Jan 07, 2025 By Mark Redfern

We have put together a Spotify playlist for our Top 100 Albums of 2024 list and it’s 10 hours long. It features at least one song from each of our Top 100 in the order the albums appear on the list, from our #1 album to our #100. Some albums are represented by multiple songs filtered throughout the list. More

Dec 29, 2024 By Mark Redfern

Under the Radar tends to handle our best albums of the year lists differently than most other music publications. More

Sep 13, 2024 By Mark Redfern (with Andy Von Pip)

Welcome to the 29th Songs of the Week of 2024. This week Andy Von Pip, Caleb Campbell, Jim Scott, and Scotty Dransfield helped me decide what should make the list. We considered over 50 songs and narrowed it down to a Top 16.  More

Sep 10, 2024 By Mark Redfern

Nilüfer Yanya is releasing a new album, My Method Actor, this Friday via Ninja Tune. Now she has shared its sixth and final pre-release single, “Just a Western.” Also, Yanya is on one of the two covers of our just-announced new print issue, Issue 73. Buy the issue directly from us here. More

Sep 06, 2024 By Mark Redfern

Under the Radar is excited to announce the full details of our new print issue, Issue 73, which features Maya Hawke and Nilüfer Yanya on the two covers. Issue 73 also features interviews with Fontaines D.C., Cassandra Jenkins, DIIV, Sparks, Camera Obscura, Alan Sparhawk, The Decemberists, Jessica Pratt, Glass Animals, Charly Bliss, Yard Act, English Teacher, Goat Girl, Hana Vu, and others. More

Sep 03, 2024 By Mark Redfern

Nilüfer Yanya is releasing a new album, My Method Actor, on September 13 via Ninja Tune. Now she has shared its fifth single, “Made of Memory.” More

Aug 16, 2024 By Mark Redfern

Welcome to the 26th Songs of the Week of 2024. This week’s list covers the last two weeks, as at the end of last week I was on a mini vacation after finishing up our new print issue. This week Andy Von Pip, Matt the Raven, Scotty Dransfield, and Stephen Humphires helped me decide what should make the list. We considered over 40 songs and narrowed it down to a Top 15. More

Aug 14, 2024 By Mark Redfern

Nilüfer Yanya is releasing a new album, My Method Actor, on September 13 via Ninja Tune. Now she has shared its fourth single, “Mutations.” Yanya’s sister, Molly Daniel, directed the song’s visualizer video. More

Jul 12, 2024 By Mark Redfern (with Andy Von Pip and Marina Malin) 

Welcome to the 22nd Songs of the Week of 2024. This week’s list covers the last two weeks, owing to last week being the July 4th holiday weekend. More

Jul 10, 2024 By Mark Redfern

Nilüfer Yanya is releasing a new album, My Method Actor, on September 13 via Ninja Tune. Now she has shared its third single, “Call It Love.” More

Jul 02, 2024 By Marina Malin

Austin, Texas’ Levitation festival has announced their 2024 lineup. Highlights include Slowdive, Nilüfer Yanya, Soccer Mommy, The Jesus Lizard, Dry Cleaning, Mdou Moctar, The Drums, illuminati hotties, Drop Nineteens, Gang of Four, Osees, and others. More

Jun 14, 2024 By Mark Redfern (with Andy Von Pip and Marina Malin)

Welcome to the 19th Songs of the Week of 2024. We didn’t do a Songs of the Week last week for various reasons, so this list covers the best songs released in the last two weeks. This week Andy Von Pip, Caleb Campbell, Scott Dransfield, and Stephen Humphries helped me decide what should make the list. We seriously considered over 40 songs this week and narrowed it down to a Top 14. More

Jun 10, 2024 By Mark Redfern

Nilüfer Yanya has announced a new album, My Method Actor, and shared a new song from it, almost title track “Method Actor.” More

May 13, 2024 By Mark Redfern

Nilüfer Yanya has announced a fall tour that includes shows in North America, the United Kingdom, and Europe. More

Apr 26, 2024 By Mark Redfern (with Andy Von Pip)

Welcome to the fourteenth Songs of the Week of 2024. This week Andy Von Pip, Mark Moody, and Scott Dransfield helped me decide what should make the list. We seriously considered over 20 songs this week and narrowed it down to a Top 10. More

Apr 24, 2024 By Mark Redfern

Nilüfer Yanya has shared a new song, “Like I Say (I runaway),” via a music video in which she is a runaway bride. It is the first single for the British artist’s new label, Ninja Tune. More

Dec 23, 2022 By Mark Redfern

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

Dec 14, 2022 By Joey Arnone

Nilüfer Yanya has released the deluxe edition of her most recent album, PAINLESS, today via ATO. She has also shared performance videos for three deluxe edition tracks, “shameless,” “chase me,” and a reworked version of “midnight sun.” More

