Chelsea Wolfe Announces New Album and Tour Dates, Shares New Song “The Mother Road”

Jun 18, 2019 Christopher Roberts

Chelsea Wolfe has announced a new album, The Birth of Violence, and shared its first single, "The Mother Road." She's also announced some acoustic tour dates for this fall.

Self-Portrait: Ellen Kempner of Palehound

Jun 18, 2019 Web Exclusive

For our recurring Self-Portrait feature we ask a musician to take a self-portrait photo (or paint/draw a self-portrait) and write a list of personal things about themselves, things that their fans might not already know about them. This Self-Portrait is by Ellen Kempner of Palehound and she painted her own self-portrait.

boygenius - The Under the Radar Cover Story

Jun 14, 2019 Issue #65 - Mitski and boygenius

The term supergroup is primarily reserved for a band comprised of people well established at their craft—say, a quartet of recognizable rock stars. Although boygenius' members have each released at most two albums, the term is already being regularly applied to the trio of Julien Baker, Phoebe Bridgers, and Lucy Dacus.

Stella Donnelly on “Beware of the Dogs”

May 10, 2019 Web Exclusive

Gathering her voice between intermittent coughing fits and sniffles, Stella Donnelly apologizes for being sick for the interview, wishing that she were more readily able to express herself. 

25 of the Best Elton John Songs You’ve (Probably) Never Heard

Jun 10, 2019

Rocketman is here. And it's spectacular. As such, I've got Elton on the mind.

I didn't go to the church of Jesus Christ when I was a kid. I went to the church of Elton John. Still do. We had portraits of Elton and his lyricist Bernie Taupin framed, matted, and hanging in the hallway as if they were fuckin' family members. LOL. Mom took me to my first concert in 1994. I was 11. It was Elton and Ray Cooper at the Greek Theater in LA. In 7th grade, I had a picture of Elton on the front of my school folder and one of Taupin on the back. Caught a lot of shit for it too. It was middle school, it was the mid-'90s, I was a weirdo.

So I'm a mega-fan for sure.

When people ask me where to start with Elton's catalog, here's what I tell 'em: All the studio albums from the 1970 self-titled Elton John through 1976's Blue Moves are essential. That's 10 albums people. 10 ALBUMS IN 6 YEARS. All of them essential. And no, we're not gonna get into anything after Blue Moves. Don't have time. Too controversial. But do check out 1981's The Fox and 1983's Too Low for Zero if you have the appetite.

Those 10 studio albums aren't just essential because of their brain-scramblingly good singles, but also because the non-single album tracks are Just. Un. Real. To celebrate all that incredible music and the release of Rocketman, I've compiled 25 of the very best Elton John songs I reckon you've never heard.

What'd we miss? BRING IT.

 By Kenny S McGuane

Long Division Festival in Wakefield, England

Jun 12, 2019 By James Thornhill

Over the past eight years, the small Yorkshire city of Wakefield has established itself as an under-the-radar cultural hub and home to one of the best independent arts festivals in Europe.

Off-White CEO & Kanye West Collaborator Virgil Abloh Secures First Major Art Exhibition

Jun 10, 2019 By Joshua Mellin

Virgil Abloh is best known as CEO of Milan-based fashion label Off-White, more recently the artistic director of Louis Vuitton's men's wear collection and perhaps most of all as frequent collaborator of rapper Kanye West.