Apr 20, 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? More

Apr 17, 2020 By Christopher Roberts (with Lily Guthrie)

Welcome to the fifteenth Songs of the Week of 2020. It’s another week under lockdown, with lots of debate on when things can get back to normal. Still not anytime soon it seems. More

Apr 15, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

Italian-born, Los Angeles-based dream pop musician Porcelain Raft (aka Mauro Remiddi) has announced a new album, Come Rain and shared its first single, title track “Come Rain,” via a video for the new song. More

Feb 22, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Italian-born but Los Angeles-based musician Porcelain Raft (aka Mauro Remiddi) released his third full-length album, Microclimate, earlier this month via his own label, Volcanic Field. Previously we were treated to the album’s songs “Distant Shore” and “Big Sur.” More

Feb 03, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Here we highlight five albums due out today that we feel are most worth hearing. There’s also a longer list of albums released in the last month that are also worth checking out. We have also included Amazon links for each album. More

Jan 26, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Italian-born but Los Angeles-based musician Porcelain Raft (aka Mauro Remiddi) is releasing his third full-length album, Microclimate, next Friday (February 3) via his own label, Volcanic Field. More

Jan 10, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Italian-born but Los Angeles-based musician Porcelain Raft (aka Mauro Remiddi) is releasing his third full-length album, Microclimate, on February 3 via his own label, Volcanic Field. Previously we were treated to the album’s first single, “Distant Shore.” Now here’s another dreamy song from the album, “Big Sur.” Check it out below. More

Nov 03, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Italian-born but Los Angeles-based musician Porcelain Raft (aka Mauro Remiddi) has announced his third full-length album, Microclimate, and shared its first single, “Distant Shore.” More

Jun 30, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Porcelain Raft (aka Mauro Remiddi) has surprise released a brand new six song EP entitled Pressed Flowers on his own Volcanic Field label. You can download it for free via Bandcamp or stream it over at Soundcloud. More

Apr 28, 2015 By Mike Hilleary

Emerging from relative dormancy, Porcelain Raft, aka musical artist Mauro Remiddi, announced yesterday the arrival of a brand new EP titled Half Awake. More

Nov 13, 2014 By Laura Studarus

Porcelain Raft’s new song is called “Closed Eye Vision.” More

Nov 22, 2013 By Mike Hilleary

Next year will mark the the 20th anniversary of Polyvinyl’s launch as a label. More

Aug 15, 2013 By Scott Dransfield

Several new albums are streaming in advance of their release next week. More

Aug 05, 2013 By Mike Hilleary

Set to release his sophomore album Permenant Signal on Aug. 20, hazy, dream-pop artist Mauro Remiddi, a.k.a. Porcelain Raft, has premiered a brand new music video featuring the record’s included track “The Way Out.” More

Jul 10, 2013 By Laura Studarus

Take a listen to a new track from Porcelain Raft’s forthcoming sophomore album Permanent Signal. More

Jun 19, 2013 By Mike Hilleary

Last week dream-pop artist Mauro Remiddi, a.k.a. Porcelain Raft, announced the arrival of his sophomore LP Permanent Signal on Aug. 20. More

Jun 13, 2013 By Mike Hilleary

Italian dream pop musical artist Mauro Remiddi, a.k.a. Porcelain Raft, has announced the release of his sophomore album, Permanent Signal. More

May 02, 2013 By Laura Studarus

Porcelain Raft (Mauro Remiddi) is in the studio, hard at work on the follow-up to last year’s excellent debut full-length, Strange Weekend. While we’re still waiting to find out what form that will take, the sessions have already yielded fruit in the form of a new EP called Silent Speech. More

May 18, 2012 By Christopher Roberts

The eighth annual Great Escape Festival took place last weekend in Brighton, U.K., with many amazing bands gracing the local stages in the charming seaside English town. Here’s a gallery of photos from the festival, including photos of Grimes, EMA, Beth Jeans Houghton, Django Django, Slow Club, When Saints Go Machine, Porcelain Raft, and others. More

