Jul 13, 2023 By Mark Redfern

Oakland-based singer/songwriter Madeline Kenney is releasing a new album, A New Reality Mind. Now she has shared its third and final pre-release single, “Plain Boring Disaster,” via a lyric video. More

Jun 09, 2023 By Mark Redfern (with Kat Ramkumar)

Welcome to the 21st Songs of the Week of 2023. The theme this week was horns, three of the songs in the Top 4 feature some sort of brass instrument (saxophone, etc.). Stricken with indecision, we settled on a Top 13 this week. More

Jun 08, 2023 By Mark Redfern

Oakland-based singer/songwriter Madeline Kenney is releasing a new album, A New Reality Mind, on July 28 via Carpark. Now she has shared its second single, “I Drew a Line,” via a self-directed music video. She’s also announced some new tour dates. More

May 12, 2023 By Mark Redfern (with Caleb Campbell)

Welcome to the 17th Songs of the Week of 2023. This week we had an obvious #1, a clear highlight to top the list. But there were plenty of other solid tracks too, including three from newly announced albums. More

May 11, 2023 By Mark Redfern

Oakland-based singer/songwriter Madeline Kenney has announced a new album, A New Reality Mind, and shared its first single, “Superficial Conversation,” via a self-directed music video. More

Nov 19, 2021 By Mark Redfern (with Joey Arnone)

Welcome to the 44th Songs of the Week of 2021. It was a fairly slow week for new songs, perhaps with Thanksgiving impending next week, but we found 10 we liked. More

Nov 17, 2021 By Joey Arnone

Oakland-based singer/songwriter Madeline Kenney has shared a new song, “I’ll Get Over It.” More

Apr 21, 2021 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 Japanese Breakfast and HAIM on the two covers and is another edition of The Protest Issue, which examines the intersection of music and politics and features musicians photographed with protest signs of their own making. More

Jan 29, 2021 By Mark Redfern (with Joey Arnone and Caleb Campbell)

Welcome to the third Songs of the Week of 2021. We didn’t do a Songs of the Week last week. Due to the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday and the inauguration, it was a week light on compelling new tracks. So this week we chronicle the best songs of the last two weeks, so it’s a Top 12 (and our Top 2 are both super long songs). More

Jan 22, 2021 By Joey Arnone

Oakland-based singer/songwriter Madeline Kenney has released a new self-produced EP titled Summer Quarter via Carpark. Kenney has also shared a self-directed video for the EP’s “Wasted Time,” which was shot at the Greek Theatre in Berkeley. 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 31, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

Oakland, CA-based singer/songwriter Madeline Kenney has released a new album, Sucker’s Lunch, today via Carpark. Now that it’s out you can stream the whole thing below. Today we posted our review of the album and you can read that here. More

Jul 28, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

Oakland, CA-based singer/songwriter Madeline Kenney is releasing a new album, Sucker’s Lunch, this Friday via Carpark. Now she has shared one last pre-release single from it, “White Window Light.” She has also shared a new live video for the song. More

Jul 24, 2020 By Christopher Roberts (with Samantha Small and Julian Roberts-Grmela)

Welcome to the 29th Songs of the Week of 2020, the most exhausting year in recent memory. President Trump finally wore a mask and kind of admitted that things weren’t going so great in the fight against COVID-19 here in America. It seems inevitable that they are going to need to shut the economy down again if we are to get this thing under control—close the bars, restaurants, and beaches again for starters. Will it happen? More

Jul 21, 2020 By Samantha Small

Pictures tend to bring back memories. But if you’re looking at a picture of your lover, they often just lead you to wonder: who were you? And how did you end up this way? In “Picture of You,” Oakland, CA-based singer/songwriter Madeline Kenney asks these questions on the track off her forthcoming album Sucker’s Lunch, out July 31 via Carpark. More

Jul 03, 2020 By Christopher Roberts (with Stephen Axeman)

Welcome to the 26th Songs of the Week of 2020. Tomorrow is Independence Day here in America, but it’s hard to feel overly patriotic this year with the Trump administration continuing to botch the response to the pandemic and with so much to fix in this country—including systemic racism, police brutality, gun reform, climate change, and wealth inequality, to name just a handful of challenges. More

