Mar 06, 2026 By Mark Redfern

HELP(2), the ambitious new charity album to benefit War Child UK, has been released today. While several great singles have already been released from it, the compilation still features plenty of other fantastic tracks by the likes of Olivia Rodrigo, Depeche Mode, Big Thief, Bat For Lashes, Cameron Winter, Wet Leg, English Teacher and Graham Coxon, Beabadoobee, Young Fathers, Foals, Arlo Parks, Fontaines D.C., Beth Gibbons, Beck, and Black Country, New Road. Plus there’s a track featuring Anna Calvi, Ellie Rowsell of Wolf Alice, Nilüfer Yanya, and Dove Ellis all together. Now that the album’s out you can stream the whole thing and read our reviews of it (two different writers offer their takes on HELP(2)). More

Jan 22, 2026 By Mark Redfern

The British charity War Child UK have announced a massive charity album, HELP(2), and shared its first single, a brand new song from Arctic Monkeys, “Opening Night.” HELP(2) has a stacked lineup also featuring new tracks by Pulp, Olivia Rodrigo, Depeche Mode, Big Thief, Wet Leg, Young Fathers, Cameron Winter, Damon Albarn, Anna Calvi, Ellie Rowsell, Nilüfer Yanya, Fontaines D.C., Beth Gibbons, The Last Dinner Party, Beck, Bat For Lashes, English Teacher, and more. More

Dec 10, 2025 By Mark Redfern

Mark from Under the Radar here. We’ve been covering artists from the Domino label since the very beginning. Some early highlights: Clearlake in Issue 5 (as part of our Brighton feature with British Sea Power and Electrelane), Franz Ferdinand on their debut in Issue 6, and Clinic in Issue 7—Wendy photographed the Liverpool band in their signature doctor’s scrubs at Hollywood High School. More

Nov 07, 2025 By Mark Redfern

It’s that time again. Every November the Recording Academy announces its Grammy Nominations and every year we comb through them to see if any artists we actually like and cover made the cut. More

Sep 16, 2025 By Mark Redfern

Coachella have announced the lineup for their 2026 festival. Sabrina Carpenter, Justin Bieber, and Karol G are the headliners. The lineup also features Wet Leg, The Strokes, Alex G, David Byrne, Geese, Iggy Pop, Interpol, Blood Orange, CMAT, Blondshell, The xx, Wednesday, Turnstile, Black Flag, Devo, Disclosure, Ethel Cain, FKA twigs, Jane Remover, Joyce Manor, Lambrini Girls, Laufey, Lykke Li, Moby, Model/Actriz, Nine Inch Noize, The Rapture, Röyksopp, Samia, and many others. More

Sep 08, 2025 By Mark Redfern

At the start of February we launched our new Albums of the Month series, where we highlight the best albums released in the previous month, starting with January’s albums and followed by February’s albums, March’s albums, April’s albums, May’s albums, and June’s albums. Now here is a roundup of July and August’s 2025’s best albums. More

Jun 27, 2025 By Mark Redfern (with Issa Nasatir)

Welcome to the 22nd Songs of the Week of 2025. This week Andy Von Pip, Caleb Campbell, Issa Nasatir, and Scotty Dransfield helped me decide what should make the list. We considered over 40 songs and narrowed it down to a Top 11. More

Jun 23, 2025 By Mark Redfern

Wet Leg are releasing their much anticipated sophomore album, moisturizer, on July 11 via Domino. Now they have shared its third single, “davina mccall,” via a stop-motion animated music video. More

May 30, 2025 By Mark Redfern (with Issa Nasatir)

Welcome to the 18th Songs of the Week of 2025. This week Andy Von Pip, Caleb Campbell, and Scotty Dransfield helped me decide what should make the list. We considered over 30 songs and narrowed it down to a Top 12. More

May 27, 2025 By Mark Redfern

Wet Leg are releasing their much anticipated sophomore album, moisturizer, on July 11 via Domino. Now they have shared its second single, “CPR,” via a music video self-directed by the band. More

