Jun 21, 2024 By Mark Redfern (with Andy Von Pip, Dom Gourlay, and Marina Malin)

Welcome to the 20th Songs of the Week of 2024. This week Andy Von Pip, Mark Moody, Matt the Raven, and Scott Dransfield helped me decide what should make the list. We seriously considered over 20 songs this week and narrowed it down to a Top 12. More

Jun 20, 2024 By Mark Redfern

Thurston Moore (formerly of Sonic Youth) has announced a new album, Flow Critical Lucidity, and shared a new song from it, “Sans Limites,” which features Lætitia Sadier of Stereolab. More

Apr 26, 2024 By Mark Redfern (with Andy Von Pip)

Welcome to the fourteenth Songs of the Week of 2024. This week Andy Von Pip, Mark Moody, and Scott Dransfield helped me decide what should make the list. We seriously considered over 20 songs this week and narrowed it down to a Top 10. More

Apr 22, 2024 By Mark Redfern

Thurston Moore (formerly of Sonic Youth) has shared a new song, “Rewilding.” Its release is timed to Earth Day. Moore is on one of the two covers of our just announced ’90s Issue, where he discusses Sonic Youth’s albums from that decade. More

Apr 19, 2024 By Mark Redfern

Under the Radar is excited to announce the full details of our new print issue, Issue 72, The ’90s Issue, which features interviews with musicians and film directors known for their work in that decade and has The Cardigans and Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth on the two covers. As well as articles on Britpop, shoegaze, and the TV show Twin Peaks (for which we spoke to much of the cast), the issue includes interviews with Garbage, The Cranberries, Pavement, Lisa Loeb, Supergrass, Spiritualized, Lush, Ride, Velocity Girl, Gus Van Sant, Penelope Spheeris, Terry Gilliam, Stereo MC’s, Semisonic, Blonde Redhead, Sleater-Kinney, and more. More

Feb 04, 2022 By Joey Arnone

Thurston Moore (ex-Sonic Youth) has announced the release of an instrumental album, Screen Time, which will be out on February 25 via Southern Lord. Moore has shared two tracks from the album, “The Station” and “The Walk.” More

Apr 21, 2021 By Mark Redfern

Under the Radar is excited to announce the full details of our new print issue, which is out now nationwide (on newsstands, in such stores as Barnes & Noble and Books-A-Million, and elsewhere) and available to buy directly from us here. The issue features Japanese Breakfast and HAIM on the two covers and is another edition of The Protest Issue, which examines the intersection of music and politics and features musicians photographed with protest signs of their own making. More

Sep 04, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

Welcome to the 35th Songs of the Week of 2020. This week’s list is a bit more scaled back than usual, but there was still much to like. More

Sep 04, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

Thurston Moore (ex-Sonic Youth) is releasing a new album, By the Fire, on September 25 via Daydream Library. Now he has shared a new song from it, the 12-minute long “Siren.” More

Feb 02, 2018 By Stephen Mayne

It’s State of the Union time, an event that saw a slightly different Trump from the usual edition. Don’t worry, you can’t keep him subdued for long. Amongst other things, we also have a rouge memo, resigning lords, unimpressive awards, and Austra looking to a brighter future. More

Feb 01, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Thurston Moore (ex-Sonic Youth) has shared a new song, “Mx Liberty.” The politically themed track features the poet Radieux Radio and will be released as a 7-inch single on February 19 (which a press release jokingly refers to as “Not My President Day). More

May 11, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Thurston Moore (ex-Sonic Youth) released a new album, Rock n Roll Consciousness, last month via Caroline International. Previously he shared a video for its first single, “Smoke of Dreams.” More

Apr 28, 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

Mar 22, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Thurston Moore (ex-Sonic Youth) has announced a new album, Rock n Roll Consciousness, and shared a video for its first single, “Smoke of Dreams.” Rock n Roll Consciousness is due out April 28 via Caroline International. More

Oct 25, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Under the Radar‘s Protest Auction for the American Cancer Society ends today (Tuesday, October 25) at 2 PM eastern. This is your last chance to both help us raise money for cancer research and own a unique piece of music memorabilia. You can still go to eBay to bid on all of the autographed musician-made protest signs featured in Under the Radar‘s 2016 Protest Issue, with all profits going to the American Cancer Society. The auction includes protest signs made by Tegan and Sara, Amanda Palmer, Best Coast, Sharon Jones, Thurston Moore, Banks & Steelz, Moby, Mew, OK Go, Okkervil River, Metronomy, Wild Beasts, Car Seat Headrest, Lush, Local Natives, Julien Baker, Super Furry Animals, Billy Bragg, Perfect Pussy, Wye Oak, Everything Everything, School of Seven Bells, Deerhoof, Kristin Kontrol, Andrew W.K., Yeasayer, Natalie Prass, Superchunk, The Julie Ruin, Frankie Cosmos, Kevin Morby, LUH, Tacocat, Xiu Xiu, Slow Club, and many others. More

