conflict. More

May 17, 2021 By Mark Redfern

John Grant is releasing a new album, Boy from Michigan, on June 25 via Partisan in the U.S. (and Bella Union in the U.K.). Now he has shared the album’s third single, “Billy,” via a video for it. The song is the album’s closing track. More

Apr 23, 2021 By Mark Redfern (with Joey Arnone and Emma Goad)

Welcome to the 15th Songs of the Week of 2021.The big Under the Radar news was that on Wednesday we announced our new print issue. 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

Apr 22, 2021 By Mark Redfern

John Grant is releasing a new album, Boy from Michigan, on June 25 via Partisan in the U.S. (and Bella Union inthe U.K.). Now he has shared the album’s second single, the amusing and quite ’80s sounding “Rhetorical Figure,” via a lyric video for it. The song is about the sexiness of good grammar. More

Mar 24, 2021 By Mark Redfern

John Grant has announced a new album, Boy from Michigan, and shared its title track via a video for it. Boy From Michigan was produced by Welsh musician Cate Le Bon and is due out June 25 via Partisan in the U.S. (and Bella Union in the U.K.). More

Feb 26, 2021 By Mark Redfern

Lost Horizons have released a new two-part double album, In Quiet Moments—part one came out in December and part two (and thus the entire album) came out today via Bella Union. Now that the album’s out you can stream the whole thing here. More

Oct 09, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

Welcome to the 39th Songs of the Week of 2020. We skipped Songs of the Week last week because we had other plans last Friday, so this week’s list covers two weeks worth of songs. More

Oct 07, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

Lost Horizons have announced a new two-part double album, In Quiet Moments, and shared its atmospheric first single, “Cordelia,” which features guest vocals from John Grant. The album also features Porridge Radio, C Duncan, Marissa Nadler, Penelope Isles, Tim Smith of Midlake, and more. More

Mar 01, 2019 By Mark Redfern

Under the Radar is excited to announce the full details of our new print issue, Issue 65, 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 Mitski on the front cover and boygenius (Julien Baker + Phoebe Bridgers + Lucy Dacus) on the back cover. More

Oct 12, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

While it was a very healthy week for new album releases, so much so that we had eight runner-ups for this week’s Album of the Week, it was more of a challenge to find 10 new songs we felt worthy of this week’s Songs of the Week list. More

Oct 12, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

John Grant released a new album, Love Is Magic, today via Partisan in the U.S. (and Bella Union elsewhere) and it’s our Album of the Week. It was a strong week for new albums and the new albums by Kurt Vile and Jaakko Eino Kalevi could’ve just as easily taken the crown and there are eight runner-ups this week in total. More

Oct 12, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

John Grant released a new album, Love Is Magic, today via Partisan in the U.S. (and Bella Union elsewhere). Now that the album is out, you can stream the whole thing here. 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 03, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

John Grant is releasing a new album, Love Is Magic, on October 12 via Partisan in the U.S. (and Bella Union elsewhere). Now he has shared another song from the album, “Is He Strange.” Listen below. More

Sep 18, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

John Grant is releasing a new album, Love Is Magic, on October 12 via Partisan in the U.S. (and Bella Union elsewhere). Now he has shared a video for the album’s previously shared single “He’s Got His Mother’s Hips.” More

Sep 14, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

We spent the week wondering if Hurricane Florence was going to hit us here at our headquarters in Southwest Virginia. Lucky for us, it seems to have angled further south, and while we may still get some heavy rains and winds in the coming days and week, it likely won’t be as devastating to Virginia as feared. More

Sep 10, 2018 By Austin Trunick

From The Song of Sway Lake—Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, out on Lakeshore Records on September 21st. More

Aug 31, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Last week’s Songs of the Week was packed. It featured 13 songs as opposed to our standard 10, including three songs by boygenius, the new supergroup featuring Julien Baker, Lucy Dacus, and Phoebe Bridgers. More

Aug 28, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

John Grant is releasing a new album, Love Is Magic, on October 12 via Partisan in the U.S. (and Bella Union in the U.K.). Now he has shared two more songs from the album: the shiny and upbeat “He’s Got His Mother’s Hips” and the ballad “Touch & Go.” The latter is a tribute to Chelsea Manning. More

Aug 07, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

John Grant is releasing a new album, Love Is Magic, on October 12 via Partisan in the U.S. (and Bella Union in the U.K.). Previously he shared its six-and-a-half-minute long title track, “Love Is Magic,” via a lyric video (it was one of our Songs of the Week). Now “Love Is Magic” has a full-on video. More

Jul 13, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Hello again. We haven’t done a Songs of the Week for almost five weeks, since June 9. We were on vacation from mid to late June and then when we returned there really weren’t enough compelling songs last week to justify doing Songs of the Week lists, mainly because of the July 4th holiday being smack dab in the middle of the week and so labels mainly avoided sharing new songs. More

