Jul 19, 2024 By Mark Redfern

Comedy music legend “Weird Al” Yankovic has shared a new single, “Polkamania!,” which is a polka jam medley of some of the biggest pop songs of the last decade. It was shared via a music video and the track includes songs by Taylor Swift, Olivia Rodrigo, Lil Nas X, Billie Eilish, Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars, and more. Also, today we posted our interview with Yankovic about the single and his career as a whole. More

Jul 12, 2024 By Mark Redfern

Cults (the duo of Madeline Follin and Brian Oblivion) are releasing a new album, To the Ghosts, on July 26 via Imperial. Now they have shared its third single, album closer “Hung the Moon.” The band have also surprisingly remixed Taylor Swift’s “Fortnight,” which features Post Malone. More

Feb 05, 2024 By Mark Redfern

Last night at the Grammys, Taylor Swift won Album of the Year, making it her fourth win in the category, which is a record. She also announced a new album from the stage, The Tortured Poets Department, and shared its cover artwork online soon after. More

Nov 10, 2023 By Mark Redfern

The nominations for the 2024 Grammy Awards have been announced. Under the Radar favorites Alvvays, boygenius, PJ Harvey, Paramore, Arctic Monkeys, Lana Del Rey, Olivia Rodrigo, Janelle Monáe, Gorillaz, James Blake, and others are all up for awards. More

Jul 07, 2023 By Kat Ramkumar

Global pop star Taylor Swift shared her latest album, Speak Now (Taylor’s Version), today via Republic. More

Apr 28, 2023 By Mark Redfern

The National have released a new album, First Two Pages of Frankenstein, today via 4AD. Now they have shared a lyric video for album’s biggest collaboration, “The Alcott,” which is a duet with Taylor Swift. Last night they also performed the album’s third single, “Eucalyptus,” on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. Plus you can stream the whole album here and read our review of it. More

Jan 18, 2023 By Mark Redfern

The National have announced a new album, First Two Pages of Frankenstein, that features Taylor Swift, Phoebe Bridgers, and Sufjans Stevens, and shared its first single, “Tropic Morning News.” They have also announced some tour dates. More

Dec 23, 2022 By Mark Redfern

Are things back to normal in 2022? They are, aren’t they? Well not quite. More

Dec 09, 2022 By Joey Arnone

Taylor Swift has announced that she will be making her directorial debut based off of a script she has written. The film will be produced by Searchlight Pictures. Additional details of the project will be announced at a later date. More

Nov 15, 2022 By Mark Redfern

The nominations for the 2023 Grammy Awards have been announced. Under the Radar favorites Wet Leg got five nominations, including for Best New Artist and Best Alternative Music Album. Other artists we cover to get nominations include Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Björk, Spoon, The War on Drugs, Wilco, Big Thief, Arctic Monkeys, IDLES, Beck, Spiritualized, The Black Keys, and more. More

Nov 01, 2022 By Joey Arnone

Taylor Swift has announced the U.S. dates for The Eras Tour amidst the recent release of her latest studio album, Midnights. The tour will feature support on select dates from Paramore, beabadoobee, Phoebe Bridgers, girl in red, MUNA, HAIM, GAYLE, Gracie Abrams, and OWENN. More

Oct 21, 2022 By Joey Arnone

Taylor Swift released a new album, Midnights, at midnight. Three hours later, she released Midnights (3am Edition), a deluxe edition of the album which features seven bonus tracks. Swift has also shared a self-directed video for the album track “Anti-Hero.” More

Aug 29, 2022 By Joey Arnone

Taylor Swift has announced the release of a new album, Midnights, which will be out on October 21. Swift first mentioned the album during her acceptance speech for Video of the Year at last night’s MTV Video Music Awards. More

Mar 22, 2022 By Joey Arnone

Today, black midi have released a new covers EP, Cavalcovers, out now via Rough Trade. The three-song EP sees the band covering King Crimson’s “21st Century Schizoid Man,” Taylor Swift’s “Love Story,” and Captain Beefheart’s “Moonlight on Vermont.” More

Nov 22, 2021 By Joey Arnone

Taylor Swift has shared a reimagining of her 2019 holiday song “Christmas Tree Farm” for Amazon Music. Dubbed the “Old Timey Version,” it was recorded at Abbey Road Studios in London and features a 70-piece orchestra. Swift has also shared a behind-the-scenes video, where she delves into the recording process of the new version. More

Nov 15, 2021 By Joey Arnone

Taylor Swift has shared a video for her new Chris Stapleton collaboration “I Bet You Think About Me,” a bonus track from the newly-released Red (Taylor’s Version). The video, which marks the directorial debut of actress Blake Lively, stars Swift alongside Miles Teller, and also features a cameo appearance from Aaron Dessner. Swift also made an appearance on Saturday Night Live this weekend, where she performed her new 10-minute version of “All Too Well,” and was featured in a musical parody sketch. More

