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Plus The Beths, Brittany Howard, The Drums, Jockstrap, The Last Dinner Party, Oneohtrix Point Never, Young Fathers, and Many Others
Jan 16, 2024
By Mark Redfern
Coachella has announced the lineup for their 2024 festival. No Doubt are reuniting for the event. More
Dec 23, 2023
By Mark Redfern
Here we go again, racing to December’s finish line, eager to put another chaotic year in the rearview and nervous about what the next 12 months have in store for us. More
Jessie Ware, Young Fathers, J Hus, Lankum, Olivia Dean, and Others Also Nominated
Jul 27, 2023
By Kat Ramkumar
The 2023 Mercy Prize nominees have been announced and they include the latest albums by Arctic Monkeys, Fred Again.., Jockstrap, Jessie Ware, Young Fathers, J Hus, Lankum, Olivia Dean, and more. More
Plus Caroline Polachek, Manic Street Preachers, Carly Rae Jepsen, Young Fathers, Hot Chip, Arctic Monkeys, Lana Del Rey, and More
Jun 26, 2023
By Kat Ramkumar
If you missed the Glastonbury Music Festival this last weekend, never fear. This is your one-stop shop for many of the performances, including highlights from Elton John, Weyes Blood, CHVRCHES, Billy Nomates, Caroline Polachek, Manic Street Preachers, Carly Rae Jepsen, Young Fathers, and many others. More
Plus Lonnie Holley and Michael Stipe, Vagabon, Young Fathers, and a Wrap-up of the Week’s Other Notable New Tracks
Jan 13, 2023
By Mark Redfern
Welcome to the second Songs of the Week of 2023. After a quiet period last week, this week was roaring with album announcements and new songs. We settled on a Top 11 this week. More
Heavy Heavy Due Out February 3 via Ninja Tune
Jan 09, 2023
By Mark Redfern
Scottish hip-hop trio Young Fathers are releasing a new album, Heavy Heavy, on February 3 via Ninja Tune. Now they have shared its fourth single, “Rice,” via a lyric video. More
Plus Samia, Floral Image, Pure Adult, Amber Arcades, and a Wrap-up of the Week’s Other Notable New Tracks
Dec 09, 2022
By Mark Redfern (with Joey Arnone and Caleb Campbell)
Welcome to the 42nd Songs of the Week of 2022. Despite things starting to wind down a bit for the holidays, there were plenty of contenders this week. More
Heavy Heavy Due Out February 3, 2023 via Ninja Tune
Dec 06, 2022
By Joey Arnone
Scottish hip-hop trio Young Fathers have shared a video for their new single, “Tell Somebody.” It is the latest release from their forthcoming album, Heavy Heavy, which will be out on February 3, 2023 via Ninja Tune. More
Plus Young Fathers, Amber Arcades, Alice Boman, John Cale and Weyes Blood, and a Wrap-up of the Last Two Weeks’ Other Notable New Tracks
Oct 28, 2022
By Mark Redfern (with Joey Arnone)
Welcome to the 38th Songs of the Week of 2022. We didn’t do a Songs of the Week last week because we were turning our new print issue into the printer last Friday. So this week’s list encompasses songs released in the last two weeks and is thus a slightly supersized Top 13 list. More
Heavy Heavy Due Out February 3, 2023 via Ninja Tune
Oct 20, 2022
By Joey Arnone
Scottish hip-hop trio Young Fathers have announced the release of a new album, Heavy Heavy, which will be out on February 3, 2023 via Ninja Tune. They have also shared a video for a new album single, “I Saw.” More
Plus Danger Mouse and Black Thought, Ezra Furman, Panda Bear and Sonic Boom, and a Wrap-up of the Week’s Other Notable New Tracks
Jul 15, 2022
By Mark Redfern (with Joey Arnone)
Welcome to the 27th Songs of the Week of 2022. It was a strong week for new tracks. Really any of the Top 6 could’ve been our #1 song. We settled on a Top 12 this week. More
Jul 12, 2022
By Joey Arnone
Scottish hip-hop trio Young Fathers have shared a new single, “Geronimo.” It is the trio’s first release of new music in four years, and it is out now via Ninja Tune. More
Plus Tim Heidecker, Bill Ryder-Jones, Thundercat, and a Wrap-up of the Week's Other Notable New Tracks
Nov 02, 2018
By Christopher Roberts
It was shaping up to be a weak week for Songs of the Week, but then our #1 track emerged today and we dug a little deeper through the week’s songs and put together a compelling Top 10. It’s an eclectic mix of political songs, catchy mainstream pop, a strange sci-fi spoken word track, and some unapologetic guitar indie rock. More
Cocoa Sugar Out Now via Ninja Tune
Nov 01, 2018
By Christopher Roberts
Scottish hip-hop trio Young Fathers released a new album, Cocoa Sugar, back in March via Ninja Tune. Now they have shared a new song, “Cocoa Sugar,” which was almost the title track to the album but didn’t make the final tracklist. They have also shared a new David Wrench single mix of album track “Border Girl.” More
Cocoa Sugar Out Now via Ninja Tune
Jun 26, 2018
By Christopher Roberts
Scottish hip-hop trio Young Fathers released a new album, Cocoa Sugar, back in March via Ninja Tune. Now they have shared a new video for “Holy Ghost.” Oscar Hudson directed the video, which was filmed with a high-powered military thermal camera (or as Young Fathers’ Graham ‘G’ Hastings says in a press release, it was “shot in Infra-Dead”). More
