Mar 10, 2023 By Candace McDuffie

Xiu Xiu’s latest album, Ignore Grief, was released on March 3 via Polyvinyl and falls in line with the experimental facet’s proclivity for arranging harrowing and sonically intense songs. More

Mar 03, 2023 By Mark Redfern

To end the week, we ask Steve Mason some questions about endings and death. More

Feb 22, 2023 By Mark Redfern

My Firsts is our email interview series where we ask musicians to tell us about their first life experiences, be it early childhood ones (first word, first concert, etc.) or their first tastes of being a musician (first band, first tour, etc.). For this My Firsts we talk to Benjamin Woods, the main creative force behind England’s The GOLDEN DREGS. More

Feb 16, 2023 By Jennifer Irving Web Exclusive

It’s 93° outside and tens of thousands of people are packed into Zilker Park in Austin, Texas for Austin City Limits Music Festival to see a laundry list of artists perform in and in spite of the heat. Samia Finnerty (who just goes by her first name) begins her afternoon set in a pair of brown cowboy boots, and spends the next 45 minutes spinning to her delighted audience. More

Feb 09, 2023 By Dom Gourlay Web Exclusive

FEWS discuss forthcoming third album, Glass City, which comes out in April. More

Jan 19, 2023 By Dom Gourlay Web Exclusive

Amber Arcades are back with a new album next month, so Under the Radar sat down for a chat with Annelotte De Graaf about what she’s been up to. More

Nov 23, 2022 By Hays Davis

Fifty years from the release of their debut album, the music of the German duo NEU! sounds as fresh, intriguing, and arresting as it must have for those early adventurous and curious listeners. NEU! 50! collects their recordings of in a 5-CD box set that presents all four original albums and a tribute disc featuring interpretations and remixes from The National, Mogwai, IDLES, Hot Chip’s Alexis Taylor, and more. A 5-LP vinyl version includes the first three original albums and the tribute. More

Oct 26, 2022 By Michelle Dalarossa Web Exclusive

After almost a decade of writing and recording songs under the moniker Frankie Cosmos, frontwoman Greta Kline has distilled her music-making process into a somewhat systematic cycle. Stitching together bits of diary entries and pieces of her own poetry, she builds chord progressions and song structures around her patchwork of lyrics, working with her band to flesh out home-demos that she cuts herself. More

Oct 21, 2022 By Lee Campbell Web Exclusive

Alt-rock guitar shredder Joey Santiago and Pixies are about to embark on a grueling southern hemisphere, Japanese, and European tour to promote their new album Doggerel. Donning a cap of course, framed by some very striking artwork from his LA home, Under the Radar spoke with Santiago to discuss the new album and some burning Pixies’ myths. More