Nov 30, 2022 By Joey Arnone

Nilüfer Yanya has announced the release of a deluxe edition of her most recent album, PAINLESS. The deluxe edition will feature three reimagined versions of songs from the album as well as two remixes and a cover of PJ Harvey’s 1993 song “Rid of Me.” Yanya has shared the two remixes of the album track “Midnight Sun” from Sampha and King Krule. More

Sep 21, 2022 By Joey Arnone

Nilüfer Yanya has shared a cover of PJ Harvey’s 1993 song “Rid of Me.” It is Yanya’s first new music since the release of her most recent album, PAINLESS. More

May 20, 2022 By Mark Redfern (with Joey Arnone)

Welcome to the 20th Songs of the Week of 2022. It was a mixed week for new tracks, but there were still some good ones worth crowing about and we settled on a Top 13. More

May 18, 2022 By Joey Arnone

Danish band Liss have shared a new single, “Boys in Movies,” featuring Nilüfer Yanya. It is the latest release from their forthcoming debut album, I Guess Nothing Will Be The Same, which will be out on June 10 via Escho/In Real Life. More

Apr 06, 2022 By Mark Redfern

Nilüfer Yanya released her sophomore album, PAINLESS, last month via ATO. Now she has shared a video for one of the album’s highlights, “the dealer.” More

Mar 14, 2022 By Mark Redfern

Nilüfer Yanya released her sophomore album, PAINLESS, earlier in the month via ATO. On Friday she was the musical guest on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, where she performed the album’s “midnight sun” while clad in the large pink angel wings she’s been wearing in promotions for the album. It was a stunning performance, despite being filmed remotely instead of in The Tonight Show studio. More

Mar 04, 2022 By Mark Redfern (with Joey Arnone)

Welcome to the ninth Songs of the Week of 2022. It was a stellar week for new tracks and we could only narrow it down to a Top 12, with several strong honorable mentions. More

Mar 04, 2022 By Mark Redfern

Nilüfer Yanya has released her sophomore album, PAINLESS, today via ATO. Now that it’s out you can stream the whole thing here. Also, yesterday we posted our in-depth interview with Yanya about PAINLESS and today we posted our rave review of the album. More

Feb 28, 2022 By Mark Redfern

Nilüfer Yanya is releasing her sophomore album, PAINLESS, this Friday via ATO. Now she has shared the album’s fourth single, “the dealer.” More

Feb 18, 2022 By Mark Redfern (with Joey Arnone)

Welcome to the seventh Songs of the Week of 2022. We were very indecisive this week, there were too many songs we liked and had trouble narrowing it down to only 10. So this week we have an expanded Top 13. More

Feb 16, 2022 By Mark Redfern

Nilüfer Yanya is releasing her sophomore album, PAINLESS, on March 4 via ATO. Now she has shared the album’s third single, “anotherlife,” via a video for it featuring Yanya on holiday in Sri Lanka. Her sister, Molly Daniel, directed the video. More

Jan 25, 2022 By Mark Redfern

It is confounding that so many outlets insist on posting best songs of the year lists in early December. Not only are there several more weeks left in the year, in which a number of potential great songs could be released, it also takes time to digest all the tracks released in November and earlier in the fall. We’ve obviously taken too much time. More

Jan 21, 2022 By Mark Redfern (with Joey Arnone)

Welcome to the third Songs of the Week of 2022. This week there were some exciting new album announcements (Hatchie, Daniel Rossen, Melody’s Echo Chamber, Jenny Hval) and Beach House put out another five songs from their new album. More

Jan 18, 2022 By Mark Redfern

Nilüfer Yanya is releasing her sophomore album, PAINLESS, on March 4 via ATO. Now she has shared the album’s second single, “midnight sun,” via a visualizer video for it featuring Yanya in pink angel wings. More

Dec 21, 2021 By Mark Redfern

Under the Radar is excited to announce the full details of our new print issue, which is our special 20th Anniversary Issue. It’s a double issue celebrating two decades of the magazine (our first issue came out in December 2001). The issue has shipped out to subscribers and stores and can now be bought from us directly here. The issue features two special covers, each featuring a different group of musicians together. More

Nov 29, 2021 By Joey Arnone

Nilüfer Yanya has announced a North American and European tour for 2022 in support of her upcoming sophomore album, PAINLESS. The tour will kick off in the United Kingdom in March before covering Europe a few weeks later, concluding in the United States in late May. 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 Joey Arnone

Nilüfer Yanya has announced the release of a new album, PAINLESS, which will be out on March 4, 2022 via ATO. Yanya has also shared a video for its lead single, “Stabilise.” More

Feb 03, 2021 By Mark Redfern

Nilüfer Yanya was the musical guest last night on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, in which she and her backing band ran through a fantastic rendition of “Crash,” from her recent EP Feeling Lucky?, which came out in December on ATO. More