Apr 03, 2012 By Mike Hilleary

Just as he’s demonstrated with previous music videos, Porcelain Raft‘s Mauro Remiddi has a clear stylistic direction when it comes to his songs’ visual pairings. More

Feb 13, 2012 By Mike Hilleary

Next week on Feb. 21 Porcelain Raft will release a 7’’ vinyl of his Strange Weekend single “Unless You Speak From Your Heart.” More

Jan 25, 2012 By Mike Hilleary

With his full-length debut Strange Weekend finally seeing release yesterday, Porcelain Raft‘s Mauro Remiddi has apparently decided to treat fans with an added bonus: a video for the album single “Unless You Speak From the Heart.” More

Jan 16, 2012 By Mike Hilleary

With just a week before its release, Italian Londoner Mauro Remiddi (aka Porcelain Raft) has granted listeners a full stream of his upcoming full-length debut Strange Weekend. More

Jan 13, 2012 By Mike Hilleary

Later this spring when he’s done supporting M83 across the world, Italian-UK transplant Mauro Remiddi (aka Porcelain Raft) will be including a fitting leg of shows through the U.S. with fellow woozy pop artist Youth Lagoon. More

Jan 10, 2012 By Mike Hilleary

Leading up to the release of his proper full-length debut Strange Weekend, Porcelain Raft has unveiled a new track to follow-up the stellar “Put Me to Sleep.” More

Nov 21, 2011 By Laura Studarus

Nothing put you to sleep like a glass of warm milk, right? Porcelain Raft takes that to the obvious extreme in his new video “Put Me to Sleep.” We have the clip. More

Nov 15, 2011 By Christopher Roberts

Under the Radar had a CMJ party on October 19 at Public Assembly in Brooklyn. We’ll be posting videos of some of the songs that were performed and today we have Porcelain Raft performing “Talk to Me.” More

Nov 03, 2011 By Laura Studarus

Dream pop bedroom artist Porcelain Raft announced his debut full-length today. We have the details. More

Oct 24, 2011 By Wendy Lynch Redfern

Check out a photo gallery from the Under the Radar CMJ 2011 Party. With performances from Chad Valley, Caskiokids, Porcelain Raft, Eleanor Friedberger, Still Corners and The Stepkids. To see the full gallery, click here. More

Oct 11, 2011 By Mi Tran

On October 19 Under the Radar will host a free CMJ day party sponsored by PRS Guitars. Leading up to the event we’re letting you know about each artist playing. Today we’re spotlighting Porcelain Raft. More

Oct 05, 2011 By Laura Studarus

Under the Radar magazine is excited to announce the details of its first CMJ event, sponsored by PRS Guitars. The event will take place Wednesday, October 19 at Public Assembly in the heart of Williamsburg, Brooklyn and kicks off at 12:30 p.m. Featuring performances from Eleanor Friedberger, Still Corners, The Stepkids, Porcelain Raft, Casiokids, and Chad Valley, the party is free and open to the public (21+), no CMJ badges or RSVP required. More

Aug 05, 2011 By Laura Studarus

Check out our photo shoot with Porcelain Raft (Mauro Remiddi). More

Jun 01, 2011 By John Everhart

Under the Radar Pleased to Meet You artist Porcelain Raft, aka Mauro Remiddi, has signed with Secretly Canadian. We have the details, along with a brand new track. More

May 12, 2011 By Mark Redfern

Under the Radar magazine’s online charity auction for the Japan relief effort ends today, Thursday, May 12, at 10 a.m. PST/1 p.m. EST. It’s your last chance to get bids in to win an Under the Radar SXSW poster signed by all the artists who played our party, either a guitar autographed by Hooray for Earth or top-of-the-line headphones from Shure, plus 11 pieces of vinyl, 3 CDs, 1 cassette, 2 bags, and an Under the Radar subscription!

