Dec 14, 2021 By Joey Arnone

Ruth Radelet (former frontwoman of Chromatics) has shared a cover of Elliott Smith’s 2004 song “Twilight.” It is the latest release in label Kill Rock Stars’ 30th anniversary cover singles series. More

Aug 10, 2021 By Mark Redfern

Chromatics have announced they have broken up. In an unusual move, three-fourths of the band have announced Chromatics’ end but the statement was not co-signed by pivotal member Johnny Jewel. More

Apr 17, 2020 By Christopher Roberts (with Lily Guthrie)

Welcome to the fifteenth Songs of the Week of 2020. It’s another week under lockdown, with lots of debate on when things can get back to normal. Still not anytime soon it seems. More

Apr 17, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

Chromatics have shared a new song, “Teachers,” via a video for the track directed by the band’s own Johnny Jewel. The band have also revealed a brand new tracklist for their long delayed Dear Tommy album. More

Mar 06, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

Welcome to the ninth Songs of the Week of 2020. It’s been a topsy-turvy week. SXSW was just cancelled due to the COVID-19 coronavirus. The Democratic presidential primaries have dramatically changed in the last week, with Pete Buttigieg, Amy Klobuchar, Tom Steyer, Michael Bloomberg, and, sigh, Elizabeth Warren all dropping out of the race, leaving just Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders. More

Mar 06, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

Chromatics have shared a brand new song, “Famous Monsters,” via a video for the track directed by the band’s own Johnny Jewel. It is one of the band’s more dancefloor-ready songs and features spoken word vocals from frontwoman Ruth Radelet in which she says lines such as “Meet you in the cemetery/We love dancing and violence.” More

Jan 24, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

Welcome to the third Songs of the Week of 2020. It was a mixed week for new songs. There were certainly some good tracks this week, but few that screamed Top 10 of the week. More

Jan 24, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

Chromatics released a brand new album, Closer to Grey, last October only hours after it was announced (stream it here). Now they have shared a brand new song, “Toy.” There are three different versions of the song: “Toy,” “Toy (On Film),” and “Toy (Instrumental).” More

Oct 04, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Welcome to another Songs of the Week. We had to skip it last week because we were too busy announcing our new print issue, the My Favorite Album Issue with Angel Olsen and Sleater-Kinney on the covers (buy it here), and also we weren’t overly inspired by last week’s selection of new tracks. So this week we cover the best songs of the last two weeks. More

Oct 04, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Angel Olsen released a new album, All Mirrors, today via Jagjaguwar and it’s our Album of the Week. Find more info on the album here. Also here are streams of other notable albums released today: DIIV, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Wilco, Chromatics, that dog., Lightning Dust, and Danny Brown. More

Oct 04, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Chromatics released a brand new album, Closer to Grey, on Wednesday only hours after it was announced (stream it here). Now they have shared a video for the album’s “You’re No Good.” More

Oct 01, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Chromatics have released a brand new album, Closer to Grey, which was just announced earlier today. Now that it’s out you can stream the whole thing here. More

Oct 01, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Chromatics are releasing a brand new album at midnight tonight, but it’s not their long delayed new album, Dear Tommy. Instead it’s a brand new album entitled Closer to Grey featuring all new tracks. More

Aug 26, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Chromatics have shared a cover Jackson C. Frank’s “Dialogue (I Want to Be Alone),” changing the title to simply “I Want to Be Alone,” via a video for the track directed by the band’s Johnny Jewel. The original version appeared on Frank’s lone album, a self-titled affair from 1965 that was produced by Paul Simon. More

May 28, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Chromatics have shared a cover of Hole’s “Petals,” a song originally found on the Courtney Love-fronted band’s 1998 album Celebrity Skin. Chromatics’ version comes from the soundtrack to the Netflix movie The Perfection. More

Feb 22, 2019 By Mark Redfern

There were many strong contenders for this week’s Songs of the Week. We could’ve gone as high as a Top 15 instead of the regular Top 10 and as it is there are a whopping 11 honorable mentions, with some good tracks that also almost made the honorable mention list to. More

Feb 19, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Chromatics have shared a video for a new song, “Time Rider,” and announced a full North American tour. More

