Oct 09, 2024 By Mark Redfern

Yukimi Nagano of Swedish electro-pop band Little Dragon has released her debut solo single, “Break Me Down,” put out simply under her first name. She has also announced some solo U.S. shows featuring a full backing band. More

Jul 07, 2023 By Mark Redfern

Swedish electro-pop band Little Dragon have released a new album, Slugs of Love, today via Ninja Tune. More

Jun 22, 2023 By Mark Redfern

Swedish electro-pop band Little Dragon are releasing a new album, Slugs of Love, on July 7 via Ninja Tune. Now they have shared its fourth single, “Tumbling Dice,” and announced some new North American tour dates for this fall. More

May 24, 2023 By Mark Redfern

Swedish electro-pop band Little Dragon are releasing a new album, Slugs of Love, on July 7 via Ninja Tune. Now they have shared its third single, “Gold.” More

May 05, 2023 By Mark Redfern

Welcome to the sixteenth Songs of the Week of 2023. There weren’t any tracks this week that screamed, “This is the very best song of the week!” But still there was plenty to like. More

May 03, 2023 By Mark Redfern

Swedish electro-pop band Little Dragon have announced a new album, Slugs of Love, and have shared a new song from it, “Kenneth,” via an animated music video. Slugs of Love features Damon Albarn on one song. More

Apr 14, 2023 By Mark Redfern (with Caleb Campbell)

Welcome to the thirteenth Songs of the Week of 2023. We didn’t do a Songs of the Week last week because I was on a brief vacation (it was my daughter’s spring break), so this week’s list includes songs from the last two weeks. Any song first released between April 1 and April 14 was eligible. Hence we have a supersized list week—22 songs is probably the most we’ve ever had in one Songs of the Week main list, but it breaks down to 12 songs from this week and 10 from last week. More

Apr 06, 2023 By Mark Redfern

Swedish electro-pop band Little Dragon have shared a new song, “Slugs of Love,” via a music video. Right now it’s a standalone single on Ninja Tune. More

Sep 16, 2022 By Joey Arnone

Swedish electro-pop band Little Dragon have released a new EP, Opening the Door, today via Ninja Tune. They have also shared a new single from the EP, “Stay,” a collaboration with Atlanta rapper JID. More

Aug 10, 2022 By Joey Arnone

Swedish electro-pop band Little Dragon have announced the release of a new EP, Opening the Door, which will be out on September 16 via Ninja Tune. They have also shared a new single from the EP, “Frisco.” More

Jun 27, 2022 By Mark Redfern

Couldn’t make it to Glastonbury this past weekend? We have you covered, with highlights from some of the performances including ones by Wolf Alice, Jessie Ware, Courtney Barnett, Mitski, HAIM, Foals, and many more. Plus Cate Le Bon, Pet Shop Boys, beabadoobee, Dry Cleaning, First Aid Kit, Jack White, Kendrick Lamar, Fontaines D.C., Lorde, Caribou, Metronomy, St. Vincent, Olivia Rodrigo and Lily Allen, Squid, black midi, Big Thief, IDLES, Crowded House, and much more. More

Feb 07, 2022 By Joey Arnone

Little Dragon’s Fredrik Wallin has announced the release of his debut EP as a solo artist under the moniker FredAtLast. The EP, Banner of Lost Belief, will be out on May 13 via Small Matter. Wallin has also shared a single from the EP, “One Day.” More

Dec 07, 2021 By Joey Arnone

Swedish electro-pop band Little Dragon have released a new EP titled Drifting Out. The EP is a collection of three iterations of one song—it contains the titular track, followed by a Kelsey Lu remix and another reworking of the song from classical artists Yo-Yo Ma and Jacob Koranyi. It is out now via Ninja Tune. More

Dec 18, 2020 By Christopher Roberts (with Joey Arnone)

