Mar 25, 2025 By Mark Redfern

Perfume Genius (aka Mike Hadreas) is releasing a new album, Glory, this Friday via Matador. Now he has released its third single, “Clean Heart.” More

Feb 21, 2025 By Mark Redfern (with Andy Von Pip)

Welcome to the fifth Songs of the Week of 2025. This week Andy Von Pip, Caleb Campbell, Matt the Raven, and Scotty Dransfield helped me decide what should make the list. We considered over 30 songs and narrowed it down to a Top 11. More

Feb 19, 2025 By Mark Redfern

Perfume Genius (aka Mike Hadreas) is releasing a new album, Glory, on March 28 via Matador. Now he has released its second single, “No Front Teeth,” which features New Zealand singer/songwriter Aldous Harding. It was shared via a music video for the song. More

Jan 27, 2025 By Mark Redfern

Rilo Kiley have confirmed that they are reuniting to perform at the Just Like Heaven festival in Pasadena, CA, in the Los Angeles area. The full lineup for the festival has also been confirmed and it features Vampire Weekend, Slowdive, TV on the Radio, Courtney Barnett, Perfume Genius, Wild Nothing, Peter Bjorn and John, Bloc Party, Empire of the Sun, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Panda Bear, Toro y Moi, and more. More

Jan 17, 2025 By Mark Redfern (with Andy Von Pip)

Welcome to the second Songs of the Week of 2025. This week Andy Von Pip, Caleb Campbell, and Scotty Dransfield helped me decide what should make the list. We considered over 30 songs and narrowed it down to a Top 10. More

Jan 15, 2025 By Mark Redfern

Perfume Genius (aka Mike Hadreas) has announced a new album, Glory, and released its first single, “It’s a Mirror.” He has also announced some tour dates. More

Mar 20, 2023 By Mark Redfern

Pitchfork Music Festival has announced their 2023 lineup. The Smile, Big Thief, and Bon Iver will be headlining. Other acts include Weyes Blood, Black Belt Eagle Scout, Alvvays, Nation of Language, and more. More

Aug 26, 2022 By Mark Redfern (with Joey Arnone)

Welcome to the 32nd Songs of the Week of 2022. This week there were three strong album tracks, songs from albums released today that weren’t previously put out as pre-release singles, that made the list. More

Aug 22, 2022 By Joey Arnone

Alice Boman has shared a self-directed video for her new single, “Feels Like a Dream,” a collaboration with Perfume Genius (aka Mike Hadreas). It is the latest release from Boman’s forthcoming album, The Space Between, which will be out on October 21 via [PIAS]. More

Jun 15, 2022 By Joey Arnone

Perfume Genius (aka Mike Hadreas) has shared a new short film, Pygmalion’s Ugly Season. The short film has been shared ahead of the release of his forthcoming studio album, Ugly Season, which will be out on June 17 via Matador. More

Jun 03, 2022 By Mark Redfern (with Joey Arnone)

Welcome to the 22nd Songs of the Week of 2022. Thanks to the Memorial Day holiday on Monday, it was a fairly quiet week for new singles (or at least new singles we loved). We even considered skipping Songs of the Week this week, but found enough we liked for a Top 10 list. More

Jun 01, 2022 By Joey Arnone

Yeah Yeah Yeahs have announced the release of their first new album in nine years, Cool It Down, which will be out on September 30 via Secretly Canadian. They have also shared a video for the album’s lead single, the Perfume Genius collaboration “Spitting Off the Edge of the World.” More

Mar 24, 2022 By Joey Arnone

Perfume Genius (aka Mike Hadreas) has announced the release of a new album, Ugly Season, which will be out on June 17 via Matador. It will coincide with the release of an accompanying short film created by visual artist Jacolby Satterwhite. More

Nov 16, 2021 By Joey Arnone

Perfume Genius (aka Mike Hadreas) has announced dates for a 2022 North American tour. Supporting acts for the tour will be Hand Habits and Julia Holter. More

Aug 26, 2021 By Joey Arnone

Hand Habits (the project of Meg Duffy) has shared a video for their new single “No Difference.” It is the latest release from their upcoming album Fun House, due out on October 22 via Saddle Creek. Duffy has also announced a tour with Perfume Genius and Andy Shauf which will begin next month. More

May 06, 2021 By Mark Redfern

Moses Sumney has joined forces with Hypnotic Brass Ensemble to cover Richard Young’s “Soon It Will Be Fire.” It’s part of a just announced new album, This Is a Mindfulness Drill, in which Hypnotic Brass Ensemble cover/re-imagine Young’s 1998 album, Sapphie, as part of Jagjaguwar’s 25th anniversary celebration. More