Nov 02, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

It was shaping up to be a weak week for Songs of the Week, but then our #1 track emerged today and we dug a little deeper through the week’s songs and put together a compelling Top 10. It’s an eclectic mix of political songs, catchy mainstream pop, a strange sci-fi spoken word track, and some unapologetic guitar indie rock. More

Oct 02, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Glass Candy, one of the many projects led by Chromatics’ Johnny Jewel and a collaboration with vocalist Ida No, have shared a new song, “Naked City.” More

Jun 12, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Chromatics have shared a video for a new song, “Blue Girl,” the latest single from their long delayed album, Dear Tommy, which is promised for release this fall on Italians Do It Better (exact release date TBA). The band self-directed the stylish and atmospheric video. The song has also been released to Spotify and Apple Music with four alternate versions of the track, including an instrumental version and one without drums. More

Jun 05, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Chromatics don’t like to do things easy. They were supposed to release their new album Dear Tommy in 2015 (it was announced in December 2014). Then frontman Johnny Jewel had a near-death experience in Hawaii on Christmas Day 2015 and afterwards he destroyed all copies of Dear Tommy in order to re-record it to better capture the sound he was going for. More

May 21, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Johnny Jewel (of Chromatics and other bands) has surprise-released a new album, Themes for Television, and shared a black & white Radka Leitmeritz-directed video for “Red Door.” The album is out now digitally and on special edition cherry red vinyl via Italians Do It Better. The album features material Jewel recorded prior to last year’s Twin Peaks: The Return revival, but was inspired by the notion that the show was coming back. More

May 18, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

We skipped Songs of the Week last week for various reasons, but now we’re back with two week’s worth of songs. For that reason, this week it’s a Top 15, instead of our usual Top 10. More

May 16, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Chromatics have shared a video for a new song, “Black Walls,” and have promised that their long-awaited album Dear Tommy will finally come out this fall via Italians Do It Better. More

Apr 02, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

SSION is releasing a new album, O, on May 11 via Dero Arcade. SSION (pronounced SHUN and the project of Cody Critcheloe) previously shared a video for “At Least the Sky is Blue,” a song that features Ariel Pink, who also appeared in the video (it featured SSION in drag as Liza Minnelli, with Ariel Pink dressed as Elizabeth Taylor). More

May 22, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Chromatics performed their previously shared single “Shadow” during last night’s premiere of Showtime’s Twin Peaks revival, performing the song in the show’s Roadhouse bar. Now they have shared a new video for “Shadow.” More

May 09, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Johnny Jewel is releasing a new album, Windswept, tomorrow (May 10), via his Italians Do It Better label. It features unreleased music from Jewel and his bands Chromatics and Desire, as well as collaborations with Glass Candy, Heaven, and Symmetry. More

May 08, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Johnny Jewel is releasing a new album, Windswept, this Wednesday, May 10, via his Italians Do It Better label. It features unreleased music from Jewel and his bands Chromatics and Desire, as well as collaborations with Glass Candy, Heaven, and Symmetry. More

May 04, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Johnny Jewel has announced a new album, Windswept, and shared a video for its title track. Windswept is due out next Wednesday, May 10, via Jewel’s Italians Do It Better label. More

May 04, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Johnny Jewel and his band Chromatics were supposed to release a new full-length album, Dear Tommy, in 2015 (it was announced in December 2014). More

Sep 28, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Chromatics still haven’t announced the release date for Dear Tommy, their follow-up to 2012’s Kill For Love that was announced back in 2014 with an original release date of February 2015. More

Sep 13, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Chromatics still haven’t announced the release date for Dear Tommy, their follow-up to 2012’s Kill For Love that was announced back in 2014 with an original release date of February 2015. More

Aug 25, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Chromatics aren’t quite in My Bloody Valentine or The Avalanches territory with Dear Tommy, their follow-up to 2012’s Kill For Love, but the album was announced in 2014 with an original release date of February 2015. More

May 09, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Johnny Jewel and his band Chromatics have reworked “The River,” a track from their acclaimed Kill For Love 2012 album, and turned it into a new song, “Headlight’s Glare.” It will appear on a new 12-inch, Cherry, due out May 16 via Italians Do It Better. More

