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

Jun 28, 2024 By Mark Redfern (with Andy Von Pip and Marina Malin)

Welcome to the 21st Songs of the Week of 2024. This week Andy Von Pip, Caleb Campbell, Mark Moody, Matt the Raven, and Scott Dransfield helped me decide what should make the list. We seriously considered over 25 songs this week and narrowed it down to a Top 12. More

Jun 26, 2024 By Mark Redfern

Loma are releasing a new album, How Will I Live Without a Body, this Friday via Sub Pop. Now they have shared its third single, “Affinity,” via a music video. More

May 17, 2024 By Mark Redfern (with Andy Von Pip)

Welcome to the 17th Songs of the Week of 2024. This week Andy Von Pip, Matt the Raven, Mark Moody, Scott Dransfield, and Stephen Humphries helped me decide what should make the list. We seriously considered over 25 songs this week and narrowed it down to a Top 11. More

May 15, 2024 By Mark Redfern

Loma are releasing a new album, How Will I Live Without a Body, on June 28 via Sub Pop. Now they have shared its second single, “Pink Sky,” via an animated video. More

Apr 19, 2024 By Mark Redfern (with Andy Von Pip)

Welcome to the thirteenth Songs of the Week of 2024. This week Andy Von Pip, Caleb Campbell, Scott Dransfield, and Stephen Humphries helped me decide what should make the list. We seriously considered over 20 songs this week and narrowed it down to a Top 10. More

Apr 16, 2024 By Mark Redfern

Loma have announced a new album, How Will I Live Without a Body, and shared its first single, “How It Starts,” via a music video. More

Oct 09, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

Welcome to the 39th Songs of the Week of 2020. We skipped Songs of the Week last week because we had other plans last Friday, so this week’s list covers two weeks worth of songs. More

Oct 06, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

Loma are releasing a new album, Don’t Shy Away, on October 23 via Sub Pop. Now they have shared another song from it, “Elliptical Days,” via a video. Watch it below. More

Sep 25, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

Welcome to the 38th Songs of the Week of 2020. This was the week where those on the left mourned the death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and worried about the future of the Supreme Court, as her dying wish to have her replacement be appointed by the next president was ignored by hypocritical Republicans who blocked President Obama’s Supreme Court pick because it was an election year. Meanwhile America reached the sad milestone of 200,000 COVID-19 deaths, there was no justice for Breonna Taylor, and President Trump strongly suggested that he may not leave office peacefully if Biden wins. More

Sep 23, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

Loma are releasing a new album, Don’t Shy Away, on October 23 via Sub Pop. Now they have shared two new songs from it, title track “Don’t Shy Away” and “I Fix My Gaze,” both via videos. More

Jul 31, 2020 By Christopher Roberts (with Samantha Small and Jennifer Irving)

Welcome to the 30th Songs of the Week of 2020. This week President Trump suggested that November’s election be pushed back, something he thankfully has no authority to do. Meanwhile on the same day three other living presidents were honoring the late Congressman John Lewis, with President Barack Obama’s moving eulogy offering a stark contrast to the current commander in chief. More

Jul 29, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

Loma have announced a new album, Don’t Shy Away, and shared a new song from it, “Ocotillo,” via a lyric video. One song, “Homing,” was produced by Brian Eno. More

Sep 27, 2019 By Mark Redfern

Under the Radar is excited to announce the My Favorite Album Issue, our new print issue in which we speak to musicians and actors about their all-time favorite album. The issue features Angel Olsen and Sleater-Kinney on the two covers and is available to buy directly from us here, as well as being distributed in stores nationwide (on newsstands, in such stores as Barnes & Noble and Books-A-Million, and elsewhere). More

Jun 25, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Cross Record is the project of Emily Cross, who is also the vocalist in Loma. Cross Record is releasing a new self-titled album on August 2 via Ba Da Bing and now she has shared a new song from it, “The Fly.” She has also announced some new North American tour dates, as well as some “Living Funeral” events. More

Apr 05, 2019 By Mark Redfern

Welcome to another Songs of the Week. There were a slew of notable new tracks to choose from this week, but our #1 is a song we’ve been planning to add to the Songs of the Week list for a while now and finally could now that the album has been released today. More

