News
First Release From the Band’s Upcoming Cover Series
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
Some of Our Favorites by the Legendary Scottish Band
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
John Cale, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Self Esteem, and 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
Issue 66 Features Musicians and Actors on Their All-Time Favorite Albums, including Tegan and Sara, Wilco, Weyes Blood, Sigur Rós, Fred Armisen, Topher Grace, Jay Baruchel, Low, and 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
Open Your Eyes Due Out September 27; Song Features Elliot Easton of The Cars
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
Damage and Joy Out Now via ADA/Warner Music
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
Issue 60 Also Includes Interviews with alt-J, Grandaddy, Jarvis Cocker, Mount Eerie, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Perfume Genius, Slowdive, Little Dragon, London Grammar, Mew, Real Estate, Goldfrapp, The New Pornographers and Much 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
Damage and Joy Due Out March 24 via ADA/Warner Music
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
Damage and Joy Due Out March 24, 2017 via ADA/Warner Music
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
Alan McGee Says the Band's First Since 1998's Munki is Due Out Next March
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
Their First Since 1998's Munki
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
Washington DC, Boston, Las Vegas, and Tempe Dates Announced
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
Live at Barrowlands Due Out July 31
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
Deluxe Edition Out July 31 Includes 10-inch + LP + CD + Book
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
London, Manchester, and Glasgow
May 14, 2014
By Laura Studarus
A Jesus and Mary Chain update directed at our European readers. More
The Jesus and Mary Chain's Albums from Most to Least Essential
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
Perform “Just Like Honey” and “Sometimes Always"
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
Interviews
“There’s only a few albums that stick with you for several decades, and Iggy has made a few of them.”
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
Jim Reid And Alan Mcgee On Psychocandy
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
Reviews
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