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12 Best Songs of the Week: Ezra Furman, Nilüfer Yanya, Belle and Sebastian, Wet Leg, and More

Plus Sharon Van Etten, Bartees Strange, Alex Izenberg, and a Wrap-up of the Week’s Other Notable New Tracks

Mar 04, 2022

Welcome to the ninth Songs of the Week of 2022. It was a stellar week for new tracks and we could only narrow it down to a Top 12, with several strong honorable mentions. More

Mar 03, 2022

Soundwalk Collective have shared a new single, “Empower and Enhance,” featuring Charlotte Gainsbourg and Lyra Pramuk. It is the latest release from their forthcoming album, LOVOTIC, which will be out on April 1 via Analogue Foundation. More

Soundwalk Collective Announce New Album, Share Song Featuring Charlotte Gainsbourg and Willem Dafoe

LOVOTIC Due Out April 1 via Analogue Foundation; Listen to the Title Track

Feb 11, 2022

Soundwalk Collective have announced a new album which features collaborations with Charlotte Gainsbourg, Atom™, Lyra Pramuk, Willem Dafoe, and Paul B. Preciado). The album, LOVOTIC, will be out on April 1 via Analogue Foundation. More

Feb 12, 2021

Django Django have released a new album, Glowing in the Dark, today via Because Music. Now that the album is out you can stream the whole thing here. It includes “Waking Up,” a new song that features guest vocals from Charlotte Gainsbourg and wasn’t previously shared as a single. More

Django Django Share Video for New Song “Free From Gravity”

Glowing in the Dark Due Out February 12 via Because Music

Jan 21, 2021

Django Django are releasing a new album, Glowing in the Dark, February 12 via Because Music. Now they have shared another song from it, “Free From Gravity,” via a video for it that features a young alien. James Canty directed the video. More

12 Best Songs of the Week: Wilma Archer, Empty Country, Yumi Zouma, Waxahatchee, and More

Plus Nap Eyes, Jay Som, Wye Oak, Glass Animals, and a Wrap-up of the Week’s Other Notable New Tracks

Feb 21, 2020

Welcome to the seventh Songs of the Week of 2020. Since Monday was President’s Day here in America, it should’ve been a less busy week for new tracks, but there was still plenty to choose from and this week we’ve got 12 songs that we consider the week’s best. More

Feb 17, 2020

Anna Calvi is releasing a new album, Hunted, on March 6 via Domino. It is a new stripped down version of her 2018 album Hunter featuring various notable guest singers. Now she has shared Hunted‘s version of “Eden,” which features guest vocals from Charlotte Gainsbourg. More

Anna Calvi Announces New Album, Shares “Don’t Beat the Girl Out of My Boy” w/ Courtney Barnett

Hunted Due Out March 6 via Domino; Album Also Features Julia Holter, Charlotte Gainsbourg, and IDLES’ Joe Talbot

Jan 27, 2020

Anna Calvi has announced a new album, Hunted, and shared its first single, a new version of “Don’t Beat the Girl Out of My Boy” that features guest vocals from Courtney Barnett. Hunted is a new stripped down version of Calvi’s 2018 album Hunter featuring various other notable guests: Julia Holter, Charlotte Gainsbourg, and IDLES’ Joe Talbot. More

Stream Charlotte Gainsbourg’s New EP, Including Two Previously Unreleased Songs

Take 2 EP Out Now via Because Music; Listen to "Bombs Away" and "Lost Lenore"

Dec 14, 2018

French singer/actress Charlotte Gainsbourg released a new album, Rest, late last year via Because Music. (It was our Album of the Week and was #15 in our Top 100 Albums of 2017 list.) More

Dec 07, 2018

French singer/actress Charlotte Gainsbourg released a new album, Rest, late last year via Because Music. (It was our Album of the Week and was #15 in our Top 100 Albums of 2017 list.) Now she has announced a new EP, Take 2, and shared a live video for one of its tracks, “Such a Remarkable Day.” More

Jun 29, 2018

French singer/actress Charlotte Gainsbourg released a new album, Rest, late last year via Because Music. (It was our Album of the Week and was #15 in our Top 100 Albums of 2017 list.) Now she has shared a video for “Sylvia Says.” Gainsbourg directed the video herself. It’s a surreal affair that features people collapsing in the street in slow motion, Gainsbourg hanging out at a landfill, and the singer on a floating chair of disco balls. It doesn’t make much sense, but is fun to look at (which could be said about a lot of music videos). More