Jul 02, 2021 By Mark Redfern

Big Red Machine (aka Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon and The National’s Aaron Dessner) are releasing a new album, How Long Do You Think It’s Gonna Last?, on August 27 via 37d03d. Now they have shared the album’s third single, “Renegade,” which features guest vocals from Taylor Swift, who also features in the song’s video. More

Jun 29, 2021 By Mark Redfern

Big Red Machine (aka Bon Iver’s Justin Vernon and The National’s Aaron Dessner) have announced a new album, How Long Do You Think It’s Gonna Last?, and shared its first single, “Latter Days,” which features guest vocals from Anaïs Mitchell. The album also features Fleet Foxes, Taylor Swift, Sharon Van Etten, This Is the Kit, and others. More

Feb 18, 2021 By Mark Redfern

HAIM have shared new versions of “Gasoline” (featuring Taylor Swift) and “3am” (featuring Thundercat). Original versions of both songs were on their acclaimed 2020 album, Women in Music Pt. III, and they now appear on a new deluxe edition of the album. More

Dec 18, 2020 By Christopher Roberts (with Joey Arnone)

Welcome to the 45th and likely very last Songs of the Week of 2020. We didn’t do a Songs of the Week last week because there weren’t quite enough inspiring songs to put together a full list, so this week’s list covers the last two weeks, but we still only came up with nine choices rather than a Top 10. More

Dec 11, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

Yesterday Taylor Swift announced that she would be releasing her second album of the year, evermore, at midnight. Now that the album’s out you can stream the whole thing here. She has also shared a video for the album’s opening track, as well as lyric videos for each song on the album. Evermore is the sister album to July’s folklore and features guest appearances by HAIM, Bon Iver, and The National. More

Dec 10, 2020 By Joey Arnone

Taylor Swift will be dropping her second album of the year, evermore, tonight (Dec. 10) at midnight EST. Evermore, the sister album to July’s folklore, will feature guest appearances by HAIM, Bon Iver, and The National, as well as contributions by folklore collaborators Aaron Dessner (frontman of The National), Jack Antonoff, William Bowery (aka Swift’s actor boyfriend Joe Alwyn), and Justin Vernon (frontman of Bon Iver). More

Nov 24, 2020 By Joey Arnone

The nominations for the 2021 Grammy Awards have just been announced. Beyoncé leads the list with a solid nine nominations, followed by Dua Lipa, Roddy Ricch, and Taylor Swift, each with six nominations. Brittany Howard has five nominations, and Megan Thee Stallion, Billie Eilish, DaBaby, Phoebe Bridgers, Justin Bieber, John Beasley, and David Frost are all tied with having four nominations. The 63rd Annual Grammy Awards will air Sunday, January 30, 2021 at Los Angeles’ Staple More

Jul 24, 2020 By Christopher Roberts (with Samantha Small and Julian Roberts-Grmela)

Welcome to the 29th Songs of the Week of 2020, the most exhausting year in recent memory. President Trump finally wore a mask and kind of admitted that things weren’t going so great in the fight against COVID-19 here in America. It seems inevitable that they are going to need to shut the economy down again if we are to get this thing under control—close the bars, restaurants, and beaches again for starters. Will it happen? More

Jul 24, 2020 By Christopher Roberts

Yesterday Taylor Swift announced that her new album folklore would be coming out today and now that it’s out you can stream the whole thing here. She has also shared a self-directed video for the album’s “cardigan.” Folklore is Swift’s attempt at an indie folk album and 11 of its 16 tracks were co-written and produced by The National’s Aaron Dessner. One song, “exile,” is even a duet with Bon Iver (aka Justin Vernon). More

Jul 23, 2020 By Samantha Small

To all those releasing an album tomorrow…sorry, because this morning, Taylor Swift announced her new album folklore will drop at midnight tonight. Swift took to Instagram to share snippets of the cover art over the span of a few hours before announcing the album and its entirety. Perhaps the most surprising part of folklore’s lore is that 11 of the 16 tracks were co written and produced by The National’sAaron Dessner.

Oct 16, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

NPR Music’s Tiny Desk Concert series has featured some notable performers lately, including Brittany Howard, Charly Bliss, Sharon Van Etten, Nilüfer Yanya, and Lizzo, but now they may have landed their biggest performer yet: pop superstar Taylor Swift. More

Aug 23, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

Jay Som (aka Melina Duterte) has released a new album, Anak Ko, today via Polyvinyl and it’s our Album of the Week. Find more info on the album below. Below that are streams of other notable albums and EPs released today: Sheer Mag, Taylor Swift, Missy Elliott, Joyero, BROCKHAMPTON, Raphael Saadiq, and Shannon Lay. More

Jul 18, 2019 By Christopher Roberts

So they went ahead and made a CATS movie and now the first trailer has been shared. The film features an all-star cast, including Taylor Swift, Idris Elba, Jennifer Hudson, James Corden, Judi Dench, Ian McKellen, Rebel Wilson, and many others. More

