Jul 16, 2014 By Laura Studarus Misia Ff

Misia Furtak (otherwise known as Misia Ff) has just gotten off stage at Poland’s Open’er Festival.

Jul 15, 2014 By Matt Fink Issue #50 - June/July 2014 - Future Islands

One of the hardest questions a band has to answer is, unfortunately, probably one of the most common ones they are asked: what kind of music do you make? For Slow Club‘s Rebecca Taylor, that question came recently when she was making a routine stop at the hairdresser.

Jul 14, 2014 By Matt Fink Issue #50 - June/July 2014 - Future Islands

Slow Club‘s Charles Watson tells a story about the British band’s 2009 American tour with Norwegian synthpop band Casiokids, explaining how he and co-leader Rebecca Taylor would stand at the side of the stage and marvel at how the audience would dance in unison during their tourmates’ set, as if surrendering themselves to the music.

Jul 10, 2014 By Matt Fink Summer 2005 - Death Cab for Cutie

For this Throwback Thursday we revisit our 2005 article on Sufjan Stevens. Read on as Stevens discusses his acclaimed 2005 album Illinois, the seemingly since abandoned 50 states project, his relationship to the press, and his discomfort with all the attention he was receiving at the time.

Jul 09, 2014 By Matt Fink Lykke Li

When I ask Lykke Li if her songwriting process is cathartic, she seems to feel insulted. It’s a lazy question, I admit, one that’s almost guaranteed to elicit a certain answer from a songwriter who writes songs so full of insecurity, restlessness, and self-reproach.

Jul 08, 2014 By Matt Fink Issue #50 - June/July 2014 - Future Islands

Lykke Li does not want to be a pop star—she wants to make that clear. Though recent years have eroded much of the boundary, as well as the stigma, separating the pop and non-pop worlds, she nonetheless expresses frustration over the fact that after seven years of writing and singing her own songs she is still categorized more with pop singers than singer/songwriters.

Jul 03, 2014 By Chris Drabick Fleet Foxes

For this Throwback Thursday we revisit our 2008 article on Fleet Foxes, our first interview with the band. In fact, this was the Seattle band’s first interview for a nationally distributed print magazine. At the time of the interview they had only recently signed to Sub Pop and were some six months away from releasing their debut album, which was then to be titled Ragged Wood but was eventually simply self-titled.

Jul 01, 2014 By Matt Fink Issue #50 - June/July 2014 - Future Islands

As a master storyteller, The Antlers’ Peter Silberman has developed an uncanny method of exploring the contours of his mind through the interpersonal dynamics in his songs, playing his characters off each other to poke at universal truths.

Jun 26, 2014 By Matt Fink Summer 2007 - Tegan and Sara

For Throwback Thursdays we are posting classic interviews from the Under the Radar print archives to our website. For this Throwback Thursday we revisit our 2007 article on Bat For Lashes, our first interview with Natasha Khan.