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Universal Heartbreak Due Out September 22 via Memphis Industries
Jul 06, 2023
By Kat Ramkumar
NZCA Lines, the solo project of producer and multi-instrumentalist Michael Lovett, has announced the release of his EP, Universal Heartbreak, and shared a self-directed music video for a new song, “Push Reset.” More
Covers of Covers Due Out March 4, 2022 via American Laundromat; Also Features Cassandra Jenkins, Alex Lahey, Peter Bjorn and John, Hatchie, Nation of Language, Cults, Kevin Drew, Black Belt Eagle Scout, Girl Ray, Piroshka, and More
Dec 21, 2021
By Mark Redfern
Under the Radar is proud to announce Covers of Covers, which is the magazine’s first ever album. In honor of our 20th anniversary we approached some of our favorite musicians and asked them to cover any song by any artist who had been on the front or back cover of our print issue over the years. Covers of Covers is due out March 4, 2022 via American Laundromat, but today we are sharing two of its tracks: Grandaddy’s cover of Metric’s “Blindness” and EMA’s cover of Modest Mouse’s “Trailer Trash.” More
Plus Ganser, Glass Animals, NZCA LINES, Fear of Men, and a Wrap-up of the Week’s Other Notable New Tracks
Jul 03, 2020
By Christopher Roberts (with Stephen Axeman)
Welcome to the 26th Songs of the Week of 2020. Tomorrow is Independence Day here in America, but it’s hard to feel overly patriotic this year with the Trump administration continuing to botch the response to the pandemic and with so much to fix in this country—including systemic racism, police brutality, gun reform, climate change, and wealth inequality, to name just a handful of challenges. More
Pure Luxury Due Out July 10 via Memphis Industries
Jul 01, 2020
By Christopher Roberts
NZCA LINES, the London-based project of Michael Lovett, is releasing a new album, Pure Luxury, on July 10 via Memphis Industries. Now he has shared another song from the album, “For Your Love,” a slow jam of sorts that’s backed by Barry White-esque strings. More
Pure Luxury Due Out July 10 via Memphis Industries
Jun 26, 2020
By Christopher Roberts
NZCA LINES, the London-based project of Michael Lovett, is releasing a new album, Pure Luxury, on July 10 via Memphis Industries. Now he has shared a video for the previously shared single, “Prisoner of Love.” More
Plus Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever, Hinds, NZCA LINES, and a Wrap-up of the Week’s Other Notable New Tracks
Jun 05, 2020
By Christopher Roberts (with Mark Moody, Samantha Small, and Jake Uitti)
Welcome to the 22nd Songs of the Week of 2020. And what a trying week it was. More
Pure Luxury Due Out July 10 via Memphis Industries
Jun 04, 2020
By Christopher Roberts
NZCA LINES, the London-based project of Michael Lovett, is releasing a new album, Pure Luxury, on July 10 via Memphis Industries. Now he has shared another song from it, “Prisoner of Love,” which has a pleasing disco vibe, especially in the strings. He has also announced a ticketed livestream concert, a virtual album release party, on July 15. More
Plus Jenny O., I Break Horses, Cut Copy, Westerman, and a Wrap-up of the Week’s Other Notable New Tracks
May 08, 2020
By Christopher Roberts (with Samantha Small)
Welcome to the eighteenth Songs of the Week of 2020. It’s another week under quarantine, the same as the last week. There were more ridiculous politics and it still seems like the health of the economy is being put before the health of the people, with premature calls to scale back social distancing and reopen everything while COVID-19 still spreads. We’ll see how that works out. More
Pure Luxury Due Out July 10 via Memphis Industries
May 06, 2020
By Christopher Roberts
NZCA LINES, the London-based project of Michael Lovett, has announced a new album, Pure Luxury, and shared a new song from it, “Real Good Time,” via a video for the track. More
“This is truly a global problem. It’s like sci-fi novels where an alien invasion unites the world against a common enemy.”
