News
…Quick! Someone Call Agent Mulder!
Jun 24, 2009
By Laura Studarus
British band The Aliens have been hard at work, set to inspire a whole new round of extraterrestrial-related music jokes with the release of thier limited-edition book and the U.S. release of sophmore album, Luna, via Birdman. More
Interviews
Members of Belle and Sebastian, Franz Ferdinand, Django Django, Frightened Rabbit, Ladytron, The Pastels, The Twilight Sad, The Vaselines, and Others on if They Are Voting Yes or No
Sep 18, 2014
By Mark Redfern
Today is a historic day in Scotland as it is the day the nation votes on the Scottish Independence Referendum. The people of Scotland get to vote on whether or not to secede from the United Kingdom and have Scotland become its own country. Here various Scottish musicians weigh in on the subject. More
Robin Jones and John Maclean
Dec 11, 2009
By Under the Radar Staff
Under the Radar‘s Best of the Decade/Year-End Issue features our Best of the Decade Artist Survey. For Under the Radar‘s 7th annual Artist Survey we emailed some of our favorite artists a few questions relating to the last decade and asked them for a list of their best albums of the decade. Some of the surveys didn’t make it in the issue and some answers from surveys that did make it in the issue had to be trimmed for space. Those surveys and answers are posted on our website. Here is a web-exclusive survey from Robin Jones and John Maclean of The Aliens. More
Reviews
Nov 16, 2009
By J. Pace
It’s always funny reviewing an album after it’s already been released in some form. Luna is finally coming out in America, but it was released in the U.K. in September 2008, which means reviews of it are already all over the Internet. One is presented with the challenge of not reading what has been written, lest it taint your own overblown appraisal. More
