The Solution to Music Pollution, Under the Radar is arguably America's best independent music magazine. We're based in Los Angeles, but nationally distributed in places like Borders, Barnes & Noble, and Virgin Megastores. We're known for our in-depth and intelligent interviews, and for our sharp photo shoots.
The Spring 2007 Issue of Under the Radar is currently on stands. The issue features Feist on the cover and also includes exclusive interviews with: Bang Gang, Bright Eyes, Jarvis Cocker, Deerhunter, Dinosaur Jr., Dntel, Great Northern, iLiKETRAiNS, Interpol (In the Studio), Klaxons, Los Campesinos!, Yoko Ono, Gruff Rhys, Taken By Trees (former Concretes vocalist Victoria Bergsman), Vampire Weekend, The Veils, and Young Galaxy.
The issue also includes a special Music vs. Film section which features the following articles: Bands on Their Favorite Movies, Broken Social Scene's Kevin Drew vs. actor Cillian Murphy (28 Days Later, Sunshine), Charlotte Gainsbourg, and Kaiser Chiefs vs. actor/writer Simon Pegg (Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz). Plus over 150 reviews.
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Under the Radar's Winter 2007 issue featured exclusive interviews with: Main Features: Modest Mouse (cover story), Bloc Party, Deerhoof, Crispin Glover, The Good The Bad and The Queen, and The Shins. Most Anticipated Albums of 2007: Architecture in Helsinki, Art Brut, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Blonde Redhead, Bright Eyes, Isobel Campbell, The Concretes, Doves, Earlimart, Editors, Elbow, Electrelane, The Go! Team, Iron and Wine, Kaiser Chiefs, Ladytron, LCD Soundsystem, Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, Jamie Lidell, Low, Metric, Midnight Movies, The National, The New Pornographers, The Rentals, Spoon, The Sea and Cake, Spoon, Stars, Super Furry Animals, Tegan and Sara, The Thrills, UNKLE, Chris Walla, Wolf Parade, and more. New Artists for 2007: The Besnard Lakes, The Broken West, Loney, Dear, My Latest Novel, Pop Levi, and Voxtrot. 2006 Artist Survey: ...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of the Dead, Calexico, Camera Obscura, The Dears, The Decemberists, The Dresden Dolls, The Duke Spirit, Grizzly Bear, Headlights, The Hold Steady, Idlewild, I Love You But I’ve Chosen Darkness, I’m From Barcelona, Love Is All, Mates of State, Mercury Rev, Mew, My Morning Jacket, Mystery Jets, Peter Bjorn and John, The Pipettes, The Sleepy Jackson, Smoosh, Tilly and the Wall, The Walkmen, and more. Plus: Best of 2006, Q&As with Air and John Waters, and a bunch of reviews. Click here for a detailed look at what's in the Winter 2007 issue.
Under the Radar's Fall 2006 issue featured exclusive interviews with: The Decemberists (cover story), The Aliens (ex-Beta Band), Badly Drawn Boy, The Cardigans, Darkel (Air side-project), The Divine Comedy, The Dresden Dolls vs. Bauhaus, Girl Talk, I’m From Barcelona, Kasabian, Sean Lennon, Love Is All vs. The Vaselines, Midlake, Joanna Newsom, Peter Bjorn and John, Sparklehorse, Viva Voce, Wovenhand, and Yo La Tengo. The issue also includes over 180 reviews. Click here for a detailed look at what's in the Fall 2006 issue.
Featured in the Summer 2006: exclusive interviews with: The Dears (cover story), Camera Obscura, Candy Bars, Comets On Fire, CSS, Emily Haines, Extra Golden, The Futureheads, Grizzly Bear, Headlights, Jamie Lidell, Lansing-Dreiden, Juana Molina, Muse, The Pipettes, The Sleepy Jackson, Sonic Youth, Sufjan Stevens, Tilly and the Wall, The Walkmen, White Whale, Zero 7, and The Zutons. Click here for a detailed look at what's in the Summer 2006 issue.
