Jun 19, 2024 By Marina Malin

The Jesus and Mary Chain are teaming up with Psychedelic Furs for a co-headlining North American Tour with Frankie Rose opening. More

Feb 22, 2024 By Mark Redfern

The Jesus and Mary Chain are releasing a new album, Glasgow Eyes, on March 22 via Fuzz Club. Now they have shared its third single, “Girl 71.” More

Jan 18, 2024 By Mark Redfern

The Jesus and Mary Chain are releasing a new album, Glasgow Eyes, on March 8 via Fuzz Club. Now they have shared its second single, “Chemical Animal.” More

Dec 01, 2023 By Mark Redfern (and Andy Von Pip)

Welcome to the 39th Songs of the Week of 2023. This week’s list includes songs from the last two weeks, as we didn’t do a Songs of the Week last week due to the Thanksgiving holiday. Although the majority of the songs were culled from this week’s releases. More

Nov 29, 2023 By Andy Von Pip

Forty years since The Jesus and Mary Chain released their debut single, Scottish brothers William and Jim Reid are back with their first new material since 2017’s Damage and Joy. The band have announced a new album, Glasgow Eyes, and shared its lead single, “jamcod.” More

Jun 27, 2022 By Joey Arnone

At the Glastonbury Festival this past weekend, Phoebe Bridgers made an appearance alongside The Jesus and Mary Chain to perform their 1985 song “Just Like Honey.” Bridgers later performed her song “I Know the End” with guest vocals from Arlo Parks. During her set, Bridgers spoke up about the reversal of Roe v. Wade, which occurred right before she was to perform. More

Mar 17, 2022 By Joey Arnone

Toronto-based duo Ducks Ltd. have shared a cover of The Jesus and Mary Chain’s 1989 song “Head On.” The cover features vocals from Sarah Tudzin of illuminati hotties, and it is the duo’s first release from their newly announced cover series titled The Sincerest Form of Flattery. More

Apr 08, 2021 By Andy Von Pip

Asking a Jesus and Mary Chain fan to pick their favourite 10 songs is akin to asking Imelda Marcos to select her favourite pair of shoes, however here are 10 reasons (in no particular order) why the JAMC remain one of the most influential bands to emerge from the UK in living memory. More

Jun 04, 2020 By Samantha Small

Although The Pains of Being Pure at Heart have recently broken up, they have teamed up with Hatchie to cover “Sometime Always,” The Jesus and Mary Chain’s collaboration with Mazzy Star’s Hope Sandoval from 1994. More

Dec 11, 2019 By Jimi Arundell

With Rockaway Beach fast approaching, Under the Radar takes a closer look at some of the awesome acts playing from Friday 10th till Sunday 12th of January. 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

Sep 23, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Actor/musician David Hasselhoff, he of Knight Rider and Baywatch fame, is releasing a new album, Open Your Eyes, on September 27. Now he has shared another song from it, a cover of The Jesus and Mary Chain’s “Head On” that features Elliot Easton, the guitarist for The Cars. More

Aug 25, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Scottish icons The Jesus and Mary Chain released a new album, Damage and Joy, back in March via ADA/Warner Music. It includes “The Two of Us,” a song that features the vocals of former Belle and Sebastian member Isobel Campbell. More

May 17, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Scottish icons The Jesus and Mary Chain released a new album, Damage and Joy, back in March via ADA/Warner Music. Last night the band stopped by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert to perform “The Two of Us.” 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

Feb 28, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Scottish icons The Jesus and Mary Chain are releasing a new album, Damage and Joy, on March 24 via ADA/Warner Music. Previously they shared the album’s first single and opening track, “Amputation,” which was followed by “Always Sad.” Now the band have announced some new North American tour dates for this May. More

Feb 10, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Scottish icons The Jesus and Mary Chain are releasing a new album, Damage and Joy, on March 24, 2017 via ADA/Warner Music. Previously they shared the album’s first single and opening track, “Amputation.” More

Dec 09, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Yesterday Scottish icons The Jesus and Mary Chain officially announced a new album, which, when released, will be their first album in 19 years. It’s entitled Damage and Joy and is due out March 24, 2017 via ADA/Warner Music. More

Dec 08, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Earlier today Scottish icons The Jesus and Mary Chain officially announced a new album, which, when released, will be their first album in 19 years. It’s entitled Damage and Joy and is due out March 24, 2017 via ADA/Warner Music. As promised, the album’s first single and opening track, “Amputation,” premiered this evening U.K. time on Steve Lamacq’s BBC 6 Music radio show and now you can stream it here. More

Dec 08, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Scottish icons The Jesus and Mary Chain have officially announced a new album, which, when released, will be their first album in 19 years. As Pitchfork reports, it’s entitled Damage and Joy and is due out March 24, 2017 via ADA/Warner Music. More