Apr 25, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

The iconic early ‘90s David Lynch TV show Twin Peaks is returning to screens in 2017 with a brand new season on Showtime to be co-written and directed by Lynch and to feature much of the original cast. Now the full cast for the upcoming season has been announced. The cast list includes returning favorites, some notable actors joining them, and some musicians who have also surprisingly been added to the cast. More

Feb 17, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Peaking Lights have teamed up with actress Chloë Sevigny for a new song. The husband/wife duo provide the music and Sevigny does a spoken word vocal over the track. Sound designer Michael Gaubert commissioned the song for a Régime des Fleurs runway show that took place on Sunday. More

Feb 02, 2016 By Christopher Roberts

Last September New Order released Music Complete, their excellent first studio album in a decade, their first for their new label Mute, and the first not to feature founding member Peter Hook (but it sees the return of founding member Gillian Gilbert). Now they have announced some U.S. tour dates, which are below. More

Nov 05, 2015 By Christopher Roberts

Johnny Jewel and his band Chromatics are expected to release a new full-length album entitled Dear Tommy sometime this year, although no official release date has been announced yet so maybe it’ll be 2016 at this point. In the meantime, the band recently covered Cyndi Lauper’s 1980s classic “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun” for a new fashion ad for MANGO’s fall/winter 2015 line that featured supermodels Kate Moss and Cara Delevingne. More

Sep 08, 2015 By Christopher Roberts

Johnny Jewel and his band Chromatics are expected to release a new full-length album entitled Dear Tommy sometime this year, although no official release date has been announced yet. Now they have shared another song from it, “Shadow,” via the Adult Swim Singles program. It’s the first song of side 4 of Dear Tommy.

Sep 02, 2015 By Christopher Roberts

Johnny Jewel and his band Chromatics are expected to release a new full-length album entitled Dear Tommy sometime this year, although no official release date has been announced yet. In the meantime, while we wait for the full on official follow up to Chromatics’ widely acclaimed 2012 album Kill For Love, we can hear 30 seconds of the band’s cover of Cyndi Lauper’s 1980s classic “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun.” More

Apr 09, 2015 By Mike Hilleary

Despite there still being no official word on when they’ll be releasing their brand new album Dear Tommy, that hasn’t stopped Chromatics from sharing several of the LP’s included tracks. More

Mar 05, 2015 By Mike Hilleary

This year Chromatics will release Dear Tommy, the follow-up to their 2012 LP Kill For Love. More

Feb 12, 2015 By Christopher Roberts

Johnny Jewel and his band Chromatics release a whole lot of music to the Internet, often putting out various unreleased songs for fans to devour. But “Just Like You” is different, as it’s the first single from their new full-length album Dear Tommy, the full on official follow up to Chromatics’ widely acclaimed 2012 album Kill For Love. More

Dec 04, 2014 By Laura Studarus

Early next year, Chromatics will release Dear Tommy, the follow-up to their after-hours electro pop album Kill For Love. More

Nov 06, 2014 By Laura Studarus

It’s been two years since Chromatics released their excellent album Kill For Love. More

Jun 11, 2013 By Laura Studarus

Okay, seriously, have you seen Johnny Jewel and Santa Claus in the same room? More

Jun 05, 2013 By Mike Hilleary

When it comes to the brand of its Scion automobile, Toyota has done everything it can to integrate itself into its youth consumer base by cross-pollinating its marketing with all kinds of art projects. More

May 17, 2013 By Colby West

Six years after the release of the first After Dark album comes the highly anticipated sequel, After Dark 2, from Italians Do It Better records. More

Apr 16, 2013 By Mike Hilleary

Last year New Jersey-based rapper Voli experimented with the Chromatics track “Lady,” taken off the band’s 2012 album Kill for Love. More

Dec 03, 2012 By Mike Hilleary

With December and the winter cold in full swing, Chromatics’ Johnny Jewel has offered up his own personal lamentation for the Fall season with a new mixtape called BLACK & WHITE / A MIX FOR AUTUMN. More

Nov 26, 2012 By Mike Hilleary

On the upcoming compilation After Dark II, Italians Do It Better will release three new tracks by the hazy, dream pop outfit Chromatics. More

