Dec 23, 2023 By Mark Redfern

Here we go again, racing to December’s finish line, eager to put another chaotic year in the rearview and nervous about what the next 12 months have in store for us. More

Oct 03, 2023 By Mark Redfern

Mitski released a new album, The Land is Inhospitable and So Are We, last month via Dead Oceans (stream it here). Now she has announced some 2024 North American tour dates in support of the album. The shows happen next January to April. More

Sep 15, 2023 By Mark Redfern

Mitski released a new album, The Land is Inhospitable and So Are We, today via Dead Oceans. Now she has shared a video for the album’s “My Love All Mine.” Also, stream the album here and read our rave review of it. More

Aug 25, 2023 By Mark Redfern (with Andy Von Pip)

Welcome to the 26th Songs of the Week of 2023. Last week’s Songs of the Week was our first one after a month-long hiatus and there were a lot of strong choices (plus we put together a playlist of all the great songs we missed while on vacation). This week, the pickings weren’t as plentiful, but there were still some new tracks we liked. More

Aug 23, 2023 By Mark Redfern

Mitski is releasing a new album, The Land is Inhospitable and So Are We, on September 15 via Dead Oceans. Now she has shared two more new songs from it, “Heaven” and “Star.” She has also announced some new UK and European tour dates. More

Jul 26, 2023 By Kat Ramkumar

Indie rock musician, Mitski, has announced her new album, The Land is Inhospitable and So Are We, and shared a music video for its lead single, “Bug Like an Angel.” More

Jan 24, 2023 By Mark Redfern

The nominations for the 95th Academy Awards have just been announced in Los Angeles by actors Riz Ahmed and Allison Williams. Everything Everywhere All At Once led with a total of 11 nominations, including Best Picture. Also nominated for the film is the song “This is a Life,” which was performed by Under the Radar favorites Mitski and David Byrne, as well as Son Lux’s score for the film getting a nod. Lady Gaga’s song for Top Gun: Maverick was also nominated. More

Dec 23, 2022 By Mark Redfern

Are things back to normal in 2022? They are, aren’t they? Well not quite. More

Jul 05, 2022 By Joey Arnone

Mitski has shared a remix of “Love Me More” from her newest album, Laurel Hell, done by techno artist Clark. 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

Apr 11, 2022 By Joey Arnone

The lineup for this year’s All Things Go festival has just been announced. It will feature Lorde, Mitski, and Bleachers as headliners in addition to Lucy Dacus, Julien Baker, Bartees Strange, and more. All Things Go 2022 will take place on Saturday, October 1 at Merriweather Post Pavilion. Tickets go on sale this Friday (April 15) at 10 a.m. EDT. More

Apr 05, 2022 By Mark Redfern

Mitski has announced a new summer touring schedule that includes some brand new dates as well as some dates that were previously rescheduled when someone in her touring party tested positive for COVID last month. The newly announced shows include a second date at New York’s Radio City Music Hall, some new shows in the UK and Europe, and a handful of other shows in North America, on top of the newly rescheduled dates. More

Mar 11, 2022 By Mark Redfern (with Joey Arnone)

Welcome to the tenth Songs of the Week of 2022. It was without a doubt the strongest week for new tracks so far this year. Some of our all time favorite artists put out new songs this week and there were several amazing songs that were seven or eight minutes long. There was much debate on what should make the main list and the best we could narrow it down to was a Top 15. More

Mar 08, 2022 By Joey Arnone

Mitski and David Byrne have collaborated with Son Lux, the composers of the upcoming A24 film Everything Everywhere All At Once. The resulting song, “This Is a Life,” is out now, and it will be featured on the film’s soundtrack, which is set to release on April 8 alongside the film. More

Mar 08, 2022 By Joey Arnone

Pitchfork Music Festival has announced their 2022 lineup. The National, Mitski, and The Roots will be headlining. Other acts include Spiritualized, Parquet Courts, Dawn Richard, Indigo De Souza, SPELLLING, Camp Cope, Wiki, Japanese Breakfast, Lucy Dacus, Low, Magdalena Bay, Dry Cleaning, Toro y Moi, and Cate Le Bon, among others. The festival will take place from July 15–17 at Union Park in Chicago. Tickets will go on sale this Friday (March 11) at 10 a.m. CST. More

Mar 08, 2022 By Mark Redfern

Norwegian-born/American-based singer/songwriter Sondre Lerche is releasing a new double album, Avatars of Love, on April 1 via PLZ/InGrooves. Now he has shared another song from it, “Summer In Reverse,” which features Japanese quartet CHAI. It was shared via a video that also features CHAI. Lerche is among the artists featured on our Covers of Covers album, which came out last Friday via American Laundromat. He covers Mitski’s “Townie.” More

Mar 02, 2022 By Mark Redfern

Mitski released a new album, Laurel Hell, last month via Dead Oceans. Last night she was the musical guest on Jimmy Kimmel Live! where she performed the album’s “Stay Soft.” It was one of the better sounding late night TV performances of recent memory. More

