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Lineup Also Features Dry Cleaning, Mdou Moctar, The Drums, illuminati hotties, Drop Nineteens, Gang of Four, and Osees; Festival Will Take Place Halloween Weekend in Austin, TX.
Jul 02, 2024
By Marina Malin
Austin, Texas’ Levitation festival has announced their 2024 lineup. Highlights include Slowdive, Nilüfer Yanya, Soccer Mommy, The Jesus Lizard, Dry Cleaning, Mdou Moctar, The Drums, illuminati hotties, Drop Nineteens, Gang of Four, Osees, and others. More
Issue 71 Also Features Interviews with Angel Olsen, M83, The New Pornographers, John Cale, Indigo De Souza, Lael Neale, Phoenix, Dry Cleaning, Miss Grit, Sleaford Mods, The WAEVE, Shame, Bartees Strange, Caroline Rose, and More
Apr 05, 2023
By Mark Redfern
Under the Radar is excited to announce the full details of our new print issue, Issue 71, which features Weyes Blood and Black Belt Eagle Scout on the two covers. Issue 71 also features interviews with Angel Olsen, M83, The New Pornographers, John Cale, Indigo De Souza, Lael Neale, Phoenix, Dry Cleaning, Miss Grit, Sleaford Mods, The WAEVE, Shame, Bartees Strange, Caroline Rose, Stella Donnelly, Florist, Hot Chip, black midi, Jockstrap, Horsegirl, Blondshell, Sleaford Mods, Beth Orton, and others. More
Swampy EP Due Out March 1 via 4AD
Feb 14, 2023
By Mark Redfern
London-based post-punk band Dry Cleaning have announced a new EP, Swampy, and shared two new songs from it: “Swampy” and “Sombre Two.” More
Plus M83, Yo La Tengo, Depeche Mode, The Golden Dregs, Miss Grit, and a Wrap-up of the Week’s Other Notable New Tracks
Feb 10, 2023
By Mark Redfern
Welcome to the sixth Songs of the Week of 2023. There were lots of great tracks to choose from this week. I mean, M83 and Django Django each put out five new songs this week! We narrowed it all down to a Top 11. More
UK GRIM Due Out March 10 via Rough Trade
Feb 08, 2023
By Mark Redfern
British punk duo Sleaford Mods (Jason Williamson and Andrew Fearn) are releasing a new album, UK GRIM, on March 10 via Rough Trade. Now they have shared the album’s second single, “Force 10 From Navarone,” which features Dry Cleaning’s Florence Shaw. It was shared via a music video that also features Shaw. More
Stumpwork Out Now via 4AD
Jan 10, 2023
By Mark Redfern
London-based post-punk band Dry Cleaning released a new album, Stumpwork, in October via 4AD. Last night they were the musical guests on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon where they performed the album’s “Hot Penny Day.” More
Dec 23, 2022
By Mark Redfern
Are things back to normal in 2022? They are, aren’t they? Well not quite. More
Stumpwork Out Now via 4AD
Oct 21, 2022
By Mark Redfern
London-based post-punk band Dry Cleaning have released a new album, Stumpwork, today via 4AD. Now that it’s out you can stream the whole thing here and also read our rave review of it. More
Plus Meg Baird, The Big Moon, Alvvays, Julien Chang, and a Wrap-up of the Last Two Weeks’ Other Notable New Tracks
Oct 14, 2022
By Mark Redfern (with Joey Arnone)
Welcome to the 37th Songs of the Week of 2022. We didn’t do a Songs of the Week last week because we’ve been too busy working on our next two print issues and we also didn’t feel like there were a lot of strong contenders last week. So this week’s list encompasses songs released in the last two weeks and is thus a supersized Top 16 list. More
Stumpwork Due Out October 21 via 4AD
Oct 11, 2022
By Mark Redfern
London-based post-punk band Dry Cleaning are releasing a new album, Stumpwork, on October 21 via 4AD. Now they have shared its fourth single, “No Decent Shoes for Rain,” via a video for it. More
Stumpwork Due Out October 21 via 4AD
Sep 07, 2022
By Mark Redfern
London-based post-punk band Dry Cleaning are releasing a new album, Stumpwork, on October 21 via 4AD. Now they have shared its third single, “Gary Ashby,” about a family tortoise that’s gone missing in lockdown. They have also announced some new 2023 tour dates, including some shows in North America. More