Jun 30, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

Oakland, CA-based singer/songwriter Madeline Kenney is releasing a new album, Sucker’s Lunch, on July 31 via Carpark. Now she has shared another song from it, “Double Hearted,” via a lyric video for the track that features a fruity dessert being made. More

Jun 12, 2020 By Mark Redfern

We are checking in with musicians during the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic to see how they are dealing with everything. What has their home quarantine experience been like so far and how is the crisis impacting both their career and art? Here we check in with Oakland, CA-based singer/songwriter Madeline Kenney. More

May 22, 2020 By Christopher Roberts (with Samantha Small)

Welcome to the nineteenth Songs of the Week of 2020. It’s another week under quarantine, the same as the last week. This week we were quite indecisive about our favorite songs and even polled our readers on Facebook and Twitter, which helped a little. More

May 19, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

Oakland, CA-based singer/songwriter Madeline Kenney has announced a new album, Sucker’s Lunch, and shared its first single, “Sucker,” via a self-directed video for the track. “Sucker” features guest vocals from Lambchop’s Kurt Wagner and the album was produced by Jenn Wasner and Andy Stack of Wye Oak. More

Feb 15, 2019 By Mark Redfern

It was pretty rough week to be a Ryan Adams fan. We won’t regurgitate the details, but if you haven’t already done so then you should read The New York Times article detailing the sexual misconduct allegations made against him by Mandy Moore, Phoebe Bridgers, and several other women. More

Feb 11, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Madeline Kenney released her sophomore album, Perfect Shapes, last October via Carpark. Jenn Wasner of Wye Oak and Flock of Dimes produced the album and now the two have teamed up again for a split 7-inch and a joint tour. Wasner contributes “The Sisters” under her Flock of Dimes alias, whereas Kenney’s song is entitled “Helpless.” More

Nov 16, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

For My Favorite New Band we ask an established artist to tell us about their favorite new artist. This installment is by Madeline Kenney, who writes about Dante High. More

Oct 05, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

This week we have a tie for Album of the Week, with both Madeline Kenney‘s Perfect Shapes and Phosphorescent‘s C’est La Vie taking the top spot. Below is info on both albums.

Oct 05, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

This week Sharon Van Etten and Moonface announced new albums and their lead singles both made this week’s Songs of the Week list. Joining them are new standalone singles from Julia Jacklin, Jessie Ware, and SOAK, as well as some singles from upcoming albums, and an eight-minute album track. But our #1 this week is a bonus track that probably shouldn’t have been cut from an album released earlier this year. More

Oct 05, 2018 By Madeline Kenney

Madeline Kenney released her sophomore album, Perfect Shapes, today via Carpark. In this guest post for us, she writes about one of her personal favorite albums, an album she considers underrated, Paul Simon’s 1980 album One-Trick Pony. More

Oct 05, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Madeline Kenney released her sophomore album, Perfect Shapes, today via Carpark. Now that the album is out, you can stream the whole thing here. More

Oct 01, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Madeline Kenney is releasing her sophomore album, Perfect Shapes, this Friday (October 5) via Carpark. Now she has shared another new song from the album, the slow burning title track “Perfect Shapes.” More

Sep 14, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

We spent the week wondering if Hurricane Florence was going to hit us here at our headquarters in Southwest Virginia. Lucky for us, it seems to have angled further south, and while we may still get some heavy rains and winds in the coming days and week, it likely won’t be as devastating to Virginia as feared. More

Sep 12, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Madeline Kenney is releasing her sophomore album, Perfect Shapes, on October 5 via Carpark. Now she has shared another new song from the album, “Bad Idea,” via a lyric video. Listen and watch below, followed by her upcoming tour dates. More

Aug 17, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

We took a break from Songs of the Week last week due to a little vacation by our publishers. So this week we are compiling the best songs of the last two weeks. Hence we couldn’t contain the list to our usual Top 10, although we didn’t do too badly, only expanding to a Top 11 and a few more honorable mentions than usual. More

Aug 15, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Madeline Kenney is releasing her sophomore album, Perfect Shapes, on October 5 via Carpark. Previously she shared a video for its first single, “Cut Me Off” (which was our #1 Song of the Week). Now she has shared another new song from the album, “Overhead,” via a self-directed video. More

