Sep 01, 2023 By Mark Redfern

Welcome to the 27th Songs of the Week of 2023. It was another quiet week for new songs, but we settled on 10 we liked. More

Aug 30, 2023 By Mark Redfern

Legendary ’90s shoegazers Slowdive are releasing a new album, everything is alive, this Friday via Dead Oceans. Now they have shared its fourth single, “alife,” via an animated music video. They have also announced some new 2024 UK and European tour dates. More

Aug 09, 2023 By Andy Von Pip

Slowdive release a new track/video, ‘the slab,’ from their highly anticipated fifth album, everything is alive, out 1st September on Dead Oceans. More

Jul 18, 2023 By Mark Redfern

Legendary ’90s shoegazers Slowdive are releasing a new album, everything is alive. Now they have shared its second single, “skin in the game.” More

Jun 23, 2023 By Mark Redfern (with Kat Ramkumar)

Welcome to the 22nd Songs of the Week of 2023. We didn’t do a Songs of the Week last week because I was out of town last Thursday to this Monday in Washington, DC, covering Awesome Con. So, this week’s Songs of the Week is supersized and incorporates tracks from the last two weeks. More

Jun 20, 2023 By Mark Redfern

Legendary ’90s shoegazers Slowdive have announced a new album, everything is alive, and shared its first single, “kisses,” via a music video. They have also announced a North American tour, as well as shows in the UK. Everything is alive is the band’s first new album in six years. More

Mar 23, 2021 By Joey Arnone

Beachy Head (a newly-announced band consisting of Rachel Goswell and Christian Savill of Slowdive, Matt Duckworth of The Flaming Lips, Steve Clarke of The Soft Cavalry, and Ryan Graveface of Black Moth Super Rainbow) have announced a new self-titled album, which will be out on April 30 via Graveface. The band has also shared a song from the album titled “Destroy Us.” More

Sep 27, 2019 By Mark Redfern

Under the Radar is excited to announce the My Favorite Album Issue, our new print issue in which we speak to musicians and actors about their all-time favorite album. The issue features Angel Olsen and Sleater-Kinney on the two covers and is available to buy directly from us here, as well as being distributed in stores nationwide (on newsstands, in such stores as Barnes & Noble and Books-A-Million, and elsewhere). More

Jun 27, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

The Soft Cavalry are a new duo featuring Rachel Goswell of legendary ‘90s shoegazers Slowdive alongside her husband Steve Clarke. They are releasing their self-titled debut album on July 5 via Bella Union. Now they have shared another song from the album, “Never Be Without You,” via a video for the track animated by James Bates. More

Jun 04, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

The Soft Cavalry are a new duo featuring Rachel Goswell of legendary ‘90s shoegazers Slowdive alongside her husband Steve Clarke. They are releasing their self-titled debut album on July 5 via Bella Union. Now they have shared another song from the album, “Bulletproof,” via a video for the track. The striking black & white video features the band performing the song via sign language. More

May 14, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

The Soft Cavalry are a new duo featuring Rachel Goswell of legendary ‘90s shoegazers Slowdive alongside her husband Steve Clarke. They are releasing their self-titled debut album on July 5 via Bella Union. More

Apr 17, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

The Soft Cavalry are a new duo featuring Rachel Goswell of legendary ‘90s shoegazers Slowdive alongside her husband Steve Clarke. They have announced their self-titled debut album and shared its first single, “Dive.” More

Aug 28, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

California’s Desert Daze festival has been announcing its lineup in stages. Now they have announced the fourth round of artists, including Slowdive (who join previously announced fellow shoegazing legends My Bloody Valentine), Wooden Shjips, Idles, Cosmonauts, L.A. Witch, Death Valley Girls, Vinyl Williams, Goon, Stonefield, Sugar Candy Mountain, and The Mad Walls. More