Nov 16, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Scottish icons The Jesus and Mary Chain haven’t released a studio album since 1998’s Munki, but last year they were found touring their classic 1985-released debut album Psychocandy, performing it in full in honor of its 30th anniversary. More

Oct 01, 2015 By Christopher Roberts

Scottish icons The Jesus and Mary Chain have been touring their classic 1985-released debut album Psychocandy, performing it in full in honor of its 30th anniversary. They haven’t released a studio album since 1998’s Munki, but in a new interview with Time Out New Yorkfrontman Jim Reid has revealed that they’ve finally started work on a new album. More

Jun 24, 2015 By Julia Underwood

From June 19-21, Hilvarenbeek, Netherlands hosted the third edition of Best Kept Secret. More

Jun 16, 2015 By Christopher Roberts

Scottish icons The Jesus and Mary Chain have been touring their classic 1985-released debut album Psychocandy, performing it in full in honor of its 30th anniversary. More

Jun 08, 2015 By Christopher Roberts

Scottish icons The Jesus and Mary Chain have been touring their classic 1985-released debut album Psychocandy, performing it in full in honor of its 30th anniversary. Now they’ve announced two new U.S. Psychocandy shows, September 22 at Union Transfer in Philadelphia and September 24 at Terminal 5 in New York City. More

Jun 03, 2015 By Christopher Roberts

Scottish icons The Jesus and Mary Chain have been touring their classic 1985-released debut album Psychocandy, performing it in full in honor of its 30th anniversary. Now on July 31 they will be releasing Live at Barrowlands via Demon Records. More

May 14, 2014 By Laura Studarus

A Jesus and Mary Chain update directed at our European readers. More

Sep 06, 2012 By Austin Trunick

Ranked is our regular series in which one of our writers takes an artist’s catalogue and ranks all of their official studio albums from best to worst. The order is decided by the individual writer, rather than our editors. This time Austin Trunick ranks The Jesus and Mary Chain. More

Aug 06, 2012 By Margot Cooper Gruen

The Jesus and Mary Chain have had an extra bandmate at two recent shows. On Thursday night in Buffalo NY and Friday night in Toronto, Mad Men actress Jessica Paré joined the gang. More

Mar 28, 2012 By Laura Studarus

Feist and M. Ward are clearly becoming road buddies—as evidenced by this video where the winsome paring covers The Jesus and Mary Chain tune “Sometimes Always.” More

Oct 30, 2023 By Andy Von Pip

Jim Reid sounds laidback and relaxed when discussing the re-release of The Jesus and Mary Chain’s sixth studio album, Munki. It’s a far cry from the slightly tense interviews of their youth, in which brothers William and Jim Reid often looked like they’d rather be anywhere else on earth than being questioned by the media. You could hardly blame them given some of the generic and uninformed questions they were asked by perma-tanned MTV hosts such as, “So tell me…how did you guys meet?” More

Mar 17, 2020 By Stephen Axeman

“Oh god, it was about a million years ago,” Jim Reid, lead singer of The Jesus and Mary Chain, says of the first time he heard Iggy Pop’s Lust for Life. More

Jul 10, 2017 By Austin Trunick

“We just liked those words, ‘damage’ and ‘joy,’” Jim Reid dryly explains in regards to the name of their new record, before pausing to contemplate them. “I think it does describe something: not the album, but the people who made the album.” More

Sep 11, 2015 By Michael Wojtas

The Jesus and Mary Chain‘s frontman, Jim Reid, learned early on that pop music can be destroyed by an overly fussy approach to writing and recording. For the sake of his songs (and sanity), he has tended to avoid retooling and revisiting his own music much over the years. However, the 30th anniversary of Psychocandy, his band’s iconic 1985 debut, has given Reid an occasion to look backward. More

Sep 10, 2015 By Michael Wojtas

“Music, at that time, if it could be condensed into one image, would be a smiley face. And that appalled us. We wanted to shake things up. We wanted to do something different, bring a bit of edge or danger back to rock and roll,” says Jim Reid, lead vocalist of The Jesus and Mary Chain. More

Jun 17, 2022 By Jimi Arundell

Under the Radar’s Jimi Arundell heads to Glastonbury next week for its 50th edition. Here are his thoughts about the greatest music festival on earth. More

Mar 23, 2017 By Matthew Berlyant

When The Jesus and Mary Chain reunited in 2007, it was unexpected given the acrimonious breakup that brothers Jim Reid and William Reid experienced while touring for their 1998 album Munki. More

Jul 30, 2015 By Dan Lucas

As a band that made their name at the cutting edge of the post-punk movement, a band revered for sounding genuinely new and original, The Jesus and Mary Chain seem unlikely candidates for nostalgia. More

May 08, 2015 By Michael Wojtas

For at least a decade, I’ve utilized overcast days as an excuse to indulge myself with the strain of fashionably alienated guitar pop that germinated in the U.K. during the mid-‘80s. More