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Death Cab for Cutie: Asphalt Meadows (Atlantic) - review | Under …
WEBSep 16, 2022 · Death Cab for Cutie’s 10th studio album Asphalt Meadows represents a return to the band’s classic sound, most strongly resembling 2000’s We Have the Facts and We’re Voting Yes and 2011’s Codes and Keys.While the Pacific Northwestern indie pioneers’ inherent romanticism still lingers throughout Asphalt Meadows, the album’s intimacy is often underscored by a bleak apocalypticism ...
Nina Persson on Her Debut Solo Album, Children, and Music Less …
WEBMay 14, 2014 · It’s been 20 years since Nina Persson first emerged as the frontwoman for the Swedish five-piece The Cardigans.Now, after six Cardigans albums and two with her own A Camp project, Persson is finally stepping out on her own. Written at her home in Harlem with her husband Nathan Larson and ex-The Shins and Fruit Bats’ Eric Johnson and recorded both in Brooklyn and Gothenburg, Sweden, Animal ...
The End: Ben Schneider of Lord Huron - Under the Radar
WEBJun 4, 2021 · 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 Whispering Pines series of livestreamed shows.
Under the Radar’s Top 50 TV Shows of 2012
WEBDec 31, 2012 · The modern golden age of television continued in 2012. The best of television in 2012 once again showed off the possibilities of the format, in which plots and characters can be developed over the course of the many hours of a whole season (rather than the two to three hours that most theatrical movies offer). 2012’s television landscape took in myriad subjects—from zombie apocalypses to ...
Weird Wisconsin: The Bill Rebane Collection
WEBJun 11, 2021 · With Weird Wisconsin: The Bill Rebane Collection, Arrow Video have put together a set that gives his work a thorough reassessment, and provides a wonderful look at how his low-budget exploitation films were made far, far outside the Hollywood studio system. Rebane’s first feature film, Monster a Go-Go (1965) is easily his worst.
My Favorite Album: “Weird Al” Yankovic on Elton John’s “Goodbye …
WEBMar 10, 2020 · When “Weird Al” Yankovic attended Elton John’s Goodbye Yellow Brick Road farewell tour last year at the Los Angeles Forum, it felt like things had come full circle. “My very first concert was Elton John at the Los Angeles Forum,” Yankovic wrote during a recent e-mail interview. “My parents were very protective and absolutely didn’t want me going to some crazy rock show, but I ...
Cinema Review: Waffle Street | Under the Radar Magazine
WEBMar 16, 2016 · Author rating: 5.5 /10. Rate this movie. Waffle Street is an endearing, positive film bursting with heart. It is also, however, about as fluffy as a waffle’s whipped cream topping.
Film Review: True Things | Under the Radar Magazine
WEBSep 15, 2022 · Tom Burke recently gave a strong performance as the manipulative, controlling partner of an impressionable, susceptible protagonist in Joanna Hogg’s excellent The Souvenir.His performance in British director Harry Wootliff’s unsettling new drama, True Things, sees him continue to play a character of this type.Typecasting this may be, but if it is, it is difficult to complain about, because ...
Violent Femmes – Gordon Gano on “Blister in the Sun” and 40 …
WEBMay 24, 2021 · 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 your face is complete.