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Part of the Anti-Trump "30 Days, 30 Songs" Project
Oct 17, 2016
By Christopher Roberts
EL VY (the project of The National’s frontman Matt Berninger and former Menomena member Brent Knopf, who also records as Ramona Falls) released their excellent debut album, Return to the Moon, last October via 4AD. More
Return to the Moon Out Now via 4AD
Aug 09, 2016
By Christopher Roberts
EL VY (the project of The National’s frontman Matt Berninger and former Menomena member Brent Knopf, who also records as Ramona Falls) released their excellent debut album, Return to the Moon, last October via 4AD. They have been releasing amusing black & white videos for all of the songs on the album and now here’s the final one, for “Careless.” More
Return to the Moon Out Now via 4AD
Nov 24, 2015
By Christopher Roberts
EL VY (the project of The National’s frontman Matt Berninger and former Menomena member Brent Knopf, who also records as Ramona Falls) released their excellent debut album, Return to the Moon, at the end of October via 4AD. Now they have shared a video for “No Time to Crank the Sun.” As with all of EL VY’s videos thus far, Matt’s brother Tom Berninger directed the clip. More
Return to the Moon Out Now via 4AD
Nov 03, 2015
By Christopher Roberts
The National’s frontman Matt Berninger has teamed up with former Menomena member Brent Knopf (who also records as Ramona Falls) for the new project EL VY. The duo just released their great debut album as EL VY, Return to the Moon, last Friday via 4AD. Last night they opened their tour at Portland’s Doug Fir Lounge in what was essentially their first full on live show (beyond some shorter performances). More
Return to the Moon Due Out This Friday via 4AD
Oct 29, 2015
By Christopher Roberts
The National’s frontman Matt Berninger has teamed up with former Menomena member Brent Knopf (who also records as Ramona Falls) for the new project EL VY. The duo will be releasing their debut album as EL VY, Return to the Moon, tomorrow (Friday, October 30) via 4AD. Today they have shared another single for it, “Silent Ivy Hotel,” via Spotify. More
Return to the Moon Due Out This Friday via 4AD
Oct 26, 2015
By Christopher Roberts
The National’s frontman Matt Berninger has teamed up with former Menomena member Brent Knopf (who also records as Ramona Falls) for the new project EL VY. The duo will be releasing their debut album as EL VY, Return to the Moon, this Friday (October 30) via 4AD. Today they have shared another single for it, “Need a Friend,” via its lyric video. More
Return to the Moon Due Out October 30 via 4AD
Oct 01, 2015
By Christopher Roberts
The National’s frontman Matt Berninger has teamed up with former Menomena member Brent Knopf (who also records as Ramona Falls) for the new project EL VY. The duo will be releasing their debut album as EL VY, Return to the Moon, on October 30 via 4AD. More
Return to the Moon Due Out October 30 via 4AD
Sep 24, 2015
By Christopher Roberts
The National’s frontman Matt Berninger has teamed up with former Menomena member Brent Knopf (who also records as Ramona Falls) for the new project EL VY. The duo will be releasing their debut album as EL VY, Return to the Moon, on October 30 via 4AD. Berninger and Knopf did a session atStudio Brussels and performed the previously unheard Return to the Moon song “No Time to Crank the Sun.” More
Return to the Moon Due Out October 30 via 4AD
Aug 04, 2015
By Christopher Roberts
The National’s frontman Matt Berninger has teamed up with former Menomena member Brent Knopf (who also records as Ramona Falls) for the new project EL VY. More
Co-Headlining with The Helio Sequence
Jul 16, 2013
By Mike Hilleary
Menomena, who are continuing their support of their latest LP Moms, have announced plans for a new fall tour. More
Jan 18, 2013
By Mike Hilleary
Last year, Menomena released their excellent fifth studio album Moms. More
Expanding Tour Through 2013
Nov 12, 2012
By Mike Hilleary
Menomena have announced a number of new tour dates in support of the duo’s latest album Moms. More
Oct 25, 2012
By Laura Studarus
Take a listen to this dramatically reworked take on “Plumage,” a track from recently released Menomena album, Moms. More
Oct 03, 2012
By Mike Hilleary
For the music video of their Moms single “Plumage” Menomena‘s Justin Harris and Danny Seim set out to prove that what we put on the outside can in fact say a lot about who we are on the inside. More
Sep 06, 2012
By Laura Studarus
On September 18, Menomena will release their spectacular new album, Moms. Ahead of that, the duo has been slowly letting off tracks into the wild, including today’s offering, “Pique.” More
Aug 22, 2012
By Mike Hilleary
Revving up the anticipation of their forthcoming new album Moms, indie duo Menomena have followed up the release of their single “Heavy Is as Heavy Does” with another portion of the record entitled “Capsule.” More
Jul 18, 2012
By Mike Hilleary
Announcing the release of their new album Moms last month, Portland duo Menomena have now shared the first piece of music from the effort with “Heavy Is As Heavy Does.” More
Auction Also Features Surfer Blood and Owen Pallett, and Includes Signed Posters, Vinyl, Headphones, and a Guitar Donated by Hooray for Earth
May 12, 2011
By Mark Redfern
Under the Radar magazine’s online charity auction for the Japan relief effort ends today, Thursday, May 12, at 10 a.m. PST/1 p.m. EST. It’s your last chance to get bids in to win an Under the Radar SXSW poster signed by all the artists who played our party, either a guitar autographed by Hooray for Earth or top-of-the-line headphones from Shure, plus 11 pieces of vinyl, 3 CDs, 1 cassette, 2 bags, and an Under the Radar subscription!
