Apr 12, 2024 By Mark Redfern (with Andy Von Pip)

Welcome to the twelfth Songs of the Week of 2024. We didn’t do a Songs of the Week last week because we were working on other projects, so this week’s Songs of the Week covers the last two weeks. More

Apr 09, 2024 By Mark Redfern

The Lemon Twigs (aka brothers Brian and Michael D’Addario) are releasing a new album, A Dream is All We Know, on May 3 via Captured Tracks. Now they have shared another new song from it, the horn-backed “How Can I Love Her More?” More

Mar 15, 2024 By Mark Redfern (with Andy Von Pip)

Welcome to the ninth Songs of the Week of 2024. It was a somewhat slow week for new songs, perhaps because a lot of the music industry is at SXSW, but there were more than enough that impressed us. More

Mar 13, 2024 By Mark Redfern

The Lemon Twigs (aka brothers Brian and Michael D’Addario) are releasing a new album, A Dream is All We Know, on May 3 via Captured Tracks. Now they have shared another song from it, almost title track “A Dream is All I Know,” and announced some new tour dates. More

Feb 09, 2024 By Mark Redfern (with Andy Von Pip)

Welcome to the fifth Songs of the Week of 2024. This week Andy Von Pip, Mark Moody, Matt the Raven, Scott Dransfield, and Stephen Humphries all helped me decide what should make the list. We settled on a Top 12 this week, narrowed down from the 20 songs we seriously considered. More

Feb 07, 2024 By Mark Redfern

The Lemon Twigs (aka brothers Brian and Michael D’Addario) have officially announced a new album, A Dream is All We Know, and shared a new song from it, “They Don’t Know How to Fall in Place,” via a music video. More

Jan 03, 2024 By Mark Redfern

The Lemon Twigs (aka brothers Brian and Michael D’Addario) have shared a new song, “My Golden Years,” via a music video. It’s the first new single since their most recent album, Everything Harmony, which came out last May via Captured Tracks and was one of our Top 100 Albums of 2023. More

Mar 15, 2023 By Mark Redfern

The Lemon Twigs (aka brothers Brian and Michael D’Addario) are releasing a new album, Everything Harmony, on May 5 via Captured Tracks. Now they have shared its third single, “In My Head,” via a music video. More

Feb 17, 2023 By Mark Redfern

Welcome to the seventh Songs of the Week of 2023. There were lots of great tracks this week, but none that screamed out Very Best Song of the Week, so there was some debate on what should top this week’s list. More

Feb 13, 2023 By Mark Redfern

The Lemon Twigs (aka brothers Brian and Michael D’Addario) have announced a new album, Everything Harmony, and shared a new song, “Any Time of Day,” via a music video. More

Jan 04, 2023 By Mark Redfern

The Lemon Twigs (aka brothers Brian and Michael D’Addario) have shared a new song, “Corner of My Eye,” via a video for it. It’s the duo’s first single for their new label, Captured Tracks (previously they were on 4AD). More

Aug 21, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

The Lemon Twigs (aka brothers Brian and Michael D’Addario) have released a new album, Songs For the General Public, today via 4AD. Now that it’s out you can stream the whole thing here. Also, today we posted our review of the album. More

Aug 06, 2020 By Samantha Small

Tim Heidecker (of Tim & Eric and Heidecker & Wood) is a man of many skills: an actor, comedian, podcast host, musician, and producer. Yesterday, he announced his new album, Fear of Death, is coming out September 25 via Spacebomb Records. He also shared the title track with features from none other than Natalie Mering, aka Weyes Blood, via a video. More

Jul 09, 2020 By Christopher Robers

The Lemon Twigs (aka brothers Brian and Michael D’Addario) are releasing a new album, Songs For the General Public, on August 21 via 4AD. Now they have shared another song from it, “Live in Favor of Tomorrow,” More

May 27, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

The Lemon Twigs (aka brothers Brian and Michael D’Addario) are releasing a new album, Songs For the General Public, on August 21 via 4AD. Now they have shared another song from it, “Moon,” which a press release says has hints of Bruce Springsteen and Billy Joel. More

