Jul 11, 2023 By Kat Ramkumar

Alternative R&B artist and polymath serpentwithfeet (aka Josiah Wise) has announced the premiere of his new theatrical dance show titled Heart of Brick, which pays homage to Black queer nightlife and is inspired by an upcoming new album. More

Dec 02, 2022 By Mark Redfern (with Joey Arnone)

Welcome to the 41st Songs of the Week of 2022. We didn’t do a Songs of the Week last week because of the Thanksgiving holiday, so this week’s list covers songs from the last two weeks. More

Nov 22, 2022 By Joey Arnone

Experimental R&B/gospel vocalist serpentwithfeet has shared a new song, “The Hands,” which is featured in the new A24 film The Inspection. The song was produced by Sensei Bueno and features musical contributions from Animal Collective and StemsMusic Choir. More

Aug 16, 2022 By Joey Arnone

Experimental R&B/gospel vocalist serpentwithfeet has shared a new song, “I’m Pressed.” It is out now via Secretly Canadian. More

Aug 10, 2022 By Joey Arnone

Moby has shared a lyric video for the new single, “On Air,” a collaboration with experimental R&B/gospel vocalist serpentwithfeet. It is the second official release from Moby’s newly-established record label, Always Centered at Night. More

Nov 02, 2021 By Joey Arnone

Experimental R&B/gospel vocalist serpentwithfeet (aka Josiah Wise) has announced a North American tour set for early 2022 in support of his most recent album, DEACON. Wise has also shared a new video for a remix of “Fellowship” featuring guest vocals from Ambre and Alex Isley. It is the latest release from Wise’s upcoming EP, DEACON’S Grove, out this Friday (Nov. 5) via Secretly Canadian. More

Oct 13, 2021 By Joey Arnone

Experimental R&B/gospel vocalist serpentwithfeet (aka Josiah Wise) has announced the release of a new EP, DEACON’S GROVE, which will be out on November 5 via Secretly Canadian. Wise has also shared a video for the EP’s lead single, “Down Nuh River.” More

Mar 22, 2021 By Mark Redfern

Experimental R&B/gospel vocalist serpentwithfeet (aka Josiah Wise) is releasing a new album, DEACON, on this Friday via Secretly Canadian. Now he has shared another song from it, “Heart Storm,” which features NAO. More

Mar 02, 2021 By Joey Arnone

Experimental R&B/gospel vocalist serpentwithfeet (aka Josiah Wise) has shared a video for “Same Size Shoe,” the latest single from his upcoming album DEACON, due out March 26 on Secretly Canadian. More

Feb 19, 2021 By Mark Redfern (with Joey Arnone)

Welcome to the sixth Songs of the Week of 2021. There was finally some good news this week. We landed on Mars! On Thursday NASA’s Perseverance rover successfully landed on the red planet, a tricky engineering feat, to answer David Bowie’s question: “Is there life on Mars?” More

Feb 17, 2021 By Mark Redfern

Experimental R&B/gospel vocalist serpentwithfeet (aka Josiah Wise) is releasing a new album, DEACON, on March 26 via Secretly Canadian. Now he has shared another song from it, “Same Size Shoe.” More

Jan 29, 2021 By Mark Redfern (with Joey Arnone and Caleb Campbell)

Welcome to the third Songs of the Week of 2021. We didn’t do a Songs of the Week last week. Due to the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday and the inauguration, it was a week light on compelling new tracks. So this week we chronicle the best songs of the last two weeks, so it’s a Top 12 (and our Top 2 are both super long songs). More

Jan 25, 2021 By Mark Redfern

Experimental R&B/gospel vocalist serpentwithfeet (aka Josiah Wise) has announced a new album, DEACON, and shared its first single, “Fellowship,” via a video for the track. More

Mar 31, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

Experimental R&B/gospel vocalist serpentwithfeet (aka Josiah Wise) has announced a new EP, Apparition, and shared its first single, “A Comma.” More

Jun 28, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Welcome to another Songs of the Week. The Top 2 are by the same artist, which rarely happens, if ever. This week was a challenge, as there were less immediately obvious tracks to make the Top 10, but then we dug deep and ended up with too many tracks (there are an additional 10 honorable mentions). So there are lots and lots of songs to listen to below. More

Jun 26, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Experimental R&B/gospel vocalist serpentwithfeet has shared a brand new song, “Receipts,” that features Ty Dolla . More

Dec 21, 2018 By Mark Redfern

Ahead of our forthcoming Top 100 Albums of 2018 list, we present our favorite debut albums of the year. To qualify, an album simply had to be the artist’s first full-length release under their current artist name. 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

Jun 08, 2018 By Michael Watkins

In Lindsey Jordan’s short time as Snail Mail, the 18-year-old has cultivated an assured but dedicated following. Harking back to her ‘90s indie rock predecessors such as Liz Phair, Fiona Apple, and even further back to the likes of The Pretenders’ Chrissie Hynde, she offers guitar-centerd songs that don’t whine or moan or even look for a nostalgia in a past that she hasn’t even lived-as seems to be one of the millennial trends nowadays-but find beauty in the mundane and the small details, the likes of which has been done as successfully by only a handful of her contemporaries in recent years. More

Jun 06, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Experimental R&B/gospel vocalist serpentwithfeet is releasing his debut album, soil, on Friday (June 8) via Secretly Canadian and Tri Angle. Now he has shared another song from it, “seedless,” via an official audio visual that features serpentwithfeet interacting with two dolls while duel spinning full moons are superimposed on them. More

May 16, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

San Francisco’s Treasure Island Music Festival took a year off in 2017 to find a new festival site. Now it’s back, this time at Oakland’s Middle Harbor Shoreline Park as opposed to the titular Treasure Island. The two-day festival goes down October 13-14. More

May 02, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Experimental R&B/gospel vocalist serpentwithfeet is releasing his debut album, soil, on June 8 via Secretly Canadian and Tri Angle. Previously he shared a video for its first single, the emotive “bless ur heart,” which was one of our Songs of the Week. Now he has shared a video for another new song, “cherubim.” More

Mar 30, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

FYF Fest has announced its 2018 lineup. The event is due to take place July 21 and 22 at Los Angeles’ Exposition Park. The headliners are Florence and the Machine and Janet Jackson. More

Mar 09, 2018 By Mark Redfern

After a couple of strong weeks for Songs of the Week, it was more much more of a challenge this week to come up with 10 songs we were truly excited about. But we’re really fully passionate about this week’s Top 5 and stand behind the rest of the Top 10. More

Nov 26, 2018 By Max Freedman

In a small cafe in roughly the center of Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood, serpentwithfeet’s fragrance arrives just a moment before he does. In the milliseconds before he appears sporting a beige bucket hat, off-gold tanktop, and baggy, mustard-yellow gym shorts with the acronym “GOAT” running down the left leg, an infusion of comforting, disarming aromas fills the room. More

Jun 11, 2018 By Stephen Mayne

Serpentwithfeet is Josiah Wise and Josiah Wise is hard to place. He comes with a classically trained voice, a childhood spent singing in churches, and a fascination with the occult. He’s also a queer black man singing about his experiences with an astonishing voice and a dark, operatic sound coiling around soil. More

May 11, 2018 By Conrad Duncan

“People try to tell you that the Internet is bad,” Josiah Wise, the tattooed, septum-pierced man behind serpentwithfeet, tells his audience. “But they’re wrong.” More