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Album Reviews

Funeral for Justice

Mdou Moctar
Funeral for Justice

May 08, 2024 Web Exclusive

Mdou Moctar (aka Mahamadou Souleymane) has come a long way since building his first guitar out of wood and bicycle brake cables as a teenager.

Fearless Movement

Kamasi Washington
Fearless Movement

May 07, 2024 Web Exclusive

Kamasi Washington’s greatest triumphs are of ambition.

Romanticism

Hana Vu
Romanticism

May 06, 2024 Web Exclusive

There is a certain rose-colored magic imparted upon adolescence by those who’ve left it behind. The days of youth are meant to be the best of your life, the days you will look back on and treasure long after they’ve faded into the rearview.

Classic Interviews

Euros Childs

Euros Childs

Nov 01, 2007 Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci

For the majority of his professional music-making life, Euros Childs fronted the Welsh quintet, Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci. A happy-go-lucky indie-pop collective that often mixed its English singing with Welsh, the band called it quits in 2006, leaving 2003’s understated Sleep/Holiday as its swan song. Since then, Childs has gone on to experiment with his pop music, releasing three solo albums: 2006’s varied Chops, the Welsh-onlyBore Da, and, most recently, The Miracle Inn, which features, at its center, the 16-minute, multi-part suite that shares the album’s name. Childs took a few minutes during his current U.S. tour to e-mail some answers to Under the Radar’s questions.

Comic Book Reviews

Home to Stay!: The Complete Ray Bradbury EC Stories

Home to Stay!: The Complete Ray Bradbury EC Stories
Fantagraphics

May 02, 2023 Web Exclusive

In 1952 EC publisher Bill Gaines received a hilarious letter from Ray Bradbury gently requesting $50 in payment for the rights to his two stories “The Rocket Man” and “Kaleidoscope.”

Book Reviews

The Ballad of Speedball Baby: A Memoir

Ali Smith
The Ballad of Speedball Baby: A Memoir

Apr 29, 2024

You might not remember Speedball Baby. But bassist Ali Smith’s memoir is engaging in a way that few typical rock and roll stories are.

Interviews

Eiko Ishibashi on Evil Does Not Exist, Gift, and the Relationship Between Sound and Image

Eiko Ishibashi on Evil Does Not Exist, Gift, and the Relationship Between Sound and Image

May 07, 2024 Web Exclusive

Japanese composer Eiko Ishibashi discusses working with Ryusuke Hamaguchi on Evil Does Not Exist and Gift and the connections between sound and image,

John Carpenter on ‘Lost Themes IV: Noir’

John Carpenter on ‘Lost Themes IV: Noir’

May 03, 2024 Web Exclusive

The Horror Master’s latest record reaches back to Hollywood’s golden age for inspiration.

Pleased to meet you

Sunday (1994) on Love, Dark Humor, and Leaps of Faith

Apr 30, 2024 Web Exclusive

Sunday (1994) recently made waves with their stunning debut single, “Tired Boy.” Not only does the single resonate like a lost classic, but the band also arrived with a fully formed visual aesthetic.

Lists

Under the Radar’s Top 40 TV Shows of 2023

Jan 29, 2024

Last year was a challenging one for the entertainment industry with the Writers Guild of America and Screen Actors Guild strikes. While this double blow—albeit for good causes—had detrimental snowball effects on the industry, there was still a solid grip of high quality material that made it to the not-so-small screen airwaves and streamers. Award-winning series like The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel and Barry took their last bows, and we’re still waiting for a trifecta from Vince Gilligan to round out Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, but there was plenty to keep viewers glued to the tube. From superheroes to science fiction, political intrigue to teenage hijinks and dramatized jury service to historical dramas, we continue to be spoiled for choice. It was a battle for Under the Radar’s top television shows of 2023, but we’ve managed to narrow it down to 40 solid watches.

Live reviews

Festival Preview: Focus Wales 2024

Festival Preview: Focus Wales 2024

May 03, 2024 By Dom Gourlay

Under the Radar heads to Wrexham next week for its annual pilgrimage to Focus Wales. Here’s who we’re most looking forward to seeing, including our two specially selected acts, Bored Marsh and Wylderness.

Blog

Under the Radar Announces The ’90s Issue with The Cardigans and Thurston Moore on the Covers

Under the Radar Announces The ’90s Issue with The Cardigans and Thurston Moore on the Covers

Apr 19, 2024 By Mark Redfern

Under the Radar is excited to announce the full details of our new print issue, Issue 72, The ’90s Issue, which features interviews with musicians and film directors known for their work in that decade and has The Cardigans and Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth on the two covers. As well as articles on Britpop, shoegaze, and the TV show Twin Peaks (for which we spoke to much of the cast), the issue includes interviews with Garbage, The Cranberries, Pavement, Lisa Loeb, Supergrass, Spiritualized, Lush, Ride, Velocity Girl, Gus Van Sant, Penelope Spheeris, Terry Gilliam, Stereo MC’s, Semisonic, Blonde Redhead, Sleater-Kinney, and more.




Cinema Reviews

Stress Positions

Stress Positions

Apr 30, 2024 Web Exclusive

At turns laugh-out-loud funny, deeply melancholic, and downright radical, Stress Positions arrives as the most invigorating and challenging film likely to be slotted under LGBT Voices on a streaming service one day.

Television Reviews

Ripley

Ripley
Netflix, April 4, 2024

May 08, 2024 Web Exclusive

Matt Damon made Tom Ripley look talented in the 1999 film, The Talented Mr. Ripley. But the vindictive, conniving con man comes across as a much better hang when portrayed by Andrew Scott in Ripley, the new Netflix adaptation.