Apr 27, 2020
By Mark Redfern
We are checking in with musicians during the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic to see how they are dealing with everything. What has their home quarantine experience been like so far and how is the crisis impacting both their career and art? Here we check in with Michael Lovett, who releases music as NZCA LINES. More
New Single Out Now via Memphis Industries
Apr 08, 2020
By Christopher Roberts
NZCA LINES, the London-based project of Michael Lovett, recently shared a brand new song, “Pure Luxury,” which was one of our Songs of the Week. Now he has shared a colorful video for the song. More
Plus Bob Dylan, Man Man, Hamilton Leithauser, and a Wrap-up of the Week’s Other Notable New Tracks
Mar 27, 2020
By Christopher Roberts
Welcome to the twelfth Songs of the Week of 2020. It was another scary week out there, as America surpassed China and Italy to become the country with the most COVID-19 coronavirus cases in the world, with 101,242 known U.S. cases at the time of this writing and 1,588 American COVID-19 deaths. Meanwhile the world economy is in tatters and there’s no realistic end to the quarantine in sight, despite what President Trump says about everything opening back up again in time for Easter. More
New Single Out Now via Memphis Industries
Mar 25, 2020
By Christopher Roberts
NZCA LINES, the London-based project of Michael Lovett, has shared a brand new song, “Pure Luxury.” More
Infinite Remixes Available to Stream Now
Sep 16, 2016
By Christopher Roberts
NZCA Lines, the London-based project of Michael Lovett, released their excellent second album, Infinite Summer, back in January via Memphis Industries. Now the band has announced a new remix album, Infinite Remixes, which Memphis Industries are already streaming on Soundcloud. More
Infinite Summer Due Out January 22 via Memphis Industries
Jan 15, 2016
By Christopher Roberts
NZCA Lines, the London-based project of Michael Lovett, are releasing their second album, Infinite Summer, on January 22 via Memphis Industries. NZCA Lines previously shared the crazy video for Infinite Summer track “Persephone Dreams,” in which a one night stand resulted in a man being sucked into a black hole within the woman he picked up. More
Infinite Summer Due Out January 22, 2016 via Memphis Industries
Dec 03, 2015
By Christopher Roberts
NZCA Lines, the London-based project of Michael Lovett, are releasing their second album, Infinite Summer, on January 22, 2016 via Memphis Industries. Now they have shared another song from it, a delightful slice of electro-pop entitled “Two Hearts.” More
Infinite Summer Due Out January 22, 2016 via Memphis Industries
Nov 11, 2015
By Christopher Roberts
NZCA Lines, the London-based project of Michael Lovett, is releasing their second album, Infinite Summer, on January 22, 2016 via Memphis Industries. Now they have shared the strange video for “Persephone Dreams.” In it a man picks up a woman at a bar and takes her home, only for her reveal that she has a black hole in her belly, which he willingly enters. More
Single Due Out Dec 8 on Moshi Moshi
Dec 04, 2014
By Laura Studarus
A couple of months ago NZCA/LINES released a dancey new single called “New Atmosphere.” Now we’re pleased to announce that we’ve gotten our hands on the premiere stream of the song’s b-side, “Cirrus Forming.” More
Set to Play Under the Radar's Third SXSW 2013 Party, Friday, March 15 at Flamingo Cantina
Mar 11, 2013
By Laura Studarus
On March 15 Under the Radar will host the third of three free SXSW day parties. Leading up to the event we’re letting you know about each artist playing. Today we’re spotlighting NZCA/LINES. More
Also Performing: Shout Out Louds, Foxygen, Marnie Stern, Doldrums, Caveman, Young Galaxy, Girls Names, IO Echo, Mister Lies, Young Dreams, and more
Mar 06, 2013
By Laura Studarus
Under the Radar magazine is excited to reveal the full lineups, poster, and set times for its three SXSW 2013 day parties, taking place on Wednesday March 13, Thursday March 14, and Friday March 15. Featured performers include Surfer Blood, DIIV, Small Black, Shout Out Louds, Foxygen, Poolside, Young Galaxy, Marnie Stern, Doldrums, Caveman, Girls Names, IO Echo, Mister Lies, Young Dreams, and more. More
Feb 22, 2013
By Laura Studarus
It may no longer be summer, but our warm-weather fling with former “Pleased to Meet You” artist NZCA/LINES hasn’t cooled in the least. More
A Girl. A Shooting Range. A Mystery.