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May 05, 2011 By Mark Redfern

Under the Radar magazine is hosting an online charity auction for the Japan relief effort that starts today and features Okkervil River, Menomena, Owen Pallett, Telekinesis, Surfer Blood, Hooray for Earth, and Porcelain Raft. More

Mar 28, 2011 By Mike Hilleary

Porcelain Raft finally gets a bit of face-time in front of the camera for his new video (well, sort of). More

Mar 21, 2011 By Laura Studarus

During the two days of Under the Radar’s SXSW parties we recorded exclusive greetings from some of the artists playing. In case you missed them on our Twitter and Facebook feeds, we’ve collected them here. More

Mar 21, 2011 By Mike Hilleary

The morning of day three began a bit like day two: a bit begrudgingly. While both sides of the snooze/sleep debate had very compelling arguments, it was ultimately decided that checking out cool, new music trumped physical recovery.

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Feb 11, 2011 By Mark Redfern and Laura Studarus

Under the Radar’s Winter 2011 issue is about to hit stands. The cover features Death Cab for Cutie, who gave writer Matt Fink insight into the band’s forthcoming album, Codes and Keys (due out in May). The issue also includes interviews with Bright Eyes, British Sea Power, The Dears, The Decemberists, Destroyer, The Dodos, Duran Duran,Elbow, Iron and Wine, Lykke Li, R.E.M., Telekinesis, Toro Y Moi, The Antlers, The Big Pink, Cymbals Eat Guitars, Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros, Jens Lekman, Okkervil River, Panda Bear, Vivian Girls, Anna Calvi, Porcelain Raft, Smith Westerns, Yuck, and more.

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Jan 04, 2011 By Laura Studarus

Mauro Remiddi—who cut his teeth scoring Italian films and refined his pop-chops with defunct band Sunny Day Sets Fire—is now making beautiful pop soundscapes under the name Porcelain Raft. We have the details on his new EP. More

Jan 30, 2012 By Laura Studarus

Under the guise of Porcelain Raft, Mauro Remiddi makes gauzy bedroom pop—constructing dream-laden choruses from loops of gently strummed guitars, drum machines, and tape hiss. Impressed with the several EPs he already has to his name (including last year’s excellent Gone Blind), Under the Radar spoke with the Italian troubadour on the eve of the release of his first full-length Strange Weekend (out via Secretly Canadian). Remiddi told us about simplifying the process, the marriage of image and sound, and what he really wanted to do with his life. More

Feb 13, 2011 By Mike Hilleary

Mauro Remiddi believes one of the key elements to his songwriting process is achieving a level of exhaustion. Writing, recording, and mixing a new song in a single day is a common occurrence for the 38-year-old, who regularly sequesters himself in his small London flat. Because he progresses from start to finish so quickly, Remiddi says his work often feels like “an afterthought, like finally you think of what actually happened. More

Jan 19, 2012 By Laura Studarus

In Fellini’s 81/2, the movie’s protagonist, tired of being stuck in traffic, leaves his body and floats over the cars and out toward the sea. Italian musician Mauro Remiddi (who writes and performs as Porcelain Raft) might sympathize. More

Mar 29, 2011 By Mark Redfern

We were pretty sure that people would show up to our Thursday SXSW party because of our exclusive set by Atlas Sound, and while we were confident that we had an equally strong lineup for our Friday party (which was presented by Shure), we still weren’t certain how many fans would show up. But our immediate concern at the start of the party was whether our first artist would make it in time (if at all). Porcelain Raft (aka Italian born, London-based, Mauro Remiddi) had underestimated how far his hotel was from our venue (The Flamingo Cantina), was running late, and had a dead cell-phone and thus no way to let us know that he was indeed on his way. Thankfully the charming Remiddi arrived with a thousand apologies 10 minutes before he was scheduled to perform and because he’s a one-man band, was pretty much ready to go on time. The crowd, by the way, was as healthy in numbers as the day before, with a to-capacity venue and a line down the block most of the day. More

Mar 21, 2011 By Mike Hilleary

Mar 14, 2011 By Laura Studarus

As Porcelain Raft, Mauro Remiddi sculpts hazy, electro soundscapes, weaving lo-fi pop through wandering compositions that seem to exist in a universe just separate from ours. More