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Spiralée: Pearlies Rearranged Due Out October 18 via Sonic Cathedral
Sep 05, 2024
By Mark Redfern
Emma Anderson, the co-founder of shoegaze icons Lush, released her acclaimed debut solo album, Pearlies, last October via Sonic Cathedral. Now she has announced a reimagined (or remixed) version of the album, Spiralée: Pearlies Rearranged, and shared a new single from it, a new version of “Willow and Mallow” reworked by Daniel Hunt of Ladytron. More
Plus Kurt Vile, Ladytron, Kim Gordon, Black Belt Eagle Scout, Mercury Rev, Pom Pom Squad, Squirrel Flower, Lauren Mayberry, and Others to Perform at Seattle’s Labor Day Festival
May 21, 2024
By Mark Redfern
Seattle’s Bumbershoot Arts and Music Festival have announced their 2024 lineup. Highlights include Pavement, James Blake, Courtney Barnett, Kurt Vile, Ladytron, Kim Gordon, Black Belt Eagle Scout, Mercury Rev, Pom Pom Squad, Squirrel Flower, Lauren Mayberry, and more. More
Plus Katy Kirby, Grandaddy, Future Islands, and a Wrap-up of the Week’s Other Notable New Tracks
Dec 01, 2023
By Mark Redfern (and Andy Von Pip)
Welcome to the 39th Songs of the Week of 2023. This week’s list includes songs from the last two weeks, as we didn’t do a Songs of the Week last week due to the Thanksgiving holiday. Although the majority of the songs were culled from this week’s releases. More
Time’s Arrow Out Now via Cooking Vinyl
Dec 01, 2023
By Mark Redfern
Iconic electro-pop band Ladytron are not the first act you’d suspect would release a festive single and yet here they are with a brand new Christmas song, “All Over By Xmas.” More
North American Shows This September and November
Jun 20, 2023
By Kat Ramkumar
Ladytron have announced some new North American tour dates and shared new remixes of their 2005 song, “Destroy Everything You Touch,” by DJ/producer Space Motion More
Time’s Arrow Out Now via Cooking Vinyl
Jan 20, 2023
By Mark Redfern
Ladytron have released a new album, Time’s Arrow, today via Cooking Vinyl. Now that it’s out, you can stream the whole thing here. They have also shared a video for the album’s third single “Faces.” More
Plus Samia, Floral Image, Pure Adult, Amber Arcades, and a Wrap-up of the Week’s Other Notable New Tracks
Dec 09, 2022
By Mark Redfern (with Joey Arnone and Caleb Campbell)
Welcome to the 42nd Songs of the Week of 2022. Despite things starting to wind down a bit for the holidays, there were plenty of contenders this week. More
Time’s Arrow Due Out January 20 via Cooking Vinyl
Dec 07, 2022
By Mark Redfern
Ladytron are releasing a new album, Time’s Arrow, on January 20 via Cooking Vinyl. Now they have shared its third single, “Faces.” More
Plus Yo La Tengo, Margo Price, Ladytron, Sharon Van Etten, and a Wrap-up of the Last Two Weeks’ Other Notable New Tracks
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
Time’s Arrow Due Out January 20 via Cooking Vinyl
Nov 11, 2022
By Mark Redfern
Ladytron are releasing a new album, Time’s Arrow, on January 20 via Cooking Vinyl. Now they have shared its second single, “Misery Remember Me,” and announced some new U.S. tour dates. More
Time’s Arrow Due Out January 20 via Cooking Vinyl
Oct 26, 2022
By Mark Redfern
Ladytron are releasing a new album, Time’s Arrow, on January 20 via Cooking Vinyl. Now they have shared a cinematic music video for the album’s previously shared first single, “City of Angels.” More
Plus Meg Baird, The Big Moon, Alvvays, Julien Chang, and a Wrap-up of the Last Two Weeks’ Other Notable New Tracks
Oct 14, 2022
By Mark Redfern (with Joey Arnone)
Welcome to the 37th Songs of the Week of 2022. We didn’t do a Songs of the Week last week because we’ve been too busy working on our next two print issues and we also didn’t feel like there were a lot of strong contenders last week. So this week’s list encompasses songs released in the last two weeks and is thus a supersized Top 16 list. More