Plus Lily Allen and Young Fathers Also Performed on the Show
May 29, 2018
By Christopher Roberts
Florence + the Machine (aka Florence Welch and backing band) is releasing a new album, High As Hope, on June 29 via Republic. Tonight she performed on the long running BBC music show Later… with Jools Holland, where various musicians take turns in the round, performing in a TV studio in front of a live audience. More
Cocoa Sugar Out Now via Ninja Tune
Apr 30, 2018
By Christopher Roberts
Scottish hip-hop trio Young Fathers released a new album, Cocoa Sugar, last month via Ninja Tune. Now they have shared a new video for “Toy.” Salomon Ligthelm directed the video, which features child dictators. More
Issue 63 Also Includes Interviews with MGMT, The Decemberists, Belle & Sebastian, The National, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Fleet Foxes, Parquet Courts, Noel Gallagher, Spoon, and More
Mar 28, 2018
By Christopher Roberts
Under the Radar is excited to announce the full details of our Spring 2018 Issue, which is out now digitally via Under the Radar’s app and the magazine apps Readly and Zinio. The print version has shipped out to subscribers and stores and will be on all newsstands soon. The issue features Courtney Barnett on the cover. More
Cocoa Sugar Out Now via Ninja Tune
Mar 09, 2018
By Lee Adcock
For this week’s album of the week, we could begin in a tired tirade on how we should forefront any dialogue on resistance, and especially from people of color. And that’s true, but to label Cocoa Sugar as “protest music” would overlook the electrified soul of Young Fathers that swerves in a love-drunk stupor through their 10-year output. More
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Mar 09, 2018
By Stephen Mayne
This week we have Kayus Bankole of Young Fathers talking protest songs and political music, and after detouring through nuclear negotiations, trade tariffs and Italy, we finish with International Women’s Day More
Plus Ryley Walker, Young Fathers, Lost Under Heaven, Gwenno, and a Wrap-up of the Week's Other Notable New Tracks
Mar 02, 2018
By Mark Redfern
It was another good week for new songs. Any of our Top 3 songs could’ve been our #1 and we also quite enjoyed CHVRCHES’ collaboration with The National‘s Matt Berninger (on a weaker week that probably would’ve been #1). More
Cocoa Sugar Due Out March 9 via Ninja Tune
Feb 28, 2018
By Christopher Roberts
Scottish hip-hop trio Young Fathers surprised everyone by winning the Mercury Prize with their 2014 debut album, Dead. They are releasing their third album, Cocoa Sugar, on March 9 via Ninja Tune. More
Plus The Decemberists, Young Fathers, The Sea and Cake, Mouse on Mars, Lucy Dacus, and a Wrap-up of the Week's Other Notable New Tracks
Jan 19, 2018
By Christopher Roberts
2018 is coming on strong with lots of fantastic new tracks this week in our second Songs of the Week post of the year. Like last week, it was definitely a challenge to narrow it down to only 10. Preoccupations, The Spook School, Hinds, Yamantaka // Sonic Titan, St. Vincent remixed by Kelly Lee Owens, Eels, and Hinds all could have easily made the Top 10, but it was a competitive week. More
Ritual Spirit EP Out Now via Kobalt Label Services
Feb 23, 2016
By Christopher Roberts
Trip-hop pioneers Massive Attack recently released a new EP, Ritual Spirit, and shared a video for its single “Take It There,” a song that features longtime collaborator Tricky. Now the duo has shared a video for “Voodoo in My Blood,” a track that features Mercury Prize-winning hip-hop collectiveYoung Fathers. More
Last Weekend in Katowice, Poland
Aug 11, 2015
By Julia Underwood
Last weekend Katowice, Poland hosted the tenth annual edition of OFF Festival. More
Awarded Earlier this Evening in London
Oct 29, 2014
By Laura Studarus
Early this evening, Young Fathers were awarded the Mercury Prize in a ceremony in London for their album Dead. More
Interviews
Jun 11, 2018
By Stephen Mayne
Kayus Bankole, one third of the Mercury Prize winning Scottish band Young Fathers, is on the phone from the studio in Edinburgh where the reception is, in his own words, “pretty shite.” But he’s battling through to talk about the trio’s third album, Cocoa Sugar. More
Reviews
Feb 02, 2023
By Chris Thiessen
Young Fathers are masters of chiaroscuro, commanding the darkness with frenetic percussion and pulsating electronics that drill deep into caverns until they find an opening and let a single beam of light flood the expanse. More
Mar 06, 2018
By Conrad Duncan
Young Fathers do not tend to mention politics explicitly on Cocoa Sugar but the weight of three years of political turmoil since their last album looms large over this new record. Like Kendrick Lamar’s DAMN., it captures the anger and frustration of the current moment without directly addressing the cause. Instead, it lets its ingenious mix of soul, Krautrock, and hip-hop speak for itself. More