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Our Favorite 2021 Tracks That You Can Listen to All Day Long, All Day Long
Jan 25, 2022
By Mark Redfern
It is confounding that so many outlets insist on posting best songs of the year lists in early December. Not only are there several more weeks left in the year, in which a number of potential great songs could be released, it also takes time to digest all the tracks released in November and earlier in the fall. We’ve obviously taken too much time. More
Jan 07, 2022
By Mark Redfern
2021 began and ended in a state of uncertainty, but was still a fruitful year for new music. Here are Under the Radar‘s 100 favorite albums from the year. More
Plus Dry Cleaning, Amyl and the Sniffers, and a Wrap-up of the Week’s Other Notable New Tracks
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
Animal Out Now via Partisan/Chrysalis
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
Animal Due Out This Friday via Partisan/Chrysalis
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
Plus Bobby Gillespie and Jehnny Beth, Ade & Connan Mockasin, POND, and a Wrap-up of the Week’s Other Notable New Tracks
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
Animal Due Out July 30 via Partisan/Chrysalis
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
Plus Teenage Sequence, Nation of Language, LUMP, and a Wrap-up of the Week’s Other Notable New Tracks
Jun 04, 2021
By Mark Redfern (with Emma Goad)
Welcome to the 21st Songs of the Week of 2021. We figured it would be a quiet week for new songs, with Monday being a holiday here in America, but we were wrong. More
Animal Due Out July 30 via Partisan/Chrysalis
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
Plus HARD FEELINGS, Alex Lahey, Caveman, Liars, and a Wrap-up of the Week’s Other Notable New Tracks
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
Animal Due Out July 30 via Partisan/Chrysalis
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
A Soccer Mommy Sends Some Snail Mail to a Flasher, a Goat Girl, and a Serpent with Feet; What a Shame
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
Plus Tim Heidecker, Bill Ryder-Jones, Thundercat, and a Wrap-up of the Week's Other Notable New Tracks
Nov 02, 2018
By Christopher Roberts
It was shaping up to be a weak week for Songs of the Week, but then our #1 track emerged today and we dug a little deeper through the week’s songs and put together a compelling Top 10. It’s an eclectic mix of political songs, catchy mainstream pop, a strange sci-fi spoken word track, and some unapologetic guitar indie rock. More
Issue 64 Out Now and Also Includes Interviews with Interpol, Beach House, Wild Nothing, Death Cab for Cutie, Suede, Natalie Prass, Ethan Hawke vs. Phosphorescent, Christine and the Queens, Low, Snail Mail, and Much 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
Plus Underworld and Iggy Pop, Father John Misty, St. Vincent, Johnny Marr, and a Wrap-up of the Week's Other Notable New Tracks
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
LUMP Due Out Friday via Dead Oceans
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
Björk's First TV Performance in 8 Years; Plus Manic Street Preachers
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
Plus Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever, Ryley Walker, Arctic Monkeys, and a Wrap-up of the Last Two Weeks' Other Notable New Tracks
May 18, 2018
By Christopher Roberts
We skipped Songs of the Week last week for various reasons, but now we’re back with two week’s worth of songs. For that reason, this week it’s a Top 15, instead of our usual Top 10. More
LUMP Due Out June 1 via Dead Oceans
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
Plus Neko Case, Stuart A. Staples, Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever, Jenny Hval, Janelle Monáe, and a Wrap-up of the Week's Other Notable Tracks
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
LUMP Due Out June 1 via Dead Oceans, Watch Video for "Curse of the Contemporary"
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
Interviews
Spontaneous Psychoanalysis
Jul 29, 2021
By Larry Mullin
Like a fading memory revived and now vibrant, a haunting dream brought to life, or a newly legible passage in your notebook that had long been scribbled over, the music of LUMP sounds like secrets arising from your subconscious. This suits the idiosyncratic writing process that singer Laura Marling—an acclaimed folk solo star—adopted for this side-project with Mike Lindsay, famed for his acid folk band Tunng. 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
Reviews
Aug 25, 2021
By Max Pilley
It is hard not to feel that as society begins to return to normal, we should be looking to places like Green Man as a model to aim for. More
Jul 28, 2021
By Mark Moody
On a scale from one to extra lumpy, Laura Marling and Mike Lindsay’s latest collaboration as LUMP pushes the outer boundaries. In fact, looking back on their 2018 self-titled debut, the earlier album feels only to be testing the waters of where they could go. More
May 30, 2018
By Ben Jardine
As spontaneous in process as in final result, LUMP, the new collaboration between Laura Marling and Tunng’s Mike Lindsay, is remarkably fresh and hauntingly irresistible. More