Feb 28, 2022 By Joey Arnone

Japan’s CHAI have launched a GoFundMe fundraiser after their trailer was stolen during the Austin stop of their current tour with Mitski. More

Feb 04, 2022 By Mark Redfern

Mitski has released a new album, Laurel Hell, today via Dead Oceans. In honor of release day she has shared a video for the album’s “Stay Soft.” You can also stream the album and read our rave review of it. More

Jan 14, 2022 By Mark Redfern (with Joey Arnone)

Welcome to the second Songs of the Week of 2022. It was a spectacular week for new songs, overwhelming almost, with several notable album announcements. So this week we have an oversized Top 14, rather than our regular Top 10. Fourteen songs for January 14! More

Jan 12, 2022 By Mark Redfern

Mitski is releasing a new album, Laurel Hell, on February 4 via Dead Oceans. Now she has shared the album’s fourth single, “Love Me More,” via a surreal video for it featuring a puppet version of Mitski and more. More

Dec 10, 2021 By Mark Redfern (with Joey Arnone)

Welcome to the 46th Songs of the Week of 2021. As the Christmas holidays creep in there are fewer new tracks of note to choose from. This week’s list is mainly populated with reliable established artists, rather than new up and comers. More

Dec 07, 2021 By Joey Arnone

Mitski has shared an animated lyric video for her new single “Heat Lightning.” It is the latest release from her forthcoming album, Laurel Hell, which will be out on February 4, 2022 via Dead Oceans. More

Nov 12, 2021 By Mark Redfern (with Joey Arnone)

Welcome to the 43rd Songs of the Week of 2021. It was a packed week for new songs. There were lots of big album announcements (Jack White even announced two new albums, although he didn’t share any new songs from either of them). And Under the Radar favorite Beach House put out four new songs! So the best we could narrow it down to this week was a Top 12. More

Nov 09, 2021 By Mark Redfern

Mitski has announced a new album, Laurel Hell, and shared a new song from it, “The Only Heartbreaker,” via a video for the single. More

Oct 08, 2021 By Mark Redfern (with Joey Arnone)

Welcome to the 38th Songs of the Week of 2021. It was a solid week for new tracks, including the first single from the first album in 17 years from some 1980s icons. More

Oct 05, 2021 By Mark Redfern

Mitski has shared a new song, “Working for the Knife,” via a dramatic video for the single. She has also announced some new 2022 tour dates. More

Jan 24, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

Welcome to the third Songs of the Week of 2020. It was a mixed week for new songs. There were certainly some good tracks this week, but few that screamed Top 10 of the week. More

Jan 21, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

Mitski has shared a new song, “Cop Car.” It is taken from the soundtrack to the upcoming horror film The Turning, which is a more modern version of Henry James’1898 horror novella The Turn of the Screw and due out this Friday. Also, Saturday’s episode of the PBS show Austin City Limits featured a set from Mitski and you can watch the entire performance here. More

Jan 17, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

Mitski will be the musical guest on the latest episode of Austin City Limits and prior to the full concert airing on PBS this Saturday at 9 p.m. Eastern, a clip of her performing “Happy” has been shared. More

Apr 22, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Acclaimed best selling authors Nick Hornby, Dave Eggers, and Michael Chabon have teamed up for the new charity project Setlists for Young Voices, where they are auctioning autographed setlists by R.E.M., Mitski, Wilco, Janelle Monáe, Sigur Rós, Better Oblivion Community Center, Death Cab for Cutie, Jim James, Patti Smith, More

Mar 01, 2019 By Mark Redfern

Under the Radar is excited to announce the full details of our new print issue, Issue 65, 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 Mitski on the front cover and boygenius (Julien Baker + Phoebe Bridgers + Lucy Dacus) on the back cover. More

Jan 31, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Mitski (full name Mitski Miyawaki) released a new album, Be the Cowboy, back in August 2018 via Dead Oceans. It was #2 on our Top 100 Albums of 2018 list. Now she has shared a video for the album’s “A Pearl.” The animated video is made up of 1,480 unique frames that were illustrated and painted and was produced in association with Spotify and Art Camp. More

Jan 07, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Governors Ball has announced the lineup for their 2019 festival, which goes down in New York City’s Randall’s Island Park the weekend of May 31 to June 2. The line-up includes Florence + the Machine; The Strokes; Tyler, The Creator; Mitski; and more. More

Dec 30, 2018 By Mark Redfern

And here we are, the end of another year. The last 12 months tried the patience of anyone who longed for civility in politics, with divisive policies and a president beloved by only his most ardent supporters. More

Dec 21, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Mitski (full name Mitski Miyawaki) released a new album, Be the Cowboy, back in August via Dead Oceans. Last night she stopped by Jimmy Kimmel Live! where she performed two songs from the album: “Nobody” and “Two Slow Dancers.” The latter was particularly mesmerizing, as it featured just Mitski and a keyboardist. More

