May 16, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Phosphorescent (aka Matthew Houck) released a new album, C’est La Vie, last fall via Dead Oceans (it was our joint Album of the Week). Now he has shared a video for the album’s “C’est La Vie No. 2.” More

Mar 26, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Outside Lands have announced their 2019 lineup. The festival goes down August 9 - 11 at San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. The headliners are Paul Simon, Childish Gambino, and Twenty One Pilots. More

Feb 21, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Phosphorescent (aka Matthew Houck) released a new album, C’est La Vie, last fall via Dead Oceans (it was our joint Album of the Week and one of our Top 100 Albums of 2018). Now he has announced some new spring American tour dates. More

Nov 21, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Phosphorescent (aka Matthew Houck) released a new album, C’est La Vie, last month via Dead Oceans (it was our joint Album of the Week). Now he has stopped by SiriusXMU to perform a cover of Radiohead’s “House of Cards,” from their excellent 2007 album In Rainbows. More

Oct 05, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

This week we have a tie for Album of the Week, with both Madeline Kenney‘s Perfect Shapes and Phosphorescent‘s C’est La Vie taking the top spot. Below is info on both albums.

Oct 05, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

This week Sharon Van Etten and Moonface announced new albums and their lead singles both made this week’s Songs of the Week list. Joining them are new standalone singles from Julia Jacklin, Jessie Ware, and SOAK, as well as some singles from upcoming albums, and an eight-minute album track. But our #1 this week is a bonus track that probably shouldn’t have been cut from an album released earlier this year. More

Oct 05, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Phosphorescent (aka Matthew Houck) released a new album, C’est La Vie, today via Dead Oceans. Now that the album is out, you can stream the whole thing here. More

Oct 03, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Phosphorescent (aka Matthew Houck) is releasing a new album, C’est La Vie, this Friday (October 5) via Dead Oceans. Last night he stopped by The Late Late Show with James Corden to perform the album’s first single “New Birth in New England.” More

Oct 02, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Phosphorescent (aka Matthew Houck) is releasing a new album, C’est La Vie, on October 5 via Dead Oceans. Now he has shared another song from the album, almost title track “C’est La Vie No. 2.” More

Sep 07, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Last week’s Songs of the Week was sparse, with only a Top 8 (and two of those songs were from the same artist), probably due to it building up a three-day weekend. There wasn’t much to write about at the start of this week, due to the Labor Day holiday on Monday, but labels, bands, and publicists more than made up for it with plenty of new songs the rest of the week. More

Sep 06, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Phosphorescent (aka Matthew Houck) is releasing a new album, C’est La Vie, on October 5 via Dead Oceans. Previously he shared its first single, “New Birth in New England” (which was one of our Songs of the Week). Now he has shared another song from the album, “Christmas Down Under.” More

Aug 31, 2018 By Mark Redfern

Under the Radar is excited to announce the full details of our new print issue, which is out now nationwide (on newsstands, in such stores as Barnes & Noble and Books-A-Million, and elsewhere) and available to buy directly from us here. The issue features Kamasi Washington on the cover. More

Aug 03, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Lots of strong Songs of the Week contenders this week. We were tempted to do a Top 12 again like last week, instead of our usual Top 10, but resisted the excess. There are lots of Europeans in this week’s list. More

Jul 30, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Phosphorescent (aka Matthew Houck) has announced a new album, C’est La Vie, and shared its first single, “New Birth in New England.” More

May 01, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

“Our First 100 Days” is an anti-President Donald Trump project. The good folks behind the “30 Days, 30 Songs” anti-Trump campaign during the election teamed up with Secretly Group for “Our First 100 Days.” More

Mar 24, 2016 By Joshua M. Miller

Last week The National revealed the tracklist and release date for for their Grateful Dead tribute compilation Day Of The Dead. Now they’ve shared five songs featuring some well-known musicians: The War On Drugs’ “Touch Of Grey,” Courtney Barnett’s “New Speedway Boogie,” Bruce Hornsby and Justin Vernon’s old band DeYarmond Edison’s “Black Muddy River,” The National’s “Morning Dew,” and Phosphorescent, Jenny Lewis and Friends cover of “Sugaree.” More

Feb 11, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Bon Iver‘s main creative force Justin Vernon said last year that there were no upcoming plans for a new Bon Iver album (the last one was released in 2011), but in a new interview with Billboard he has said that he’s “no longer winding down” and promises that he’s “definitely been working on music.” More