FYF Fest 2018 Lineup: My Bloody Valentine, St. Vincent, Florence and the Machine, and More

Janet Jackson, The xx, Car Seat Headrest, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Lucy Dacus, Mount Kimbie, Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks, The Breeders, U.S. Girls, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, and Others Set for 15th Anniversary

Mar 30, 2018

FYF Fest has announced its 2018 lineup. The event is due to take place July 21 and 22 at Los Angeles’ Exposition Park. The headliners are Florence and the Machine and Janet Jackson. More

Under the Radar Announces Spring 2018 Issue with Courtney Barnett on the Cover

Issue 63 Also Includes Interviews with MGMT, The Decemberists, Belle & Sebastian, The National, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Fleet Foxes, Parquet Courts, Noel Gallagher, Spoon, and More

Mar 28, 2018

Under the Radar is excited to announce the full details of our Spring 2018 Issue, which is out now digitally via Under the Radar’s app and the magazine apps Readly and Zinio. The print version has shipped out to subscribers and stores and will be on all newsstands soon. The issue features Courtney Barnett on the cover. More

Feb 12, 2018

French singer/actress Charlotte Gainsbourg released a new album, Rest, late last year via Because Music. (It was our Album of the Week and was #15 in our Top 100 Albums of 2017 list.) Now she has shared a remix of “Ring-a-Ring O’ Roses” by SebastiAn, who produced most of Rest. Listen below. More

Jan 10, 2018

French singer/actress Charlotte Gainsbourg released a new album, Rest, late last year via Because Music. (It was our Album of the Week and was #15 in our Top 100 Albums of 2017 list.) Now she has shared a self-directed video for “I’m a Lie.” More

Dec 15, 2017

French singer/actress Charlotte Gainsbourg released a new album, Rest, last month via Because Music. (It was our Album of the Week.) Now she has shared a self-directed video for “Les Oxalis.” More

Dec 01, 2017

French singer/actress Charlotte Gainsbourg released a new album, Rest, a couple of weeks back via Because Music. (It was our Album of the Week.) Now she has shared a self-directed video for “Lying With You.” In it she visits the home of her late father, the legendary musician Serge Gainsbourg. More

Album of the Week: Charlotte Gainsbourg

Rest Out Now via Because Music

Nov 17, 2017

French singer/actress Charlotte Gainsbourg released a new album, Rest, today via Because Music. Often for our Album of the Week posts we have an especially written detailed write up on why the album is the week’s best, but while that wasn’t possible this week we still wanted to acknowledge Rest as our favorite album of the week in a more casual post. More

Stream the New Album by Charlotte Gainsbourg - “Rest”

Rest Due Out This Friday via Because Music

Nov 13, 2017

French singer/actress Charlotte Gainsbourg is releasing a new album, Rest, this Friday (November 17) via Because Music. Now you can stream the whole album. More

Listen: Charlotte Gainsbourg - “Ring-a-Ring O’ Roses”

Rest Due Out November 17 via Because Music

Oct 20, 2017

French singer/actress Charlotte Gainsbourg is releasing a new album, Rest, on November 17 via Because Music. Previously she shared a self-directed video for its title track, which was co-written and produced by Daft Punk’s Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo (it was one of our Songs of the Week), as well as a self-directed video for “Deadly Valentine” that co-starred Dev Hynes, aka Blood Orange, and featured her two daughters playing younger versions of Gainsbourg (it was our #1 Song of the Week). Now she has shared another song from the album, “Ring-a-Ring O’ Roses,” which is partially a play off the classic playground nursery rhyme. More

8 Best Songs of the Week: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Morrissey, CHVRCHES, Wolf Alice, and More

Plus Angel Olsen, TORRES, Stars, Cults, and a Wrap-up of the Week's Other Notable New Tracks

Sep 22, 2017

We’re back down to eight Songs of the Week, after promising last week to stick with a Top 10 for awhile. But it was a slow week for new tracks. Still, there were some clear gems this week, as you will see below, with an easy choice for top song. More

Charlotte Gainsbourg Shares Video for New Song “Deadly Valentine,” Co-Stars Blood Orange’s Dev Hynes

Rest Due Out November 17 via Because Music, Video Also Features Gainsbourg's Daughters