Welcome to the 45th and likely very last Songs of the Week of 2020. We didn’t do a Songs of the Week last week because there weren’t quite enough inspiring songs to put together a full list, so this week’s list covers the last two weeks, but we still only came up with nine choices rather than a Top 10. More

Dec 14, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

Swedish electro-pop band Little Dragon have teamed up with American singer Moses Sumney for the new song “The Other Lover.” The song is a duet with Little Dragon vocalist Yukimi Nagano and a rework of Little Dragon’s “Another Lover,” featured on their most recent album, New Me, Same Us, released back in March via Ninja Tune. More

Jul 01, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

Swedish electro-pop band Little Dragon released a new album, New Me, Same Us, back in March via Ninja Tune (stream it here). Now they have shared a video for the album’s “Where You Belong.” More

Mar 27, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

Swedish electro-pop band Little Dragon have released a new album, New Me, Same Us, today via Ninja Tune. Now that the album is out, you can stream the whole thing here. Today they have also done a live streamed album release concert, followed by a Q&A. Plus they recently did a performance of the album’s “Another Lover” for COLORS STUDIOS. More

Mar 04, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

Swedish electro-pop band Little Dragon are releasing a new album, New Me, Same Us, on March 27 via Ninja Tune. Now they have shared another song from it, “Are You Feeling Sad?” It features Colombian-American singer Kali Uchis. More

Jan 31, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

Welcome to the fourth Songs of the Week of 2020. There are lots of bass-heavy dance-y songs in the Top 4 this week. Some of this week’s best tracks were connected to albums newly announced this week, others were standalone singles, or additional new songs from previously announced albums. More

Jan 28, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

Swedish electro-pop band Little Dragon have announced a new album, New Me, Same Us, and shared its first single, “Hold On.” More

Oct 25, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Welcome to another Songs of the Week. It was another light week, in terms of compelling new songs this week. Hence, just like last week’s list, we only have a Top 8 again. The top two were pretty much a tie. We’re as surprised as you about our #1. More

Oct 22, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Swedish electro-pop band Little Dragon have shared a brand new song, “Tongue Kissing.” They have also announced some new 2020 tour dates. More

Apr 23, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Flying Lotus (aka Steven Ellison) is releasing a new album, Flamagra, on May 24 via Warp. Previously he shared a video for its first single, “Fire Is Coming” (the song and video both feature David Lynch). More

Oct 23, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Swedish electro-pop band Little Dragon are releasing a new EP, Lover Chanting, on November 9 via Ninja Tune (their first for the album). Previously they shared the EP’s title track, “Lover Chanting,” which was one of our Songs of the Week. Now they have shared a video for the song that finds the band in a fantasy online role playing game/video game world. 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 09, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Swedish electro-pop band Little Dragon have signed to Ninja Tune and announced a new EP for them, Lover Chanting. They have also shared the EP’s title track. More

Sep 28, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

We tend to avoid including cover versions in our Songs of the Week list, as they are not truly new songs, but this week we have included two notable ones in our main list. We also rarely include live songs in our Top 10 songs, but have made a big exception this week. More

Sep 26, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Swedish electro-pop band Little Dragon and Canadian instrumental hip-hop/jazz band BADBADNOTGOOD have teamed up for a new song, “Tried.” The song features lead vocals from Little Dragon’s Yukimi Nagano and is out now via Innovative Leisure. Listen below, followed by the cover art for the single. More

Mar 02, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Little Dragon released a new album, Season High, back in April 2017 via Loma Vista. Last week they shared a brand new song not found on that album, “Sway Daisy.” Now the band has shared another new song, “Best Friends.” It turns out both songs will be on a 12-inch single released on April 20. More

Feb 23, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Little Dragon released a new album, Season High, back in April 2017 via Loma Vista. Now they have shared a brand new song not found on that album, “Sway Daisy.” The band have some March tour dates that start next Friday and no doubt the new standalone track is tied to those. Check out the song and tour dates below. More