May 01, 2025 By Mark Redfern

Wet Leg are releasing their much anticipated sophomore album, moisturizer, on July 11 via Domino. Now they have announced some fall North American tour dates. More

Apr 04, 2025 By Mark Redfern

Welcome to the 10th Songs of the Week of 2025. This week’s list covers the last two weeks, as I was out of town last Friday. This week Andy Von Pip, Caleb Campbell, Matt the Raven, Scotty Dransfield, and Stephen Humphries helped me decide what should make the list. We considered over 50 songs and narrowed it down to a Top 16, since it covers two weeks. More

Apr 03, 2025 By Mark Redfern

Earlier this week, Wet Leg announced their much anticipated sophomore album, moisturizer, and shared its first single, “catch these fists.” Last night the band performed “catch these fists” on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. Bon Iver (aka Justin Vernon) was also interviewed on the show last night. More

Apr 01, 2025 By Mark Redfern

Wet Leg have announced their much anticipated sophomore album, moisturizer, and shared its first single, “catch these fists,” via a self-directed music video. The band will perform “catch these fists” on Wednesday on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. More

Sep 25, 2023 By Mark Redfern

Katy J Pearson is releasing a new EP, Katy J Pearson & Friends Present Songs From The Wicker Man, on October 31 via Heavenly. It features covers of songs from the soundtrack to the classic British 1973 horror film The Wicker Man in honor of its 50th anniversary. Now she has shared another track from it, “Fire Leap,” which features Wet Leg, Drug Store Romeos, and Sarah Meth. More

Jul 07, 2023 By Mark Redfern

Depeche Mode released a new album, Memento Mori, in March via Columbia Records. Today they have released a collection of eight remixes of the album’s “Wagging Tongue,” including one by Wet Leg. More

Jan 10, 2023 By Mark Redfern

Coachella has announced the lineup for their 2023 festival. Frank Ocean, BLACKPINK, and Bad Bunny are the headliners. The lineup also features Wet Leg, Gorillaz, Weyes Blood, Björk, boygenius, Alex G, Magdalena Bay, Blondie, The Chemical Brothers, Underworld, Christine and the Queens, Charli XCX, Sleaford Mods, Snail Mail, The Breeders, and many others. More

Dec 23, 2022 By Mark Redfern

Are things back to normal in 2022? They are, aren’t they? Well not quite. More

Nov 15, 2022 By Mark Redfern

The nominations for the 2023 Grammy Awards have been announced. Under the Radar favorites Wet Leg got five nominations, including for Best New Artist and Best Alternative Music Album. Other artists we cover to get nominations include Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Björk, Spoon, The War on Drugs, Wilco, Big Thief, Arctic Monkeys, IDLES, Beck, Spiritualized, The Black Keys, and more. More

Oct 11, 2022 By Mark Redfern

Wet Leg are currently on a U.S. tour and yesterday they stopped by Jimmy Kimmel Live! to perform their viral hit “Chaise Longue.” More

Oct 06, 2022 By Joey Arnone

Wet Leg have shared an exclusive demo of their song “Loving You.” The demo is the duo’s contribution to the forthcoming abortion access benefit compilation, Good Music to Ensure Safe Abortion Access to All, which will be available exclusively on Bandcamp for 24 hours starting on this Friday (Oct. 7) at 12 p.m. PT. Proceeds from the compilation will benefit organizations facilitating abortion access. More

Sep 21, 2022 By Mark Redfern

Wet Leg have covered Ashnikko’s “Daisy” in a Spotify Singles release where they also recorded a new version of their own song “Convincing.” The band have also announced four new New York City shows for this December. More

Sep 08, 2022 By Mark Redfern

Wet Leg have covered Steve Lacy’s recent hit “Bad Habit” in the BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge. More

Aug 05, 2022 By Joshua Mellin

Lollapalooza returned to Chicago’s Grant Park last weekend. More

Jul 26, 2022 By Mark Redfern

This year’s Mercury Prize nominees have been announced and they include the latest albums by Wet Leg, Yard Act, Gwenno, Harry Styles, Jessie Buckley & Bernard Butler, Self Esteem, and more. More

