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Bruiser Wolf is maybe the most unmistakable voice in hip-hop. The Bruiser Brigade emcee raps in an exaggerated, almost cartoonish vocal style somewhere between a TV game show announcer and a spoken interlude from a Blacksploitation-era soul song. It’s hard to stand out rapping alongside Danny Brown, but this dude pulls it off.  » Read More

January is typically a pretty dead time for both film and music releases, but a new satirical biblical epic is set to open this Friday, and its soundtrack will feature some very big names. Jay-Z is one of the producers of The Book Of Clarence, a new movie in which LaKeith Stanfield plays a con man in ancient Jerusalem who tries to convince people that he’s the real messiah.  » Read […]

Courting are an extremely poppy rock band out of Liverpool. They do electronic-tinged, guitar-forward love songs in the emo/pop-punk zone. At times they remind me a bit of Weezer or Joyce Manor, other times the Strokes or early Killers, but what jumped out at me most is how much the 1975 they have in them: the frank discussions of romantic foibles,  » Read More

Phill Niblock, the acclaimed avant-garde composer known for his pioneering work in minimalist drone music, has died, The Wire reports. No details of Niblock’s death are available at present. He was 90.  » Read More

Last year, we lost two great Irish icons. In July, Sinéad O’Connor passed away at the age of 56, and the Pogues leader Shane MacGowan made it all the way to 65 before dying in December. O’Connor and Macgowan were friends and occasional collaborators, and it only seems right that a group of friends and collaborators will salute the both of them with an all-star Carnegie Hall tribute show.  » Read […]

Lamplight is a one-person project from Ian Hatcher-Williams, a musician based in both Brooklyn and Roanoke, Virginia. In a couple of months, he’ll release the self-titled Lamplight debut album, recorded with Lightning Bug’s Kevin Copeland. Today, he’s shared the new single “House Rules,” a soft and lush piece of indie-folk.  » Read More

Xylitol headlined the first Spirit of Gravity event of 2024 last week and Under the Radar were there to see it.  » Read More

As 2024 dawns, I’m giving a final look back on my favorite albums, songs, and TV shows of the last year.  » Read More

Fans last heard from Brighton-based singer/songwriter Bess Atwell with her 2021 sophomore album, Already, Always, which introduced Atwell’s sparse, lyrical, and emotive style of indie folk to a swath of new listeners. Since then, Atwell has been relatively quiet. In 2022 she shared Already, Rearranged, a collection of reworked tracks from her sophomore record, followed by a pair of singles last year,  » Read More