Sep 29, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

It wasn’t the strongest week for truly compelling new tracks, but there was still enough of note to make us rally and put together a decent Songs of the Week post. To help you sort through the multitude of fresh songs released in the last seven days, we have picked the seven best this week had to offer, along with highlighting other notable new tracks shared this week. More

Sep 29, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Little Dragon released a new album, Season High, back in April via Loma Vista. Now they have shared a video for a brand new song not found on that album, “Peace of Mind.” It features the guest vocals of ‘90s R&B icon Faith Evans (as well as those of Little Dragon singer Yukimi Nagano). More

Jul 20, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Little Dragon released a new album, Season High, back in April via Loma Vista. Now they have shared a video for “Strobe Light.” Kristin-Lee Moolman & IB Kamara directed the video, which features two dancers from Johannesburg and was filmed in the South African city. More

Apr 27, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Little Dragon releaseda new album, Season High, digitally a couple of weeks back (and in stores May 5) via Loma Vista. Previously they have shared three songs from it: “High,” “Sweet,” and “Celebrate,” as well as a video for “Sweet.” More

Apr 10, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Little Dragon are releasing a new album, Season High, digitally this Friday, April 14 (and in stores May 5) via Loma Vista. Previously they have shared two songs from it, “High” and “Sweet,” as well as a video for “Sweet.” Now they have shared another song from it, “Celebrate.” More

Apr 07, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Under the Radar is excited to announce the full details of our Spring 2017 Issue, which is out now digitally via Under the Radar’s app and the magazine app Readly. The print version is about to ship out to subscribers and stores and will be on all newsstands soon (as well as available soon digitally via the magazine apps Zinio and Readly). More

Mar 09, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Little Dragon shared a new song, “High,” on Valentine’s Day. Then yesterday frontwoman Yukimi Nagano was interviewed on BBC Radio 1 and during the interview they played another brand new song, “Sweet,” and Nagano also revealed that the new album was entitledSeason High. More

Mar 08, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Little Dragon recently released a new song, “High.” Today frontwoman Yukimi Nagano was interviewed on BBC Radio 1 and during the interview they played another brand new song, “Sweet.” Nagano also revealed that the new album was entitled Season High. More

Jul 21, 2015 By Michael Burnell

Last weekend London’s Victoria Park was the site of the Lovebox Festival. Check out photographer Michael Burnell’s gallery of images featuring April Towers, Catching Flies, Danny Brown, Dornik, Flight Facilities, Flume, Jessie Ware, Kiko Bun, Lion Babe, Little Dragon, Rag N Bone Man, Raury, Seinabo Sey, Snoop Dogg, and Vaults. More

Feb 12, 2015 By Laura Studarus

Little Dragon is hitting the road for a string of North American live dates in support of Nabuma Rubberband. More

Nov 06, 2014 By Laura Studarus

Little Dragon’s new video for Nabuma Rubberband cut “Underbart” features none other than The Germs’ Don Bolles. More

Aug 22, 2014 By Laura Studarus

“Like a Version” strikes again. More

Aug 11, 2014 By Marie Noble

Last week, Oslo, Norway hosted The Øya Festival. We sent writer/photographer Laura Studarus over to cover the event. More

Aug 08, 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 Tweedy, A Sunny Day in Glasgow, Ryn Weaver, Happyness, Lemonade, Medicine, Gold Panda, Little Dragon, Mr. Twin Sister, Bass Drum of Death, Celebration, Lily & Madeleine, Glass Ghost, Zammuto, Yumi Zouma, Wyldest, Swim Mountain, and more. Look no further, your Friday and weekend playlist is here. More

Jul 03, 2014 By Cody Ray Shafer

To unveil their new music streaming service, Milk Music, Samsung enlisted the help of Charli XCX, Iggy Azaela, Chromeo, Childish Gambino, and Little Dragon in a new ad. More

