Dec 29, 2024 By Mark Redfern

Under the Radar tends to handle our best albums of the year lists differently than most other music publications. More

Sep 27, 2024 By Mark Redfern (with Andy Von Pip)

Welcome to the 31st Songs of the Week of 2024. This week Andy Von Pip, Caleb Campbell, Matt the Raven, and Scotty Dransfield helped me decide what should make the list. We considered over 20 songs and narrowed it down to a Top 10. More

Sep 24, 2024 By Mark Redfern

British folk singer/songwriter Laura Marling is releasing a new album, Patterns in Repeat, on October 25 via Chrysalis/Partisan. Now she has shared its third single, “Child of Mine.” The album-opener is an ode to her daughter. More

Aug 23, 2024 By Mark Redfern (with Andy Von Pip)

Welcome to the 27th Songs of the Week of 2024. This week Andy Von Pip, Mark Moody, Matt the Raven, Scotty Dransfield, and Stephen Humphires helped me decide what should make the list. We considered over 25 songs and narrowed it down to a Top 10. More

Aug 21, 2024 By Mark Redfern

British folk singer/songwriter Laura Marling is releasing a new album, Patterns in Repeat, on October 25 via Chrysalis/Partisan. Now she has shared its second single, “No One’s Gonna Love You Like I Can.” More

Jul 12, 2024 By Mark Redfern (with Andy Von Pip and Marina Malin) 

Welcome to the 22nd Songs of the Week of 2024. This week’s list covers the last two weeks, owing to last week being the July 4th holiday weekend. More

Jul 10, 2024 By Marina Malin

British folk singer/songwriter Laura Marling has announced a new album, Patterns in Repeat, and has released the record’s first single, “Patterns.” Patterns in Repeat is due out on October 25 via Chrysalis/Partisan. More

Jul 30, 2021 By Mark Redfern

Welcome to the 29th Songs of the Week of 2021. It was a light week for great new tracks, but we came up with nine we really liked. More

Jul 29, 2021 By Mark Redfern

LUMP (aka Laura Marling and Tunng’s Mike Lindsay) have released a new album, Animal, today via Partisan/Chrysalis. Now that it’s out you can stream the whole thing here. Also, on Wednesday we posted our review of the album and yesterday we ran our exclusive interview with LUMP about Animal. More

Jul 27, 2021 By Mark Redfern

LUMP (aka Laura Marling and Tunng’s Mike Lindsay) are releasing a new album, Animal, this Friday via Partisan/Chrysalis. Now they have shared the album’s fourth single, “Gamma Ray,” via a video featuring the band’s big colorful LUMP creature. More

Jul 02, 2021 By Mark Redfern (with Caleb Campbell)

Welcome to the 25th Songs of the Week of 2021. This week we were feeling a bit indecisive and couldn’t really narrow it down to a Top 10, so we went with a Top 12 instead. More

Jun 29, 2021 By Mark Redfern

LUMP (aka Laura Marling and Tunng’s Mike Lindsay) are releasing a new album, Animal, on July 30 via Partisan/Chrysalis. Now they have shared the album’s third single, “We Cannot Resist,” via a video featuring the band’s big colorful LUMP creature wandering a snowy forest and an equally snowy London. More

Jun 01, 2021 By Mark Redfern

LUMP (aka Laura Marling and Tunng’s Mike Lindsay) are releasing a new album, Animal, on July 30 via Partisan/Chrysalis. Now they have shared the album’s second single, “Climb Every Wall,” via a playful video for it. More

May 07, 2021 By Mark Redfern (with Emma Goad)

Welcome to the 17th Songs of the Week of 2021. This week wasn’t overly eventful, in terms of U.S. news. More

May 05, 2021 By Mark Redfern

LUMP (aka Laura Marling and Tunng’s Mike Lindsay) have announced a new album, Animal, and shared a video for its title track. More

Jul 23, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

This year’s Mercury Prize nominees have been announced and they include the latest albums by Anna Meredith, Laura Marling, Porridge Radio, Charli XCX, Michael Kiwanuka, Dua Lipa, Lanterns on the Lake, Stormzy, Georgia, Sports Team, and more. More

May 11, 2020 By Samantha Small

In April, British folk singer Laura Marling released her eighth album, Song For Our Daughter, via Partisan/Chrysalis. On Friday night, Marling joined The Late Show with Stephen Colbert to perform an acoustic rendition of “Held Down” from home as part of their #PlayAtHome series. More