Time’s Arrow Due Out January 20 via Cooking Vinyl
Oct 14, 2022
By Mark Redfern
Ladytron have announced a new album, Time’s Arrow, and shared its first single, album opener “City of Angels.” The band have also announced some UK tour dates, with American dates to follow. More
Aug 22, 2022
By Caleb Campbell
Since debuting with 2001’s 604, Liverpool outfit Ladyton have made their mark as leading lights of electro pop, influencing countless artists from the underground to the mainstream. Last fans heard from the band, they had just put out their 2019 self-titled record, their first in seven years. We at Under the Radar also caught up with the band last year while revisiting some of the bands we interviewed in our first issue. More
Plus SASAMI, Lucy Dacus, Röyksopp, and a Wrap-up of the Week’s Other Notable New Tracks
Feb 04, 2022
By Mark Redfern (with Joey Arnone)
Welcome to the fifth Songs of the Week of 2022. This week saw the start of the Winter Olympics in China, Punxsutawney Phil predicted six more weeks of winter on Groundhog Day, the U.S. military took out the head of ISIS, and tensions continued between Russia and the Ukraine. More
Issue 69 Has Two Cover Group Shots Featuring Grandaddy, CHVRCHES, Kamasi Washington, Bat For Lashes, Weyes Blood, The Divine Comedy, Elbow, Nilüfer Yanya, Miki Berenyi, The Horrors, and Rose Elinor Dougall
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
Ladytron Out Now via Ladytron Music and !K7
Feb 05, 2020
By Christopher Roberts
Ladytron released a new self-titled album back in February 2019 via Ladytron Music and !K7. Now they have shared a video for the album’s “Tower of Glass,” as well as a separate 10-minute long short film, with the video made up of footage from the short film. More
Ladytron Out Now via Ladytron Music and !K7
Sep 16, 2019
By Christopher Roberts
Ladytron released a new self-titled album back in February via Ladytron Music and !K7. Now they have shared a video for the album’s “Deadzone,” which takes place at a car crash. More
Far From Home - Night Versions Due Out August 30 via Ladytron Music and !K7
Aug 07, 2019
By Christopher Roberts
Ladytron released a new self-titled album back in February via Ladytron Music and !K7. It was their first album in seven-and-a-half years, since Gravity the Seducer, which came out in September 2011. Now they have announced a new remix EP, Far From Home - Night Versions, featuring new versions of the album’s “Far From Home.” More
Issue 65 is Out Now and Also Includes Interviews with Sharon Van Etten, Deerhunter, Foals, and Kurt Vile; Plus a Tribute to Scott Hutchison of Frightened Rabbit, and Much 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
Ladytron Due Out February 15 via Ladytron Music and !K7
Feb 08, 2019
By Christopher Roberts
Ladytron are releasing a new self-titled album next Friday, February 15, via Ladytron Music and !K7. It’s their first album in seven-and-a-half years, since Gravity the Seducer, which came out in September 2011. Now you can stream the album a week early. More
Ladytron Due Out February 15 via Ladytron Music and !K7
Oct 10, 2018
By Christopher Roberts
Ladytron have been teasing their next album for several months now, but now it has finally been officially announced. More
Forthcoming Album Due Out in Early 2019
Sep 06, 2018
By Christopher Roberts
Ladytron have shared a video for “The Island,” the second single from their forthcoming new album. Bryan M. Ferguson directed the video, which features a naked humanoid female (perhaps an alien, perhaps an experiment or a clone) escaping from a lab and being hunted. The science fiction-themed video has a somewhat disturbing climax. More
Plus Cat Power, Wild Nothing, Still Corners, Mitski, Madeline Kenney, and a Wrap-up of the Last Two Weeks' Other Notable New Tracks
