Jan 31, 2014 By Under the Radar Staff Big Scary

For Under the Radar‘s 11th annual Artist Survey we emailed some of our favorite artists a few questions relating to the important issues of the last year, as well as some quirkier subjects. Check out our next print issue and digital issue for surveys from My Morning Jacket, Foals, Amanda Palmer, Local Natives, Wild Nothing, These New Puritans, Lanterns on the Lake, Xiu Xiu, and Summer Camp.

Jan 30, 2014 By Under the Radar Staff Artist Surveys 2013

For Under the Radar‘s 11th annual Artist Survey we emailed some of our favorite artists a few questions relating to the important issues of the last year, as well as some quirkier subjects. Check out our next print issue and digital issue for surveys from My Morning Jacket, Foals, Amanda Palmer, Local Natives, Wild Nothing, These New Puritans, Lanterns on the Lake, Xiu Xiu, and Summer Camp.

Jan 30, 2014 By Under the Radar Staff Slow Club

For Under the Radar‘s 11th annual Artist Survey we emailed some of our favorite artists a few questions relating to the important issues of the last year, as well as some quirkier subjects. Check out our next print issue and digital issue for surveys from My Morning Jacket, Foals, Amanda Palmer, Local Natives, Wild Nothing, These New Puritans, Lanterns on the Lake, Xiu Xiu, and Summer Camp.

Jan 29, 2014 By Laura Studarus Issue #48 - November/December 2013 - HAIM

It’s traditional to start the story of any band featuring a set of siblings with tales of family sing-alongs, impressive parental record collections, and mandatory music lessons. But Woman’s Hour founders Fiona Jane Burgess and Will Burgess swear that there are no such events in their shared timeline.

Jan 24, 2014 By Mike Hilleary Issue #48 - November/December 2013 - HAIM

In the summer of 2012 a song titled “All That We’ve Become” surfaced as an extremely limited 7” single across various U.K. record stores. Though attributed to the name Society, the track itself might have well been made by a figment of fans’ imaginations, as numerous blogs and press outlets were unable to determine who was responsible for the song’s pleasing mix of sampled beats and classic soul.

Jan 22, 2014 By Chris Tinkham Courtney Barnett

Last May, Melbourne-based singer/songwriter Courtney Barnett earned an APRA (Australasian Performing Right Association) Song of the Year nomination for “History Eraser,” a lyrically vivid composition that she recorded with her band and released on her own label, Milk! Records.

Jan 21, 2014 By Laura Studarus Cocteau Twins

When Cocteau Twins released their sixth album, Blue Bell Knoll, in 1988, critics hailed it as a major step forward for the abstract pop trio. But to hear members Simon Raymonde and Robin Guthrie tell it, the record wasn’t so much a quantum leap as a natural evolution.

Jan 17, 2014 By Laura Studarus Issue #48 - November/December 2013 - HAIM

Irish-born, London-based actor Cillian Murphy has made a big-budget name for himself with roles in Inception, Tron: Legacy, and the Dark Knight Batman trilogy. Despite an ongoing flirtation with Hollywood, Murphy has also carved out a dual niche for himself, appearing in more independent films such as 28 Days Later (his breakout role), Breakfast on Pluto, and Sunshine, and performing in Enda Walsh’s one-man play, Misterman. Coming up are roles in Cry/Fly, Ron Howard’s In the Heart of the Sea, and opposite Johnny Depp and Morgan Freeman in Transcendence. And he also currently stars in the BBC TV drama Peaky Blinders. But for all his show business experience, he admits that the thought of speaking with Berlin-based pianist Nils Frahm makes him a bit starstruck.

Jan 17, 2014 By Laura Studarus Snakadaktal

“We often play games like creating our alter-ego animals,” says Phoebe Cockburn, vocalist for Melbourne-based quintet Snakadaktal. “I’m a squirrel because I like nuts a lot…. Our drummer was a sea elephant. Like a seal type of thing.”