Featured in the Spring 2006 issue: On the cover: Jack White, Brendan Benson, Jack Lawrence, and Patrick Keeler on their new band The Raconteurs. The issue also includes interviews with: The Flaming Lips, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Richard Ashcroft, Grandaddy, The Concretes, The Streets, Kris Kristofferson, I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness, Danielson, Destroyer, Sparks, Irving, Mellowdrone, Mystery Jets, The Black Angels, Envelopes, Gram Rabbit, Howe Gelb, and more. Plus over 140 reviews! Click here for a detailed look at what's in the Spring 2006 issue.
Winter 2006 Issue: Brief Summary of Issue 12 Contents: Under the Radar’s Winter Issue looks back at 2005 and looks forward to 2006. We pick our top 30 albums of 2005 and let some of our favorite bands express their thoughts on their own favorite albums of 2005 and the issues that mattered last year. In the Most Anticipated Albums of 2006 special section we preview many of the new 2006 albums that we’re all dying to hear. The section includes new interviews with Built to Spill, The Concretes, The Dresden Dolls, Grandaddy, The Fiery Furnaces, The Flaming Lips, The Shins, and many, many more. In our New Artists for 2006 section we present interviews with hot new artists such as England’s Art Brut, Sweden’s Love Is All, England’s The Research, Norway’s Serena Maneesh, and others. The issue also features new interviews with Belle & Sebastian (the cover story), Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan, Clearlake, Elbow, Jenny Lewis, Mew, Sing-Sing, and many others. Plus, all the best new albums are reviewed.
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Fall 2005 Issue: O Canada Special Section: Featuring new interviews with Bell Orchestre (Arcade Fire side-project), Black Mountain, Broken Social Scene, Constantines, The Dears, Feist, Final Fantasy, Hank, The Hidden Cameras, Hot Hot Heat, k-os, Metric, The Most Serene Republic, The New Pornographers, Stars, The Stills, Tegan & Sara, Wolf Parade, and more. Plus exclusive interviews with: The American Analog Set, Belle & Sebastian (in the studio), Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Depeche Mode, Mark Gardener, Richard Hawley, Iron & Wine/Calexico, Ladytron, Moonbabies, My Morning Jacket, Pilotdrift, Rogue Wave, Sigur Ros, Supergrass, and more. Click here for a detailed look at what's in the Fall 2005 issue.
Summer 2005 Issue: On the cover is Death Cab for Cutie. Britpop: A Decade On special section, featuring new interviews with key members of Ash, The Bluetones, Blur, The Charlatans, Elastica, Embrace, Gene, Kula Shaker, Longpigs, Lush, Menswear, Pulp, Rialto, Sleeper, and Teenage Fanclub (plus Kaiser Chiefs and The Dears on Britpop). Religion and Indie Rock Article, featuring Danielson Famile, Pedro the Lion, Sufjan Stevens, Rosie Thomas, and others. Plus Exclusive Interviews with: Frank Black, CocoRosie, Billy Corgan, Dungen, Editors, Franz Ferdinand (in the studio), Goldfrapp, Innaway, Mugison, Sufjan Stevens, The Tears (Brett Anderson and Bernard Butler formerly of Suede), Zabrinski and more. Click here for a more detailed look at the Summer 2005 issue.
The Spring 2005 issue featured exclusive new interviews with: Super Furry Animals (cover story), AK-Momo, The Arcade Fire, Architecture in Helsinki, Beck, British Sea Power, Built to Spill (in the studio), Caribou, The Decemberists, Doves, Engineers, Hot Hot Heat, Kasabian, Louis XIV, The Magic Numbers, Mercury Rev, New Order, Of Montreal, The Soundtrack of Our Lives, Spoon, 22-20s, Viva Voce, M. Ward, and Patrick Wolf. Click here for a more detailed look at the Spring 2005 issue (including photos).
