May 26, 2017
By Stephen Mayne
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This politics column thing has been rolling along for a few weeks now and it's time to move to the next level. Here, and from now on, you'll find different sections bringing a main story, a brief news round-up, words direct from musicians themselves, and the song of the week. More
May 19, 2017
By Stephen Mayne
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What a time to be alive. The leader of the often self-proclaimed free world seems ambivalent at best about the values that are supposed to underpin a free world, and old foes are apparently old foes to everyone apart from that same leader who's in charge of opposing them. More
May 19, 2017
By Austin Trunick
It’s Twin Peaks week, and while we’ve been eagerly awaiting (read: counting down the hours to) the return of television’s best weird, small town, we’ve been building our own small, weird towns with Villages of Valeria, a new tableau-building card game from Daily Magic Games. More
May 12, 2017
By Stephen Mayne
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In 2012 the Nobel Peace Prize went to the European Union, a reward for bringing calm to a continent with a troublesome habit of engulfing the world in large-scale destruction, not always for reasons anyone fully understands. More
May 09, 2017
By Alec Ounsworth
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A song is a chance overlapping of countless variables in an artist's life. Anatomy of a Song is a place where those variables can be dissected and examined. In this edition, Alec Ounsworth of Clap Your Hands Say Yeah discusses "Some Loud Thunder," the title track (and opening track) to the band's 2007-released sophomore album. More
May 05, 2017
By Charles Steinberg
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Politicking is thrust aside this week as Mental Health Awareness Month kicks off. More
May 02, 2017
By Charles Steinberg
Amanda Palmer has collaborated with Legendary Pink Dots founder Edward Ka-Spel on her new album I CAN SPIN A RAINBOW, which arrives this Friday, May 5th. Under the Radar has the exclusive album stream. I CAN SPIN A RAINBOW is the first full-length collaboration between Palmer and Ka-Spel, founding member of visionary Anglo-Dutch psychedelicists The Legendary Pink Dots. More
Apr 28, 2017
By Stephen Mayne
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This week we're talking French politics with Florent Vincelot from VedeTT, a band based out of Angers (a couple of hundred miles from Paris). If you're wondering why, the results from the first round of the French presidential election are in, and they bring seismic change. More
Apr 21, 2017
By Stephen Mayne
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This week we're going to build bridges, albeit of a temporary and highly specific kind. Because if there's one thing that unites people, it's the confusion, frustration, and panic brought on by the tax filing deadline. More
Apr 14, 2017
By Stephen Mayne
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If there's one thing we can say for President Trump, it's that he's been a boon for creativity. The mere thought of his residence in the White House sent a number of artists into spasms of rage, prompting a flurry of protest songs. More