Sep 21, 2017

French singer/actress Charlotte Gainsbourg is releasing a new album, Rest, on November 17 via Because Music. Previously she shared a self-directed video for its title track, which was co-written and produced by Daft Punk’s Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo. Now she has shared another song from the album, “Deadly Valentine,” via a video she also self-directed. The video co-stars Dev Hynes (aka Blood Orange) and also features Gainsbourg’s daughters. More

Nine Best Songs of the Week: St. Vincent, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Rostam, Elbow + John Grant, and More

Plus Benjamin Clementine, Moses Sumney, Weyes Blood, Margo Price, Alvvays, and a Wrap-up of the Week's Other Notable New Tracks

Sep 08, 2017

Of late we’ve been presenting the eight best songs of the week, but last week we expanded it to a Top 9 because there were so many strong choices. This week we kept it as nine, but because we had trouble narrowing the list down in a week of solid new songs, but few obvious standouts. More

Sep 08, 2017

French singer/actress Charlotte Gainsbourg has announced a new album, Rest, and shared its title track, which was co-written and produced by Daft Punk’s Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo. Rest is due out November 17 via Because Music. More

Dec 13, 2013

Next year controversial director Lars von Trier will release his hardcore exploration into sex, Nymphomaniac. More

Beck Will Perform “Song Reader” Live in London on July 4

Guests Include Jarvis Cocker, Franz Ferdinand, Charlotte Gainsbourg and More

May 16, 2013

Remember last year, when we got all excited that Beck was about to release his first album since 2008’s Modern Guilt…and it turned out to be a collection of sheet music called Song Reader? Well, we can finally put down our guitars. More

Nov 30, 2011

Continuing the ever-productive musical partnership that occurred with 2009’s IRM, singer/actress Charlotte Gainsbourg and Beck have released another collaborative track entitled “Paradisco.” More

Listen: “White Telephone” by Charlotte Gainsbourg

From Forthcoming Album Stage Whisper

Aug 26, 2011

Yesterday, Charlotte Gainsbourg danced with doppelgangers and announced a forthcoming EP. Today the French singer/actress dropped a single from forthcoming live double album, Stage Whisper. More

Aug 25, 2011

Today Charlotte Gainsbourg dropped a video for previously un-released cut “Terrible Angels.” We have the clip and info on her new EP. More

Apr 13, 2011

Things have been quiet on the Charlotte Gainsbourg front for awhile, but today the French chanteuse came out with two big announcements.

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Feb 25, 2011

In the last couple of weeks, we’ve added a ton of classic interviews with both musicians and comedians to our archives. These are articles that ran in our print magazine, but are debuting on our website for the first time. This includes our Joanna Newsom cover story from last year, as well as interviews with Florence and the Machine, Fred Armisen, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Pavement, Local Natives, and others. More

Dec 16, 2010

Opposes attract. Or at least that seems to be the theory behind the casting of upcoming Charlotte Gainsbourg film, Confession d’un Enfant du Siecle—a French film about poet Alfred de Musset. Joining the aristocratic singer/actress will be none other than Babyshambles bad-boy, Pete Doherty. More

May 27, 2010

Charlotte Gainsbourg has often flirted with otherworldly (See: “Heaven Can Wait” video, The Science of Sleep), but in new video “Time of the Assassins” (from recent album IRM) she gets downright miraculous. We have the video. More

Photos from Coachella 2010 Day Three Gallery - Thom Yorke, Pavement, Florence and the Machine

Plus Gorillaz, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Jónsi, Mayer Hawthorne, Deerhunter

Apr 21, 2010

Staff photographer and Under the Radar‘s Co-Publisher/Co-Founder, Wendy Lynch Redfern, was at Coachella 2010. Check out a gallery of her photos from the third day of Coachella 2010. The gallery includes photos of Thom Yorke, Pavement, Florence and the Machine, Gorillaz, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Jónsi, Mayer Hawthorne, Deerhunter, and The Big Pink. Click here to view the full gallery. More

Coachella 2010 Day Three Report – Pavement, Thom Yorke, Gorillaz, and more

Plus: Phoenix, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Deerhunter, Florence and the Machine, and others

Apr 20, 2010

Day three of Coachella 2010 more than made up for a lackluster day two, with set after set of strong artists and ending with perhaps the three best performances of the whole festival, all in a row: Pavement, Thom Yorke, and Gorillaz. It would have been nice if the wealth of great artists had been spread out a little bit more over the three days, but then again, Sunday wouldn’t have been so strong if they had scheduled it that way. Here’s what I saw on the last day of Coachella: Local Natives, Owen Pallett, Mayer Hawthorne, Deerhunter, Florence and the Machine, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Jonsi, Spoon, Phoenix, Pavement, Thom Yorke, and Gorillaz. More

