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Food For Worms Due Out This Friday via Dead Oceans
Feb 21, 2023
By Mark Redfern
British post-punk band Shame are releasing a new album, Food For Worms, this Friday via Dead Oceans. Now they have shared its third single, “Adderall.” More
Food For Worms Due Out February 24 via Dead Oceans
Jan 10, 2023
By Mark Redfern
British post-punk band Shame are releasing a new album, Food For Worms, on February 24 via Dead Oceans. Now they have shared its second single, “Six Pack,” via a music video. More
Plus Shame, koleżanka, The Golden Dregs, and a Wrap-up of the Week’s Other Notable New Tracks
Nov 18, 2022
By Mark Redfern (with Joey Arnone)
Welcome to the 40th Songs of the Week of 2022. After a few weeks of doing a Songs of the Week every other week, we’re back on the regular weekly schedule now. Although next week we won’t being doing a Songs of the Week because of the Thanksgiving holiday. More
Food For Worms Due Out February 24, 2023 via Dead Oceans
Nov 15, 2022
By Mark Redfern
British post-punk band Shame have announced a new album, Food For Worms, and shared its first single, “Fingers of Steel,” via a video. They have also announced some tour dates. More
Plus Shame, Tame Impala, and a Wrap-up of the Week’s Other Notable New Tracks
Dec 10, 2021
By Mark Redfern (with Joey Arnone)
Welcome to the 46th Songs of the Week of 2021. As the Christmas holidays creep in there are fewer new tracks of note to choose from. This week’s list is mainly populated with reliable established artists, rather than new up and comers. More
Dec 09, 2021
By Joey Arnone
Shame have shared a new holiday single, “Baldur’s Gate.” It is the band’s latest holiday release since their 2018 rendition of “Feliz Navidad.” “Baldur’s Gate” is out now via Dead Oceans. More
Nov 05, 2021
By Joey Arnone
Shame have shared a self-directed video for their brand-new single “This Side of the Sun.” It is the band’s first new music since the release of their sophomore album, Drunk Tank Pink. More
Drunk Tank Pink Out Now via Dead Oceans
Jan 15, 2021
By Mark Redfern
British post-punk five-piece Shame have released a new album, Drunk Tank Pink, today via Dead Oceans. Now that the album’s out you can stream the whole thing here. Also, today we posted our review of Drunk Tank Pink. More
Plus Viagra Boys, London Grammar, Shame, and a Wrap-up of the Week’s Other Notable New Tracks
Jan 08, 2021
By Mark Redfern
Welcome to the first Songs of the Week of 2021. And what a week it’s been! More
Drunk Tank Pink Due Out January 15 via Dead Oceans
Jan 08, 2021
By Mark Redfern
Shame are releasing a new album, Drunk Tank Pink, next Friday (January 15) via Dead Oceans. Now they have shared another song from it, “Nigel Hitter,” via a video for it. More
Plus U.S. Girls, Arab Strap, Bernice, and a Wrap-up of the Week’s Other Notable New Tracks
Dec 04, 2020
By Christopher Roberts (with Joey Arnone)
Welcome to the 44th Songs of the Week of 2020. We didn’t do a Songs of the Week last week because of the Thanksgiving holiday, so this week’s list covers the last two weeks and thus it’s a Top 12 rather than a Top 10.
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Drunk Tank Pink Will Be Out January 15, 2021 on Dead Oceans
Dec 03, 2020
By Joey Arnone
Shame have just shared their new single “Snow Day,” along with a visualizer for the song, which features drone footage shot in the Scottish Borders by Starkie Reay. “Snow Day” will be featured on Shame’s upcoming album Drunk Tank Pink, which will be out January 15, 2021 via Dead Oceans. More
Plus Bleachers and Bruce Springsteen, Hannah’s Little Sister, Speed Stick, and a Wrap-up of the Week’s Other Notable New Tracks
Nov 20, 2020
By Christopher Roberts (with Joey Arnone)
Welcome to the 43rd Songs of the Week of 2020. Whereas last week’s Songs of the Week covered three weeks’ worth of songs, this week we’re back to just covering the last seven days. More
Drunk Tank Pink Due Out January 15, 2021 via Dead Oceans
Nov 18, 2020
By Christopher Roberts
London five-piece Shame have announced a new album, Drunk Tank Pink, and shared a new song from it, “Water in the Well,” via a video for it. More
A Soccer Mommy Sends Some Snail Mail to a Flasher, a Goat Girl, and a Serpent with Feet; What a Shame
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
They Also Performed "One Rizla"
Nov 07, 2018
By Christopher Roberts
Shame are a promising new post-punk five-piece from London. Way back in January they released their debut album, Songs of Praise, via Dead Oceans. Now they have done a Spotify Singles session where they have covered The B-52’s 1979 song “Rock Lobster.” More
October San Francisco Festival Also Features A$AP Rocky, Lord Huron, Jungle, Santigold, U.S. Girls, Moses Sumney, Soccer Mommy, and 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
Issue 63 Also Includes Interviews with MGMT, The Decemberists, Belle & Sebastian, The National, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Fleet Foxes, Parquet Courts, Noel Gallagher, Spoon, and More
Mar 28, 2018
By Christopher Roberts
Under the Radar is excited to announce the full details of our Spring 2018 Issue, which is out now digitally via Under the Radar’s app and the magazine apps Readly and Zinio. The print version has shipped out to subscribers and stores and will be on all newsstands soon. The issue features Courtney Barnett on the cover. More
Songs of Praise Out Now on Dead Oceans
Feb 27, 2018
By Christopher Roberts
Shame are a promising new post-punk five-piece from London. Last month they released their debut album, Songs of Praise, via Dead Oceans. Now they have shared a video for “Lampoon.” More
Plus Noel Gallagher and a Wrap-up of the Week's Other Notable New Tracks
Nov 17, 2017
By Christopher Roberts
As we get into the holiday season and build up to Thanksgiving next year there were inevitably less new songs of note this week, but there were still enough gems for a Songs of the Week post. We’ve got three songs from upcoming debut albums due out in 2018 and two songs from Tame Impala tied for #2. More
Interviews
Jun 06, 2018
By Tim Mobbs
Springing forth from the fertile South London scene, Shame formed during a long and listless school summer holiday in 2014 and, by chance, ended up rehearsing at The Queen’s Head in Brixton. More
Reviews
Feb 28, 2023
By Michael James Hall
London’s chaotic post-punkers Shame broke minds with the visceral explosion of their debut, Songs of Praise, back in 2018. 2021’s Drunk Tank Pink saw them follow up with even greater intensity and melody, now matched with an intoxicating sense of experimentation, typified by its remarkable lead single “Alphabet.” More
Feb 19, 2018
By Michael James Hall
Appearing initially to ride the jagged crest of the filthy wave created by Fat White Family, South London’s Shame have taken a clutch of influences as sonically and geographically disparate but similar in attitude as The Fall and The Jesus Lizard and created, here on their debut, a personal ocean in which to violently splash.
