Jun 22, 2023 By Mark Redfern

Palehound (aka El Kempner) is releasing a new album, Eye on the Bat, on July 14 via Polyvinyl. Now Kempner has shared the album’s third single, “Independence Day,” via a music video. More

Jun 02, 2023 By Mark Redfern (with Kat Ramkumar)

Welcome to the 20th Songs of the Week of 2023. It was a mixed collection of new songs this week, perhaps because Monday was a holiday, but there were some tracks we liked. More

May 31, 2023 By Mark Redfern

Palehound (aka Ellen Kempner) is releasing a new album, Eye on the Bat, on July 14 via Polyvinyl. Now Kempner has shared the album’s second single, “My Evil,” via a lyric video that pays homage to the opening titles of the classic HBO TV series The Sopranos. Palehound has also announced some headlining tour dates. More

Apr 28, 2023 By Mark Redfern

Welcome to the fifteenth Songs of the Week of 2023. There were a few notable album announcements this week that provided some fodder for this list, but there was also an album out today that we love and pulled two songs from. More

Apr 25, 2023 By Mark Redfern

Palehound (aka El Kempner) has announced a new album, Eye on the Bat, and shared its first single, “The Clutch,” via a music video. More

Sep 03, 2021 By Mark Redfern (with Joey Arnone)

Welcome to the 33rd Songs of the Week of 2021. We liked enough new songs this week to form a Top 11. More

Sep 01, 2021 By Mark Redfern

Bachelor (a duo between Melina Duterte of Jay Som and Ellen Kempner of Palehound) released their debut album, Doomin’ Sun, back in May via Polyvinyl (stream it here). Now they have shared a brand new song “I See It Now,” that was recorded after the sessions for Doomin’ Sun were completed. More

May 28, 2021 By Mark Redfern

Bachelor (a duo between Melina Duterte of Jay Som and Ellen Kempner of Palehound) have released their debut album, Doomin’ Sun, today via Polyvinyl. Now that it’s out, you can stream the whole thing here. Also, on Thursday we posted our new interview with Bachelor and our review of the album. Plus, they have shared a new video for the album’s “Back of My Hand” that stars the duo as obsessed Harry Styles fans. More

Apr 22, 2021 By Mark Redfern

Bachelor (a duo between Melina Duterte of Jay Som and Ellen Kempner of Palehound) are releasing their debut album, Doomin’ Sun, on May 28 via Polyvinyl. Now they have shared a new song from it, the relaxed “Sick of Spiraling.” More

Apr 13, 2021 By Joey Arnone

Anjimile has announced a new EP which will feature expanded orchestral versions of songs from his debut album, Giver Taker, along with collaborations with artists Jay Som, SASAMI, and Lomelda. The EP’s lead single, “In Your Eyes (Reflection),” which features Jay Som, has also been shared. Reunion will be out on May 7 via Father/Daughter. More

Mar 24, 2021 By Mark Redfern

Bachelor (a duo between Melina Duterte of Jay Som and Ellen Kempner of Palehound) have announced their debut album, Doomin’ Sun, and shared a new song from it, “Stay in the Car,” via a video for the single. More

Feb 26, 2021 By Mark Redfern (with Joey Arnone)

Welcome to the seventh Songs of the Week of 2021. This week’s big music news was probably that Daft Punk had broken up. More

Feb 25, 2021 By Joey Arnone

Bachelor (the newly-announced duo between Melina Duterte of Jay Som and Ellen Kempner of Palehound) have shared their debut single together, entitled “Anything at All.” It is available now via Polyvinyl. More

Feb 02, 2021 By Joey Arnone

Palehound (aka Ellen Kempner) has shared a new single titled “How Long.” It is out now via Polyvinyl. More

Aug 06, 2020 By Samantha Small

For our My Favorite Album print issue last fall, Ellen Kempner of Palehound wrote about her favorite album: Elliot Smith’s Either/Or. Coincidentally, Kempner has just released her cover of Smith’s “Southern Belle.” It’s from his 1995 self-titled album, though, not Either/Or. But that doesn’t matter because it’s a lovely ode to the magnificent songwriter, More

Apr 28, 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 Ellen Kempner, frontwoman and songwriter for Palehound. More

Oct 10, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Palehound (aka Ellen Kempner) released a new album, Black Friday, back in June via Polyvinyl. Now she has shared two new tracks, the new song “Your Boyfriend’s Gun” and a new cover of Yo La Tengo’s “Autumn Sweater.” 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

Jun 07, 2019 By Mark Redfern

The Divine Comedy, the orchestral-pop project of Northern Irish singer/songwriter/composer Neil Hannon, has released a new album, Office Politics, today via Hannon’s own Divine Comedy Records and it’s our Album of the Week. Find more info on the album below. More

Jun 07, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Palehound (aka Ellen Kempner) has released a new album, Black Friday, today via Polyvinyl. Now that the album is out, you can stream the whole thing below. Also below are her upcoming tour dates. More

May 29, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Palehound (aka Ellen Kempner) is releasing a new album, Black Friday, on June 7 via Polyvinyl. Now she has shared another song from it, title track “Black Friday.” More

May 02, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Palehound (aka Ellen Kempner) is releasing a new album, Black Friday, on June 7 via Polyvinyl. Now she has shared another song from it, “Worthy,” via a video for the track. More

Apr 05, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Palehound (aka Ellen Kempner) has announced a new album, Black Friday, and shared a video for a new song from it, “Aaron.” Despite its title, Black Friday is not due out the day after Thanksgiving, instead it’s coming out June 7 via Polyvinyl. More

Feb 22, 2019 By Mark Redfern

There were many strong contenders for this week’s Songs of the Week. We could’ve gone as high as a Top 15 instead of the regular Top 10 and as it is there are a whopping 11 honorable mentions, with some good tracks that also almost made the honorable mention list to. More

Feb 19, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Palehound (aka Ellen Kempner) has shared a brand new song, “Killer.” It is out now via Polyvinyl and shared in honor of her current tour dates opening for Cherry Glazerr, which start tonight. More

May 27, 2021 By Mark Moody

Bachelor is the recently formed duo of Palehound’s Ellen Kempner and Jay Som’s Melina Duterte. The now fast friends originally met on a brief run of West Coast dates in 2017, which budded into a series of cross-country online hangs over the years. More

Jun 24, 2020 By Ellen Kempner

I grew up on a steady diet of classic rock. My dad, who was a teenager in the ’70s, would tell me all about the times he was first in line to see The Rolling Stones, the night he saw John Lennon join Elton John on stage at Madison Square Garden, and many other dazzling stories. More

Apr 28, 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 Ellen Kempner, frontwoman and songwriter for Palehound. More

Jun 18, 2019 By Ellen Kempner

For our recurring Self-Portrait feature we ask a musician 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 Ellen Kempner of Palehound and she painted her own self-portrait. More

Jan 25, 2019 By Mark Redfern

For Under the Radar‘s 16th Annual Artist Survey we emailed some of our favorite artists a few questions relating to the last year, plus some fun personal questions. We asked them about their favorite albums of the year and their thoughts on various notable 2018 news stories involving either the music industry or world events, as well as some quirkier personal questions. More

Jun 21, 2017 By Stephen Mayne

Like any self-respecting Boston resident, Ellen Kempner can’t resist namechecking Dunkin Donuts. More