Mar 11, 2010

In support of her third album IRM, Charlotte Gainsbourg is hitting the road for a rare tour. In addition to a series of club dates, Gainsbourg will be hitting the Coachella music festival and Le Festival Francofolies in La Rochelle, France. We have the dates. More

Jan 28, 2010

Deep into a promotional blitz that saw her U.S. TV debut, and announcement that she’ll be performing at Coachella, yesterday Charlotte Gainsbourg stopped by KCRW studios to perform cuts from her third full-length album, IRM. Collaborator and album producer Beck, was also on hand. We have the video. More

Jan 26, 2010

Last weekend, heartbreaker extraordinaire Charlotte Gainsbourg played her first ever live concerts in NYC and Philadelphia. Her sophomore LP, IRM, is produced by Beck and drops tomorrow (January 26th). The daughter of the infamous chanson songwriter Serge Gainsbourg also stopped by The Late Show with David Letterman to blaze through IRM‘s rockier track, “Trick Pony,” proving once again that she’s not one. We have the video. More

Nov 18, 2009

In support of her upcoming album IRM (out January 26th on Because Music/Elektra), French singer/actress Charlotte Gainsbourg has premiered (via Spinner) a video for her single, a duet with collaborator Beck called, “Heaven Can Wait.” More

Beck and Charlotte Gainsbourg Collaborate on New Album

Her Forthcoming Effort IRM Gets a Little Help From Beck

Aug 28, 2009

Beck’s rumored album collaboration with Charlotte Gainsbourg is set for a January release on Because Music. The album will be released under Gainsbourg’s name and entitled IRM, which in French translates to MRI. Beck’s involvement in the record was very hands on, he wrote all the music, cowrote the lyrics, as well producing and mixing the album. More



Interviews

Charlotte Gainsbourg on “Rest”

Breaking From Comparison

Apr 26, 2018

“I’m not naive: I knew what I had done,” says Charlotte Gainsbourg of Rest, her fifth album, her first in six years, and first as a lyricist. Rest is an album fuelled by grief even in its most beautiful moments, something Gainsbourg has had to repeatedly explain. More

Charlotte Gainsbourg

Magnetic Resonance

Feb 01, 2010

One of the very few artists who can claim to have worked with a handful of both her generation’s most acclaimed directors and musicians, with Michel Gondry and Lars von Trier rubbing elbows with Jarvis Cocker and Neil Hannon on her resume, Charlotte Gainsbourg has lived a truly charmed life. More


Reviews

Nov 15, 2017

Charlotte Gainsbourg sings in both French and English on Rest, her first album in seven years. While the actress and singer previously wrote only in English, intimidated by the superstardom of her late father, French musician Serge Gainsbourg, this linguistic duality brings out haunting layers of mystery on her fifth album. More

Stage Whisper

Because Music/Elektra

Nov 08, 2011

In both facets of her career, actress/singer Charlotte Gainsbourg has made a living bringing other people’s visions to life. More

Apr 22, 2010

The third night of the 14th annual City of Lights, City of Angels (COL•COA) film festival, a weeklong showcase of new French films at the Directors Guild in Los Angeles, was highlighted by the Cold War espionage thriller Farewell and the West Coast premiere of Please, Please Me!, from writer/director Emmanuel Mouret (Shall We Kiss?). More

Apr 20, 2010

Day three of Coachella 2010 more than made up for a lackluster day two, with set after set of strong artists and ending with perhaps the three best performances of the whole festival, all in a row: Pavement, Thom Yorke, and Gorillaz. It would have been nice if the wealth of great artists had been spread out a little bit more over the three days, but then again, Sunday wouldn’t have been so strong if they had scheduled it that way. Here’s what I saw on the last day of Coachella: Local Natives, Owen Pallett, Mayer Hawthorne, Deerhunter, Florence and the Machine, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Jonsi, Spoon, Phoenix, Pavement, Thom Yorke, and Gorillaz. More

IRM

Jan 27, 2010

As an actress, Charlotte Gainsbourg has made a career by placing herself in the hands of collaborators. In 2006, she took that theory into the studio for the first time in 20 years, working with Air, Jarvis Cocker, and Neil Hannon to create dreamy sophomore album 5:55. Now, four years later, Gainsbourg is back with a little help from a friendthis time, Beck. More