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Dec 18, 2024
By Mark Redfern and Frank Valish
Welcome to Part 5 of Under the Radar’s 2024 Holiday Gift Guide. As you might expect from a music website, here we highlight some of the year’s best music reissues, on both vinyl and CD, from the last year. More
Your Hero Is Not Dead Due Out June 5 via Partisan
Apr 21, 2020
By Christopher Roberts
West London’s Will Westerman, who releases music simply under his last name, is releasing his debut full-length album, Your Hero Is Not Dead, on June 5 via Partisan. Now he has shared another song from it, title track “Your Hero Is Not Dead,” which he says is inspired by the 2019 passing of Talk Talk’s Mark Hollis. He has also put out a new SoundCloud mix he calls “freeform communal music” and has titled Huxley. More
Clockdust Due Out March 20 via Domino
Feb 03, 2020
By Christopher Roberts
Rustin Man, the project of Paul Webb, the former bassist of 1980s icons Talk Talk, has announced a new album, Clockdust, and shared its first single, “Jackie’s Room,” via a video for the track. More
Talk Talk’s Mark Hollis and The Prodigy’s Keith Flint Also Not Included
Jan 27, 2020
By Christopher Roberts
The In Memoriam segment at this year’s The Grammy Awards failed to include some influential musicians: Scott Walker, David Berman (Silver Jews, Purple Mountains), Talk Talk’s Mark Hollis, The Prodigy’s Keith Flint, and more. On top of that, they misspelled Ric Ocasek from The Cars’ name. More
The Singer is Dead at Age 64
Feb 25, 2019
By Stephen Humphries
Mark Hollis’ death was very much like the latter part of his life-shrouded in mystery. When the singer and principal songwriter in Talk Talk quietly retired from music in 1998, he was barely heard from again. More
Reflecting on the Influential Album Originally Released on September 16, 1988
Sep 17, 2018
By Timothy Michalik
“It was very, very psychedelic. We had candles and oil wheels, strobes going, sometimes just total darkness in the studio. You’d get totally disorientated, no daylight, no time frame.” So goes the story, told by Talk Talk’s engineer Phil Brown, when discussing the synth pop-turned-art rocker’s landmark 1988 album Spirit of Eden. More
Interviews
"It was one of the most striking moments of musical discovery I'd ever had—even from the first second."
Jan 30, 2020
By Matt Connor (As Told To)
I found it when I was 22 or 23. Or maybe it found me. I’d been at the big Salvation Army thrift store not far from my house and someone had dropped off this crate of really amazing records—an actual record collection of someone deep into music—while I was there. More