Apr 16, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

Laura Marling released a new album, Song For Our Daughter, last week via Partisan/Chrysalis. Now she has done a three-song set from her London home for NPR Music’s Tiny Desk (Home) Concerts series, an adjusted version of NPR Music’s Tiny Desk Concerts series taking into account social distancing during the pandemic. More

Apr 10, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

Welcome to the fourteenth Songs of the Week of 2020. Our new normal of being under lockdown during COVID-19 continues. More

Apr 10, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

This Monday Laura Marling announced a new album, Song For Our Daughter, and shared its first single, “Held Down.” Song For Our Daughter was originally scheduled for a late summer release, but Marling announced that it was coming out today instead due to COVID-19. Now that the album’s out you can stream the whole thing here. More

Apr 09, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

EOB is the solo project of Radiohead guitarist Ed O’Brien and he’s releasing his debut album under the EOB name, Earth, on April 17 via Capitol. Now he has shared another song from it, “Cloak of the Night,” which features guest vocals from Laura Marling. More

Apr 06, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

Laura Marling has announced a new album, Song For Our Daughter, and shared its first single, “Held Down.” Song For Our Daughter was originally scheduled for a late summer release, but Marling has announced that it’s coming out this Friday (April 10) instead due to COVID-19 whereas most release date changes due to the pandemic are going the other way, with albums being pushed back. More

Nov 20, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

LUMP is a new band that teams up Laura Marling and Tunng’s Mike Lindsay. Their self-titled debut album, LUMP, came out back in June via Dead Oceans. Now they have shared a video for the album’s “May I Be the Light.” Beth Jeans Houghton (aka musical artist Du Blonde) directed the animated video. 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 01, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

There were some solid contenders for this week’s Songs of the Week list. It was a toss up between #1 and #2, it could’ve gone either way. If we were doing a “Best Use of a Song in a TV Show This Week” list, then first place probably would’ve gone to the use of U2’s “With or Without You” in the surprising and amazing series finale of FX’s The Americans. More

May 30, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

LUMP is a new band that teams up Laura Marling and Tunng’s Mike Lindsay. Their self-titled debut album, LUMP, is due out this Friday (June 1) via Dead Oceans. Now they have shared another song from it, “May I Be the Light.” Listen to it below, followed by the duo’s upcoming tour dates. More

May 23, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

LUMP is a new band that teams up Laura Marling and Tunng’s Mike Lindsay. Their self-titled debut album, LUMP, is due out June 1 via Dead Oceans. Previously they shared a video for its first single, “Curse of the Contemporary” (which was our #2 Song of the Week), as well as its second single, the atmospheric slow-burner “Late to the Flight” (which was also one of our Songs of the Week). More

May 22, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Björk released a new album, Utopia, last year via One Little Indian. Earlier tonight she appeared on the long running BBC music show Later… with Jools Holland, where various musicians take turns in the round, performing in a TV studio in front of a live audience. More

May 08, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

LUMP is a new band that teams up Laura Marling and Tunng’s Mike Lindsay. Their self-titled debut album, LUMP, is due out June 1 via Dead Oceans. Previously they shared a video for its first single, “Curse of the Contemporary” (which was our #2 Song of the Week). Now they have shared the album’s second single, and opening track, the atmospheric slow-burner “Late to the Flight.” More

Apr 13, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

The top songs in this week’s Songs of the Week list were readily apparent, it was just a case of working out the order, with the Top 5 switching order several times before being finalized. Many of this week’s new songs are initial singles from albums or EPs also announced this week. More

Apr 12, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

LUMP is a new band that teams up Laura Marling and Tunng’s Mike Lindsay. They have announced their self-titled debut album and shared a video for its first single, “Curse of the Contemporary.” LUMP is due out June 1 via Dead Oceans. Below is the “Curse of the Contemporary” video, followed by the album’s tracklist and cover art, as well as their upcoming tour dates. More

Dec 21, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Laura Marling released a new album, Semper Femina, back in March via More Alarming Records, which is Marling’s own label via Kobalt Music Recordings. Now she has covered Bob Dylan’s “A Hard Rain’s a Gonna Fall.” It premiered during tonight’s season finale of Peaky Blinders. More

May 30, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

David Lynch is very much back in the public eye with the recent return of his iconic early ‘90s TV show Twin Peaks. Now he has announced another installment of his Festival of Disruption, which last year featured St. Vincent, Sky Ferreira, Xiu Xiu, and more. More

Mar 02, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Laura Marling is releasing a new album, Semper Femina, on March 10 via More Alarming Records, which is Marling’s own label via Kobalt Music Recordings. Previously she shared a video for its first single, “Soothing,” as well as the audio for “Wild Fire” and the video for“Next Time.” More