Jan 14, 2021 By Joey Arnone

Perfume Genius (aka Mike Hadreas) has announced a remix album, which will feature a remix of every song from his most recent album Set My Heart On Fire Immediately in sequential order by a different artist. The album, titled IMMEDIATELY Remixes, includes remixes by Actress, Boy Harsher, A.G. Cook, Jenny Hval, and more. In addition, a video for the album’s Boy Harsher remix of “Your Body Changes Everything” was just released. It was directed by the Boy Harsher frontman Jae Matthews along with Caitlin Driscoll, and stars model Teddy Quinlivan and Brandon Gray. More

Nov 24, 2020 By Joey Arnone

Perfume Genius, aka Mike Hadreas, has shared a strange video for “Some Dream,” a song from his critically acclaimed album Set My Heart On Fire Immediately, released earlier this year. More

Oct 14, 2020 By Laura Studarus

Welcome to Why Not Both Wednesdays. Every week, in partnership with the Why Not Both podcast, we’ll be presenting new podcast episodes that explore how multiple passions inform the inspiring lives of musicians, writers, actors, and creatives. This week, Perfume Genius dances into our hearts. More

Jun 18, 2020 By Samantha Small

In honor of Pride Month, Perfume Genius (Mike Hadreas) has released a cover of Mazzy Star’s “Fade Into You.” The song is available to stream and purchase on Amazon Music, and is also featured on the relaunched PROUD playlist, a collection of the best new music from the LGBTQ+ community that includes artists such as Rina Sawyama, Orville Peck, Tegan and Sara, and many others. More

May 15, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

Perfume Genius (aka Mike Hadreas) has released a new album, Set My Heart On Fire Immediately, today via Matador. Now that the album’s out you can stream the whole thing here. Also, today we posted our review of the album. More

Mar 20, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

Welcome to the eleventh Songs of the Week of 2020. How’s everyone doing out there? It’s definitely scary times. We know we should stop watching the news, but we can’t stop watching the news. The COVID-19 coronavirus continues to spread and not everyone is taking it seriously enough. More

Mar 16, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

Perfume Genius (aka Mike Hadreas) is releasing a new album, Set My Heart On Fire Immediately, on May 15 via Matador. Now he has shared another song from it, “On the Floor,” via a self-directed video for the song. More

Feb 28, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

Welcome to the eighth Songs of the Week of 2020. It was busy week of new album announcements and surprise EPs. That led to another super-sized edition. More

Feb 25, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

Perfume Genius (aka Mike Hadreas) has announced a new album, Set My Heart On Fire Immediately, and shared its first single, “Describe,” via a self-directed video for the track. More

Dec 09, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Tame Impala (aka Kevin Parker and band) are releasing a new album, The Slow Rush, on February 14, 2020 via Interscope. Now Tame Impala have announced a slew of 2020 tour dates for next summer, with Perfume Genius (aka Mike Hadreas) to be the support act. More

Oct 18, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Welcome to another Songs of the Week. It was a pretty light week, in terms of new songs this week. Hence we only have a Top 8. More

Oct 18, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Perfume Genius (aka Mike Hadreas) released a new album, No Shape, back in May 2017 via Matador, but his latest project is doing the music for the immersive dance project The Sun Still Burns Here and now he has shared another track from it, “Pop Song.” More

May 31, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Perfume Genius (aka Mike Hadreas) released a new album, No Shape, back in May 2017 via Matador. On Tuesday he announced a new remix EP, the fittingly titled Reshaped, and shared a track from it, a remix of “Run Me Through” by King Princess. Now he has shared another track from it, Mura Masa’s remix of “Slip Away.” More

May 29, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Perfume Genius (aka Mike Hadreas) released a new album, No Shape, back in May 2017 via Matador. Now he has announced a new remix EP, the fittingly titled Reshaped, and shared a track from it, a remix of “Run Me Through” by King Princess. More

May 29, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Florence + the Machine (aka Florence Welch and backing band) is releasing a new album, High As Hope, on June 29 via Republic. Now she has announce some North American tour dates that stretch from August until October. More

Apr 03, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Outside Lands have announced their 2018 lineup. The festival goes down August 10 - 12 at San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. The headliners are Florence + The Machine, Janet Jackson, and The Weeknd. More