Plus Guerilla Toss, Brian Eno, Andy Clockwise, The Soft Pink Truth, and a Wrap-up of the Week’s Other Notable New Tracks
Jul 29, 2022
By Mark Redfern (with Joey Arnone)
Welcome to the 29th Songs of the Week of 2022. This week saw the return of a 1970s icon and a new joint project from two of our favorite modern singer/songwriters. This week we liked enough tracks to settle on a Top 12. More
Stumpwork Due Out October 21 via 4AD
Jul 26, 2022
By Joey Arnone
London-based post-punk band Dry Cleaning have shared a new single, “Anna Calls From the Arctic.” It is the latest release from their forthcoming album, Stumpwork, which will be out on October 21 via 4AD. More
Plus Courtney Barnett, Cate Le Bon, Pet Shop Boys, beabadoobee, Dry Cleaning, First Aid Kit, Jack White, Kendrick Lamar, Caribou, St. Vincent, Squid, black midi, Big Thief, and Many Others
Jun 27, 2022
By Mark Redfern
Couldn’t make it to Glastonbury this past weekend? We have you covered, with highlights from some of the performances including ones by Wolf Alice, Jessie Ware, Courtney Barnett, Mitski, HAIM, Foals, and many more. Plus Cate Le Bon, Pet Shop Boys, beabadoobee, Dry Cleaning, First Aid Kit, Jack White, Kendrick Lamar, Fontaines D.C., Lorde, Caribou, Metronomy, St. Vincent, Olivia Rodrigo and Lily Allen, Squid, black midi, Big Thief, IDLES, Crowded House, and much more. More
Plus Jockstrap, Dry Cleaning, Marlon Williams, Whitney, Preoccupations, and a Wrap-up of the Week’s Other Notable New Tracks
Jun 17, 2022
By Mark Redfern (with Joey Arnone)
Welcome to the 24th Songs of the Week of 2022. This week’s list features several artists from Down Under, with some great tracks from artists from both Australia and New Zealand. There were too many fantastic songs this week, so we have a super-sized Top 15 main list and lots of strong honorable mentions too. More
Stumpwork Due Out October 21 via 4AD
Jun 14, 2022
By Mark Redfern
London-based post-punk band Dry Cleaning have announced a new album, Stumpwork, and shared a new song, “Don’t Press Me,” via an animated video. More
Festival Will Take Place July 15–17 at Chicago’s Union Park; Tickets Go On Sale This Friday
Mar 08, 2022
By Joey Arnone
Pitchfork Music Festival has announced their 2022 lineup. The National, Mitski, and The Roots will be headlining. Other acts include Spiritualized, Parquet Courts, Dawn Richard, Indigo De Souza, SPELLLING, Camp Cope, Wiki, Japanese Breakfast, Lucy Dacus, Low, Magdalena Bay, Dry Cleaning, Toro y Moi, and Cate Le Bon, among others. The festival will take place from July 15–17 at Union Park in Chicago. Tickets will go on sale this Friday (March 11) at 10 a.m. CST. More
Jan 07, 2022
By Mark Redfern
2021 began and ended in a state of uncertainty, but was still a fruitful year for new music. Here are Under the Radar‘s 100 favorite albums from the year. More
New Long Leg Out Now via 4AD
Nov 08, 2021
By Joey Arnone
London-based post-punk band Dry Cleaning have announced new North American tour dates set for spring 2022. These dates are being announced mere days before the start of their U.S./U.K./European tour in support of their debut album, New Long Leg. More
Plus Dry Cleaning, Amyl and the Sniffers, and a Wrap-up of the Week’s Other Notable New Tracks
Jul 30, 2021
By Mark Redfern
Welcome to the 29th Songs of the Week of 2021. It was a light week for great new tracks, but we came up with nine we really liked. More
New Long Leg Out Now via 4AD
Jul 27, 2021
By Mark Redfern
London-based post-punk band Dry Cleaning have shared two new songs, “Bug Eggs” and “Tony Speaks.” The double A-side single follows their debut album, New Long Leg, released in April via 4AD and the songs were recorded during the same sessions for the album and previously appeared as bonus tracks on the extended Japanese version of the album. More
New Long Leg Out Now via 4AD
May 24, 2021
By Mark Redfern
London-based post-punk band Dry Cleaning have announced a slew of new tour dates. They include some American shows in November and concerts across Europe and the UK in early 2022. More