Mar 06, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

Welcome to the ninth Songs of the Week of 2020. It’s been a topsy-turvy week. SXSW was just cancelled due to the COVID-19 coronavirus. The Democratic presidential primaries have dramatically changed in the last week, with Pete Buttigieg, Amy Klobuchar, Tom Steyer, Michael Bloomberg, and, sigh, Elizabeth Warren all dropping out of the race, leaving just Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders. More

Mar 02, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

The Lemon Twigs (aka brothers Brian and Michael D’Addario) have announced a new album, Songs For the General Public, and shared its first single, “The One,” via a video for the new song. Songs For the General Public is due out May 1 via 4AD. More

Nov 15, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

The Lemon Twigs (aka brothers Brian and Michael D’Addario) released their sophomore album, a concept musical entitled Go to School, back in August via 4AD. Now they have shared a video for “Never In My Arms, Always In My Heart.” More

Sep 05, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

The Lemon Twigs (aka brothers Brian and Michael D’Addario) released their sophomore album, a concept musical entitled Go to School, a couple of weeks back via 4AD. Last night they stopped by Jimmy Kimmel Live! to perform two songs from the album, “Small Victories” on the air and “The Fire” as a web-exclusive. Watch both performances below. More

Aug 24, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Tunng released a new album, Songs You Make At Night, today via Full Time Hobby. It’s the first album with the original lineup (including founding members Sam Genders and Mike Lindsay) since 2007’s Good Arrows. While we are not doing a full-on Album of the Week post on it, we wanted to acknowledge it as this week’s Album of the Week. More

Aug 14, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

The Lemon Twigs (aka brothers Brian and Michael D’Addario) are releasing their sophomore album, a concept musical entitled Go to School, on August 23 via 4AD. Now they have shared another song from the album, “The Fire.” More

Jul 20, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Songs of the Week returned last week after a five-week hiatus and now we’re back into the full swing of things. This week’s list features some returning artists who have appeared on other Songs of the Week lists lately, including a repeat #1, as well as some artists making their debut on the list. It all ends with one of the silliest songs to ever make the Songs of the Week list, which will hopefully lift your spirits. More

Jul 17, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

The Lemon Twigs (aka brothers Brian and Michael D’Addario) are releasing their sophomore album, a concept musical entitled Go to School, on August 23 via 4AD. Previously they shared its the string- and piano-backed closing track, “If You Give Enough” (which was one of our Songs of the Week). Now they have shared another song from the album, “Small Victories.” More

Jul 13, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Hello again. We haven’t done a Songs of the Week for almost five weeks, since June 9. We were on vacation from mid to late June and then when we returned there really weren’t enough compelling songs last week to justify doing Songs of the Week lists, mainly because of the July 4th holiday being smack dab in the middle of the week and so labels mainly avoided sharing new songs. More

Jul 10, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

The Lemon Twigs (aka brothers Brian and Michael D’Addario) released their debut album, Do Hollywood, in 2016 on 4AD. Late last night shared a new song, the string- and piano-backed “If You Give Enough.” Last month the band shared a teaser video for something called Go to School, which was described as “a musical by The Lemon Twigs” (watch it below again). Now Go to School has been officially announced as their sophomore album. More

Jul 09, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

The Lemon Twigs (aka brothers Brian and Michael D’Addario) released their debut album, Do Hollywood, in 2016 on 4AD. Last year they followed it up with the Brothers of Destruction EP and back in March they shared two new songs, “Foolin’ Around” and “Tailor Made.” Now they have shared another new song, the string- and piano-backed “If You Give Enough.” More

Apr 24, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Arctic Monkeys are releasing a new album, Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino, on May 11 via Domino. Previously they shared a trailer for the album. Now they have announced some more North American tour dates to go down this October. They include a show at the famed Hollywood Bowl (where they will be supported by The Lemon Twigs). More

Mar 28, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

The Lemon Twigs (aka brothers Brian and Michael D’Addario) released their debut album, Do Hollywood, in 2016 on 4AD. Last year they followed it up with the Brothers of Destruction EP. Now they have shared two new songs, “Foolin’ Around” and “Tailor Made.” More