Mar 05, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Perfume Genius (aka Mike Hadreas) released a new album, No Shape, back in May 2017 via Matador. Over the last week he has quietly posted three new songs to YouTube, each accompanied by a NSFW video seemingly featuring arty softcore porn movies from the 1980s. More

Feb 05, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

The Sasquatch! Music Festival has revealed the lineup for their 2018 festival, their 17th year. Once again it will be going down Memorial Day Weekend (May 25 - 28) at the Gorge Amphitheater in Quincy, Washington. The lineup includes Bon Iver, The National, Modest Mouse, David Byrne, Spoon, Grizzly Bear, Slowdive, Neko Case, Julien Baker, TV On The Radio, Tune-Yards, Wolf Parade, Japandroids, Big Thief, Perfume Genius, Japanese Breakfast, Benjamin Clementine, Phoebe Bridgers, Algiers, Pond, and others. More

Jan 22, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Belle and Sebastian are releasing three interconnected EPs, all titled How to Solve Your Human Problems. How to Solve Your Human Problems Part 1 came out back on December 8, Part 2 came out January 19, and Part 3 is due out February 16. More

Jan 03, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Coachella has announced the lineup for their 2018 festival, which goes down in Indio, California over two weekends in April (with the same bill each weekend). Friday April 13 and 20 is headlined by The Weeknd, Saturday April 14 and 21 is headlined by Beyoncé, and Sunday April 15 and 22 is headlined by Eminem. More

Dec 30, 2017 By Mark Redfern

2016 was regarded as a fairly rough year by many, but 2017 was no walk in the park either. 2016 was mired by the deaths of several beloved musical icons (David Bowie, Prince, Leonard Cohen, George Michael, and Sharon Jones among them) and the disappointing and divisive Presidential election, but in 2017 we had to deal with the ramifications of said election (we’d say that roughly 95% of the musicians we interview likely don’t support many, if any, of President Trump’s policies). More

Sep 19, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Perfume Genius (aka Mike Hadreas) released a new album, No Shape, back in May via Matador. Now he has shared a video for “Wreath” that is made up of footage shot by fans of them dancing and singing along to the song. A press release states: “Mike has said the song is partly about feeling betrayed by his physical body and wanting to be freed from it.” More

Jul 12, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Perfume Genius (aka Mike Hadreas) released a new album, No Shape, back in May via Matador. Last night he stopped by Jimmy Kimmel Live to perform two songs from it: “Wreath” and “Just Like Love.” Watch videos of both below. More

May 09, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Perfume Genius (aka Mike Hadreas) released a new album, No Shape, last Friday via Matador. Previously he shared a video for its first single, “Slip Away,” and the audio for “Go Ahead.” Now he has shared an atmospheric and stylish video for “Die 4 You.” More

May 05, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Here we highlight nine albums due out today that we feel are most worth hearing. We have also included Amazon links for each album. If you click through those links and buy the album (or anything else on Amazon once you’ve clicked through) then Amazon rewards us with a sales percentage. More

Apr 19, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Perfume Genius (aka Mike Hadreas) is releasing a new album, No Shape, on May 5 via Matador. He previously shared a video for its first single, “Slip Away.” Now he has released another song from the album, “Go Ahead.” Listen below, followed by his upcoming tour dates. More

Apr 17, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Over 100 artists have signed an acoustic guitar for Planned Parenthood and for $10 you can buy a drawing ticket to enter to win the guitar. More

Apr 07, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Under the Radar is excited to announce the full details of our Spring 2017 Issue, which is out now digitally via Under the Radar’s app and the magazine app Readly. The print version is about to ship out to subscribers and stores and will be on all newsstands soon (as well as available soon digitally via the magazine apps Zinio and Readly). More

Mar 21, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Perfume Genius (aka Mike Hadreas) has announced a new album, No Shape, and shared a video for its first single, “Slip Away.” No Shape is due out May 5 via Matador. More

Feb 14, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Perfume Genius (aka Mike Hadreas) has announced some new North American tour dates. A press release also promises that a new album is due out this spring. The album will be the follow-up to 2014’s acclaimed Too Bright. More

Feb 08, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

The Eaux Claires Music & Arts Festival has announced its 2017 lineup. The festival is put together by Bon Iver‘s Justin Vernon and The National‘s Aaron Dessner. This is the third year and it goes down June 16-17 in Eau Claire, WI (a shift from the last two festivals, which were in August). More

