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Album Reviews Claude Fontaine La Mer. Nov 21, 2024 Web Exclusive. La Mer picks up where Claude Fontaine’s debut left off, melding tropicália, jazz, reggae, and French pop styles into a seductive montage.. Amyl and the Sniffers Cartoon Darkness. Nov 20, 2024 Web Exclusive. Cartoon Darkness, the third album by Australian punkers Amyl and The Sniffers, is a raucous affair that attempts to take ...
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2 days ago · No Hero, the fifth album by U.K. indie rock quartet Desperate Journalist, treads in the brooding, guitar-based rock adventurism similar to that explored by We Were Promised Jetpacks, bdrmm, The Cure, and Radiohead.. More
The End: Ben Schneider of Lord Huron - Under the Radar
Jun 04, 2021 Web Exclusive By Mark Redfern Photography by Anthony Wilson. To end out the week, we ask Ben Schneider, frontman of Lord Huron, some questions about endings and death.. Lord Huron released a new album, Long Lost, last month via Whispering Pines/Republic.It’s the band’s fourth album and the follow-up to 2018’s Vide Noir.The album was previewed via the band’s Alive from ...
Comedian Eddie Griffin on the Purpose of Comedy, Showing Off in …
Apr 05, 2021 Web Exclusive By Jake Uitti. In a way, longtime comedian Eddie Griffin is the King of the Colloquial. Listening to the man talk or watching his new comedy special, Laughin’ Through Your Mask, which came out last week, one gets the sense that Griffin cares deeply about the (his?) idea of common sense.Griffin, who grew up first …
The Allman Brothers Band’s Chuck Leavell Talks “Jessica” 50 Years …
Jan 30, 2024 By Matthew Taub. Few songs are such masterpieces of mood as “Jessica,” a seven-minute plus instrumental by The Allman Brothers Band, off their 1973 album Brothers and Sisters.A pure sonic sunrise, raw dopamine molded into black vinyl, the track is classic rock’s answer to the “Ode to Joy”; it dares you to not smile, and …
Shinedown’s Brent Smith On “A Symptom Of Being Human”
Feb 13, 2023 · Above all, despite the longevity of their career, Brent is excited yet always humble, when it comes to talking about the band’s success; “Don’t ever believe that you’ve arrived,” he says, “there’s always a bigger mountain.”
Black Sabbath: Mob Rules (Rhino) - Under the Radar Magazine
Apr 12, 2021 Web Exclusive By Frank Valish. Mob Rules is Ronnie James Dio’s second and final album fronting Black Sabbath (until the one-off reunion of 1992). And although drummer Bill Ward finally succumbed to his vices, exiting in favor of Vinnie Appice, Mob Rules continues to find guitarist Tony Iommi reinvigorated with Dio at the helm. The riffs are …
Violent Femmes – Gordon Gano on “Blister in the Sun” and 40 …
May 24, 2021 Web Exclusive By Jake Uitti Photography by Rocky Schenck. As soon as the bouncy guitar riff from Violent Femmes’ enduring pop hit, “Blister in the Sun,” comes on the stereo, likely you’re immediately boosted into a good mood. Then the childlike snare drums clap and the helium-like singing voice of the band’s frontman, Gordon Gano, comes in and the melody-induced grin on ...
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Under The Radar Mag
Aug 30, 2024 Web Exclusive By Matt the Raven. Nick Cave’s recent personal tragedies of loss, grief, and sorrow have been well documented and reflected in the music of the past few Bad Seeds albums—2016’s Skeleton Tree and 2019’s Ghosteen—as well as Carnage, the 2021 album cut with longtime corroborator Warren Ellis.Now it appears as though Cave has completed a lifework transformation ...
Neil Young with Crazy Horse - Under The Radar Mag
Jul 26, 2022 Web Exclusive By Michael James Hall. In 2001 Neil Young chose to sideline the newly recorded Toast in favor of 2002’s shabby, soul-inspired Are You Passionate? He’d later write, “Toast was so sad that I couldn’t put it out.” It wasn’t the first time in his prolific, near-monolithic career that the Canadian had left a great record on the shelf.