Jul 10, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

John Grant has announced a new album, Love Is Magic, and shared its six-and-a-half-minute long title track. More

Sep 18, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Elbow released a new album (their seventh), Little Fictions, back in February via Concord. A couple of weeks ago the band shared a new version of Little Fictions’ closing track “Kindling.” Renamed “Kindling (Fickle Flame),” this version is redone as a duet with John Grant. Now a video for the new version has been shared. More

Sep 08, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Of late we’ve been presenting the eight best songs of the week, but last week we expanded it to a Top 9 because there were so many strong choices. This week we kept it as nine, but because we had trouble narrowing the list down in a week of solid new songs, but few obvious standouts. More

Sep 08, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Elbow released a new album (their seventh), Little Fictions, back in February via Concord. This week the band shared a new version of Little Fictions’ closing track “Kindling.” Renamed “Kindling (Fickle Flame),” this version is redone as a duet with John Grant. More

Jul 28, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

It was a busy week for new tracks, with two pop singers (Jessie Ware and Charli XCX) making a strong showing. A couple of classic rockers made a return, and while Ringo Starr’s new song (featuring Paul McCartney and others) was pretty standard old rocker fare, one of Mick Jagger’s new songs (either “Gotta Get a Grip” or the remix of it by Tame Impala’s Kevin Parker) surprisingly almost made our Top 8. More

Jul 25, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

At a BBC Proms concert tonight at the Royal Albert Hall in London they paid tribute to Scott Walker. Jules Buckley and the Heritage Orchestra led the concert with guest vocalists Pulp’s Jarvis Cocker, Richard Hawley, John Grant, and Susanne Sundfør all performing Walker’s songs. More

Jun 27, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Amanda Palmer has teamed up with her father, Jack Palmer, for a collaborative album of covers entitled You Got Me Singing. It’s billed to “Jack & Amanda Palmer” and is due out July 15. More

May 26, 2016 By Michael Wojtas

Last October, John Grant released his third solo album, Grey Tickles, Black Pressure, to widespread acclaim. Now Gwenno and Peski Kid (Peski Records founder Rhys Edwards) have teamed up to create an extended reworking of the single “Voodoo Doll.” Hear our premiere below. More

May 16, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

John Grant released his latest album, Grey Tickles, Black Pressure, last October via Partisan in the U.S. (and Bella Union in the U.K.). Now he has shared a video for “Voodoo Doll.” The crazy clip was directed by The Diamond Brothers and finds Grant transforming into a Voodoo doctor. Watch it below. More

Dec 09, 2015 By Christopher Roberts

John Grant released his latest album, Grey Tickles, Black Pressure, back in October via Partisan in the U.S. (and Bella Union in the U.K.). Now he has shared a video for “Down Here.” It’s about a teenage boy who longs to join a synchronized swim team. Watch it below.

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

Oct 01, 2015 By Christopher Roberts

John Grant is releasing his album, Grey Tickles, Black Pressure, next Friday (October 9) via Partisan. Now you can stream the whole thing below via NPR First Listen. More

Aug 14, 2015 By Christopher Roberts

John Grant recently announced his new album, Grey Tickles, Black Pressure, which is due out October 2 via Partisan. At the time he shared a bloody album trailer. Now he’s shared the song “Disappointing,” which also features guest vocals from Tracey Thorn (Everything But the Girl). More

Jun 23, 2015 By Christopher Roberts

John Grant has announced a new album and shared a bloody album teaser trailer. Grey Tickles, Black Pressure is due out October 2 via Partisan. It’s the follow-up to 2013’s widely acclaimed Pale Green Ghosts and was produced by John Congleton (St. Vincent, Angel Olsen). More

Jan 15, 2014 By Laura Studarus

The video for John Grant’s “Glacier” (a track from his excellent album, Pale Green Ghosts) highlights the history of the LBGT Rights movement. More

Jan 09, 2014 By Laura Studarus

Last night, John Grant appeared on Letterman, to perform “GMF,” a cut from last year’s solo album, Pale Green Ghosts.

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Jan 15, 2016 By John Everhart

Since going solo in 2010 after a long stint with the Denver alternative rock band The Czars, John Grant‘s hit the roll of his life. 2010’s Queen of Denmark and 2013’s Pale Green Ghosts exhibit Grant’s arresting command of pop’s rich vocabulary, rife with crisp orchestration and impeccable electro-pop structures. More

Sep 20, 2013 By Stephen Humphries

John Grant’s acclaimed new album includes a track called “Ernest Borgnine.” Anyone expecting an ode to the late, great star of Marty and McHale’s Navy might be a tad surprised to discover that the song is about contracting HIV. More

Oct 16, 2018 By Stephen Mayne

The thing about John Grant is no one has quite figured out what the thing about John Grant is. He’s described his new album as “more of an amalgamation of who I am” providing the perfect riposte to those who believe we find ourselves as teenagers before settling into a mold for the rest of life. More