Issue 68 Out Now and Also Includes Julien Baker, Wolf Alice, Tegan and Sara, Arlo Parks, Fleet Foxes, Jessie Ware, Shamir, Lucy Dacus, Valerie June, David Byrne, Julian Casablancas, and Much More
Apr 21, 2021
By Mark Redfern
Under the Radar is excited to announce the full details of our new print issue, which is out now nationwide (on newsstands, in such stores as Barnes & Noble and Books-A-Million, and elsewhere) and available to buy directly from us here. The issue features Japanese Breakfast and HAIM on the two covers and is another edition of The Protest Issue, which examines the intersection of music and politics and features musicians photographed with protest signs of their own making. More
Plus Sons of Kemet, CHAI, Storefront Church, POND, and a Wrap-up of the Week’s Other Notable New Tracks
Apr 02, 2021
By Mark Redfern (with Joey Arnone and Emma Goad)
Welcome to the 12th Songs of the Week of 2021. In the nation was gripped (or more accurately, traumatized) by the trial of Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer charged with murdering George Floyd. More
New Long Leg Out Now via 4AD
Apr 02, 2021
By Mark Redfern
London-based post-punk band Dry Cleaning have released their debut album, New Long Leg, today via 4AD. Now that the album’s out you can stream the whole thing here. Also, on Wednesday we posted our review of New Long Leg. More
New Long Leg Out This Friday on 4AD
Mar 30, 2021
By Joey Arnone
London-based post-punk band Dry Cleaning have shared a video for a new single titled “Unsmart Lady.” It is the latest release from their forthcoming album, New Long Leg, which is due out this Friday (Apr. 2) on 4AD. More
Bills & Aches & Blues Due Out April 2
Mar 25, 2021
By Joey Arnone
4AD just shared the third set of songs to be featured on their upcoming compilation album Bills & Aches & Blues, which celebrates the label’s 20th anniversary and will be out on April 2. The new song set features Future Islands covering “The Moon Is Blue” by Colourbox, Jenny Hval covering “Sunbathing” by Lush, Dry Cleaning covering “Oblivion” by Grimes, and Bradford Cox covering “Mountain Battles” by The Breeders. More
Plus Another Michael, Alex Lahey and Gordi, Allie Crow Buckley, and a Wrap-up of the Week’s Other Notable New Tracks
Feb 12, 2021
By Mark Redfern (with Joey Arnone and Emma Goad)
Welcome to the fifth Songs of the Week of 2021. The week’s big news was the second impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump. More
New Long Leg Out April 2 via 4AD
Feb 09, 2021
By Joey Arnone
London-based post-punk band Dry Cleaning have announced the release of their debut album, New Long Leg, which will be out on April 2 via 4AD. The band has also shared a video for “Strong Feelings,” a new single from the album. More
Plus Bleachers and Bruce Springsteen, Hannah’s Little Sister, Speed Stick, and a Wrap-up of the Week’s Other Notable New Tracks
Nov 20, 2020
By Christopher Roberts (with Joey Arnone)
Welcome to the 43rd Songs of the Week of 2020. Whereas last week’s Songs of the Week covered three weeks’ worth of songs, this week we’re back to just covering the last seven days. More
Band’s First Single After Signing with 4AD
Nov 19, 2020
By Joey Arnone
London-based post-punk band Dry Cleaning have released a video for a new single titled “Scratchcard Lanyard.” This is their first music release since signing with 4AD earlier this year. The video for “Scratchcard Lanyard” marks the directorial debut of artist duo Rottingdean Bazaar (James Theseus Buck and Luke Brooks). More
Plus Cate Le Bon and Bradford Cox, Chromatics, Jaakko Eino Kalevi, and a Wrap-up of the Week’s Other Notable New Tracks
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
Boundary Road Snacks and Drinks EP Due Out October 25 via It’s OK
Oct 01, 2019
By Christopher Roberts
London-based post-punk four-piece Dry Cleaning are releasing their second EP, Boundary Road Snacks and Drinks, on October 25 via It’s OK. Now they have shared another song from it, “Viking Hair,” via a video for the track that was filmed at a weekly LGBT line dancing class at Cactus Club, in South London. More