Jun 29, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Brooklyn noise rockers A Place to Bury Strangers released a new album, Pinned, back in April via Dead Oceans. Now they have announced Re-Pinned, a new album of remixes of the songs from Pinned, and have shared one of its tracks, a Slowdive remix of “Frustrated Operator.” 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

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

Oct 11, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Legendary ‘90s shoegazers Slowdive released a new album, a self-titled affair and their first full-length in 22 years, earlier this year via Dead Oceans. It was our Album of the Week. Now the band have shared a video for “Don’t Know Why.” Grant Singer directed the clip, which is alas an Apple Music exclusive. More

Jul 18, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Under the Radar is excited to announce the full details of our Summer 2017 Issue, which is out now digitally via Under the Radar’s app and the magazine app Readly. The print version has shipped out to subscribers and stores and will be on all newsstands soon (as well as available soon digitally via the magazine app Zinio). The issue features Grizzly Bear on the cover. More

Jul 13, 2017 By Mark Redfern

In the past we’ve avoided posting midyear best albums lists. It seemed somehow impatient and premature to evaluate the year’s albums halfway through. And how do you decide which period the list covers, which arbitrary release date do you work out is the cut off point, as every midyear list seems to cover a different period? But 2017 is a year that demands a partial evaluation. More

Jun 13, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Legendary ‘90s shoegazers Slowdive released a new album, a self-titled affair and their first full-length in 22 years, last month via Dead Oceans. More

May 11, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Legendary ‘90s shoegazers Slowdive released a new album, a self-titled affair and their first full-length in 22 years, last week via Dead Oceans. It was our Album of the Week. Now a bonus track from the Japanese edition of the album has surfaced. 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

May 05, 2017 By Matthew Berlyant

When Slowdive reunited in 2014 for a round of well-received shows, it wasn’t clear if they would release any new music. More

May 05, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

If you support Under the Radar‘s Patreon page at the minimum contribution of at least $1.00 a month you get access to our Patreon-only feed featuring exclusive content only available to Patreon supporters. More

May 02, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Legendary ‘90s shoegazers Slowdive are releasing a new album, a self-titled affair and their first full-length in 22 years, this Friday (May 5) via Dead Oceans. 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 28, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Legendary ‘90s shoegazers Slowdive have announced a new album, a self-titled affair and their first full-length in 22 years, and shared a video for a new song, “Sugar For the Pill.” Slowdive is due out May 5 via Dead Oceans. More

Jan 23, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Legendary ‘90s shoegazers Slowdive reformed in 2014 and have been playing shows. There were promises that they were working on new music and a couple of weeks ago they finally shared “Star Roving,” their first new song in 22 years. More

Jan 12, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Legendary ‘90s shoegazers Slowdive reformed in 2014 and have been playing shows. There were promises that they were working on new music and now we finally get to hear some of it as the band have shared “Star Roving,” their first new song in 22 years. More

Nov 16, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Minor Victories is a supergroup featuring Slowdive’s Rachel Goswell, Mogwai’s Stuart Braithwaite, Editors’ Justin Lockey, and Hand Held Cine Club’s James Lockey. More

Oct 24, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Minor Victories is a supergroup featuring Slowdive’s Rachel Goswell, Mogwai’s Stuart Braithwaite, Editors’ Justin Lockey, and Hand Held Cine Club’s James Lockey. More

Aug 01, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Minor Victories is a supergroup featuring Slowdive’s Rachel Goswell, Mogwai’s Stuart Braithwaite, Editors’ Justin Lockey, and Hand Held Cine Club’s James Lockey. The band’s self-titled debut album came out back in June via Fat Possum in the U.S. More

May 10, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Minor Victories is a supergroup featuring Slowdive’s Rachel Goswell, Mogwai’s Stuart Braithwaite, Editors’ Justin Lockey, and Hand Held Cine Club’s James Lockey. The band’s self-titled debut album is due out June 3 via Fat Possum in the U.S. (and [PIAS] in the rest of the world). Now they have shared another song from the album, “Breaking My Light.” More

