Sep 26, 2013 By Laura Studarus Young Galaxy

Catherine McCandless hesitates when she speaks—particularly when it comes to describing the nuts and bolts of her work fronting Montréal-based five-piece Young Galaxy.

Sep 25, 2013 By Laura Studarus Small Black

To kick off work on their second full-length, Limits of Desire, Brooklyn-based quartet Small Black (Ryan Heyner, Josh Hayden Kolenik, Juan Pieczanski, and Jeff Curtin) skipped town to isolate themselves from big-city distractions and temporarily took up residence in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware.

Sep 24, 2013 By Kyle Lemmon When Saints Go Machine

When Saints Go Machine’s third LP, Infinity Pool, begins with a bold statement of purpose. The ‘90s-indebted debut single, “Love and Respect,” sees the electro-pop group corralling the excellent Atlanta rapper Michael Render (aka Killer Mike) to spit some lines over a moody earworm.

Sep 20, 2013 By Stephen Humphries John Grant

John Grant’s acclaimed new album includes a track called “Ernest Borgnine.” Anyone expecting an ode to the late, great star of Marty and McHale’s Navy might be a tad surprised to discover that the song is about contracting HIV.

Sep 13, 2013 By Chris Tinkham Charli XCX

For Under the Radar‘s print cover story on Charli XCX, the English pop singer granted us two interviews. One was conducted by phone in April, minutes after she had completed soundcheck for a headlining show in London.

Sep 12, 2013 By Chris Tinkham Charli XCX

It’s about an hour before sunset on this May evening in Los Angeles when Charlotte Aitchison, the English pop singer known as Charli XCX, breezes through the front door of a rented Silver Lake house and announces to her tour bandmates, in an almost paternal way, that she’s home.

Sep 11, 2013 By Austin Trunick Issue #46 - June/July 2013 - Charli XCX

Just before the release of Still Corners’ second album, Strange Pleasures, the London-based dream pop group—and avowed film aficionados—were asked to name a few of their favorite movie sequels.

Sep 06, 2013 By Matt Fink Sigur Rós

In a rock canon littered with fame junkies, opportunists, and self-promoters, the members of Sigur Rós stand out for never seeming similarly interested in building a mythology befitting a band of their stature.

Sep 04, 2013 By Laura Studarus Web Exclusive

“I think music has done a very poor job of getting the attention of a fifteen-year-old, which was the job of Elvis, and the job of The Beatles, and the job of The Cure,” says The Smashing Pumpkins’ frontman Billy Corgan.