Festival Preview: Rockaway Beach 2025 | Under the Radar Magazine
Dec 23, 2024 By Jimi Arundell Photography by Shaun Gordon Web Exclusive. Fast forward the festive holidays and skip New Year’s Eve because the real party is at Rockaway Beach!Our favourite festival returns to Bognor Regis Butlins for its tenth year from Friday 3rd to Sunday 5th of January, bringing with it a bumper lineup of massive headliners, revered legacy acts …
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 ...
Simple Minds – Charlie Burchil on “Direction of the Heart”
Oct 20, 2022 Web Exclusive By Lee Campbell Photography by Dean Chalkley. As one of the founding members of Simple Minds way back in 1977, guitarist Charlie Burchill seems to be working as hard as ever with no sign of the band slowing down. Despite residing in Italy for years, he has not lost his thick Glaswegian accent. He will …
No Country For Old Men [4K UHD] - Under the Radar Magazine
Dec 17, 2024 Web Exclusive By Zachary Lee Photography by The Criterion Collection “What’s the most you ever lost on a coin toss?” That line, uttered by Javier Bardem’s sadistic and psychopathic mercenary Anton Chigurh, opens Joel and Ethan Coen’s neo-Western crime thriller No Country for Old Men with wrathful violence and unforgiving charisma.
Sunday (1994) on Love, Dark Humor, and Leaps of Faith
Apr 30, 2024 Web Exclusive By Andy Von Pip. Sunday (1994) recently made waves with their stunning debut single, “Tired Boy.” Not only does the single resonate like a lost classic, but the band also arrived with a fully formed visual aesthetic.
The Cure: Songs of a Lost World (Fiction/Capitol) - review | Under …
Nov 01, 2024 Web Exclusive By Dom Gourlay. Having been teasing the prospect of a new Cure album for some time, the band’s 14th long player is finally with us. The long-awaited follow-up to 2008’s 4:13 Dream, Songs of a Lost World is a thing of beauty. Composed of eight songs—five of which have been regular staples in the band’s live sets since October 2022—Songs of a …
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Dec 22, 2024 · Sparks on the 50th Anniversary of “Kimono My House” Dec 31, 2024 Issue #73 - Maya Hawke and Nilüfer Yanya. In 1974, the band Sparks saw a startling change of fortune when they transformed from an American band with somewhat dim prospects into a British band that became an overseas sensation. Kimono My House was their breakthrough third album, reaching #4 on the UK albums chart and ...
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 …
Seven Music Documentary Films and Series From 2024 to Watch …
Jun 16, 2024 · The Greatest Night in Pop, about the writing and recording of USA for Africa’s “We Are the World” at Henson Studios is a masterpiece of director Bao Nguyen.Seeing the musicians’ personalities in close quarters, working all night, is a once in a lifetime opportunity. The footage of superstars standing nervously in the same room and bringing their …
Michael Kiwanuka: Small Changes (Geffen) - review | Under the …
Dec 13, 2024 Web Exclusive By Jim Scott. On Small Changes—his fourth full-length, and first since his Mercury Prize-winning Kiwanuka five years ago—Michael Kiwanuka continues to seemingly pluck songs from the ether, creating music whose strongest impression is that of déjà vu. No one working currently feels more tied into the history of …