Oct 18, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Starting today and continuing for the next seven days, all of the autographed musician-made protest signs featured in Under the Radar‘s 2016 Protest Issue will be auctioned on eBay, with all profits going to the American Cancer Society. The auction includes protest signs made by Tegan and Sara, Amanda Palmer, Best Coast, Sharon Jones, Thurston Moore, Banks & Steelz, Moby, Mew, OK Go, Okkervil River, Metronomy, Wild Beasts, Car Seat Headrest, Lush, Local Natives, Julien Baker, Super Furry Animals, Billy Bragg, Perfect Pussy, Wye Oak, Everything Everything, School of Seven Bells, Deerhoof, Kristin Kontrol, Andrew W.K., Yeasayer, Natalie Prass, Superchunk, The Julie Ruin, Frankie Cosmos, Kevin Morby, LUH, Tacocat, Xiu Xiu, Slow Club, and many others. More

Sep 22, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

We reported yesterday that Thurston Moore (ex-Sonic Youth of course) is releasing a new single in support of jailed whistleblower Chelsea Manning entitled “Chelsea’s Kiss.” You can now stream the near 8-minute long song below. The lyrics deal with “orders too gruesome to carry out” and are fittingly political in nature.

Sep 21, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

The current print issue of Under the Radar is our Protest Issue. It features artists holding protest signs of their own making. One of those artists is Thurston Moore (ex-Sonic Youth of course) and his sign says “Free Chelsea Manning.” 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

Jun 01, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Joyful Noise has announced a new flexi-disc release featuring Thurston Moore (ex-Sonic Youth of course) and Democratic Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders. It’s titled “Feel It In Your Guts” and features a twelve-string acoustic guitar piece that has excerpts from Sanders’ speeches mixed in. More

Jul 06, 2015 By Marie Noble

Last weekend, Gdynia, Poland hosted Open’er Festival—the country’s largest four-day music event. More

Aug 20, 2014 By Laura Studarus

On Oct 21 Thurston Moore will release his new solo album The Best Day via Matador. More

Aug 15, 2014 By Laura Studarus

Last night the former Sonic Youth troubadour debuted his new project Thurston Moore Band at Café OTO in London. More

Feb 14, 2014 By Mike Hilleary

Former Sonic Youth frontman Thurston Moore has announced that he will be releasing a brand new album this summer. More

Jan 22, 2014 By Laura Studarus

Thurston Moore’s new song “Detonation” starts out with a punk by way of B-52 shriek and then builds from there—before detonating into a explosion of guitars. More

Aug 09, 2012 By Julia Underwood

From August 7-11 Oslo, Norway is hosting the Øya Festival. We sent social media editor Laura Studarus over to cover the action. Check out her shots of Sondre Lerche,Willis Earl Beal, Mathias Eick, Oberhofer, Friends, Bob Mould, Thurston Moore, Florence and the Machine, Feist, The Stone Roses, and Purity Ring. More

Sep 01, 2011 By Natasha Moningka

Best known as singer and guitarist of Sonic Youth, Thurston Moore graced the stage at The Late Show With David Letterman last night, playing “Benediction” More

Jul 14, 2011 By Laura Studarus

Proving he has the best licks and hair in the biz, Thurston Moore debuted the video for “Circulation” today. We have the clip. More

Jun 23, 2011 By Laura Studarus

Last night Thurston Moore took to the stage at Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, performing Demolished Thoughts cut, “Circulation.” More

Apr 29, 2011 By Lauren Barbato

“Like” Thurston Moore and listen to the latest single off his upcoming solo album Demolished Thoughts, due out May 24. We have the details. More

Oct 08, 2010 By Laura Studarus

Thurston Moore has been busy. Because one band, or one format isn’t enough, on December 1st, the Sonic Youth bandleader is releasing a book on his own Ecstatic Peace imprint. He’s also prepping a solo album. More

Jun 17, 2010 By Laura Studarus

As reported by Time Out Chicago, both Tortoise and Thurston Moore have joined Beck’s record club. More

Nov 09, 2021 By Jake Uitti

To record his latest solo album, By the Fire, Thurston Moore, co-founder of the legendary rock ‘n’ roll band, Sonic Youth, compiled three different sessions from stints he spent in the studio in 2019 (two in London and one in Paris). More

Aug 09, 2012 By Laura Studarus

Welcome to the first official day of the Øya Festival—or as I like to call it: shock the American. Check out reviews from the day including: Sondre Lerche, Willis Earl Beal, Oberhofer, Thurston Moore, Friends, Florence and The Machine, Feist, Stone Roses, and Purity Ring. More