Aug 17, 2018
By Christopher Roberts
We took a break from Songs of the Week last week due to a little vacation by our publishers. So this week we are compiling the best songs of the last two weeks. Hence we couldn’t contain the list to our usual Top 10, although we didn’t do too badly, only expanding to a Top 11 and a few more honorable mentions than usual. More
Second Single From Forthcoming Album
Aug 16, 2018
By Christopher Roberts
Back in March Ladytron released their first new music in seven years, the new song “The Animals.” Now the band has shared another new song, “The Island,” which is the second single from an upcoming new album (the details of which have yet to be announced). More
As I Was Now Featuring Members of Primal Scream, Klaxons, and Ladyhawke Due Out April 21; Listen to "Inspired Again"
Mar 07, 2018
By Christopher Roberts
Tim Burgess of The Charlatans has announced, As I Was Now, a 10-year-old unreleased album featuring Burgess on vocals, along with an all-star lineup that includes Ladyhawke, Josh Hayward (The Horrors), Martin Duffy (Felt/ Primal Scream), Debbie Googe (My Bloody Valentine), and Steffan Halperin (The Chavs/Klaxons). More
Plus Ryley Walker, Young Fathers, Lost Under Heaven, Gwenno, and a Wrap-up of the Week's Other Notable New Tracks
Mar 02, 2018
By Mark Redfern
It was another good week for new songs. Any of our Top 3 songs could’ve been our #1 and we also quite enjoyed CHVRCHES’ collaboration with The National‘s Matt Berninger (on a weaker week that probably would’ve been #1). More
First New Music in Seven Years; Plus a Vince Clarke (of Erasure) Remix is Coming Next Week
Mar 01, 2018
By Christopher Roberts
It’s been seven long years since Liverpool-formed electro-pop quartet Ladytron released their last album, 2011’s Gravity the Seducer. Under the Radar go way back with the band, we interviewed them about their debut album, 604, way back in our very first print issue in 2001. More
New Solo Album Coming In 2015
Sep 09, 2014
By Mike Hilleary
Back in 2013 Ladytron frontwomen Helen Marnie released her debut solo album Crystal World under her last name. More
Buy Her 1998 Mini Cooper Sport
Sep 17, 2012
By Mike Hilleary
As reported last week, Ladytron‘s Helen Marnie showed off photos that suggested she was working on a solo album in Iceland. More
Currently Recording in Iceland
Sep 14, 2012
By Mike Hilleary
Ladytron‘s Helen Marnie has revealed on her Facebook page that she has begun work on a new solo project. More
Ain’t No Party Like a Druid Party!
Nov 30, 2011
By Laura Studarus
Ladytron got in touch with their mystical side for new video “Mirage,” a cut from recently released album, Gravity the Seducer. We have the clip. More
Plus: Paul Rudd vs. The Divine Comedy, plus interviews with Broadcast, Grandaddy, The Flaming Lips, Bat For Lashes, Rilo Kiley, Broken Social Scene, and much 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
Plus Ladytron, Ra Ra Riot, Cold War Kids, and More
Oct 15, 2011
By Wendy Lynch Redfern
Check out photos from Day One of Deluna Fest 2011 in Pensacola, FL including Weezer, Stars, Matt & Kim, Ra Ra Riot, Ladytron, Givers, and more. We sent photographer Christopher Garcia down to capture the action. Click here to view the full gallery. More
Sep 02, 2011
By Laura Studarus
Today, Ladytron released this mysterious animated trailer for forthcoming album Gravity the Seducer (out September 13 via Nettwerk). We have the clip. More
Aug 05, 2011
By Laura Studarus
Today, Ladytron granted us a sneak peak from their forthcoming album Gravity the Seducer (out September 13 via Nettwerk). We have the streams. More
Jul 28, 2011
By Laura Studarus
Ladytron get their Eyes Wide Shut vibe on in the new video for “White Elephant”—a cut from forthcoming album Gravity the Seducer (out September 13). We have the clip. More
Gravity the Seducer Out September 13