Nov 05, 2012 By Mike Hilleary

Last night from a hotel in Amsterdam Chromatics’ Johnny Jewel couldn’t sleep, so he decided to login into SoundCloud and upload over 30 minutes worth of unreleased material taken from the band’s recording session for this year’s excellent Kill for Love. More

Oct 22, 2012 By Mike Hilleary

After releasing their excellent new album Kill For Love earlier this year, Portland-based quartet Chromatics will soon feature three new songs on a forthcoming compilation for Italians Do It Better called After Dark II. More

Sep 03, 2012 By Wendy Lynch Redfern

On Saturday September 1, the nineth annual FYF Fest went down at Los Angeles’ State Historic Park in Downtown L.A. We sent photographer Steven Dewall down to cover the action. Check out his shots of Chairlift,Chromatics, Fucked Up, James Blake, John Maus, M83, Moonface, Purity Ring, Redd Kross, Sleigh Bells, The Valelines, and Warpaint here. More

Aug 11, 2012 By Julia Underwood

From August 7-11 Oslo, Norway hosted the Øya Festival. Check out our day three shots of Siri Nilsen, Young Dreams, Metronomy, DāM-FunK, Odd Future, Refused, Chromatics, and The Black Keys. More

May 29, 2012 By Laura Studarus

Chromatics’ Kill For Love cut “These Streets Will Never Look the Same” just got a lo-fi, dreamy video. More

May 26, 2012 By Laura Studarus and Mark Redfern

Under the Radar’s June/July 2012 Issue features Yeasayer on the cover as well as interviews with Beach House, Chromatics, Peaking Lights, M. Ward, Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros, Lower Dens, Soulsavers featuring Dave Gahan, Father John Misty vs. Aubrey Plaza, Sigur Rós, Hot Chip, and others. More

Apr 16, 2012 By Cody Ray Shafer

Last year Pulp reunited and last Tuesday, April 10, Jarvis Cocker and co. played their first show in the United States in 14 long years at Radio City Music Hall in New York. Support came from Chromatics. Under the Radar‘s photographer Wendy Lynch Redfern was there to capture the band’s long awaited return to North America. More

Apr 03, 2012 By Mike Hilleary

Already riding pretty high on the number of favorable reviews coming in for their latest album Kill for Love, Chromatics got what could considered an even bigger ego-boost when they found out today they’d been selected as Pulp’s opening act at the reunited band’s Radio City Music Hall performance. More

Mar 29, 2012 By Mike Hilleary

Clocking in at about 90-minutes, Kill For Love, the latest album by Portland-based band Chromatics, is not going to be easy to get through in one sitting if you’ve already landed yourself with a laundry list of to-dos for the day. More

Mar 12, 2012 By Mike Hilleary

Having already released a number of video clips and a Neil Young cover, all featured on their upcoming full-length Kill For Love, Chromatics have premiered yet another audio/visual taste of their new record with a music video for their track “Back From the Grave.” More

Mar 05, 2012 By Laura Studarus

Check out this dreamy video for “Candy,” a cut from Chromatics forthcoming album Kill For Love. More

Feb 17, 2012 By Mike Hilleary

Just days after unveiling their cover of Neil Young’s “Into the Black” with an accompanying music video Portland-based band Chromatics have released yet another clip, this time for the track “Lady.” More

Feb 12, 2012 By Laura Studarus

Just to make the remainder your Saturday night a bit more atmospheric, about an hour ago Chromatics posted a haunting cover of Neil Young’s “Into the Black.” More

Aug 13, 2012 By Laura Studarus

On day three of Øya my logical side took over. Sure, the festival grounds still felt like the Mecca of rock (and pop), but why was I so ready to swap my American passport for a Norwegian one? More

Apr 24, 2012 By Austin Trunick

Kill for Love opens with the unlikeliest of covers—a watery, electronic take on Neil Young’s “Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black).” An allegory for what Young saw as his own growing irrelevance, the song spawned his most quoted lyric—“It’s better to burn out than to fade away”—which is perhaps the saddest of rock ‘n’ roll credos (its appearance in Kurt Cobain’s suicide note rendering it all the more tragic). More

Apr 18, 2012 By Mark Redfern

Britpop heroes Pulp returned to the U.S. last week for their first American shows in 14 years, starting with a show at Radio City Music Hall last Tuesday night. More