Mar 12, 2018 By Christopher Roberts

Taylor Swift released a new album, Reputation, back in November. Now she has shared a video for the album’s “Delicate.” Joseph Kahn directed the clip, in which Swift becomes invisible and dances in a hotel lobby, in the subway, in the rain without anyone noticing her. More

Aug 28, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Taylor Swift is releasing a new album, Reputation, on November 10. As promised, last night the video for its first single, “Look What You Made Me Do,” premiered during the MTV Music Video Awards. Joseph Kahn directed the video, which starts with Swift as a zombie climbing out of a grave that reads “Here Lies Taylor Swift’s Reputation.” More

Aug 25, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Taylor Swift is releasing a new album, Reputation, on November 10. As promised, last night she debuted its first single, “Look What You Made Me Do” (which many on the Internet are theorizing might be about her feud with Kanye West) via a lyric video. More

Aug 23, 2017 By Christopher Roberts

Taylor Swift has announced a new album and shared its cover art. It’s titled Reputation and the cover art features a black & white photo of Swift partly covered by newspaper pages with headlines about her. The album is due out November 10 and its first single, “Timeless,” will arrive tomorrow night. More

Dec 07, 2015 By Christopher Roberts

This morning nominations for the 58th Annual Grammy Awards were announced, with the ceremony to go down on February 15, 2016. Kendrick Lamar is nominated 11 times. Other nominees include Mark Ronson, Tame Impala, Wolf Alice, Courtney Barnett, Florence and the Machine, The Weeknd, Caribou, Jamie xx, Alabama Shakes, Death Cab for Cutie, The Dead Weather, and more. More

Oct 20, 2015 By Christopher Roberts

This week Jimmy Kimmel has moved his Los Angeles-based late night talk show Jimmy Kimmel Live to New York City for a one-week residency. Fittingly, his first musical guest of the week was Ryan Adams covering Taylor Swift’s “Welcome to New York.” More

Oct 08, 2015 By Christopher Roberts

A couple of weeks back Father John Misty (real name Josh Tillman) made fun of Ryan Adams covering Taylor Swift’s 1989 in its entirety by covering Ryan Adams covering Taylor Swift, but in the style of The Velvet Underground, briefly posting covers of “Blank Space” and “Welcome to New York.” More

Oct 02, 2015 By Christopher Roberts

Ryan Adams has covered Taylor Swift’s megahit most recent album, 2014’s 1989, in its entirety. Last he appeared on The Daily Show with Trevor Noah and performed three Swift covers: “Bad Blood,” “Blank Space,” and “Style.”

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Sep 21, 2015 By Christopher Roberts

Father John Misty (real name Josh Tillman) has shared two covers of songs from the “the classic Ryan Adams album 1989.” No wait, that’s not right. Tillman has released two songs in the style of The Velvet Underground. Well, actually, no, they are covers of two songs by an obscure pop singer namedTaylor Swift. More

Sep 17, 2015 By Christopher Roberts

Ryan Adams has covered Taylor Swift’s megahit most recent album, 2014’s 1989, in its entirety. He’s been teasing this for several weeks now, sharing snippets of his covers, but today he announced that the full covers album will be released digitally next Monday (September 21). More

Aug 26, 2015 By Christopher Roberts

Taylor Swift likes to bring special guests up on stage with her at each of her shows and last night at Los Angeles’ Staples Center she brought out the one-two punch of Beck and St. Vincent. More

Aug 21, 2013 By Mike Hilleary

Last night Tegan and Sara made a special guest appearance during Taylor Swift’s sold out arena performance at L.A.‘s Staples Center, where the three performed the Quin sisters’ hit single “Closer” from their album Heartthrob. More

Apr 20, 2024 By Andy Von Pip

How does one approach reviewing a Taylor Swift album? Well, with great difficulty, especially when there are no advance review copies or streams. It gets even more complicated when, just two hours after the release of The Tortured Poets Department, Swift casually announces The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology, featuring 15 additional songs. More

Oct 10, 2023 By Alfie Shadbolt

The Candlelight series of concerts brought their own unique Taylor Swift tribute to Nottingham Contemporary last weekend, and Under the Radar were there to see it. More

Jul 24, 2023 By Moses Namkung

Taylor Swift played her first show in Seattle for five years, and Under the Radar were there to see it. More

Oct 27, 2022 By Andy Von Pip

Midnight has long been associated with magic and mystery, with transformation, imagination, rumination, and dark nights of the soul. Or in Taylor Swift’s case 13 of them. More

Dec 02, 2021 By Andy Von Pip

Don’t meddle with a masterpiece they say. But what happens when someone peddles your masterpiece? When someone you have zero respect for buys and sells your work and could continue to profit from it for many years to come? This is essentially what happened to Taylor Swift when the masters to her early albums released on Big Machine were sold without her having any say in the matter. More

Nov 13, 2017 By Ellen Peirson-Hagger

“Baby, let the games begin,” chants Taylor Swift on “...Ready For It?” a track of pummelling synths and undoubted ferocity. More