Dec 22, 2017 By Matt Fink Issue #62 - Julien Baker

When Under the Radar first spoke with Julien Baker in the spring of 2016, it was a few weeks after her headline-grabbing round of performances at that year’s South by Southwest festival and less than five months since her debut album, Sprained Ankle—a dazzlingly intimate album made over two days and with zero expectations of an audience—had become one of the most out-of-nowhere breakthroughs of 2015. More

Dec 21, 2017 By Charles Steinberg Wolf Parade

A palpable disappointment coursed through the communities of contemporary rock enthusiasm when Wolf Parade decided to part ways in 2010 after their third album, Expo 86. They had romped around Canada’s unofficial eleventh province of boisterous progressive rock, swinging between the invigorating polarity of frontmen Spencer Krug and Dan Boeckner. More

Dec 20, 2017 By Austin Trunick The Horrors

“With this record we realized that—individually, in some ways more than collectively—we had to come away from it feeling like we were able to express ourselves creatively within The Horrors,” says Faris Badwan. More

Dec 19, 2017 By Matt Fink Issue #62 - Julien Baker

The cover of Wolf Alice‘s second full-length release is striking in its simplicity. A young girl in an idyllic garden strikes a ballerina pose beside what appears to be the skull of a large animal. The girl stares off into the distance, expressionless and seemingly lost in thought. More