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Avi Buffalo

Feb 01, 2010 Avi Buffalo

Backstage at Avi Buffalo‘s show at Brooklyn’s Bell House, where the Long Beach band is opening for Sub Pop label mates Vetiver, the scene more closely resembles the innocence of a middle school dance than the debauchery of a rock show. More

Clare and the Reasons

Jan 22, 2010 Web Exclusive

“We’re a bunch of idiots! We definitely mix that into what we do because that’s who we are,” confesses Clare and the Reasons’ frontwoman Clare Muldaur. “We take the music we do very very, very seriously, but we don’t take ourselves that seriously.” More

The Go! Team: In the Studio

Jan 15, 2010 Web Exclusive

Since its 2005 Columbia debut Thunder, Lightning, Strike!, The Go! Team has built up a reputation for super-energetic vocalist Ninja’s chants mixed with samples compiled by frontman Ian Parton. 2007’s Proof of Youth (Sub Pop) found the British band taking a more melodic approach, and the still-to-be-named third LP, which Parton says will likely be out sometime in the spring, is headed in the same direction. More

Peter Capaldi

Jan 13, 2010 Web Exclusive

In the British film In the Loop, out this week on DVD and Blu-ray, Scottish actor Peter Capaldi plays Malcolm Tucker, an intimidating, acid-tongued communications chief to the Prime Minister. When a flaky government minister claims during a radio interview that war with the Middle East is “unforeseeable,” Tucker runs rampant amid the crisis, cussing out various government types while trying to administer damage control. “You should feel sorry for my mother,” says Capaldi, “because she gets to come to the premiere of the movie with her son in it and sees him up on screen talking about lubricated horse cocks.” More

Matthew Broderick

Jan 09, 2010 Web Exclusive

In Wonderful World, Matthew Broderick plays Ben Singer, a former children’s folk singer whose staunch idealism has led him down a dark path to disappointment and despondency. More

Casiokids

Jan 05, 2010 Issue #30 - Winter 2010 - Vampire Weekend

Recounting Casiokids 2009 schedule, frontman Ketil Kinden Endresen sounds a bit tired, despite being on break from tour duties. “We played 170 shows in 18 countries. It came as a surprise because the year before that we played maybe 35, 40 concerts!” he explains in quiet awe, speaking from his hometown of Bergen, Norway. More

Fables

Jan 05, 2010 Issue #30 - Winter 2010 - Vampire Weekend

Perhaps no comic book series in the 2000s achieved the consistent quality and creativity of DC/Vertigo’s Fables. Launched in 2002, the series about fugitive figures from folklore has not only garnered a legion of fans as it nears 100 issues, it’s spun off an ongoing series (Jack of Fables), a graphic novel (1001 Nights of Snowfall), a novel (Peter & Max), and two affiliated miniseries (Cinderella, The Literals).

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Tegan and Sara

Jan 05, 2010

Tegan and Sara Quin are sitting together in the artists lounge at Warner Bros. Records in Burbank when they’re pitched a fantasy film premise. More

Love Is All: In the Studio

Jan 03, 2010 Web Exclusive

When Under the Radar was doing research for the retrospective on Swedish music of the 2000s that is featured in our Year-End issue, we stumbled upon the juicy tidbit of information that Gothenburg’s Love Is All was back in the studio recording. And when we spoke to singer/songwriter Josephine Olausson for said retrospective, we found out that the album was already finished. Graciously, and without being given prior warning, Olausson agreed to give Under the Radar the scoop on the band’s forthcoming, as-yet-untitled album. Album number three is scheduled for Spring 2010. More