Apr 01, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Late last week Loma shared a video for a brand new song, “Half Silences.” We didn’t see the press release and since the news was only posted to a handful of other websites we slept on this news. More

Dec 21, 2018 By Mark Redfern

Ahead of our forthcoming Top 100 Albums of 2018 list, we present our favorite debut albums of the year. To qualify, an album simply had to be the artist’s first full-length release under their current artist name. More

Nov 06, 2018 By Jonathan Meiburg

To help motivate our American readers to get out to the voting booth today, we’ve asked some musicians to share words of encouragement. In this piece, Jonathan Meiburg of both Shearwater and Loma writes about the one election choice he once made that he sincerely regrets. More

May 29, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

The iconic Seattle-based label Sub Pop is turning 30 this year and to honor the occasion they have announced SPF30, a partially free festival to take place in their hometown in August that includes various events, including a comedy one featuring the cast of Bob’s Burgers. More

May 23, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

A band like Loma, as great as they are, probably doesn’t get a huge budget for a music video for a deep cut from the album, three months after the album came out. Hence their new video for “White Glass” is a fairly simple and low budget concept. The black & white clip features singer Emily Cross drawing out picture representations of the song’s lyrics on a big pad of paper, as if playing a game of Pictionary. More

Mar 29, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Loma is a new band consisting of Shearwater singer Jonathan Meiburg and the two members of Cross Record (Emily Cross and Dan Duszynski). They released their self-titled debut album back in February via Sub Pop. Now they have shared a video for “Dark Oscillations.” More

Mar 28, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Under the Radar is excited to announce the full details of our Spring 2018 Issue, which is out now digitally via Under the Radar’s app and the magazine apps Readly and Zinio. The print version has shipped out to subscribers and stores and will be on all newsstands soon. The issue features Courtney Barnett on the cover. More

Jan 26, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

After two weeks of a plethora of tracks vying to be one of our Songs of the Week, this week the pickings were slimmer. Thus this week we have only nine best songs, instead of 10. There were also a lot of covers this week. More

Jan 24, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Loma is a new band consisting of Shearwater singer Jonathan Meiburg and the two members of Cross Record (Emily Cross and Dan Duszynski). They are releasing their self-titled debut album on February 16 via Sub Pop. More

Jan 11, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Loma is a new band consisting of Shearwater singer Jonathan Meiburg and the two members of Cross Record (Emily Cross and Dan Duszynski). They are releasing their self-titled debut album on February 16 via Sub Pop. More

Dec 12, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Loma is a new band consisting of Shearwater singer Jonathan Meiburg and the two members of Cross Record (Emily Cross and Dan Duszynski). They are releasing their self-titled debut album on February 16, 2018 via Sub Pop. They previously shared a video for the album’s closing track, “Black Willow.” Now they have shared another song from the album, the Krautrock-y “Relay Runner.” More

Nov 17, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

As we get into the holiday season and build up to Thanksgiving next year there were inevitably less new songs of note this week, but there were still enough gems for a Songs of the Week post. We’ve got three songs from upcoming debut albums due out in 2018 and two songs from Tame Impala tied for #2. More

Nov 15, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Loma is a new band consisting of Shearwater singer Jonathan Meiburg and the two members of Cross Record (Emily Cross and Dan Duszynski). They have announced their self-titled debut album and shared a video for the album’s closing track, “Black Willow.” More

Apr 03, 2018 By Max Freedman

Jonathan Meiburg’s favorite moment from Loma, his collaborative record with Dan Duszynski and Emily Cross of Cross Record, happened completely by accident. As Meiburg, best known as the mastermind behind 21st century indie mainstay Shearwater, tells it, the song “I Don’t Want Children” “happened very quickly, but was completely random. More

Feb 21, 2018 By Chris K. Davidson

Unconventional rhythms, melodies, and instrumentations drape themselves across the tracks of the self-titled full-length debut by Loma, a recent signing by Sub Pop that consists of Jonathan Meiburg of Shearwater and Cross Record’s Emily Cross and Dan Duszynski. More