Jul 22, 2022 By Mark Redfern

Wet Leg have done a “Like A Version” session for Australian radio station triple j where they have covered “Smoko,” a song by Aussie band The Chats, and also performed their own song, “Ur Mum.” More

Jul 06, 2022 By Mark Redfern

British duo Wet Leg (Rhian Teasdale and Hester Chambers) released their self-titled debut album in April via Domino. Now they have shared a new remix of the album’s “Too Late Now” by Belgian electronic rock band Soulwax. They have also announced some new U.S. tour dates. More

Jun 27, 2022 By Mark Redfern

Glastonbury finally returned this past weekend after taking 2020 and 2021 off due to COVID-19 and one of the highlights was no doubt British duo Wet Leg (Rhian Teasdale and Hester Chambers), who performed their viral hit “Chaise Longue” to a massive crowd Friday afternoon from the Park Stage. The audience enthusiastically sang along to every word and there were even two people dressed as lobsters in the crowd, perhaps in reference to Wet Leg’s “Wet Dream” video. More

Jun 22, 2022 By Mark Redfern

British duo Wet Leg (Rhian Teasdale and Hester Chambers) released their self-titled debut album in April via Domino and it’s one of the most acclaimed and best received debut albums in years. It’s often difficult to follow-up such a successful first album, but Wet Leg has wasted no time apparently. In an interview with Absolute Radio’s Ben Burrell, backstage at the Isle of Wight Festival, the duo says they’ve already finished their second album. More

May 24, 2022 By Mark Redfern

Admittedly, we don’t cover Harry Styles much here at Under the Radar, although he seems alright for a major pop star. At least he has good taste in support acts, including a lot of artists we do cover more regularly (Jenny Lewis, Jessie Ware, Madi Diaz, Blood Orange, etc.). And when the British singer tours Australia and New Zealand next year he’ll be bringing Under the Radar favorites Wet Leg with him. Perhaps as a precursor to that, Styles and his band have covered Wet Leg’s 2021 single “Wet Dream” in a session for BBC Radio 1’s Live Lounge. It’s a spirited cover and his backing band seems really into it. More

May 20, 2022 By Mark Redfern

We don’t know who Moist Limb are exactly, but they have produced a disturbing and hilarious parody cover of Wet Leg’s 2021 hit “Chaise Longue.” Moist Limb’s version is titled “Trone Noir” and is accompanied by a video that remakes the “Chaise Longue” video in horror movie mode (hearts are eaten). More

May 20, 2022 By Mark Redfern (with Joey Arnone)

Welcome to the 20th Songs of the Week of 2022. It was a mixed week for new tracks, but there were still some good ones worth crowing about and we settled on a Top 13. More

Apr 21, 2022 By Mark Redfern

British duo Wet Leg (Rhian Teasdale and Hester Chambers) have announced some new North American tour dates and shared On Tour with Wet Leg, a new mini documentary chronicling their recent U.S. East Coast tour. It includes a brief moment where they meet Jack White in Nashville. More

Apr 15, 2022 By Mark Redfern

British duo Wet Leg (Rhian Teasdale and Hester Chambers) have landed at #1 on the official UK album chart for their self-titled debut album, which was released last week via Domino. The band have also shared a “Live on the Porch” session featuring them performing five songs from the album in their native Isle of Wight. More

Apr 08, 2022 By Mark Redfern

Welcome to the fourteenth Songs of the Week of 2022. It was a fantastic new release day, with fresh albums by Wet Leg, Father John Misty, Jack White, Oceanator, Daniel Rossen, Orville Peck, Lucius, and others. Some of those artists end up on this week’s Songs of the Week, which is a Top 12 this week. More

Apr 08, 2022 By Mark Redfern

British duo Wet Leg (Rhian Teasdale and Hester Chambers) have released their self-titled debut album today via Domino. Now that it’s out you can stream the whole thing here. Also, today we posted our new interview with the band on the album and yesterday we posted our rave review of Wet Leg. More