Sep 20, 2012
By Laura Studarus
Do you like electro pop and gun play? Then NZCA/LINES frontman Michael Lovett has a pitch for you. The British artist is looking for a few fans to help fund his latest creation, a video for “Airlock,” which—by the looks of things—has the potential to be an epic piece of art. More
Interviews
Track-by-Track: Each Artist on Their Contribution to the Album
Mar 04, 2022
By Mark Redfern
When hatching plans to celebrate Under the Radar’s 20th anniversary I knew I wanted to go beyond just producing a special 20th anniversary issue. Despite two decades of writing about albums, one thing we’d never done is actually put one out ourselves. Thus I came upon the idea for Covers of Covers. The concept was so perfect and simple that I’m surprised we hadn’t thought of it before. We approached some of our favorite musicians and asked them to cover any song by any artist who had been on the front or back cover of our print issue over the years, including artists that had appeared in group cover shots. More
Sep 29, 2020
By Michael Lovett
For our recurring Self-Portrait feature, we ask musicians to take a self-portrait photo (or paint/draw a self-portrait) and write a list of personal things about themselves, things that their fans might not already know about them. This Self-Portrait is by NZCA LINES. More
“This is truly a global problem. It’s like sci-fi novels where an alien invasion unites the world against a common enemy.”
Apr 27, 2020
By Mark Redfern
We are checking in with musicians during the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic to see how they are dealing with everything. What has their home quarantine experience been like so far and how is the crisis impacting both their career and art? Here we check in with Michael Lovett, who releases music as NZCA LINES. More
Lovett on 2016's Best Albums, Trump and the Election, Brexit, Bowie and Prince, First Kisses, and Scary Movies
Jan 05, 2017
By Mark Redfern
For Under the Radar‘s 14th annual Artist Survey we emailed some of our favorite artists a few questions relating to 2016. We asked them about their favorite albums of the year and their thoughts on various notable 2016 news stories involving either the music industry or world events, as well as some quirkier personal questions. More
Lovett on His First Kiss, First Pet, First Movie in Saw in the Theater, First Favorite Band, and the First Time He Fell in Love
Apr 29, 2016
By Mark Redfern
My Firsts is our email interview series where we ask musicians to tell us about their first life experiences, be it early childhood ones (first word, first concert, etc.) or their first tastes of being a musician (first band, first tour, etc.). For this My Firsts we talk to Michael Lovett from London electro-pop outfit NZCA Lines. More
Michael Lovett on 2015's Best Albums, Outrageous Tour Requests, and Almost Being Fired from Metronomy
Feb 22, 2016
By Mark Redfern
For Under the Radar’s 13th annual Artist Survey we emailed some of our favorite artists a few questions relating to 2015. We asked them about their favorite albums of the year and their thoughts on various notable 2015 news stories involving either the music industry or world events, as well as some quirkier personal questions. Here are some answers from Michael Lovett of NZCA Lines (who has also played with Metronomy). More
Reviews
Jan 13, 2016
By Dan Lucas
“Skinny, white, 20-something, male Londoner who studied at Camberwell College of Arts does pitch-perfect soulful R&B-pop crossover.” Few sentences could be more of a turn-off, more eye-roll inducing, and yet…well, you see where I’m going with this. The rating out of 10 should give you a clue as to the level of aplomb with which Michael Lovett pulls this off on his second album. More
Mar 26, 2013
By Laura Studarus
I didn’t get to see everything I wanted to at Under the Radar’s seventh annual SXSW party. (Like any good hostess, I found myself often forgoing the entertainment to make sure no one went thirsty.) However, I was able to see a large handful of favorites (old and new) including: DIANA, Big Black Delta, Shout Out Louds, Young Dreams, Gold & Youth, Young Galaxy, Poolside, DIIV, Dan Croll, NZCA/LINES, IO Echo, and Small Black. More