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12 Best Songs of the Week: Beth Gibbons, Caroline Polachek and Weyes Blood, Yard Act, and More

Plus Amen Dunes, Mannequin Pussy, A. Savage, Laetitia Sadier, and a Wrap-up of the Week’s Other Notable New Tracks

Feb 09, 2024

Welcome to the fifth Songs of the Week of 2024. This week Andy Von Pip, Mark Moody, Matt the Raven, Scott Dransfield, and Stephen Humphries all helped me decide what should make the list. We settled on a Top 12 this week, narrowed down from the 20 songs we seriously considered. More

Laetitia Sadier (of Stereolab) Shares New Song “Who + What”

Rooting For Love Due Out February 23 via Drag City

Feb 05, 2024

Stereolab vocalist Laetitia Sadier is releasing a new solo album, Rooting For Love, on February 23 via Drag City. Now she has shared another new song from it, album opener “Who + What.” More

14 Best Songs of the Week: Waxahatchee, The Last Dinner Party, Julia Holter, The Smile, and More

Plus Ride, Sleater-Kinney, Omni, Youth Lagoon, TORRES, and a Wrap-up of the Last Two Week’s Other Notable New Tracks

Jan 12, 2024

Welcome to the first Songs of the Week of 2024. 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 it being the first week of the year and there not being a lot of worthy songs to consider. But this week the music industry was in full swing, with plenty of important album announcements. More

Jan 10, 2024

Stereolab vocalist Laetitia Sadier is releasing a new solo album, Rooting For Love, on February 23 via Drag City. Now she has shared another new song from it, the lush “Panser L’inacceptable,” via a music video. More

9 Best Songs of the Week: The Smile, Mannequin Pussy, J Mascis, William Doyle, and More

Plus Everything Everything, Laetitia Sadier, SPRINTS, and a Wrap-up of the Week’s Other Notable New Tracks

Nov 17, 2023

Welcome to the 38th Songs of the Week of 2023. This week Andy Von Pip, Caleb Campbell, Mark Moody, Matt the Raven, Scott Dransfield, and Stephen Humphries all helped me decide what should make the list. We settled on a Top 9 this week. More

Laetitia Sadier (of Stereolab) Announces New Album, Shares Video for New Song “Une Autre Attente”

Rooting For Love Due Out February 23, 2024 via Drag City; North American Tour Dates Also Announced

Nov 13, 2023

Stereolab vocalist Laetitia Sadier has announced a new solo album, Rooting For Love, and shared a new song from it, “Une Autre Attente,” via a music video. She’s also announced some 2024 North American tour dates. More

12 Best Songs of the Week: Cate Le Bon, Imarhan, Elbow, Snail Mail, and More

Plus Laetitia Sadier, Michael Kiwanuka, HARD FEELINGS, Hamilton Leithauser and Kevin Morby, and a Wrap-up of the Week’s Other Notable New Tracks

Oct 15, 2021

Welcome to the 39th Songs of the Week of 2021. It was a blockbuster week for new songs, although the week’s biggest song (Adele’s “Easy On Me”) didn’t make the list. But “Easy On Me” did set the all-time record for biggest single day streams for a song in Spotify history, so Adele will be fine. This week we have a supersized Top 12 and a solid honorable mentions list. More

Laetitia Sadier (of Stereolab) Shares Video for New Song “New Moon”

New Album Due Out in 2022 via Drag City and Duophonic Super 45s

Oct 15, 2021

Stereolab vocalist Laetitia Sadier has shared a new song, “New Moon,” via a video for it. It is said to be the first taste of a new solo album due out in 2022 via Drag City and Duophonic Super 45. More

Listen: Deerhoof - “Come Down Here And Say That” (feat. Læticia Sadier)

Mountain Moves Due Out September 8 via Joyful Noise

Aug 04, 2017

Deerhoof are releasing a new album, Mountain Moves, on September 8 via Joyful Noise. Previously they shared its first two singles, “I Will Spite Survive” (which features Jenn Wasner of Wye Oak and Flock of Dimes) and “Your Dystopic Creation Doesn’t Fear You” (which features Awkwafina). More

Listen: Laetitia Sadier - “Then I Will Love You Again”

New Solo Album And New Project, Little Tornados

Jul 08, 2014

Laetitia Sadier has a new album coming out next month. Something Shines will be Sadier’s third solo record, and the follow up to 2012’s Silencio. More

Aug 02, 2012

Lætitia Sadier goes for an afternoon swim in the new video for Silencio cut, “The Rule of the Game.” More

Laetitia Sadier Announces Fall Tour

Dates Begin September 15

Jun 14, 2012

In support of her forthcoming solo album Find Me the Pulse of the Universe (out July 24), French chanteuse Laetitia Sadier has announced a run of U.S. tour dates. More

Deerhunter vs. Stereolab

A Conversation Between Bradford Cox and Laetitia Sadier

Oct 11, 2010

Under the Radar‘s Fall 2010 Issue features a conversation between Deerhunter and Atlas Sound’s Bradford Cox and Stereolab frontwoman Laetitia Sadier. The full transcript of the conversation is now posted on our website. More

Stereolab Reveal New Album Details

Not Music to Feature 13 Tracks, Including Atlas Sound Remix

Aug 17, 2010

Stereolab are set to release their 12th LP Not Music November 16 on Drag City in the U.S. and Duophonic in the U.K. We have the tracklisting and details. More

Jul 09, 2010

With Stereolab on a break, frontwoman Lætitia Sadier has taken the opportunity to announce details of her debut solo album, The Trip (September 21st). We have the facts. More



Interviews

Laetitia Sadier

A Joy Beyond Definition

Dec 05, 2014

Five years since Stereolab was set aside, Laetitia Sadier has released an album that seems to be a personal peak of sorts. After several albums with Monade and two previous solo releases, Something Shines offers a collection of songs that is not only likely to connect with fans of her earlier work but even moved Sadier herself during its creation to want to share it with friends. More

Sep 10, 2012

Given the numerous ways that an indelicate hand can render them ever so ineffectively, it’s possible that there’s no more challenging assignment for a songwriter than penning a potent political song. If true, there are very few songwriters who have walked that tightrope for longer and with more deftness than Laetitia Sadier, an artist who has proven that a soft touch is often more powerful than a punch when politics are involved. More

Deerhunter vs. Stereolab

A Conversation Between Bradford Cox and Laetitia Sadier

Oct 11, 2010

Deerhunter and Atlas Sound’s Bradford Cox has long professed his love for Stereolab, in particular 1999’s Cobra and Phases Group Play Voltage in the Milky Night, his favorite album by the band. He went so far as to effusively explicate upon its merits on a Deerhunter blog post back in 2007. In an impassioned manner akin to the prime years of the fiery late gonzo journalist Lester Bangs, he also excoriated the publications that panned the album. More


Reviews

Jul 23, 2012

For any film buff, the title of Laetitia Sadier’s second solo LP since Stereolab went on indefinite hiatus may hold an immediate connotation of the David Lynch film Mulholland Drive. More specifically, Club Silencio, the dank cabaret club where a mysterious figure urges to the protagonists, “There is no band,” although an act is playing a gorgeous version of Roy Orbison’s “Crying” sung in Spanish in plain sight. More