Feb 22, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Minor Victories is a supergroup featuring Slowdive’s Rachel Goswell, Mogwai’s Stuart Braithwaite, Editors’ Justin Lockey, and Hand Held Cine Club’s James Lockey. The project was announced last year and now the band’s debut album has officially been announced and the group has shared their first single, “A Hundred Ropes,” via its video. More

Nov 05, 2015 By Christopher Roberts

Legendary ‘90s shoegazers Slowdive reformed last year and have been playing shows. They have yet to release any new music, but they have just shared a live recording from 2014 of “Avalyn” in honor of the 25th anniversary of the release of their self-titled debut EP, which came out November 5, 1990 and featured “Avalyn” (separated into two parts). More

Sep 22, 2015 By Christopher Roberts

British five-piece Editors are releasing their fifth album, In Dream, on October 2 via Play It Again Sam. Now they have shared another song from it, “The Law,” which is a moody duet with Rachel Goswell of recently reformed shoegazing icons Slowdive. More

Jul 23, 2015 By Christopher Roberts

Minor Victories is a new supergroup (although supergroups often hate being called supergroups). It features Slowdive’s Rachel Goswell, Mogwai’s Stuart Braithwaite, Editors’ Justin Lockey, and Hand Held Cine Club’s James Lockey. More

Aug 13, 2014 By Julia Underwood

Last week, Oslo, Norway hosted The Øya Festival. Writer/photographer Laura Studarus was there to cover the event. Check out her shots from day four featuring Sea Change, Aurora Aksnes, Mapei, Slowdive, and Bryan Ferry. More

Jul 14, 2014 By Mike Hilleary

Reuniting earlier this year and performing a select number of shows and festivals, British shoegaze veterans Slowdive have announced plans for a new proper tour. More

Jun 04, 2014 By Austin Trunick

Last month, Slowdive performed live again for the first time since 1994. The five original members—singers and guitarists Neil Halstead and Rachel Goswell, guitarist Christian Savill, bassist Nick Chaplin, and drummer Simon Scott—have reformed their classic shoegaze group for a series of festival gigs around the world after Spain’s Primavera Sound festival asked them to reunite. More

May 23, 2014 By Laura Studarus and Mark Redfern

Under the Radar is excited to announce the full details of the June/July issue, which is on newsstands now. It features Future Islands on the cover as well as interviews with Slow Club, Lykke Li, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, The Horrors, Slowdive, The War on Drugs vs. Sharon Van Etten, First Aid Kit, James McAvoy, John Slattery, tUnE-yArDs, and more. More

Feb 21, 2014 By Austin Trunick

“The intent is for us to do another record,” says Neil Halstead, founding guitarist and vocalist of the recently-reunited Slowdive. “We all really want to do that. Whether we manage it or not, I’m not sure yet at this point. More

Feb 05, 2014 By Laura Studarus

For those who cheered when Slowdive finally made an official announcement about their reunion, and then pouted when the only announced shows were Primavera Sound and London Underground, we’ve got a (tiny) bit of good news. More

Jan 29, 2014 By Laura Studarus

Excited about Slowdive yet? The band has more news for you. More

Jan 28, 2014 By Mike Hilleary

Following last week‘s semi-cryptic tweets, the members of Slowdive have confirmed that the band has gotten back together. More

Jan 24, 2014 By Mike Hilleary

Almost two decades since the release of their last album, the former members of ‘90s shoegaze outfit Slowdive have been tweeting a countdown that will inevitably conclude on Jan. 29. More

Oct 24, 2019 By Dom Gourlay

The Soft Cavalry is the brainchild of husband and wife duo Steve Clarke and Rachel Goswell. The latter perhaps better known for her work with Slowdive, Mojave 3, and Minor Victories while the former has played bass and sang backing vocals in a number of bands (including Ricky Gervais/David Brent’s Foregone Conclusion) as both a full time member and session musician. More

