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England’s Porridge Radio are releasing a new album, Waterslide, Diving Board, Ladder to the Sky, on May 20 via Secretly Canadian. Now they have shared the album’s third single, “End of Last Year,” via an animated video for the song. They have also announced their first ever full on North American tour.  » Read More

New Zealand singer/songwriter/guitarist Marlon Williams has shared a new song, “My Boy,” via an amusing video for the single. He has also announced some new tour dates in North America, the UK, and Europe.  » Read More

​Time to catch up with Rhys Darby’s and Taika Waititi’s critically acclaimed series that is rooted in romance that is nuanced and proudly queer.  » Read More

Legendary duo Sparks embarked on a UK tour lately and Under the Radar photographer James Loveday captured their show in London at the Roundhouse on April 17, 2022.  » Read More

French Cuban twin sisters Ibeyi (Naomi Díaz and Lisa-Kaindé Díaz) have shared a cover of Black Flag’s 1981 song “Rise Above.” The cover features London artist BERWYN. It is the latest release from their forthcoming album, Spell 31, which will be out on May 6 via XL.  » Read More

In the summer of 2019, I emailed Daniel Rossen out of the blue because I had been listening to the Department of Eagles and felt like conveying how much his music moved me. By then, it had been two years since Grizzly Bear’s Painted Ruins and seven years since Rossen’s solo EP Silent Hour/Golden Mile. Rossen released the single “Deerslayer” for Record Store Day in 2018,  » Read More

The B-52’s have announced a farewell tour. The North American tour dates have been officially released, kicking off in Seattle on August 22. Tickets will go on sale this Friday (Apr. 29) at 12 p.m. EST.  » Read More

An epigraph attributed to Adolph Hitler at the beginning of Bret Easton Ellis’ 1998-published novel Glamorama reads, “You make a mistake if you see what we do as merely political.” This line is especially haunting not only within the context of the book—a scathing satire of the fashion industry and political stage, in which a vapid male model is recruited into a particularly brutal global terrorist ring consisting of his […]

Weird Nightmare (the solo project of METZ guitarist/singer Alex Edkins) has shared a video for his new single, “Wrecked.” It is the latest release from his forthcoming self-titled debut solo album, which will be out on May 20 via Sub Pop.  » Read More