Apr 04, 2022 By Mark Redfern

British duo Wet Leg (Rhian Teasdale and Hester Chambers) are releasing their self-titled debut album this Friday via Domino. Now they have shared what is surely the last pre-release single from the album, “Ur Mum,” via an amusing video for the song. “Ur Mum” features Teasdale showing off her longest, loudest scream. More

Mar 10, 2022 By Mark Redfern

British duo Wet Leg (Rhian Teasdale and Hester Chambers) are releasing their self-titled debut album on April 8 via Domino. Last night they stopped by The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, where they performed “Wet Dream” on the broadcast show and “Chaise Longue” as a web-exclusive. More

Mar 04, 2022 By Mark Redfern (with Joey Arnone)

Welcome to the ninth Songs of the Week of 2022. It was a stellar week for new tracks and we could only narrow it down to a Top 12, with several strong honorable mentions. More

Feb 28, 2022 By Mark Redfern

British duo Wet Leg (Rhian Teasdale and Hester Chambers) are releasing their self-titled debut album on April 8 via Domino. Now they have shared a new song from it, “Angelica,” via another one of their amusing self-directed videos. More

Feb 01, 2022 By Mark Redfern

British duo Wet Leg (Rhian Teasdale and Hester Chambers) are releasing their self-titled debut album on April 8 via Domino. Now they have shared a video for “Oh No” that highlights various social media comments about the band from both fans and trolls. More

Jan 25, 2022 By Mark Redfern

It is confounding that so many outlets insist on posting best songs of the year lists in early December. Not only are there several more weeks left in the year, in which a number of potential great songs could be released, it also takes time to digest all the tracks released in November and earlier in the fall. We’ve obviously taken too much time. More

Jan 21, 2022 By Joey Arnone

British duo Wet Leg (Rhian Teasdale and Hester Chambers) stopped by SiriusXMU to perform a cover of Madonna’s “Material Girl.” More

Jan 17, 2022 By Dom Gourlay

Under the Radar announces media partnership with ESNS for its 2022 edition More

Dec 21, 2021 By Mark Redfern

Under the Radar is excited to announce the full details of our new print issue, which is our special 20th Anniversary Issue. It’s a double issue celebrating two decades of the magazine (our first issue came out in December 2001). The issue has shipped out to subscribers and stores and can now be bought from us directly here. The issue features two special covers, each featuring a different group of musicians together. More

Dec 09, 2021 By Joey Arnone

Last night, British duo Wet Leg (Rhian Teasdale and Hester Chambers) made their American TV debut on Late Night with Seth Meyers, where they performed “Chaise Longue.” More

Dec 03, 2021 By Mark Redfern (with Joey Arnone)

Welcome to the 45th Songs of the Week of 2021. We didn’t do a Songs of the Week last week because of Thanksgiving, so this week’s list includes songs from the last two weeks. Even taking into account two weeks worth of songs, the pickings were a little slim. We came up with 10 we liked. More

Dec 02, 2021 By Joey Arnone

British duo Wet Leg (Rhian Teasdale and Hester Chambers) have performed a Tiny Desk (Home) Concert for NPR, where they performed “Chaise Longue,” “Wet Dream,” “Oh No,” and “Too Late Now.” Their self-titled debut album will be out on April 8, 2022 via Domino. More

Nov 29, 2021 By Joey Arnone

British duo Wet Leg (Rhian Teasdale and Hester Chambers) have announced the release of their self-titled debut album, which will be out on April 8, 2022 via Domino. The duo have also shared two new songs, “Too Late Now” and “Oh No,” with an accompanying music video for “Too Late Now.” North American tour dates have also been announced for March 2022. More

Oct 01, 2021 By Mark Redfern (with Joey Arnone and Caleb Campbell)

