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Last night marked the season 7 finale of Doctor Who, where show runner Steven Moffat teased that he would finally answer the question on every fanboy/fangirl’s lips…who exactly IS the Doctor? And while we’re at it, why is Clara “The Impossible Girl?” We’d tell you how those questions were resolved, but (adopts River Song voice) “spoilers!” (via Watch: “Matt Smith, David Tennant In New ‘Doctor Who’ Behind-The-Scenes’ Video | Under The Radar)
On June 25 Mood Rings will release their debut album VPI Harmony via Mexican Summer. (via media | Under The Radar)
The late Andy Kaufman once bristled at the suggestion that he was a comedian, contending that comedians told jokes while he was simply an entertainer, an artist who would use whatever he had—songs, props, characters—to make you laugh. As the 2006 winner of “The Andy Kaufman Award,” Reggie Watts is also an entertainer for whom the word “comedian” seems insufficient. (via Reggie Watts: The Entertainer | Under The Radar)
Tom Hooper won an Academy Award for Best Director for his mind-numbingly average character study The King’s Speech, the sort of film that was made for middle American parents traveling to megaplexes around holiday time. (via Les Misérables Blu-ray/DVD | Under The Radar)
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. (via Title: After Dark 2 Compilation featuring Chromatics and Glass Candy Available Digitally Now | Under The Radar)
Get ready… Many incredible acts have been added to ATP’s “End of an Era” festival.
Just a few hours ago the town of Wee Waa, Australia, hosted the official launch party for Daft Punk’s first album in eight years, Random Access Memories. (via Watch: Daft Punk’s “Random Access Memories” Launch Party in Australia | Under The Radar)
It would be entirely appropriate to enshrine Greta Gerwig as the indie-darling of now. (via Frances Ha | Under The Radar)
As we’ve previously reported, this Sunday (May 19), Sigur Rós joins the cast of The Simpsons as both a performer and new characters. Now a poster for the episode has been released. (via Check Out a Poster for the Sigur Rós Episode of The Simpsons | Under The Radar)
Writer and director Noah Baumbach is an admitted overachiever. By the ripe old age of 26 he’d already broken out on the indie scene with his acclaimed 1995 debut feature, Kicking and Screaming. He’d follow it up two years later with Mr. Jealousy, and then go on to write and direct the Academy Award-nominated The Squid and the Whale in 2005, Margot at the Wedding in 2007, and Greenberg in 2010. (He was also a co-writer for Wes Anderson’s The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou and Fantastic Mr. Fox.) (via Noah Baumbach | Under The Radar)