Feb 17, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Laura Marling is releasing a new album, Semper Femina, on March 10 via More Alarming Records, which is Marling’s own label via Kobalt Music Recordings. Previously she shared a video for its first single, “Soothing,” as well as another song from the record, “Wild Fire.” Now Marling has shared another song from the album via its video, “Next Time.” More

Jan 11, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Laura Marling is releasing a new album, Semper Femina, on March 10 via More Alarming Records, which is Marling’s own label via Kobalt Music Recordings. More

Jan 11, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Laura Marling is releasing a new album, Semper Femina, on March 10, 2017 via More Alarming Records, which is Marling’s own label via Kobalt Music Recordings. More

Nov 28, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Laura Marling has announced a new album, Semper Femina, and shared a video for its first single, “Soothing.” Semper Femina is due out on March 10, 2017 on More Alarming Records, which is Marling’s own label via Kobalt Music Recordings. More

Oct 16, 2015 By Christopher Roberts

Laura Marling has announced five U.S. tour dates this November she’s dubbing as the “Tour De Ville.” Marling and her three-piece backing band will be playing more stripped down sets and trying out brand new material. Sounds like she’ll be recording the shows too. More

Aug 28, 2015 By Laura Studarus

Last weekend Los Angeles hosted FYF Festival. Check out Robert Redfield’s gallery of images from day two featuring Belle and Sebastian, D’Angelo, FKA twigs, Laura Marling,Lower Dens, Mac DeMarco, Morrissey, Solange, Toro Y Moi, Unknown Mortal Orchestra. More

Aug 06, 2015 By Christopher Roberts

As we previously reported, Laura Marling has recently digitally released a deluxe edition of her album Short Movie, which originally came out back in March. It’s titled Short Movie - Director’s Cut and features full band recordings of album tracks “I Feel Your Love” and “Warrior,” as well as two songs that were previously only released on 7-inches, “David” and “Daisy.” Last night Marling stopped by The Late Late Show with James Corden to perform “I Feel Your Love.” More

Jul 21, 2015 By Christopher Roberts

Last week we reported that Laura Marling has just digitally released a deluxe edition of her album Short Movie, which originally came out back in March. It’s titled Short Movie - Director’s Cut and features full band recordings of album tracks “I Feel Your Love” and “Warrior,” More

Jul 17, 2015 By Christopher Roberts

Laura Marling is digitally releasing a deluxe edition of her album Short Movie, which came out back in March. It’s titled Short Movie - Director’s Cut and features full band recordings of album tracks “I Feel Your Love” and “Warrior,” as well as two songs that were previously only released on 7-inches, “David” and “Daisy.” More

May 24, 2015 By Laura Studarus

On Friday, May 22, Laura Marling performed to a sold-out show at John Dee in Oslo, Norway. More

Apr 10, 2015 By Christopher Roberts

Under the Radar is excited to announce the full details of the April/May 2015 issue, which is about to hit newsstands. It features Tame Impala on the cover. Actor Charlie Cox talks about his starring role in the new Netflix series, Marvel’s Daredevil. We interview The Jesus and Mary Chain‘s Jim Reid and Creation Records’ founder Alan McGee about the 30th anniversary of the Scottish band’s iconic debut album, 1985’s Psychocandy. The issue also includes interviews with Death Cab For Cutie, Mew, My Morning Jacket, Father John Misty, Domhnall Gleeson of Ex Machina, Courtney Barnett, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Laura Marling, Django Django, Will Butler, Purity Ring, San Fermin, TORRES, Twin Shadow, Matthew E. White, Amason, Jacco Gardner, Tobias Jesso Jr., Petite Noir, Natalie Prass, SOAK, and more. More

Apr 01, 2015 By Trevor Flynn

Heralded British singer/songwriter Laura Marling has released the music video for “Gurdjieff’s Daughter,” the latest single off of her widely acclaimed new album Short Movie. More

Mar 27, 2015 By Christopher Roberts

Under the Radar‘s own Wendy Lynch Redfern was down in Austin for SXSW last week. Here’s a selection of her live photos from non-Under the Radar events. More

Mar 18, 2015 By Mike Hilleary

Next week UK singer/songwriter Laura Marling will release Short Movie, the follow-up to her 2013 LP Once I Was an Eagle. More

Mar 12, 2015 By Laura Studarus

Laura Marling’s new song “Strange” is a folky, pseudo spoken word piece. More

Mar 06, 2015 By Mike Hilleary

On the cusp of releasing her newest album Short Movie later this month, UK troubadour Laura Marling has premiered a brand new music video featuring her track “I Feel Your Love.” More