The Winter 2005 issue featured the following: Exclusive Interviews and Photo Shoots with: Bright Eyes, The Bees (aka: A Band of Bees), Black Rebel Motorcycle Club (in the studio), Blue States, Tim Booth (ex-James), thebrotherkite, Ian Brown (ex-Stone Roses), Clinc vs. Can, The Dears on Morrissey, The Delgados, Devendra Banhart vs. Donovan, The Dresden Dolls, The Earlies, The Go! Team, Ed Harcourt, My Barbarian, Muse, Primal Scream vs. The Cramps, Snowden, Supergrass, The Thrills vs. Brian Wilson (The Beach Boys), Unkle, and The Zutons. Plus the Chris Walla Column, and the best of 2004 special, featuring interviews with Caribou/Manitoba, The Decemberists, Doves, Idlewild, Mew, My Morning Jacket, Of Montreal, Ulrich Schnauss, Tegan & Sara, Tilly & the Wall, and The Walkmen. Click here for a more detailed look at the Winter 2005 issue.
Featured in The Protest Issue (Issue 7, which came out in September 2004): Huge special section on the intersection of politics and music. Incorporating tons of interviews and/or photo shoots with protest music legends and big indie musicians, including: Yoko Ono, Billy Bragg, Death Cab for Cutie, Badly Drawn Boy, Joan Baez, Devendra Banhart, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Bright Eyes, David Cross, Cursive, The Decemberists, Ani DiFranco, Elbow, Faithless, Perry Farrell, The Flaming Lips' Wayne Coyne, The (International) Noise Conspiracy, Interpol, Iron & Wine, Ted Leo, Les Savy Fav, Le Tigre, Luna, MC5, Metric, Pedro the Lion, Radio 4, The Secret Machines, Pete Seeger, The Sleepy Jackson, Super Furry Animals, They Might Be Giants and others. Also exclusive interviews and photo shoots with: Asobi Sesku, Clinic, The Concretes, Graham Coxon, The Dears, Dykehouse, The Faint, The Fiery Furnaces, The Flaming Lips (studio update), The French Kicks, Hope of the States, Idlewild (in the studio), Interpol (joint cover story), M83, Midnight Movies, Muse, Pas/Cal, Simple Kid, The Veils, and more. Click here for a more detailed look at the Protest Issue.
Featured in our sixth issue, which came out in March 2004, were interviews with: Rilo Kiley, Air, Starsailor, Underworld, Elbow, Doves, Ash, Basement Jaxx, All Night Radio, The Elected (Rilo Kiley side project), Mew, Fort Lauderdale, Franz Ferdinand, The Cardigans, Clinic, Sparklehorse, Hot Hot Heat, Marjorie Fair, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Desert Sessions (Josh Homme of Queens of the Stoneage), Run Run Run, Pitty Sing, Ambulance LTD., The Decemberists, Martina Topley-Bird, The Duke Spirit, Modest Mouse, Badly Drawn Boy, Magnetic Fields, The Polyphonic Spree, Rachel Goswell, Blonde Redhead, The Secret Machines, Now It's Overhead, Luna, The Divine Comedy, Sonic Youth, Sing-Sing, Death Cab for Cutie, Clearlake, Lambchop, Low, Helen Stellar, Interpol, Cursive, Stephen Malkmus, Eels, The Beta Band, Lone Pigeon, The Soundtrack of Our Lives, The (International) Noise Conspiracy, Mellowdrone, Iron & Wine, The Walkmen, The Vines, Sufjan Stevens, Fischerspooner, Dntel, Low, The Velvet Teen, The Faint, Idlewild, David Byrne and others. The issue are features an Elliott Smith tribute, artists on their favorite albums of 2003, the most anticipated albums of the rest of 2004, and the best new artists to watch out for. Click here for a more detailed look at the Sixth issue.
Previous issues of Under the Radar have featured interviews with Elliott Smith (in his last interview and photo shoot before his tragic passing), Coldplay, Beck, BRMC, Belle & Sebastian, Spiritualized, The Flaming Lips, Moby, Stereolab, Dandy Warhols, South, Broadcast, Mogwai, Super Furry Animals, British Sea Power, !!!, The Sleepy Jackson, Supergrass, Blur, Bright Eyes, Ladytron, The Thrills, The Dears, Sparks, Gemma Hayes, Christopher O’Riley, The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players, M. Ward, Tindersticks, Puffy AmiYumi, Quasi, Enon, Buzzcocks, The Shins, Beulah, Gorky's Zygotic Mynci, Teenage Fanclub, Mirah, Irving, The High Llamas, The Charlatans, Mercury Rev and many other great bands.
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