Dec 02, 2014 By Mike Hilleary

Following his 2013 album Muchacho, singer/songwriter Matthew Houck, a.k.a. Phosphorescent, has announced the release of a brand new live album, Live at the Music Hall. More

Dec 11, 2013 By Mike Hilleary

For those who like to plan way in advance when it comes to getting something special for your significant other on Valentine’s Day, Hear Music/Concord Music and Starbucks have announced the fifth installment of their love song covers compilation Sweeheart 2014. More

Dec 03, 2013 By Mike Hilleary

Phosphorescent‘s Matthew Houck has announced plans for a new round of tour dates behind his project’s latest album Muchacho. More

Apr 24, 2013 By Mike Hilleary

Scheduled to play at New York’s Brooklyn Academy of Music later this week, Phosphorescent, a.k.a. Matthew Houck, served as the musical guest last night on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. More

Mar 27, 2013 By Cody Ray Shafer

Phosphorescent’s new video for “Song for Zula” debuted today on NPR Music. Phosphorescent, aka Matthew Houck, co-directed the video with Djuna Wahlrab. The video consists of a single slow-motion shot of a woman chained up and attempting to break free with a rock. The anticipation and anxiety felt while watching her slam the rock over and over matches the song’s theme of pain and emotional baggage. More

Dec 10, 2012 By Mike Hilleary

Phosphorescent, the musical project of songwriter Matthew Houck, has announced the arrival of a new album titled, Muchacho. More

Sep 20, 2011 By Wendy Lynch Redfern

Check out photos from Day Two of ACL Music Festival 2011 in Austin, TX including Stevie Wonder, Alexander, Chromeo, Cut Copy, Iron and Wine, My Morning Jacket, Telekinesis, Twin Shadow, and more. More

Jun 11, 2011 By Wendy Lynch Redfern

Day Two Bonnaroo! Check out photos from the performances on Friday, June 9th 2011. Photographer, Matt Jones, was there to capture all of the action. Full gallery here.
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Dec 10, 2010 By Laura Studarus

Last night, Phosphorescent took to the Letterman stage for a rocking take of, “It’s Hard to Be Humble (When You’re From Alabama).” More

Aug 04, 2010 By Hong Le

Phosphorescent have released the video for their first single “It’s Hard To Be Humble (When You’re From Alabama)” off their current album, Here’s To Taking It Easy. Directed by Natalie Johns of Dig For Fire TV, the video documents the journey of the band through live shows, practices, and hangs outs that lead to the release of the new album. Phosphorescent is currently on tour in the U.S. and begin their European tour in September. The tour ends in San Francisco at the Treasure Island Music Festival with The National, LCD Soundsystem, Broken Social Scene, and She & Him. Check out the video and complete tour dates. More

Jul 12, 2010 By Laura Studarus

Treasure Island has announced its lineup for the 2010 festival, held October 16th and 17th on Treasure Island in the middle of the San Francisco Bay. Split evenly between dance music and indie rockers, headliners includeLCD Soundsystem and Deadmau5 (Saturday) and Belle & Sebastian and The National (Sunday). We have the full lineup. More

Sep 01, 2009 By Michele Yamamoto

Our News Roundup briefly reports on various entertainment news stories that are circulating the web: Thom Yorke‘s upcoming limited 12” release, the possible reinvestigation of Brian Jones’ death, Bad Lieutenant—a project formed by New Order members Bernard Sumner and Phil Cunningham, Patrick Wolf‘s missing cape, Jay-Z’s album has leaked and is streaming, Oasis’ demise, Robert Downey Jr. and Jon Favreau teaming up again for Cowboys & Aliens, and upcoming tours from Headlights, Phosphorescent, and Califone. More

Apr 25, 2009 By Tom Vale

Onstage at Club De Ville at this year’s SXSW, time finally ran out. “Well, goddamnit, Austin, we have to go,” said Matthew Houck, singer/songwriter and organizing Beard Number One of the multibearded monster that is Phosphorescent. His joy was slightly dented by the news, but he recovered quickly (“we’re not going to pout. Well, we might pout a little”). Then he brought the show to its slightly premature close with a raucous, freewheeling version of-what else?-“The Party’s Over”: “Let’s call it a night/The party’s over/You know that all good things must end.” More

Mar 20, 2013 By Jim Scott

While Matthew Houck would not be strictly classified as a country musician, he’s taken a wonderful lesson from country about range of emotion. Muchacho, his latest album, swings from heartbroken to celebratory and back again, sometimes within one song. More