Under the Radar Magazine

Remember last year, when we got all excited that Beck was about to release his first album since 2008’s Modern Guilt…and it turned out to be a collection of sheet music called Song Reader? (via Beck Will Perform “Song Reader” Live in London on July 4 | Under The Radar)

August 27, Franz Ferdinand will release the follow-up to 2008 album, Tonight. 

(via Franz Ferdinand Announce New Album “Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action” | Under The Radar)

Celebrating its fifth anniversary San Francisco’s Outside Lands Music Festival has announced its 2012 lineup, featuring headliners Jack White, Stevie Wonder, Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Foo Fighters, and Metallica. (via Jack White, Stevie Wonder, Neil Young & Crazy Horse To Perform Outside Lands 2012 | Under The Radar)

Montreal’s Osheaga Music and Arts Festival returns this year at Parc Jean-Drapeau with artists The Black Keys, Sigur Rós, Justice, and Snoop Dogg serving as headliners. (via The Black Keys, Sigur Rós To Headline Osheaga 2012 | Under The Radar)

Issue #29 - Year End 2009 - Best of the Decade

Under the Radar’s Best of the Decade Issue will be hitting stores on December 18th. The cover features five notable indie musicians from different bands all photographed together.

The Best of the Decade Issue features Under the Radar’s Top 200 Albums of the Decade and all five of the cover artists have at least one album somewhere on the list.

The Best of the Decade Issue also includes interviews with other great artists on our Top 200 Albums of the Decade list, including Animal Collective’s Avey Tare, The Dears’ Murray Lightburn, The Decemberists’ Colin Meloy, Elbow’s Guy Garvey, Feist, Grizzly Bear’s Ed Droste, Modest Mouse’s Isaac Brock, Spiritualized’s Jason Pierce, Super Furry Animals’ Gruff Rhys, and Tegan & Sara.

As well as the Top 200 of the decade, the issue also includes Under the Radar’s Top 50 Albums of 2009 list.

A lot of great music this past decade has been forged in Brooklyn, and has been imported from Sweden, Canada, and Scotland, and so we have articles on each of those scenes that incorporates interviews with many of the artists involved in the scenes. We conducted group photo-shoots in Scotland and Sweden with some of the leading indie musicians of those two countries, and did a series of new photos of Brooklyn-based musicians. For the Sweden article we spoke to such artists as The Cardigans, Love Is All, Peter Bjorn and John, Dungen, andTaken By Trees. For the Scotland article we interviewed members of Camera Obscura, The Delgados, Franz Ferdinand, and Frightened Rabbit. And for the Brooklyn article we talked to such artists as Grizzly Bear, Liars, Yeasayer, The Drums, Cymbals Eat Guitars, Devendra Banhart, The Antlers, and The National. 

The issue also includes the article “A Decade of Indie: The Rise of the Outsiders.” What does the term “indie rock” even mean anymore? That question and others are examined in the article, with input from the likes of The Flaming Lips’ Wayne Coyne, Pixies’ Black Francis, Death Cab for Cutie’s Chris Walla, Grandaddy’s Jason Lytle, Modest Mouse’s Isaac Brock, The Decemberists’ Colin Meloy, Deerhunter’s Bradford Cox, Superchunk’s Mac McCaughan, Portishead’s Geoff Barrow, andPavement’s Scott Kannberg.

Finally, the issue features Under the Radar’s 7th annual Artist Survey, in which we emailed some of our favorite artists a few questions relating to the last decade and asked them for a list of their best albums of the decade. The Best of the Decade Artist Survey section includes interviews with Camera Obscura, The Dodos, El Perro Del Mar, Final Fantasy, The Hidden Cameras, The Horrors, The Invisible, Ladytron, Sondre Lerche, Jamie Lidell, Loney Dear, Los Campesinos!, Mew, Midlake, Okkervil River, Stars, Telekinesis, The Twilight Sad, and Vivian Girls.