Plus Water From Your Eyes, Holy Fuck, Moon Duo, Tindersticks, and a Wrap-up of the Week’s Other Notable New Tracks
Sep 13, 2019
By Christopher Roberts
Welcome to another Songs of the Week. We knew this week’s #1 song would be our #1 the moment we heard it. It might be the #1 Song of the Year even, we’ll see. More
Boundary Road Snacks and Drinks EP Due Out October 25 via It’s OK
Sep 10, 2019
By Christopher Roberts
London-based post-punk four-piece Dry Cleaning released their debut EP, Sweet Princess, just last month via It’s OK and now they have already announced another EP, Boundary Road Snacks and Drinks, and shared its first single, “Sit Down Meal.” More
Plus Joyero, Bat For Lashes, Jay Som, and a Wrap-up of the Week's Other Notable New Tracks
Aug 09, 2019
By Christopher Roberts
Welcome to another Songs of the Week. With last week’s list we had a clear #1 and #2 in Angel Olsen and HAIM. This week it was a bit more of a challenge to decide the final order. But we still managed a solid Top 10. More
Sweet Princess EP Due Out August 16 via It’s OK
Aug 06, 2019
By Christopher Roberts
London-based post-punk four-piece Dry Cleaning are releasing their debut EP, Sweet Princess, on August 16 via It’s OK and now they have shared another song from it, “Goodnight.” More
Interviews
Nov 22, 2021
By Andy Von Pip
The foundations for North London post-punk band Dry Cleaning were laid when friends Lewis Maynard (bass), Nick Buxton (drums), and guitarist Tom Dowse (guitars) decided to have some fun and began jamming together. As the music took shape they discussed introducing vocals into the mix. They tried doing it themselves before discussing approaching other singers. Then the name of a mutual friend, Florence Shaw—a graphics and illustration lecturer—was mooted. More
Nov 26, 2019
By Blaise Radley
As South London continues to pump out angular post-punk bands with all the regularity of a vending machine, such a well-populated landscape doesn’t afford much room for differentiation. It’s telling then that Dry Cleaning stand out effortlessly. More
Reviews
Feb 07, 2023
By Matthew Berlyant
Dry Cleaning thrill a packed out crowd at Brooklyn’s Pioneer Works. More
Oct 20, 2022
By Scott Dransfield
Like many young bands in 2022, Dry Cleaning have an origin story that’s difficult to separate from the effects of the COVID pandemic and its associated quarantines. More
Aug 03, 2022
By AP Childs
Under the Radar were at sunny Standon Calling the other week and had a whale of a time! More
Jul 19, 2022
By Dom Gourlay
Under the Radar heads to Deer Shed Festival later this month. Here’s 10 acts we’re most excited to see! More
Jun 21, 2022
By James Thornhill
Dry Cleaning played London’s Southbank Centre as part of Grace Jones’ curated Meltdown and Under the Radar was there to see it. More
May 31, 2022
By Mark Moody
The 9th edition of Primavera NOS takes place from June 9-11 so here’s Under the Radar’s 12 must-see acts. More
Nov 23, 2021
By Charles Steinberg
South London sensation Dry Cleaning arrives in New York City in more ways than one for the first of two sold-out nights at Market Hotel, Brooklyn. More
Apr 01, 2021
By Dom Gourlay
This time last year, Dry Cleaning were riding the crest of a wave. Having just completed a sold-out UK tour they were on course to smash the festival circuit and almost certainly become one of the biggest acts to break out of the UK’s underground music scene in a very long time. More
Nov 06, 2019
By Michael James Hall
With broadsheet papers in the UK throwing together dirge articles about how “speaking is the new singing” (for fuck’s sake) the time is ripe for the remarkable Dry Cleaning’s second EP, following the lo-fi delights of their Sweet Princess EP earlier this year. More
Aug 22, 2019
By Marty Hill
Dry Cleaning’s debut EP, Sweet Princess, is a kind of angular, wiry post-punk record that concerns itself with lyrical microcosms rather than the bigger picture. More