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Among the artist community, it’s become a tad cliché to cite 2020 and COVID lockdown as being a catalyst for heightened introspection. Nonetheless, lockdown-led navel-gazing was a natural, deeply human response to the pandemic, and not just for creative types. First off, what else was there to do? Second, I once had a therapist who told me about “the frictive wound”  » Read More

Flying Lotus remains unpredictable. In recent years, FlyLo has mostly kept himself busy in the film world, composing scores and working on his second directorial effort, the sci-fi movie Ash. But FlyLo still makes his own music when he feels like it. Last year,  » Read More

It’s been more than five years since Nicki Minaj released Queen, her most recent album, but she’s remained plenty present since then. In the past few years, Nicki has pushed three different singles to the top of the Billboard Hot 100, including last year’s solo track “  » Read More

Metric set out to be a band that could succeed in the mainstream on their own terms. Two decades on from their debut album, they’ve managed to become one of Canada’s last great alternative rock bands. They’re an anachronism in a lot of ways, the kind of group that would open for Imagine Dragons on tour while remaining fiercely independent,  » Read More

Earlier this month I was deeply impressed by “ghosts,” a stunning single from the hyperpop-shoegaze act yeule. Today they’re back with another preview of next month’s album softscars. This latest track, “inferno,” blooms from an orchestral introduction into a steadily thumping low-key beat, with yeule’s voice slicing and dicing amidst a varied downpour of keyboard sounds.  » Read More

X rolled back the years at New York’s Palladium Times Square last week and Under the Radar were in attendance.  » Read More

Under the Radar photographer Laura Studerus saw Sylvan Esso at the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles last Thursday (31st August). Please check out her photo gallery from the show.  » Read More

Under the Radar photographer Laura Studerus saw Christine and the Queens at the Grammy Museum in downtown LA last month. Please check out her photo gallery from the show.  » Read More

Festival Republic boss Melvin Benn recently spoke to NME about the success of Reading & Leeds 2023. During the interview, he also teased the the line-up and site changes for next year’s edition of the event. This year’s festival was packed with massive headline performances from Foals, Sam Fender, The 1975, The Killers,  » Read More