Welcome to the 37th Songs of the Week of 2021. Old school rock was alive and well this week, with new songs from The Rolling Stones, Elton John and Stevie Wonder, Sting, John Mellencamp and Bruce Springsteen, and David Bowie, but none of those tracks made our Songs of the Week list. More

Sep 28, 2021 By Mark Redfern

New British duo Wet Leg (Rhian Teasdale and Hester Chambers) have shared a new song, “Wet Dream,” via an amusing video for it directed by Teasdale. In the song, Teasdale tells an ex-lover it’s not okay to still have wet dreams about her. More

Jun 18, 2021 By Mark Redfern

Welcome to the 23rd Songs of the Week of 2021. It was a strong week for new songs, so we ended up with a Top 12 and some excellent honorable mentions as well. This is a very Scandinavian Songs of the Week, with artists from Denmark (two of them), Sweden, and Norway. More

Jun 15, 2021 By Mark Redfern

New British duo Wet Leg have shared a new song, “Chaise Longue,” via a self-directed video for it. The band have also announced that they have signed to Domino and the song is being described as their debut single. More

Dec 22, 2021 By Dom Gourlay

With 2021 coming to an end, Under the Radar asked its writers to look into their collective crystal balls and look ahead to the next twelve months. So, without further ado, here are the 22 acts Under the Radar and its contributors are most excited about as we approach 2022. More

Aug 30, 2021 By Andy Von Pip

The Isle of Wight, located in the English Channel just a few miles off the south coast of the UK, has certainly been punching above its weight, musically speaking of late. Post-punk duo Wet Leg is the latest buzz band to emerge from the Isle, comprising of friends Rhian Teasdale and Hester Chambers. They’ve also recently signed to Domino Records and released their debut single “Chaise Longue” to universal acclaim. More

Nov 23, 2025 By Faye Stacey

​Wet Leg returned to Nottingham’s Rock City for another sold out show off the back of critically acclaimed second album “Moisturizer”, which hit the coveted number one spot in the UK album charts. More

Oct 31, 2025 By Yvan Nyugen

Austin City Limits once again took over Zilker Park in Austin, Texas for two back-to-back weekends, and Under the Radar’s photographer, Yvan Nguyen, was there to capture it all. More

Sep 24, 2025 By Joshua Mellin

Wet Leg brought their “Moisturizer” tour to Chicago’s Salt Shed Fairgrounds earlier this month and Under the Radar’s Joshua Mellin was there to capture the highlights. More

Jul 11, 2025 By Andy Von Pip

Back in 2021, Wet Leg arrived like a bolt from the blue with their debut single “Chaise Longue,” a brilliantly absurd anthem that perfectly captured the post-lockdown zeitgeist. Their self-titled debut proved they were no flash in the pan, but with their second album, moisturizer, came the inevitable questions: could they conjure another distinctive record without retreading old ground? More

Sep 26, 2023 By Adam Houghton

Under the Radar went to Larmer Tree Gardens for the 2023 edition of End Of The Road Festival and photographed a wealth of incredible performances! More

Nov 28, 2022 By Dom Gourlay

Wet Leg have been THE success story of 2022 and Under the Radar saw them play two incredible shows last week. More

Aug 05, 2022 By Joshua Mellin

Lollapalooza returned to Chicago’s Grant Park last weekend. More

Jul 08, 2022 By Jimi Arundell

Glastonbury Festival was a blast, and Under the Radar was there to savour every last second of it! 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

Apr 07, 2022 By Andy Von Pip

Had Peter Parker (of Spider-Man fame) eschewed photography (or superheroing) to pursue a career as a musician, his wise old Uncle Ben might have adjusted his advice accordingly to “with great hype comes great expectation.” There’s no denying that UK band Wet Leg—formed and fronted by Isle of Wight musicians Rhian Teasdale and Hester Chambers—have had an inordinate amount of buzz thrust upon them after the release of their addictive lockdown busting debut single “Chaise Lounge.” More

Oct 26, 2021 By Andy Von Pip

Wet Leg prove once again why they’re the most exciting new band in Britain. More