Jul 06, 2011
By Laura Studarus
Ahead of their forthcoming album Gravity the Seducer (out September 13 via Nettwerk) British electro-clashers Ladytron have announced a string of tour dates. We have the details. More
'Gravity the Seducer' Due Out Sept. 13
May 16, 2011
By Lauren Barbato
Ladytron unveils single “White Elephants,” the first track off their forthcoming studio album Gravity the Seducer. We have the stream. More
Out September 13 Via Nettwerk
Mar 31, 2011
By Laura Studarus
Gothy synth-pop group Ladytron is busy prepping their fifth-full length, Gravity the Seducer. We have the details. More
Mar 01, 2011
By Mike Hilleary
Liverpool quartet Ladytron have unveiled a new music video for the song “Ace of Hz,” off the band’s forthcoming hits collection, Best of Ladytron: 00-10. More
Interviews
Aug 18, 2022
By Andy Von Pip
Ladytron’s debut album, 604, proved that you can acknowledge your musical influences whilst at the same time bring something fresh and exciting to the table. More
May 20, 2019
By Dom Gourlay
Ladytron are one of the most innovative bands of the 21st Century. Formed in Liverpool back in 1999 by Helen Marnie, Mira Aroyo, Reuben Wu, and Daniel Hunt and bonded by a love of experimental electronic music and pop, the four-piece released their debut album, 604, two years later after a batch of critically acclaimed singles and EPs. More
Members of Belle and Sebastian, Franz Ferdinand, Django Django, Frightened Rabbit, Ladytron, The Pastels, The Twilight Sad, The Vaselines, and Others on if They Are Voting Yes or No
Sep 18, 2014
By Mark Redfern
Today is a historic day in Scotland as it is the day the nation votes on the Scottish Independence Referendum. The people of Scotland get to vote on whether or not to secede from the United Kingdom and have Scotland become its own country. Here various Scottish musicians weigh in on the subject. More
"When I was living in Liverpool and then in London I always felt like a foreigner—like people thought I was some kind of novelty." - Helen Marnie
Sep 06, 2014
By Mark Redfern
For this Scotland Week interview we talk to Helen Marnie, lead vocalist for Ladytron. The band may have formed in Liverpool in 1999, but Marnie was born in Glasgow, where she grew up before going to the University of Liverpool to study music. Once there she met Liverpool producers/DJs Daniel Hunt and Reuben Wu. Bulgarian co-vocalist Mira Aroyo then joined them to form Ladytron, named after the Roxy Music song. In 2013 Marnie released her debut solo album, Crystal World. More
Mythical Beasts and Masterful Beats
Apr 02, 2008
By Lorraine Carpenter
“We’re just going to go out and get drunk now,” says Ladytron’s Daniel Hunt, having recently approved the final master of the band’s fourth record. “We’ve been organizing these album-wrap drinking sessions for about two weeks, and even though we hadn’t finished the record, we just kept having them anyway. But this one’s going to be definitive.” More
Reviews
Mar 30, 2023
By Dom Gourlay
It’s hard to believe Ladytron have been making music for nearly a quarter of a century. Particularly as they still sound as if they’ve been delivered from the future, which would explain why they’ve achieved such reverence while attaining a longevity many of their peers could only dream of. More
Feb 14, 2019
By Matt the Raven
Ladytron appeared on the music scene in 2001 with their debut album 604 that, at the time, featured a contemporary synth pop sound with a decidedly European slickness. Not much has changed in the 17 years since, but if you do something well, why not keep doing it? More
Sep 27, 2011
By Nick Hyman
2011 has been quite the year for Ladytron. In March, the British foursome put out their 10-year greatest hits collection, Best of Ladytron: 00-10, and now they’re releasing their fifth album, the band’s most grandiose and formal album yet. More