Jul 02, 2014 By Cody Ray Shafer

Little Dragon just released a new video from their latest LP Nabuma Rubberband. It’s a follow-up to their last video, “Klapp Klapp,” and directed by Nabil. “Pretty Girls” is moody, dark, and unsettling, following a disturbing kidnapping from a graveyard to a low-end beauty pageant. Oh, there’s also zombies. More

Apr 23, 2014 By Laura Studarus

Little Dragon stopped by The Queen Latifah show today and blew the roof off of daytime television with their live take on new single, “Paris.” More

Apr 22, 2014 By Laura Studarus

Little Dragon’s newest offering Nabuma Rubberband is due out May 13 on Loma Vista. More

Apr 09, 2014 By Laura Studarus

BBC Radio 1’s Zane Lowe had the honor of debuting “Paris” the new single from Little Dragon’s forthcoming album Nabuma Rubberband. More

Mar 27, 2014 By Laura Studarus

Swedish electro soul outfit Little Dragon is coming to North America in support of their forthcoming album Nabuma Rubberband. More

Feb 20, 2014 By Laura Studarus

Last night Little Dragon took the stage at The Late Show with David Letterman. More

Feb 14, 2014 By Mike Hilleary

Gothenburg four-piece Little Dragon have announced the release of their fourth full-length album, Nabuma Rubberband. More

Dec 23, 2011 By Mark Redfern and Laura Studarus

Under the Radar‘s Best of 2011 Issue has shipped out to subscribers and will be hitting newsstands soon. The issue features three unique covers, each featuring an artist behind one of our Top 5 albums of the year: M83, The Horrors, and Bon Iver. The issue also takes a look back at other artists who have made a splash in 2011, including Beirut, Anna Calvi, EMA, Florence and the Machine, Gang Gang Dance, Neon Indian, PJ Harvey, R.E.M., SBTRKT, Slow Club, St. Vincent, Summer Camp, tUnE-yArDs, and Yuck. More

Oct 27, 2011 By Laura Studarus

Funky Swedes Little Dragon have stepped into the studio with funky southerner, Big Boi. A match made in heaven, right? More

Aug 17, 2011 By Wendy Lynch Redfern

Check out photos from Day Three of the Outside Lands Festival, held in the historic Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, CA. The gallery includes photos of Arcade Fire, The Decemberists, tUnE-yArDs, Little Dragon, Beirut, Junip, !!!, Lord Huron and Major Lazer. More

Jul 18, 2011 By Mike Hilleary

In typical fashion NPR has gotten its hands on another much-anticipated album, this time around streaming the entirety of Little Dragon‘s Ritual Union. More

Jul 12, 2010 By Laura Studarus

Treasure Island has announced its lineup for the 2010 festival, held October 16th and 17th on Treasure Island in the middle of the San Francisco Bay. Split evenly between dance music and indie rockers, headliners includeLCD Soundsystem and Deadmau5 (Saturday) and Belle & Sebastian and The National (Sunday). We have the full lineup. More

Aug 13, 2014 By Laura Studarus

Every festival has one day that stands head and shoulders above the rest. While every day at Øya this year felt like an embarrassment of riches, Thursday was my absolute favorite—thanks to strong sets from Conor Oberst, JUNGLE, Janelle Monáe, Little Dragon, and Outkast. More

May 16, 2014 By Scott Dransfield

ukimi Nagano’s voice is a force of nature, but not in the way you might think. As the frontwoman for Sweden’s Little Dragon, Nagano has a smoky, sultry R&B voice that is instantly recognizable. She’s backed by a band that knows how to meld and shape minimalist electronica into the pop landscape, throwing in a good measure of classic soul. More

Jul 25, 2011 By Laura Studarus

Little Dragon has never suffered from a lack of confidence. For their last two albums the Swedish trio has felt like a representative of dangerous soul, slipping through slinky space-aged R&B, topped by singer Yukimi Nagano’s seductive whisper. More