Sep 10, 2010
By Kyle Lemmon
Taken By Trees
Victoria Bergsman’s music doesn’t seem like the work of a thrill seeker—her melodies float about on gossamer wings—but when she thought of traveling to Pakistan to record East of Eden, her second album as Taken By Trees, she decided to act on it. “Where others may hesitate, I go all the way,” she says from her home in Sweden. “I guess it also helps that I’m extremely curious and stubborn.” More
Aug 23, 2010
By Kyle Lemmon
!!! (Chk-Chk-Chk)
It’s hard to think that !!! (Chk-Chk-Chk) have been together for 14 years. That’s quite the feat in and of itself. In anticipation of their danceable (of course) fourth LP, Strange Weather, Isn’t it?, streeting this week (August 24), we talked to Nic Offer, singer and leader of the NYC/Sacramento/Portland/Pittsburgh band. More
Aug 14, 2010
By Chris Tinkham
James Frecheville
In Animal Kingdom, writer/director David Michôd’s thrilling Melbourne-set family crime drama, Australian newcomer James Frecheville plays 17-year-old Josh Cody, a brooding, taciturn man-child caught between the law and his family’s illicit activities. With senior officer Nathan Leckie (Guy Pearce) coercing Josh to spill what he knows about the recent murder of two police officers, and Josh’s intimidating uncle, Pope (Ben Mendelsohn), pressuring him to keep his mouth shut, Josh’s words remain few throughout the film, but the weight of his fears are readable in his face and body language. More
Aug 06, 2010
By Frank Valish (as told to)
Camera Obscura
I think Grease was the first film I actually was taken to the cinema to see, which seems kind of bizarre to me because I must have been about three or four years old. More
Aug 05, 2010
By Laura Studarus
Web Exclusive
Early blushes of success and all the superlatives that come with it can threaten to topple even the most level-headed of bands. But Delphic—whose debut full-length Acolyte was released earlier this summer in the U.S.—is well studied for their role as “next big thing.” Under the Radar originally interviewed the band in our Winter 2010 Issue in January (when the album came out in the U.K.), but in honor of their U.S. release we sat down with two-thirds of the Manchester trio—James Cook (vocal/guitar) and Rick Boardman (multi-instrumentalist)—before their performance at Dangerbird Records to discuss first musical obsessions, first gigs, and everything that went into their first tastes of success. More
Aug 04, 2010
By Peter J. Silberman
The Antlers
When I was six years old, Friday night was important. More
Aug 03, 2010
By Ryan Hahn
Local Natives
I can remember the first time I played Super Street Fighter II. It must have been 1993, I was seven years old and we were living in Mission Viejo, California. More
Aug 02, 2010
By Mike Hilleary (as told to)
Issue #32 - Summer 2010 - Wasted on the Youth
Growing up in Salt Lake City, Utah, I went to a magnet school that was out away from the neighborhood that I lived in, so when I was at home I really didn’t have any friends in my neighborhood. More
