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Plus Amen Dunes, Mannequin Pussy, A. Savage, Laetitia Sadier, and a Wrap-up of the Week’s Other Notable New Tracks
Feb 09, 2024
By Mark Redfern (with Andy Von Pip)
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
Rooting For Love Due Out February 23 via Drag City
Feb 05, 2024
By Mark Redfern
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
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
By Mark Redfern
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
Rooting For Love Due Out February 23 via Drag City
Jan 10, 2024
By Mark Redfern
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
Plus Everything Everything, Laetitia Sadier, SPRINTS, and a Wrap-up of the Week’s Other Notable New Tracks
Nov 17, 2023
By Mark Redfern (with Andy Von Pip)
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
Rooting For Love Due Out February 23, 2024 via Drag City; North American Tour Dates Also Announced
Nov 13, 2023
By Mark Redfern
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
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
By Mark Redfern (with Joey Arnone)
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
New Album Due Out in 2022 via Drag City and Duophonic Super 45s
Oct 15, 2021
By Mark Redfern
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
Plus Everything Everything, Deerhoof, and a Wrap-up of the Week's Other Notable New Tracks
Aug 04, 2017
By Christopher Roberts
The War on Drugs’ last album, Lost in the Dream, was our #1 album of 2014 and a lot of other people agreed with us too. Based on the four singles shared thus far from their forthcoming new album, A Deeper Understanding, the band is already in strong Album of the Year waters for 2017. More
Mountain Moves Due Out September 8 via Joyful Noise, Album Also Features Læticia Sadier and Juana Molina
Jun 28, 2017
By Christopher Roberts
Deerhoof have announced a new album, Mountain Moves, and shared its first single, “I Will Spite Survive” (which features Jenn Wasner of Wye Oak and Flock of Dimes). More
Find Me Finding You Out Now via Drag City
May 16, 2017
By Christopher Roberts
Former Stereolab vocalist Laetitia Sadier recently released a new album, Find Me Finding You, under the name Laetitia Sadier Source Ensemble via Drag City. More
U.S. Tour Starts This Week, Sadier Releasing New Cassette Single
Sep 08, 2015
By Christopher Roberts
Former Stereolab vocalist Laetitia Sadier has shared a video for “Then, I Will Love You Again.” Alejandro Abramovich directed the clip, which features images of Sadier projected on various parts of a room. The song can be found on her latest solo album, Something Shines, released last year on Drag City. More
The Expanding Flower Planet Due Out August 21 via Anitcon
Jul 08, 2015
By Christopher Roberts
Angel Deradoorian, perhaps best known as the former bassist/vocalist in Dirty Projectors, last month announced the release of her debut solo album, The Expanding Flower Planet, due out August 21 via Anitcon and to be released simply under her last name. More
Something Shines Out Now via Drag City
Jul 07, 2015
By Christopher Roberts
Former Stereolab vocalist and sometime political songwriter Laetitia Sadier has shared a video for “Oscuridad” and has announced some U.S. tour dates. The video was directed by Loic Jouan but features footage from classic black & white silent films directed by Fritz Lang and Serguei M. Eisenstein. More
Plus New Tracks from Jessie Ware, Jeff Tweedy, Cut Copy, Anna Calvi and David Byrne, Twin Peaks, Laetitia Sadier, We Were Promised Jetpacks, and Others
Jul 11, 2014
By Michael Wojtas
Welcome to Under the Radar’s weekly playlist, where we compile the best and most exciting tracks to debut online in the last week (give or take). In this mix we’ve got new songs by alt-J, Jenny Lewis, Bat For Lashes, Jessie Ware, Jeff Tweedy, Cut Copy, Anna Calvi and David Byrne (covering Connan Mockasin), Twin Peaks, Cassie Ramone (ex-Vivian Girls), Laetitia Sadier (ex-Stereolab), We Were Promised Jetpacks, Speedy Ortiz, Generationals, and more. Look no further, your Friday and weekend playlist is here. More
Niki & The Dove, Moons, Memory Tapes, and others to Contribute to Vinyl Only Record Label
Nov 13, 2012
By Sara Heflin
On January 1st 2013, new U.K. based vinyl only label Demand Vinyl will launch. The label is starting off with a subscriptions singles club, which will consist of a total of ten 7-inch singles featuring exclusive tracks by such artists as Memory Tapes, Hot Chip, Air France, Saint Etienne, Latitia Sadier, Niki & The Dove, Levek, and Moons, among others. More
Additional Bonus Interviews With Tegan and Sara, Dan Deacon, Death Cab for Cutie, Dinosaur Jr., The Drums, Richard Hawley, The New Pornographers, Amanda Palmer, Laetitia Sadier, and More
Oct 19, 2012
By Laura Studarus
Just a reminder that the not-to-be-missed digital version of Under the Radar’s The Protest Issue includes all the same articles that appear in the printed version—plus 132 extra pages of editorial content not found in the print edition. Included are extra interviews with Andrew Bird, Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti, Dan Deacon, Death Cab for Cutie, Dinosaur Jr., The Drums, EMA, Richard Hawley, Fucked Up, Liars, Bob Mould, Tom Morello, The New Pornographers, Okkervil River, Amanda Palmer, Laetitia Sadier, JD Samson of Le Tigre and Men, Tegan and Sara, and more. More
Interviewed in the Protest Issue of Under the Radar
Sep 13, 2012
By Laura Studarus
Ex-Stereolab frontwoman Lætitia Sadier is doing quite well on her own, having recently released her sophomore solo album Silencio. Check out the video for album cut “Find Me the Pulse of the Universe.” More
Sep 10, 2012
By Matt Fink
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
Aug 02, 2012
By Laura Studarus
Lætitia Sadier goes for an afternoon swim in the new video for Silencio cut, “The Rule of the Game.” More
Listen to Silencio in Full
Jul 18, 2012
By Mike Hilleary
Next week former Stereolab frontwoman Laetitia Sadier will release Silencio, the sophomore follow-up to her 2010 solo debut The Trip. More
Sophomore Album Silencio Out July 24
Jun 01, 2012
By Mike Hilleary
Following her solo debut The Trip, former Stereolab and Monade member Laetitia Sadier has announced that she will release her sophomore album Silencio on July 24 via Drag City. More
Interviews
Paul Banks, Wayne Coyne, Kevin Drew, Black Francis, Ben Gibbard, Jens Lekman, Murray Lightburn, Colin Meloy, Nina Persson, Laetitia Sadier, and More on Indie Rock's Identity Crisis
Mar 20, 2017
By Matt Fink
In 2001, when Under the Radar‘s first issue was released, the music industry had reached a transitional moment. In January, Apple introduced its iTunes program to the world, laying the groundwork to forever change how listeners interfaced with their music. More
Dec 05, 2014
By Hays Davis
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
A Conversation Between Bradford Cox and Laetitia Sadier
Oct 11, 2010
By John Everhart (Intro by and Moderated by)
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