Jan 19, 2021 By Joey Arnone

Nilüfer Yanya has shared a video for the song “Day 7.5093” from her critically acclaimed EP Feeling Lucky?, which came out last month on ATO. The video, which features live touring footage, was directed by Molly Daniel. More

Oct 23, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

Welcome to the 41st Songs of the Week of 2020. This week there was a second and final presidential debate that, unlike the first one, was an actual debate. More

Oct 20, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

Nilüfer Yanya has announced a new EP, Feeling Lucky?, and shared its first single, “Crash,” via a video for it. “Crash” was co-written by label-mate Nick Hakim. More

Oct 08, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Nilüfer Yanya released her debut album, Miss Universe, in March via ATO. Now she has shared a new single, “H34T RISES,” via a video for the track. The song is a reworked version of the album’s “Heat Rises” and features The Invisible’s Dave Okumu on production and backing vocals (he was Yanya’s first guitar teacher). More

Sep 27, 2019 By Mark Redfern

Under the Radar is excited to announce the My Favorite Album Issue, our new print issue in which we speak to musicians and actors about their all-time favorite album. The issue features Angel Olsen and Sleater-Kinney on the two covers and is available to buy directly from us here, as well as being distributed in stores nationwide (on newsstands, in such stores as Barnes & Noble and Books-A-Million, and elsewhere). More

Sep 18, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Nilüfer Yanya released her debut album, Miss Universe, in March via ATO. Now she has stopped by NPR Music to perform three songs as part of their Tiny Desk Concert series. The 23-year-old London-based singer/songwriter/guitarist performed “Baby Luv,” “The Unordained,” and “Angels.” More

Jul 24, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Nilüfer Yanya released her debut album, Miss Universe, in March via ATO. Last night she stopped by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert to perform the album’s “In Your Head.” It was her TV debut. More

Jun 20, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Nilüfer Yanya is a promising new 23-year-old London-based singer/songwriter/guitarist. She released her debut album, Miss Universe, in March via ATO. Now she has shared a video for the album’s “Paradise.” More

Apr 11, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Nilüfer Yanya is a promising new 23-year-old London-based singer/songwriter/guitarist. She released her debut album, Miss Universe, last month via ATO. Now she has shared a video for one of the album’s highlights, “Baby Blu.” It was shot in Tokyo last New Year’s Eve and features Yanya, as well as her sisters Molly and Elif, and brother Cemil. More

Mar 22, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

We haven’t done an Album of the Week post since January, but there are some upcoming albums truly worthy of the title, starting with the new one by Strand of Oaks (the project of Timothy Showalter), Eraserland, released today via Dead Oceans.Here is more info on the album, as well as a round up and streams for other notable albums released today. More

Feb 21, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Nilüfer Yanya is a promising new 23-year-old London-based singer/songwriter/guitarist. She is releasing her debut album, Miss Universe, on March 22 via ATO. Now she has shared another song from it, “Tears.” More

Jan 25, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

This was a helluva week for new music. Monday was fairly quiet due to the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday, but Foals officially announced two albums and shared a cinematic video for a new song. More

Jan 22, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Nilüfer Yanya is a promising new 23-year-old London-based singer/songwriter/guitarist. Now she has announced her debut album, Miss Universe, and shared a video for a new song from it, “In Your Head.” Miss Universe is due out March 22 via ATO. It includes “Heavyweight Champion of the Year,” which she shared back in November via a video for the track (it was one of our Songs of the Week). More

Nov 09, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

There might still be nearly two months left in 2018, but 2019 album announcements have been coming hard and fast of late. The Top 10 of this week’s Songs of the Week is packed with first and second singles from albums due out next January or February, although not our #1, that album is due out next week. More

Nov 09, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Nilüfer Yanya is a promising new 23-year-old London-based singer/songwriter/guitarist. Now she has shared a new single, “Heavyweight Champion of the Year,” via a video for the track. More

Apr 16, 2019 By Conrad Duncan

Nilüfer Yanya thought she would have done her debut album when she was 20. The 23-year-old’s cover of Pixies’ “Hey” in 2016 marked her out as a distinctive voice in London’s underground indie scene, by trading the original’s anxious snarl for a bewitching after-hours vibe. More

Mar 04, 2022 By Andy Von Pip

It’s been three years since her debut album‌ Miss Universe, a brilliantly realized concept album that wowed the critics and London singer/songwriter Nilüfer Yanya’s follow up album is every bit as good as she returns with her stunning musically diverse second album, PAINLESS. More

May 10, 2019 By Scott Dransfield

Nilüfer Yanya’s debut album Miss Universe begins with a phone message from the titular character, a fictional health counselor who periodically pops in to recite some postmodern mental-health non-sequiturs, voiced by Yanya herself. More