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Dec 29, 2024 · Under the Radar’s Top 100 Albums of 2024 Part 1 (#1-50) Dec 29, 2024. Under the Radar tends to handle our best albums of the year lists differently than most other music publications.Whereas competitors are in a hurry to get their list up before anyone else, in late November and early December, we prefer to take our time with it and spend the last two months of the year considering and ...
Shinedown’s Brent Smith On “A Symptom Of Being Human”
Feb 13, 2023 · Above all, despite the longevity of their career, Brent is excited yet always humble, when it comes to talking about the band’s success; “Don’t ever believe that you’ve arrived,” he says, “there’s always a bigger mountain.”
Violent Femmes – Gordon Gano on “Blister in the Sun” and 40 …
May 24, 2021 Web Exclusive By Jake Uitti Photography by Rocky Schenck. As soon as the bouncy guitar riff from Violent Femmes’ enduring pop hit, “Blister in the Sun,” comes on the stereo, likely you’re immediately boosted into a good mood. Then the childlike snare drums clap and the helium-like singing voice of the band’s frontman, Gordon Gano, comes in and the melody-induced grin on ...
Slowdive on “everything is alive,” Critical Reappraisal, and Finding …
Feb 09, 2024 Web Exclusive By Andy Von Pip Photography by Ingrid Pop. Since reforming in 2013, Slowdive has now been around longer than their initial run in the early ’90s. The music industry they now inhabit has morphed into something that would have been completely unrecognizable to their younger selves.
Counting Crows Frontman Adam Duritz on Fame, Mental Health, …
Jul 06, 2021 Web Exclusive By Jake Uitti. For those, like me, reading this who grew up in the 1990s, the names Adam Duritz and Counting Crows are as ubiquitous as any other monikers in our memory banks. We remember when we heard “Mr. Jones” on the radio the first time—if you were like me growing up in central New Jersey, you heard it almost hourly on 97.5 WPST Trenton and Philadelphia!
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Under The Radar Mag
Aug 30, 2024 Web Exclusive By Matt the Raven. Nick Cave’s recent personal tragedies of loss, grief, and sorrow have been well documented and reflected in the music of the past few Bad Seeds albums—2016’s Skeleton Tree and 2019’s Ghosteen—as well as Carnage, the 2021 album cut with longtime corroborator Warren Ellis.Now it appears as though Cave has completed a lifework transformation ...
MGMT - The Under the Radar Cover Story | Under the Radar
Nov 14, 2013 Issue #47 - September/October 2013 - MGMT By Matt Fink Photography by Ray Lego “This is our decision/To live fast and die young/We’ve got the vision/Now let’s have some fun.” Those words, taken from MGMT‘s 2008 breakout single “Time to Pretend,” have become a rallying cry of sorts, a party-‘til-you-die anthem for people who want to …
The Chi-Lites – Marshall Thompson on the 50th Anniversary of “A …
Apr 28, 2022 · Closing epic “The Coldest Days of My Life” packs the heaviest emotional punch, summing A Lonely Man’s vast midnight melancholia up in its epic sweep.This multilayered soul behemoth so convincingly conjures the chill of an early Lake Michigan spring, its string-laden glow carrying the listener forth into a realm of deepest heartache, allowing them to sense the intense loss of which the ...
The End: Ben Schneider of Lord Huron - Under the Radar
Jun 04, 2021 Web Exclusive By Mark Redfern Photography by Anthony Wilson. To end out the week, we ask Ben Schneider, frontman of Lord Huron, some questions about endings and death.. Lord Huron released a new album, Long Lost, last month via Whispering Pines/Republic.It’s the band’s fourth album and the follow-up to 2018’s Vide Noir.The album was previewed via the band’s Alive from ...
Sarah McLachlan on “Fumbling Towards Ecstasy” and its 30th …
May 09, 2024 Web Exclusive By Lee Campbell Photography by Kharen Hill. After building up a strong following in Canada with her first two albums, Sarah McLachlan broke into the U.S. and further afield with the compelling Fumbling Towards Ecstasy in 1993. She followed this up with her biggest selling album to date, Surfacing in 1997, which won two Grammy Awards.