Interviews
Feb 21, 2011
By Frank Valish
Upon the release of his band’s Stateside debut album, Erland Cooper, the Scotland-born singer of Erland & The Carnival, takes some time to speak with Under the Radar about the new album, his own personal inspirations, and what Erland & The Carnival is really about. More
Feb 11, 2011
By Laura Studarus
Twenty-seven-year-old multimedia artist Ben Schneider has hired actors to stage a fake lecture about a lost civilization of Antarctica and pulled off a guerrilla exhibition of his work in a French chapel. One would be forgiven for assuming his new identity—crafting dreamy, international sound-quilts under the name Lord Huron—is likewise embedded with secret meaning and artistic rebellion. More
Feb 09, 2011
By John Everhart
While most bands relocate to Brooklyn in the hopes of inking a record contract and making it big, Noel Heroux, frontman of synth pop outfit Hooray for Earth, had a decidedly different impetus for his move from Boston, that of being closer to his girlfriend. More
Feb 07, 2011
By Laura Studarus
Carrying with them a name that seems permanently rooted in time, Shine 2009 pride themselves on making buoyant dance music for the ages. The Helsinki-based producers Mikko Pykäri and Sami Suova—who were busy mixing their debut EP Associates when we spoke to them via email—make no excuses for their pleasantly anachronistic name that, in part, marks the date of the band’s inception. More