Jul 18, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

The Lemon Twigs are a promising new brother duo (Brian and Michael D’Addario) from Long Island. Last October they released their debut album, Do Hollywood, on 4AD. The album was recorded in Los Angeles (hence its title) and was produced by Foxygen’s Jonathan Rado and partly mirrors Foxygen’s glorious retro ‘70s rock vibe. More

May 04, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Austin City Limits have announced the lineup of their 2017 festival to go down in the Texas capitol this October. The event is headlined by Gorillaz, The xx, Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Killers, Martin Garrix, and Chance the Rapper. More

Apr 18, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Another benefit for Planned Parenthood has been announced. Cover Your Ass Vol. 1 is due out May 26 via Lionfish Music. It features covers by Cass McCombs (Pointer Sisters), Speedy Ortiz (TV on the Radio), Deerhoof (Public Enemy), Hinds (Dead Ghosts), TEEN (David Bowie), The Lemon Twigs (Dido), Luke Temple (Scott Walker), Porches (Big Star), and more. More

Mar 27, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

France’s Phoenix last released an album 2013 with Bankrupt!. They have already announced some shows for 2017, including a headlining appearance at the Governor’s Ball in New York and a stop at Los Angeles’ Hollywood Bowl. More

Feb 23, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

The Lemon Twigs are a promising new brother duo (Brian and Michael D’Addario) from Long Island. Last October they released their debut album, Do Hollywood, on 4AD. The album was recorded in Los Angeles (hence its title) and was produced by Foxygen’s Jonathan Rado and partly mirrors Foxygen’s glorious retro ‘70s rock vibe. More

Feb 13, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

The Lemon Twigs are a promising new brother duo (Brian and Michael D’Addario) from Long Island. Last October they released their debut album, Do Hollywood, on 4AD. The album was recorded in Los Angeles (hence its title) and was produced by Foxygen’sJonathan Rado and partly mirrors Foxygen’s glorious retro ‘70s rock vibe. More

Jan 11, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Bonnaroo have announced their 2017 lineup. The festival goes down in Manchester, Tennessee from June 8-11 and this year, their 16th year, the lineup includes U2 performing The Joshua Tree (which was announced on Monday), More

Nov 02, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Foxygen’s last album was 2014’s ...And Star Power, but recently the duo (Jonathan Rado and Sam France) shared a brand new song, “America,” a grandiose track that featured an orchestra. More

Oct 13, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

The Lemon Twigs are a promising new brother duo from Long Island. Tomorrow (October 14) they release their debut album, Do Hollywood, on 4AD. The album was recorded in Los Angeles (hence its title) and was produced by Foxygen’s Jonathan Radoand partly mirrors Foxygen’s glorious retro ‘70s rock vibe. More

Sep 27, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

The Lemon Twigs are a promising new brother duo from Long Island. On October 14th they release their debut album, Do Hollywood, on 4AD. More

Sep 09, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Under the Radar is excited to announce the full details of our 2016 Protest Issue (out September, October, and into November), which is out now both digitally and on newsstands. We’ve done a Protest Issue every U.S. Presidential election year since 2004 and as before this issue features articles examining the intersection of music and politics and photo shoots with musicians holding protest signs of their own making. Then in mid-October we will be launching our charity Protest Auction, in which we auction off all the protest signs in the issue, with all profits going to the American Cancer Society. More

May 15, 2024 By Mark Redfern

The Lemon Twigs performed at the Southern Café and Music Hall, Charlottesville, VA only two days after releasing their latest album, A Dream is All We Know (on Captured Tracks). More

May 04, 2023 By Ian Rushbury

Oh, to spend a week in The Lemon Twigs’ world. A world where streaming is just something your nose does when you have the flu and your in-car-entertainment is an eight track cartridge player and an AM radio. More

Aug 15, 2018 By Max Pilley

They say that each generation’s cycle is shorter than the last. It was once thought unbearably precocious that a 24-year-old Pete Townshend would compose and release a rock opera, but here we are at the release of the second Lemon Twigs album and the brothers D’Addario are still only 19 and 21. More

Nov 08, 2016 By David Edwards

The Lemon Twigs (aka brothers Brian and Michael D’Addario) are looking poignantly backwards while moving gracefully forward on their debut record: a love letter to the past and a signpost towards the future. More