Jun 29, 2021 By Mark Redfern

Big Red Machine (aka Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon and The National’s Aaron Dessner) have announced a new album, How Long Do You Think It’s Gonna Last?, and shared its first single, “Latter Days,” which features guest vocals from Anaïs Mitchell. The album also features Fleet Foxes, Taylor Swift, Sharon Van Etten, This Is the Kit, and others. More

Oct 19, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

An artist whose last song also made it to #1 on that week’s list and an anti-Donald Trump protest song scheduled to be covered by many more artists head this week’s Songs of the Week list. Plus Thom Yorkemakes the list yet again. More

Oct 18, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

My Brightest Diamond (aka Shara Nova) has announced a new album, A Million and One, and shared it’s first single, “It’s Me on the Dance Floor.” A Million and One is due out November 23 via Rhyme & Reason. Listen to “It’s Me on the Dance Floor” below. More

Feb 11, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Bon Iver‘s main creative force Justin Vernon said last year that there were no upcoming plans for a new Bon Iver album (the last one was released in 2011), but in a new interview with Billboard he has said that he’s “no longer winding down” and promises that he’s “definitely been working on music.” More

Nov 18, 2014 By Laura Studarus

My Brightest Diamond’s video for This is My Hand cut “Love/Killer” is a creepy story involving a gun and a killer. More

Sep 12, 2014 By Christopher Roberts

Under the Radar is excited to announce the full details of the September/October issue, which is on newsstands now. It features alt-J on the cover. Arcade Fire’s Richard Reed Parry does a joint interview with Peter Gabriel. We talk to Lush‘s Miki Berenyi and Emma Anderson about their 1996 album, Lovelife. More

Sep 03, 2014 By Michael Wojtas

My Brightest Diamond has shared a video for the disco-inflected new song “Pressure,” taken from the upcoming album This Is My Hand. More

Aug 15, 2014 By Michael Wojtas

Welcome to Under the Radar’s weekly playlist, where we compile the best and most exciting tracks to debut online in the last week (give or take). In this mix we’ve got new songs by alt-J, Jessie Ware, Arcade Fire, Stars, Zola Jesus, Blonde Redhead, I Love You But I’ve Chosen Darkness, Röyksopp and Robyn, Pharmakon, Saint Pepsi, Willis Earl Beal, Ryn Weaver, The Vaselines, My Brightest Diamond, Tweedy, The Juan MacLean, and more. Look no further, your Friday and weekend playlist is here. More

Aug 14, 2014 By Laura Studarus

On September 16, My Brightest Diamond will release her new album This is My Hand on Asthmatic Kitty. More

Dec 23, 2011 By Mark Redfern and Laura Studarus

Under the Radar‘s Best of 2011 Issue has shipped out to subscribers and will be hitting newsstands soon. The issue features three unique covers, each featuring an artist behind one of our Top 5 albums of the year: M83, The Horrors, and Bon Iver. The issue also takes a look back at other artists who have made a splash in 2011, including Beirut, Anna Calvi, EMA, Florence and the Machine, Gang Gang Dance, Neon Indian, PJ Harvey, R.E.M., SBTRKT, Slow Club, St. Vincent, Summer Camp, tUnE-yArDs, and Yuck. More

Nov 17, 2011 By Laura Studarus

My Brightest Diamond’s Shara Worden leads a open mic night/church revival in the video for “High Low Middle” a cut from recently released album All Things Will Unwind. We have the clip. More

Sep 20, 2011 By Mike Hilleary

After recently announcing the upcoming release of her third LP All Things Will Unwind opera-pop musical artist Shara Worden, aka My Brightest Diamond, has debuted an in-studio music video for the featured track “Be Brave.” More

Jul 06, 2011 By Laura Studarus

Opera-pop songstress Shara Worden (who performs as My Brightest Diamond) has announced her third album All Things Will Unwind (out October 18 via Asthmatic Kitty). We have the details and lead single. More

Mar 11, 2011 By Laura Studarus

Recently, we told you about My Brightest Diamond/Clare and the Reasons collaborative project, Letters to Distant Cities. Now the project’s first single “The Sea” has spawned a music video. More

Feb 25, 2011 By Laura Studarus

Clare and the Reasons and My Brightest Diamond—both known for their orchestral pop—are joining forces on new project, Letters to Distant Cities. We have the details. More

Jan 26, 2011 By Laura Studarus

Former Sufjan Stevens and Decemberist backer, and current solo chanteuse My Brightest Diamond (a.k.a Shara Worden), took to the studio at WNYC to preview new songs for Studio 360. More

Jun 30, 2010 By Laura Studarus

My Brightest Diamond’s Shara Worden is set to a release a split EP with singer/songwriter Dayna Kurtz. Available July 20th, the project sees the ladies covering each other’s material. Worden will be taking on “Postcards from Downtown” while Kurtz is retooling Bring Me the Workhorse cut, “Gone Away.” More

Aug 13, 2009 By Laura Studarus

Longing for one last summer-ish experience? Well, if you’re in Champaign-Urbana Illinois, the fifth annual Pygmalion Music Festival has you covered. A mere $60 dollars gets you four days of music, including such notable indie bands as Iron & Wine, The Books, My Brightest Diamond, The Antlers, Headlights, Wavves, BLK JKS, Autolux, Low, Japandroids, YACHT, and Ra Ra Riot. We have the full lineup and schedule. More

Feb 07, 2012 By Laura Studarus

Ever since Shara Worden (who performs as My Brightest Diamond) donned a cheerleader uniform to tour with Sufjan Stevens, there’s been an approachable, yet otherworldly presence about her. Since her time with the Illinoisemakers, Worden has produced three albums of material—wrapping big ideas about life and death in a chamber-pop beauty. Her new album, All Things Will Unwind, follows suit. Under the Radar caught up with the songstress via e-mail to get her take on collaborations, going out on a limb, and what current artist is making the next generation dance. More

Jun 02, 2008 By Matt Fink

Given that the prospect of describing music is an inherently abstract process—entrusting words or images to capture the infinite permutations of rhythms, tones, and textures—it only makes sense that some artists who work in the sound medium would perceive these qualities differently than the rest of us. In technical terms, such folks are said to have “narrow band synesthesia,” a phenomenon where certain sounds or instruments consistently evoke a particular visual essence, and ideas for songs might only be intelligible as collages of color. In this case, A Thousand Shark’s Teeth is a shadowy landscape of grays and dark blues, graceful and brooding, an album created by someone who saw it all in her head. More

Sep 12, 2014 By Sam Cleeve

Shara Worden has been quietly carving out a niche for herself as a unique voice for some time now. Her projects have certainly been varied; aside from releasing music under the My Brightest Diamond moniker, she’s contributed to everything from last year’s The Blind Boys of Alabama release I’ll Find a Way to Pulitzer Prize-winning composer David Lang’s Death Speaks, a classical composition that truly sculpted beauty from morbidity. More

Oct 19, 2011 By John Everhart

My Brightest Diamond, aka Shara Worden, is anything if not polarizing. More