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Today, Richmond underground metal lifers Inter Arma release New Heaven, their first album of new material in five years. All the advance singles — the title track, “Concrete Cliffs,” “Desolation’s Harp” — were titanic, and I kept meaning to listen to the advance stream of the full album,  » Read More

Pearl Jam visited their fellow ’90s icon Howard Stern’s SiriusXM radio show this week to promote new album Dark Matter. We posted a bunch of interview clips from the show on Wednesday, and now several performance videos have gone live.  » Read More

Last year, the Massachusetts straight-edge hardcore band Anklebiter released To Live And Withstand, an absolutely galvanizing EP. Anklebiter play old-school hardcore with bounce and focus and charisma, and they make old sounds feel fresh and exciting. Today, Anklebiter have joined forces with fellow straight-edge warriors Prevention for a new split.  » Read More

Welcome to the fourteenth Songs of the Week of 2024. This week Andy Von Pip, Mark Moody, and Scott Dransfield helped me decide what should make the list. We seriously considered over 20 songs this week and narrowed it down to a Top 10.  » Read More

South London five-piece Fat Dog have announced their debut album, WOLF., and shared a new song from it, “Running,” via a music video. They have also announced some fall North American tour dates.  » Read More

Stoner metal legends The Obsessed slayed Brooklyn the other week and Under the Radar was there to see (and hear) it.  » Read More

Today, Dallas-based Chicano solo artist Slow Joy (aka Esteban Flores) is releasing the second single, “King Cowboy,” from his upcoming EP Mi Amigo Slow Joy. “King Cowboy” was preceded by the EP’s first single, “Pulling Teeth,” which was released on March 14. The EP was recorded at New Jersey’s Barbershop Studios and was produced by Mike Sapone (Oso Oso,  » Read More

Last year, Brooklyn-based folk singer/songwriter Mackenzie Shrieve returned with her new EP, In The After. She describes the EP as the third part of a trilogy that she began with her 2020 single, “in the before,” followed by her full-length album, In the While, released in 2021. This year, she is sharing new versions of tracks from the trilogy with featured artists.  » Read More

A double album carries hard-wired associations, an unavoidable gravity of intent. A self-titled double album adds fuel to the fire; it’s an unequivocal statement, a neon-lit framing of a record as a defining artistic moment.  » Read More