Jun 24, 2014 By Matt Fink Issue #50 - June/July 2014 - Future Islands

Though sibling acts often struggle to keep their professional relationship from ruining their personal one, Klara and Johanna Söderberg of Sweden’s First Aid Kit sound more like best friends than sisters, completing each other’s sentences and laughing at each other’s jokes as they discuss their third full-length release, Stay Gold.

Jun 23, 2014 By Chris Tinkham Haley Lu Richardson

One of the breakout talents at this year’s LA Film Fest was 19-year-old actress Haley Lu Richardson, who starred in two films making their world premiere: the post-apocalyptic action thriller, The Well, and the collegiate romantic comedy, The Young Kieslowski, which earned the festival’s audience award for Best Narrative Feature.

Jun 19, 2014 By Matt Fink Björk

For Throwback Thursdays we are posting classic interviews from the Under the Radar print archives to our website. Under the Radar used to keep its print articles exclusive to the print magazine and so there are a lot of older articles that aren’t to be found on our website. For this Throwback Thursday we revisit our 2007 article on Björk.

Jun 17, 2014 By Laura Studarus Ice Cream Cathedral

Ice Cream Cathedral (Anja T. Lahrmann, Kristian Paulsen, and Anders Bach) call their music “space pop.” It’s a good place to start, since very little about the Danish trio’s music feels terrestrial.

Jun 12, 2014 By Matt Fink St. Vincent

For Throwback Thursdays we will be posting classic interviews from the Under the Radar print archives to our website. For this Throwback Thursday we revisit our 2007 article on St. Vincent.

Jun 12, 2014 By Chris Tinkham Web Exclusive

After earning a biology degree from San Diego State University on a basketball scholarship, and then playing professionally in Germany for a year, filmmaker Deon Taylor established himself as a director in the horror genre, with titles such as Nite Tales (2008) and Chain Letter (2009). He was looking to transition into drama, in search of stories with complex themes and topical issues, when producer Vince Cirrincione brought Eric J. Adams’ screenplay for Supremacy to his attention. The story, about a white supremacist who takes a black family hostage in their own home, is based on true events.

Jun 10, 2014 By Laura Studarus First Aid Kit

Somewhere, in an alternate dimension, there’s a very different version of First Aid Kit.

Jun 10, 2014 By Matt Fink Willis Earl Beal

When I first spoke with Willis Earl Beal last summer, I was immediately struck by how unguarded he was in venting his frustration and disenchantment with the music industry. He didn’t want to promote his new album,Nobody Knows, and he seemed to resent the need to sell his work as a product at all.

Jun 05, 2014 By Frank Valish Vampire Weekend

For Throwback Thursdays we will be posting classic interviews from the Under the Radar print archives to our website. For this Throwback Thursday we revisit our 2007 article on Vampire Weekend, the band’s first interview for a nationally distributed print magazine.