Feb 18, 2015 By Laura Studarus

Laura Marling’s new video for Short Movie cut “False Hope” is all about her straightforward performance. More

Feb 06, 2015 By Mike Hilleary

Ahead of the release of her forthcoming album, Short Movie, singer/songwriter Laura Marling has shared a new short film titled Woman Driver. More

Feb 04, 2015 By Laura Studarus

While performing live recently in London, Laura Marling unveiled a new blue grass-tinged tune called “Strange.” More

Jan 21, 2015 By Laura Studarus

Laura Marling’s new single “False Hope” is an aggressive look at heartache and loneliness. More

Dec 17, 2014 By Laura Studarus

On March 23 folk darling Laura Marling will release her new album Short Movie. More

Feb 12, 2014 By Laura Studarus

It seems that Laura Marling is already at work on a follow-up to last year’s excellent folk album, Once I Was an Eagle. Recently she’s been performing a new song/unreleased song “Born to Love.” More

Jan 03, 2014 By Mike Hilleary

While the days of watching music videos on television are long gone, over the past several years the visual art form has certainly found second life (like so many other things) as an excellent online commodity. More

Sep 11, 2013 By Mike Hilleary

The shortlist of nominees for the 2013 Barclaycard Mercury Prize have been announced. More

Jul 09, 2013 By Mike Hilleary

Releasing her ambitous concept album Once I Was An Eagle earlier this spring UK folksinger Laura Marling has announced plans for a brief tour through the U.S. More

May 20, 2013 By Mike Hilleary

Next week UK folk artist Laura Marling will release her fourth studio album, Once I Was An Eagle. More

May 17, 2013 By Mike Hilleary

In less than two weeks’ time UK folksinger Laura Marling will release her fourth studio album Once I Was An Eagle. More

May 07, 2013 By Mike Hilleary

After releasing a stunning short film utilizing the four-song opening suite of her upcoming album I Once Was An Eagle, UK folksinger Laura Marling has premiered a more traditional music video for her single “Master Hunter.” More

Apr 30, 2013 By Mike Hilleary

British folksinger Laura Marling has announced plans for brief North American tour this spring. More

Apr 25, 2013 By Laura Studarus

On May 28, singer/songwriter Laura Marling will release her new album Once I Was an Eagle. Today the British songstress gave fans a taste of the first four tracks via stylish new short film, When Brave Bird Saved. More

Apr 17, 2013 By Mike Hilleary

On May 28 UK singer/songwriter Laura Marling will release her new album Once I Was An Eagle, a record put together over the course of just 10 days, with Marling’s core vocals and acoustic instrumentation all done in one take in one day. More

Mar 08, 2013 By Mike Hilleary

English singer/songwriter Laura Marling have announced that she will follow her 2011 album A Creature I Don’t Know with her latest LP Once I Was an Eagle. More

Sep 07, 2012 By Mike Hilleary

This fall British singer/songwriter Laura Marling has announced that she will embark on a special solo set of shows through the U.S. Calling it the “Working Holiday Tour,” the trek will feature performances at Big Sur, Woodstock, and a little place called Pioneertown, CA. All the shows will be support of Marling’s latest LP A Creature I Don’t Know. More

Apr 30, 2012 By Mike Hilleary

British singer/songwriter Laura Marling has added a number of new performance dates in support of her recently released third LP A Creature I Don’t Know. More

Dec 07, 2011 By Laura Studarus

Laura Marling is hitting the road in support of her excellent third album, A Creature I Don’t Know. We have the dates. More

Sep 05, 2011 By Christopher Roberts

English singer/songwriter Laura Marling is due to release her third album, A Creature I Don’t Know, on September 13 via Ribbon Music/Domino. But you can stream the whole thing now over at The New York Times here. More

Aug 08, 2011 By Mike Hilleary

Leading up to the release of her upcoming third album, A Creature I Don’t Know (due September 13), 21-year-old English troubadour Laura Marling (who’s interviewed in our current issue) has released a video for the record’s first single “Sophia.” More

Jul 28, 2011 By Mark Redfern and Laura Studarus

Under the Radar’s Summer 2011 Issue has just hit stands. It features St. Vincent on the cover and includes articles on M83, Bon Iver vs. Fugazi, The Horrors, Washed Out, Stephen Malkmus vs. Gus Van Sant, WU LYF, Dum Dum Girls, Friendly Fires, Memory Tapes, John Maus, Niki & The Dove, Purity Ring, Youth Lagoon, and many others; as well as over 115 reviews. The digital version of the magazine also includes 50 extra pages of bonus content, including articles on My Morning Jacket, The Rapture, Eleanor Friedberger, Handsome Furs, Moonface, Stephin Merritt, Laurel Halo, and more. More

