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Jul 03, 2009 By Mark Redfern Photography by Sophie Etchart

Under the Radar‘s Summer Issue will be hitting stands soon. Jarvis Cocker graces the cover and the issue features an in-depth 9-page article on the former Pulp frontman. We conducted an exclusive photo-shoot with Cocker in Paris.

“You’re better off with the song version of me than you are with the actual real person.” - Jarvis Cocker

The issue’s other main features include interviews with Patrick Wolf, Dirty Projectors, Viva Voce, The Dead Weather (Jack White’s new band), and Belle & Sebastian’s Stuart Murdoch on his God Help the Girl project.

“I was offered the part of the Mad Hatter in the new Tim Burton film [Alice in Wonderland]. I might have looked the part, but why would you pick somebody who had never even gotten into a school play?” - Patrick Wolf

The Detection section of the Summer Issue includes exclusive new interviews with The Aliens, Eels, The Horrors, Peaches, Iggy Pop, and Sally Shapiro. We talk to Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse’s Mark Linkous about their Dark Night of the Soul project with David Lynch. We also interview legendary comic book writer Alan Moore, the man who created Watchmen and V for Vendetta. Marc Webb discusses his directorial debut, (500) Days of Summer, which stars Zooey Deschanel and Joseph Gordon-Levitt. Comedians Michael Ian Black and Michael Showalter dish the dirt on their hilarious new Comedy Central series Michael and Michael Have Issues. Welsh actress Eve Myles of British Sci-fi show Torchwood, discuss the show’s new miniseries, Children of Earth. The Fiery Furnaces’ Eleanor Friedberger and Mew’s Jonas Bjerre both take self-portrait photos for us. Our Retro section features a look back on Batman: The Animated Series, which includes interviews with Bruce Timm and Alan Burnett.

”[The media are] like, ‘Oh, she can’t shock anymore.’ So I shocked them with the fact that I’m actually talented!” - Peaches

The Summer Issue’s Pleased to Meet You section includes interviews with the following exciting new artists: Blind Man’s Colour, Cymbals Eat Guitars, Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros, Florence and the Machine, Generationals, Hjaltalín, Local Natives, Jack Peñate, and The Soundcarriers.

“I get overawed by things quite easily. I know it sounds so fucking pussy, but just a sunset or some body of water can really fill you with something.” - Florence and the Machine’s Florence Welch

Plus over 160 CDs, DVDs, Books, Films, TV Shows, Video Games, and Comic Books are reviewed in the Summer Issue. The reviews section includes reviews of releases by most of the artists interviewed in the issue, as well as new releases by the following artists: Amazing Baby, Au Revoir Simone, David Bazan, Bowerbirds, British Sea Power, Elvis Costello, Datarock, Deer Tick, Deerhunter, Dinosaur Jr., Steve Earle, The Field, Foreign Born, Franz Ferdinand, Fruit Bats, Iron and Wine, Joan of Arc, Kasabian, Mark Kozelek, The Legends, Magnolia Electric Co., Major Lazer, The Mars Volta, Maximo Park, Cass McCombs, Eugene McGuinness, Megafaun, Minus Five, Moby, The Morning After Girls, The Most Serene Republic, Oneida, Passion Pit, Julian Plenti (Interpol’s Paul Banks), Portugal. The Man, Riceboy Sleeps, Sian Alice Group, Son Volt, Sonic Youth, Regina Spektor, Spinal Tap, stellastarr*, Sunset Rubdown, Those Darlins, Throw Me the Statue, Tiny Vipers, Tortoise, Wilco, Wye Oak, YACHT, and many others.

Finally, buy the issue and receive a code to download our new digital sampler, which features music by Blind Man’s Colour, Dirty Projectors, The Field, Fruit Bats, Generationals, Great Northern, Sally Shapiro, Telekinesis!, Tiny Vipers, and more.

If you value what Under the Radar does and have discovered some great music because of us, then please pick up our new issue (or subscribe) and keep visiting this website! Truly independent media only survives when it’s supported by the fans.