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Issue #24 Year End 2008 - Best of 2008

Detection:

 Love Is All • TV on the Radio • Frida Hyvonen • The Dears •  Franz Ferdinand • Bloc Party • Danny Boyle on Slumdog Millionaire • Evan Rachel Wood on The Wrestler

Pleased to Meet You:

The Best of 2008:

Top 50 albums of 2008 • Fleet Foxes • Vampire Weekend • The Dodos 

Artist Surveys:

Annuals • Black Mountain • Bon Iver • Nina Persson of The Cardigans and A Camp • The Dresden Dolls • The Duke Spirit • Dungen • Elbow • Frances • Fuck Buttons • Fujiya & Miyagi • Glasvegas • Grizzly Bear • I’m From Barcelona • Ladytron • Jamie Lidell • M83 • Jim Noir • Okkervil River • The Old Believers • Plands and Animals • Pop Levi • Rilo Kiley • School of Language • Zooey Deschanel • St. Vincent • The Walkmen • M. Ward

Plus:

Over 140 CDs, DVDs, Books, Films, TV Shows, Video Games, and Comic Books reviewed!

Buy Back Issue

Interviews

Amazing Baby
Danny Boyle
Evan Rachel Wood
Fleet Foxes
Franz Ferdinand
Late of the Pier
The Dears
TV on the Radio

Reviews

4:13 Dream
30 Rock: Season 2
A.M.
A Devil on One Shoulder and an Angel on the Other: The Story of Shannon Hoon and Blind Melon
A Hundred Million Suns
A Hundred Things Keep Me Up at Night
Alpinisms
Back to Brooklyn (Issues 1 – 2)
Berlin: Live at St. Ann’s Warehouse
Billy the Kid DVD
Break Up The Concrete
Britz
By-The-Numbers
Castile Jackine Is Vooded at Broonus Mousin: Volume 1
Che
Cool Hand Luke: Deluxe Edition Blu-ray
Dark Developments
Day & Age
Does You Inspire You
Downtown Owl
Europa: The Criterion Collection DVD
Everything/Everything
Exposion
Fable II
Fantasy Black Channel
Forfeit/Fortune
Glasvegas
Goth Cruise
Gunnin’ for That #1 Spot Blu-ray/DVD
Heart-On
He Is… I Say: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Neil Diamond
House of Saddam
I Hate New Music: The Classic Rock Manifesto
Intimacy
Invincible Iron Man Vol. 1: The Five Nightmares
Irma Vep: Essential Edition DVD
Jamilti and Other Stories
Japrocksampler: How the Post-War Japanese Blew Their Minds on Rock ‘N’ Roll
Joker
Lie to Me
Little Joy
Mister X: The Archives
Ode to J Smith
Off With Their Heads
Paranoid Cocoon
Reaper: Season One
Red Rocket 7
Rock Band 2
Secrets Are Sinister
Sleeveface: Be The Vinyl
Star Wars: The Force Unleashed
Sunday at Devil Dirt
Surfing
Swim
The Band Name Book
The Cross of My Calling
The Fabled City
The Finally LP
The Go-Getter DVD
The Lilac Time
The Night of Your Life
The Pitchfork 500: Our Guide to the Greatest Songs From Punk to Present
The Vertigo Encyclopedia
The West
Torchwood: The Complete Second Season
War Heroes (Issues 1 – 2)
What We Do Is Secret DVD
Xs on Your Eyes
Y: The Last Man (The Deluxe Edition: Book One)

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Issue #10 Summer 2005 - Death Cab for Cutie

Main Features:

Death Cab for Cutie • Billy Corgan • Frank Black • The Tears (Brett Anderson & Bernard Butler, formerly of Suede) • Sufjan Stevens • Editors • Dungen • CocoRosie • Goldfrapp • Franz Ferdinand (in the studio) • Innaway • Zabrinski • Mugison • Special Article on Christian Indie Rock

Britpop: A Decade On:

Pulp • Blur • Elastica • Sleeper • Gene • Kula Shaker • Menswear • Rialto • The Charlatans • Lush • Ash • The Bluetones • Longpigs • Richard Hawley • Kaiser Chiefs

Plus:

Over reviews!

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