Dec 06, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Marfa Myths have announced their 2017 lineup. The festival goes down March 9 - 12 in Marfa, Texas and is put together by Mexican Summer and Ballroom Marfa. Weyes Blood and Perfume Genius will do a collaborative performance together. More

Dec 08, 2014 By Mike Hilleary

Perfume Genius, a.k.a. Mike Hadreas, has premiered another new music video for one of his Too Bright tracks, this time for the included cut, “Fool.” More

Nov 22, 2014 By Julia Underwood

Yesterday was the second day of Le Guess Who? We set Laura Studarus to Holland to cover the action. More

Nov 18, 2014 By Mike Hilleary

Recently delivering his new album Too Bright, musical artist Mike Hadreas, a.k.a. Perfume Genius, has shared “Thing,” a bonus track taken off the effort. More

Oct 31, 2014 By Mike Hilleary

Last night musical artist Mike Hadreas, a.k.a. Perfume Genius, made his network television debut with an appearance on Dave Letterman’s Late Show. More

Sep 15, 2014 By Mike Hilleary

Next week Perfume Genius, a.k.a. Mike Hadreas, will release his newest LP, Too Bright. More

Sep 09, 2014 By Mike Hilleary

Too Bright, the latest album from Perfume Genius, a.k.a. Mike Hadreas, is set to arrive later this month on Sept. 22. More

Jul 17, 2014 By Cody Ray Shafer

Mike Hadreas, aka Perfume Genius, debuted the first single from his upcoming album Too Bright. More

Oct 05, 2012 By Mike Hilleary

Perfume Genius’ Mike Hadreas clearly has something to say when he makes a music video. In his latest effort Hadreas’ strange, outcast perspective is put on full display. More

Apr 26, 2012 By Mike Hilleary

Perfume Genius’ Mike Hadreas offered up an early Mother’s Day gift when he wrote the song “Dark Parts” about the most important woman in his life. More

Apr 11, 2012 By Laura Studarus

In support of recently released sophomore album Put Your Back N 2 It, Perfume Genius (also known as Mike Hadreas) stopped by WFUV’s The Alternate Side. There—in addition to album cuts—he played unreleased track “Katie.”

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Mar 09, 2012 By Laura Studarus

Perfume Genius stopped by La Blogtheque recently. The result was a stunning “Take Away Show” where the musician played two cuts from recently released album, Put Your Back N 2 It. More

Jan 18, 2012 By Mike Hilleary

Releasing the single “All Waters” a while back from his upcoming new album Put Your Back N 2 It, this morning Perfume Genius’ Mike Hadreas has unveiled a music video for a new track called “Hood.” More

Jan 05, 2012 By Mike Hilleary

Matador Records, alongside its subsidiary True Panther Sounds, has announced that on Jan. 14 it will release an 11-track vinyl-only sampler album. More

Dec 05, 2011 By Mike Hilleary

Singer/songwriter Mike Hadreas, aka Perfume Genius, has announced the release of Put Your Back N 2 It. More

Dec 02, 2010 By Laura Studarus

You like giving and getting angst-ridden music for Christmas, right? Well look not further than Perfume Genius—who is re-releasing his debut album Learning just in time for your holiday gifting needs. More

Jul 07, 2017 By John Everhart

With No Shape, Mike Hadreas, aka Perfume Genius, has created one of the more brilliant albums released thus far in 2017, and certainly his best since he began releasing records in 2010 with his debut LP Learning. More

Aug 18, 2022 By Max Pilley

This time last week, Under the Radar were in Oslo for Øya Festival. Here’s what we saw. More

Jun 17, 2022 By Alex Nguyen

For Mike Hadreas, also known as Perfume Genius, every new album acts as a sort of sonic transformation. Few artists have evolved more artistically while maintaining such a high level of consistency and intrigue. More

Sep 24, 2014 By Mack Hayden

Every year deserves a keyboard record crying out to be performed in a concert hall instead of a club. In 2014, Perfume Genius‘s Too Bright is that record. More

Feb 27, 2012 By Hays Davis

The title of Perfume Genius’ second album may suggest exertion, and the first sound you hear when you listen to it is a deep, labored breath, but the music’s execution and emotional impact feel more like letting go. More

Sep 09, 2010 By Anthony Lombardi

Music as intensely intimate and cathartic as Perfume Genius’ begs for close inspection, as quirks that stave off solipsism tend to reveal themselves over repeated spins. Unfortunately, on Learning—the bedroom-recorded debut from Mike Hadreas—further listening amplifies a lack of songwriting prowess to support the emotional trauma that makes up the heart of the album. More