Jul 13, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Hello again. We haven’t done a Songs of the Week for almost five weeks, since June 9. We were on vacation from mid to late June and then when we returned there really weren’t enough compelling songs last week to justify doing Songs of the Week lists, mainly because of the July 4th holiday being smack dab in the middle of the week and so labels mainly avoided sharing new songs. More

Jul 11, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Madeline Kenney has announced her sophomore album, Perfect Shapes, and shared a video for its first single, “Cut Me Off.” Jenn Wasner of Wye Oak and Flock of Dimes produced the album, which is due out October 5 via Carpark. 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 25, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Madeline Kenney released her debut album, Night Night at the First Landing, back in September via Company. Now she has shared a brand new song, “Still Learning.” It features Naytronix (aka Nate Brenner of Tune-Yards) and is out now via Carpark. More

Dec 31, 2017 By Mark Redfern

The majority of 2017’s best debut albums came from female artists or bands fronted by women, from London-based all-female indie-pop teenaged trio Girl Ray and Syria-born singer/songwriter Bedouine (aka Azniv Korkejian) to Australian indie rocker Alex Lahey and New Zealand bedroom pop artist Fazerdaze (aka Amelia Murray). Midnight Sister, Priests, and Charly Bliss are all female-fronted bands as well, on top of other women solo artists on our Top 15 Debut Albums of 2017 list. More

Dec 13, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Madeline Kenney released her debut album, Night Night at the First Landing, back in September via Company. Now she has shared a video for “Witching Hour.” Kenney self-directed the video, which is a split-screen affair showing Kenney sing the song on one side of the screen, while shots of friends, skateboarding, and a city appear on the other side of the screen. More

Nov 21, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Madeline Kenney released her debut album, Night Night at the First Landing, back in September via Company. Now she has shared a new cover of Cass McCombs’ “Medusa’s Outhouse,” which is not found on her debut album. More

Nov 16, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Toro Y Moi released a new album, Boo Boo, way back in July via Carpark. Previously he shared a retro ‘80s-esque video for its first single, “Girl Like You,” as well as a video for “You and I.” Now many months later he has shared a video for the album’s “No Show.” More

Sep 18, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Madeline Kenney released her debut album, Night Night at the First Landing, at the beginning of the month via Company. Previously “Rita” was one of our Songs of the Week, and we also shared another song from the album, “Big One” (which was also one of our Songs of the Week). More

Aug 18, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Charlottesville, Virginia is only just over an hour a way from Under the Radar‘s headquarters. It’s the best local city to see shows in and it’s a great little progressive college town that we visit often. So we watched in horror, disbelief, and disgust last weekend as the violent and tragic events in Charlottesville surrounding the white supremacist rally dominated the news. More

Aug 15, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Madeline Kenney‘s upcoming debut album, Night Night at the First Landing, was produced by Toro Y Moi’s Chaz Bear (formerly known as Chaz Bundick), but there’s nothing chillwave or dance-y about it. More

Jun 23, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

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

Jun 12, 2020 By Mark Redfern

We are checking in with musicians during the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic to see how they are dealing with everything. What has their home quarantine experience been like so far and how is the crisis impacting both their career and art? Here we check in with Oakland, CA-based singer/songwriter Madeline Kenney. More

Jan 11, 2018 By Mark Redfern

For Under the Radar‘s 15th annual Artist Survey we emailed some of our favorite artists a few questions relating to the last year. We asked them about their favorite albums of the year and their thoughts on various notable 2017 news stories involving either the music industry or world events, as well as some quirkier personal questions. More

Nov 15, 2017 By Ellen Peirson-Hagger

“We’re all just an amalgamation of salt ions and that’s pretty cool,” Madeline Kenney says over the phone from her Oakland, California home. It’s not a line you’d necessarily expect to hear from a musician, but Kenney is hardly your average singer/songwriter. More

Oct 11, 2018 By Matt the Raven

Hot on the heels of last year’s Night Night at the First Landing, Oakland, CA native Madeline Kenney returns with a kinder, gentler, and more eclectic collection of songs she calls Perfect Shapes. More