Sep 15, 2017 By John Everhart (Intro and Moderation)

A conversation between Ariel Pink (full name Ariel Marcus Rosenberg) and Neil Halstead, vocalist/guitarist of Slowdive, is seemingly incongruous at first blush, considering their vastly different methodologies. Ariel Pink has released music at a rapid pace, in a cut-up manner, evolving from his early 4-track days onto newer adventures in hi-fi such as 2014’s terrific Pom pom. More

May 05, 2017 By John Everhart

“What? An interview? Who is it? An American?” Hearing that in the background of a scheduled phone interview at roughly 10 p.m. U.K. time normally portends doom for the interviewer, but in this case Rachel Goswell of reunited shoegaze icons Slowdive assuaged my fears quickly. More

Jul 12, 2016 By Aug Stone

Slowdive’s Rachel Goswell says the word ‘supergroup’ “sits very uncomfortably with her.” She’s talking about her new project Minor Victories, which, as the term implies, also includes members of other noted bands—Editors’ Justin Lockey, his brother James, and Mogwai’s Stuart Braithwaite. More

Aug 12, 2014 By Austin Trunick

While Slowdive‘s early singles rode in on waves of distortion that saw the band lumped in with the rest of the shoegaze pack, by the time they released their 1991 debut album, Just For A Day, they had delved into a more ambient territory that set them apart from their peers. We asked founding members Neil Halstead and Rachel Goswell—who share guitar and vocal duties in the recently reformed band—to tell us about the artists and albums that helped shape Slowdive’s sound. While they acknowledged the influence that classic rock groups such as The Velvet Underground, Pink Floyd, and The Byrds had on their music, the bands that most heavily informed their sound were practically their contemporaries. More

Aug 11, 2014 By Austin Trunick

Slowdive‘s reformation after decades of silence is a moment that many of its fans—and, at points, the band itself—never saw coming. The reunion was spurred by an offer from Primavera Sound, the annual music festival in Barcelona, Spain. More

Jun 04, 2014 By Austin Trunick

Last month, Slowdive performed live again for the first time since 1994. The five original members—singers and guitarists Neil Halstead and Rachel Goswell, guitarist Christian Savill, bassist Nick Chaplin, and drummer Simon Scott—have reformed their classic shoegaze group for a series of festival gigs around the world after Spain’s Primavera Sound festival asked them to reunite. More

Feb 21, 2014 By Austin Trunick

“The intent is for us to do another record,” says Neil Halstead, founding guitarist and vocalist of the recently-reunited Slowdive. “We all really want to do that. Whether we manage it or not, I’m not sure yet at this point. More

Oct 03, 2023 By Matthew Berlyant

Slowdive returned to New York for the first time since 2018 and Under the Radar were there to see it. More

Aug 31, 2023 By Andy Von Pip

Hours after my mother passed away, I can recall stepping out into the garden—bewildered, untethered, adrift. Then, inexplicably, every detail in the garden seemed to snap into a weird kind of piercing clarity. More

Jul 03, 2023 By Jimi Arundell

Under the Radar went to Glastonbury for the biggest music festival of the year, and saw lots and lots of acts over the course of its five days. Here’s the best and the rest of our weekend. More

Jun 16, 2023 By Jimi Arundell

Under the Radar heads to Worthy Farm next week for the 2023 edition of Glastonbury Festival. Here’s a preview of what to expect! More

May 31, 2022 By Mark Moody

The 9th edition of Primavera NOS takes place from June 9-11 so here’s Under the Radar’s 12 must-see acts. More

Aug 25, 2014 By Stephen Humphries

Los Angelenos are accustomed to traffic, but not the foot kind. All the bread lines in communist Russia can’t compare to the queue clogging up the sidewalk perimeter of Exposition Park at the start of the 11th annual FYF Festival. (Keen observation by Real Estate bassist Alex Bleeker: “‘FYF festival’ is a little redundant isn’t it, like ‘ATM machine.’”) More