Jan 17, 2025
By Steve King
Perhaps it’s appropriate to start 2025, the Year of the Snake, with inaugurating Donald Trump as president again. I officially started work on this piece on January 6, 2025, so… yeah… it seems to have gone exactly as I predicted. Damn… I was just being dour so y’all would vote the right way. Really misread the room, huh?
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Jan 10, 2025
By Austin Saalman
By the time Vampire Weekend graced the cover of Under the Radar’s Winter 2010 issue, the quirkily hip, Ivy League-educated musical foursome had since risen to prominence as leading harbingers of experimental-yet-accessible, intellectual-yet-relatable millennial indie pop.
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Jan 07, 2025
By Mark Redfern
We have put together a Spotify playlist for our Top 100 Albums of 2024 list and it’s 10 hours long. It features at least one song from each of our Top 100 in the order the albums appear on the list, from our #1 album to our #100. Some albums are represented by multiple songs filtered throughout the list.
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Dec 30, 2024
By Austin Saalman
The seemingly innate human longing for accumulation and self-gratification permeating modern society has suffered a notable erosion into an illusory state of delusional decadence, in which the sensation of desire is refashioned into an alienated voyeurism. The longing for shared intimacy has set many lonesome travelers forth on fruitless journeys down dimly lit streets, crisscrossing phantom continents of the soul upon which no spiritual refuge may be found.
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Dec 29, 2024
By Kaveh Jalinous
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If the wild journey we’ve all been on in 2024 has taught us anything, it’s that oddity isn’t going anywhere anytime soon—especially in the film world.
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Dec 21, 2024
By Austin Trunick and Mark Redfern
New Games for Every Platform—and a Graphic Novel.
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Dec 20, 2024
By Mark Redfern
‘Tis the season…to wear Christmas sweaters. Some are legitimately ugly, others are trying too hard to be garish, and quite a lot these days are rather geeky. And those are the ones that we’ll concern ourselves with in Part 6 of Under the Radar’s 2024 Holiday Gift Guide. Yes, this is a bit of a last minute guide, but perhaps there’s still a holiday party to attend in the next couple of weeks or you can stock up early for next year.
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Dec 18, 2024
By Mark Redfern and Frank Valish
Welcome to Part 5 of Under the Radar’s 2024 Holiday Gift Guide. As you might expect from a music website, here we highlight some of the year’s best music reissues, on both vinyl and CD, from the last year.
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Dec 18, 2024
By Frank Valish
Under the Radar’s Holiday Gift Guide continues with some essential books.
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Dec 16, 2024
By Kaveh Jalinous, Austin Trunick and Mark Redfern
Under the Radar’s Holiday Gift Guide continues with a list of even more must-have Blu-rays and 4K releases.
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