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Auction Also Features Surfer Blood and Menomena, and Includes Signed Posters, Vinyl, Headphones, and a Guitar Donated by Hooray for Earth
May 05, 2011
By Mark Redfern
Under the Radar magazine is hosting an online charity auction for the Japan relief effort that starts today and features Okkervil River, Menomena, Owen Pallett, Telekinesis, Surfer Blood, Hooray for Earth, and Porcelain Raft. More
Bands Record Exclusive Videos
Mar 21, 2011
By Laura Studarus
During the two days of Under the Radar’s SXSW parties we recorded exclusive greetings from some of the artists playing. In case you missed them on our Twitter and Facebook feeds, we’ve collected them here. More
Mar 10, 2011
By Lauren Barbato
It’s a classic night on the town for Menomena’s Joe Haege in their latest video, “Taos.” We have the vid. More
Dates in Australia and the U.S.
Feb 01, 2011
By Laura Studarus
While Brent Knopf has departed the band to focus on solo project Ramona Falls, the remaining members of Menomena (bolstered by new addition Joe Haege of 31 Knots and Tu Fawning) are heading out to see the world. We have the dates. More
Australia and North America Dates
Jan 07, 2011
By Laura Studarus
Menomena are prepped to start touring heavily behind last year’s release, Mines. We have the dates. More
Sep 29, 2010
By Laura Studarus
Last night, Menomena took to the Last Call with Carson Daly stage to play “Taos,” a cut from recently released fourth full-length, Mines. We have the video. More
Musicians and Actors on Their Childhood Memories
Jul 29, 2010
By Mark Redfern
Under the Radar‘s Summer 2010 issue is a special issue we’re calling the Wasted on the Youth Issue. The basic idea of the issue was to talk to musicians and actors about various facets of their childhood/teenage years, from their first favorite bands/concerts to childhood memories to movies/TV shows of their youth, etc. We were interested in talking to musicians and actors about some of their earliest memories and their childhood passions. Many of the articles include childhood or teenage photos of the musicians interviewed. We have the full details on the issue that includes these artists: The National, The Antlers, Fred Armisen, Camera Obscura, Judah Friedlander, Fucked Up vs. Devo, Here We Go Magic, Jim James, Jónsi, Kele, The Kids in the Hall, Liars, Local Natives, Menomena, Chloë Grace Moretz, Elisabeth Moss, Portishead, Robert Rodriguez, School of Seven Bells, Tegan and Sara, Russell Tovey, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Edgar Wright, and many more! More
Dates Begin September 10th
Jun 09, 2010
By Laura Studarus
In support of upcoming fourth album Mines (July 27th), Portland trio Menomena is taking to the road this September and October for a North American tour. We have the dates. More
Mines will be out July 27
May 19, 2010
By Kyle Lemmon
After a three-year wait, the experimental indie-rock trio Menomena will finally release the follow-up to Friend and Foe: Mines. Their fourth LP streets July 26 in Europe (via City Slang) and July 27 in North America (courtesy of Barsuk). We also have the album tracklist and the excellent new single, “FIVE LITTLE ROOMS.” Listen to it here. More
Mines Will Arrive On July 27
Apr 07, 2010
By Kyle Lemmon
Portland experimental rockers Menomena are finally set to release their fourth album on July 27 through Barsuk (July 26 in Europe via City Slang). It’s entitled Mines and is the successor to the band’s excellent 2007 LP, Friend and Foe. More
Interviews
Together Apart: Matt Berninger of The National and Brent Knopf of Menomena and Ramona Falls on Their Years-in-the-Making Collaboration
Feb 19, 2016
By MIke Hilleary
Matt Berninger and Brent Knopf are at the same address, but they’re not in the same room. In New York City, “running around doing some TV tapings, radio thingies, and stuff like this,” as Berninger calls it, The National frontman is 17 stories up occupying a hotel suite overlooking the memorial site of Ground Zero. More
Reviews
Sep 17, 2012
By Laura Studarus
Holy vitriol, Batman! Menomena’s fifth full-length Moms doesn’t hold back on the bile, the band aiming their acid tongues at unsatisfying lovers and the family tree. Why, it’s enough to make matriarchs everywhere clutch at their pearls. More
Mar 29, 2011
By Mark Redfern
We were pretty sure that people would show up to our Thursday SXSW party because of our exclusive set by Atlas Sound, and while we were confident that we had an equally strong lineup for our Friday party (which was presented by Shure), we still weren’t certain how many fans would show up. But our immediate concern at the start of the party was whether our first artist would make it in time (if at all). Porcelain Raft (aka Italian born, London-based, Mauro Remiddi) had underestimated how far his hotel was from our venue (The Flamingo Cantina), was running late, and had a dead cell-phone and thus no way to let us know that he was indeed on his way. Thankfully the charming Remiddi arrived with a thousand apologies 10 minutes before he was scheduled to perform and because he’s a one-man band, was pretty much ready to go on time. The crowd, by the way, was as healthy in numbers as the day before, with a to-capacity venue and a line down the block most of the day. More