Dec 10, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Mitski (full name Mitski Miyawaki) released a new album, Be the Cowboy, back in August via Dead Oceans. Now she has announced some 2019 U.S. tour dates. They go down next March and April. Tickets go on sale this Friday, December 14. Check out the dates below, followed by the videos for “Nobody” and “Washing Machine Heart.” More

Dec 07, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

The 2019 Grammy Awards nominations have been announced. Despite expanding the major categories from five nominees to eight this time, it’s still the usual collection of mainstream pop, R&B, and hip-hop artists, with rock generally shut out of the main categories. More

Sep 12, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Mitski (full name Mitski Miyawaki) released a new album, Be the Cowboy, last month via Dead Oceans. Yesterday she stopped by The Daily Show to be interviewed by host Trevor Noah and perform the album’s “Geyser.” 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 09, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Mitski (full name Mitski Miyawaki) is releasing a new album, Be the Cowboy, on August 17 via Dead Oceans. Previously she shared a Zia Anger-directed video for its first single, “Geyser,” which was our #2 Song of the Week, announced some tour dates, and shared a strange video for “Nobody.” Now she has shared another new song from the album, Be the Cowboy‘s closing track “Two Slow Dancers.” 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

Jun 26, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Mitski (full name Mitski Miyawaki) is releasing a new album, Be the Cowboy, on August 17 via Dead Oceans. Previously she shared a Zia Anger-directed video for its first single, “Geyser,” which was our #2 Song of the Week, and announced some tour dates. Now she has shared another new song from the album, “Nobody,” via its strange video (rather than us trying to explain it to you, we recommend you just watch it). More

Jun 04, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Mitski (full name Mitski Miyawaki) is releasing a new album, Be the Cowboy, on August 17 via Dead Oceans. Previously she shared a Zia Anger-directed video for its first single, “Geyser,” which was our #2 Song of the Week. Now she has announced some new North American fall tour dates for this October and November. More

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

May 14, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Mitski (full name Mitski Miyawaki) has announced a new album, Be the Cowboy, and shared a Zia Anger-directed video for its first single, “Geyser.” More

Apr 10, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

7-Inches for Planned Parenthood is a new 7-inch box set with 100% of the proceeds being donated to Planned Parenthood. More

Apr 07, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

“Our First 100 Days” is an anti-President Donald Trump project. The good folks behind the “30 Days, 30 Songs” anti-Trump campaign during the election have teamed up with Secretly Group for “Our First 100 Days.” More

Jan 13, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

During the election many indie rock musicians released anti-Donald Trump songs and likely assumed, like many liberals and Hillary Clinton supporters did, that Trump didn’t have a strong chance of winning. More

Jan 09, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Mitski released her acclaimed new album, Puberty 2, last June via Dead Oceans. Now Mitski Miyawaki has announced some new tour dates to go down this spring and summer. More

Oct 26, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Mitski released her acclaimed new album, Puberty 2, back in June via Dead Oceans. Last night Mitski Miyawaki stopped by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert to perform “Your Best American Girl.” More

Oct 11, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Mitski released her acclaimed new album, Puberty 2, back in June via Dead Oceans. Now she has shared a video for “A Burning Hill.” More

May 04, 2022 By Andy Von Pip

Mitski played Manchester Academy last month and Under the Radar’s Andy Von Pip was there to capture all the action More

Feb 01, 2022 By Carlo Thomas

Laurel Hell, the latest album from Mitski, was over three years in the making. Several songs were written before or during 2018, the same time Be the Cowboy catapulted her to indie stardom. More

Sep 17, 2019 By Jasper Willems

A thrilling and singular take of what a live show can be. More

Nov 02, 2018 By Max Freedman

Earlier this year, Iggy Pop said that Mitski Miyawaki, known more commonly by just her first name, is “probably the most advanced American songwriter that I know.” Most people would take such a comment as hyperbole, even if the artist in question is someone that they like. More

Aug 14, 2018 By Ryan E.C. Hamm

Mitski Miyawaki has a hard task: She has to somehow produce a follow up to her 2016 album Puberty 2, a master-class of indie-rock with punk and balladeer edges that touched on identity, love, and rage. Mitski’s new album, Be the Cowboy, doesn’t quite reach those but it almost feels unfair—if this wasn’t following up such a monumental album, it would a great achievement. More

Jul 06, 2016 By Ryan E.C. Hamm

Though the album’s title bills it as a sequel of sorts to puberty, Mitski’s Puberty 2 would perhaps be better titled as “puberty infinity.” Its explorations of the ways humans love each other, hurt one another and balance soaring happiness with crippling sadness (often brought on by some manifestation of mental illness) suggest the highs and lows of puberty aren’t a one time thing felt by teenagers—or even a second thing felt by confused 20-somethings. More