Oct 26, 2015
By Austin Trunick
Zombi
Instrumental rockers Zombi—Steve Moore and A.E. Paterra—returned earlier this month with Shape Shift, their first record composed live in a studio since 2006’s Surface to Air.
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Oct 23, 2015
By Christopher Roberts
Adele
Adele confirmed this week that her long-awaited new album, 25, was coming out on November 20 via XL Recordings. Now she has shared the album’s first single and opening track, fittingly titled “Hello,” via its video. Xavier Dolan directed the sepia-toned clip, which co-stars actor Tristan Wilds (The Wire). Watch it below.
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Oct 23, 2015
By Christopher Roberts
Aziz Ansari
Aziz Ansari returns to TV with Master of None, which premieres on Netflix November 6. The former Parks & Recreation stars, writes, and directs the 10-episode series. It’s loosely based on Ansari’s own life experiences, but unlike similar comedies Louie and Curb Your Enthusiasm, Ansari is not playing himself but instead is a character named Dev, who’s a struggling 30-year-old actor in New York.
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Oct 23, 2015
By Christopher Roberts
Five years after their hit mismatched buddy cop comedy The Other Guys, Mark Wahlberg and Will Ferrell are reuniting in Daddy’s Home. This time they play a step-dad (Will Ferrell) and dad (Mark Wahlberg) vying for their kids’ affections and, of course, they take things too far.
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Oct 23, 2015
By Christopher Roberts
Club 8
Swedish electro-pop duo Club 8 (Karolina Komstedt and Johan Angergård) are releasing their ninth album, Pleasure, on November 20 via Labrador. Now they have shared another song from it, “Skin.”
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Oct 23, 2015
By Christopher Roberts
Grimes
Natalie Prass released her acclaimed self-titled debut album earlier this year via Spacebomb/StarTime International. Now she has announced a new EP, Side by Side, which is due out November 20 via StarTime International. It includes new versions of debut album cuts “My Baby Don’t Understand Me” and “Christy,” as well as covers of Grimes’ “REALiTi,” Anita Baker’s “Caught Up in the Rapture,” and Simon & Garfunkel’s “The Sound of Silence.”
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Oct 23, 2015
By Michael Wojtas
Under the Radar’s Weekly Playlist
Welcome to Under the Radar’s Weekly Playlist, where we compile the best tracks to debut online in the last week (or thereabouts). In this mix we’ve got new songs by Merchandise featuring Dum Dum Girls, Shearwater, and British Sea Power; plus, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart cover James, and New Order, Sufjan Stevens, Baio, and Kisses get remixed.
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Oct 23, 2015
By Michael Wojtas
TÜLIPS
On “Perfect Love,” L.A.‘s TÜLIPS summon a furious sense of forward motion that seems to reverberate long after the sub-two-minute single ends.
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