Jul 26, 2011 By Laura Studarus

In support of her third full-length, A Creature I Don’t Know, Laura Marling is hitting the road. We have the dates. More

Nov 09, 2010 By Frank Valish

Mumford & Sons and Laura Marling are set to release a new EP featuring collaborations with The Dharohar Project. Plus we have streams of Marling’s new Jack White-produced 7-inch. More

Nov 04, 2010 By Frank Valish

As we reported back in June, British songstress Laura Marling recorded a couple of songs at Jack White’s Nashville studio while she was on tour in the U.S. a while back. No release date was set at the time, nor was a tracklist announced, but it seems the wait is finally over. More

Jul 20, 2010 By Laura Studarus

Nominees for the prestigious Mercury Prize were announced today. Among the honorees are Under the Radar favorites Laura Marling (nominated for the second time), Foals, Mumford and Sons, and The xx. We have the full list of nominees. More

Jun 28, 2010 By Hong Le

The White Stripes/Dead Weather/Raconteurs frontman Jack White recorded a new single by British folk artist Laura Marling in his Nashville studio while she was on tour. There is no confirmed title or release date for the track yet, however it will be part of White’s Third Man Records’ “Blue Series” and be released on seven inch. More

Sep 26, 2009 By Frank Valish

English singer-songwriter, and onetime Noah and the Whale cohort, Laura Marling will be returning to the States in October for a short run of East Coast concerts. More

Oct 17, 2018 By Laura Maw

LUMP‘s conception barely involved any discussion: Laura Marling and Tunng’s frontman Mike Lindsay met at a Neil Young after party, and, after what Lindsay terms a “simple exchange of words,” LUMP was formed. More

Aug 07, 2015 By Stephen Humphries

She left before dawn. Laura Marling checked out of a motel in Mount Shasta, California—a locale she feared was “an axe-murderer town”—and drove alone into the woods. When the road ended, she got out and walked in the dark. The British songwriter was following the directions of a stranger she’d met the night before in a bar. The man, a hippie, had told her about a river whose spring water bestows eternal life. She just wanted to fill her tankard and be on her way. More

Mar 25, 2015 By Stephen Humphries

When Laura Marling lived in L.A., a part of her died. Specifically, her ego. The British songwriter relocated to America soon after completing her fourth album, 2013’s Once I Was an Eagle (which became her third album to be nominated for a Mercury Prize). She moved in search of adventure—and got more than she bargained for. More

Oct 23, 2013 By Frank Valish

Midway through “Master Hunter,” the fifth song on London songwriter Laura Marling‘s fourth album, Once I Was an Eagle, she steals a lyric from Bob Dylan. Calling out a man who seems to want her for self-serving reasons, Marling sings, with a confident yet passive-aggressive viciousness: “It ain’t me, babe. No, no, no, it ain’t me, babe.” More

Mar 15, 2017 By Laura Stanley

Laura Marling’s Semper Femina—a Latin phrase taken from Virgil’s Aeneid which roughly means “always a woman”—is a superb showing of contemporary folk music. Like in her previous five albums, More

May 24, 2013 By Sam Cleeve

As a songwriter, Laura Marling has always gone toe-to-toe with her womanhood and its role in her relationships. Her latest effort, Once I Was An Eagle, sees her address this from two distinct aspects—first as a woman fractured and broken, later, with a confidence and conviction rebuilt.

Sep 23, 2011 By Laura Studarus

Laura Marling has never sounded her age. Wise beyond her years? Nah, most of the time she sounds wise beyond anyone’s years. Having left school at 16 to pursue music, she was a veteran long before her 2008 debut, Alas, I Cannot Swim. More

Feb 17, 2010 By Laura Studarus

At 20, Laura Marling possesses more grace and professional polish than I, at my decidedly more than 20 years, will ever have. However, with work that speaks for itself, shining amidst the London-based nu-folk scene that includes Noah and the Whale and Mumford & Sons, and hinting at a record collection filled with 1960s troubadours, age is a non-factor. Even if a post-gig drink during her recent North American Tour was out of the question. More

Oct 30, 2009 By Frank Valish

While former cohorts Noah and the Whale are busy with a grand launch of their new album/movie project, London singer-songwriter Laura Marling has opted to quietly debut songs from her own forthcoming sophomore album, due in early 2010, in a series of intimate concerts in small East coast U.S. venues this fall. Two extraneous details threatened to ruin the mood on this particular night at World Café Live in Philadelphia. More