May 22, 2026
By Andy Von Pip
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At times, Julia Cumming may have felt she had spent the better part of two decades proving a point as a member of Sunflower Bean, a band she started as a teenager in 2013. She resisted lazy assumptions along the way, whether about her young age, her looks, or simply being a woman carving out space in a male-dominated environment. She’s certainly paid her dues, doing the hard yards, spending years on stages around the world, in tour vans and in rehearsal rooms.
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May 22, 2026
By Andy Von Pip
Brighton-based artist Opal Mag talks stage names, musical influences and her debut EP Goodbye Lavender, out 29th May via Venn Records
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May 20, 2026
By Mark Redfern
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My Firsts is our email interview series where we ask musicians to tell us about their first life experiences, be it early childhood ones (first word, first concert, etc.) or their first tastes of being a musician (first band, first tour, etc.). For this My Firsts we talk to Daniel Hunt of Ladytron.
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May 15, 2026
By Mark Moody
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Kevin Morby’s new album Little Wide Open is both a love letter and a goodbye to his Midwestern roots. So starting our conversation, with Morby Zooming in from Los Angeles, talking about the war in Iran, may seem like a strange place to begin.
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May 15, 2026
By Mark Redfern
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My Firsts is our email interview series where we ask musicians to tell us about their first life experiences, be it early childhood ones (first word, first concert, etc.) or their first tastes of being a musician (first band, first tour, etc.). For this My Firsts we talk to London-based singer/songwriter Eaves Wilder.
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May 08, 2026
By Jasper Willems
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Canadian collective Broken Social Scene have always been a funny answer to the classical idea of a band. The classical idea being a tight group of individuals who churn out songs with everyone playing their specific part of their designated instrument. And maybe attempt to look cool on stage doing just that. Founding member Brendan Canning already tried his hand at this archaic paradigm in the wake of the alternative rock boom Powered by MTV, to not much avail.
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May 07, 2026
By Lee Campbell
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Thirty years after Boys for Pele, Tori Amos returns with her most ambitious work yet—a narrative album featuring Celtic gods, lizard demons, and a very real constitutional crisis. Under the Radar speaks with Amos just before she kicks off her European and U.S. tour.
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May 06, 2026
By Dom Gourlay
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London-based three-piece deary released their eagerly anticipated debut album last month to a wealth of critical acclaim, so Under the Radar caught up with them to discuss the new record, signing to Bella Union and becoming a three-piece.
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May 05, 2026
By Matt Conner
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Jeremy Slater, the screenwriter behind Mortal Kombat II, on learning to let go of the lone-genius myth.
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May 05, 2026
By Tobias Furlong
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Brown Horse are somewhat of a regional phenomenon, hailing from the much maligned East of England, often not thought to be a musical hot-bed. Across 2024’s assured debut album, Reservoir, and its earth moving follow up, last year’s All the Right Weaknesses, Brown Horse summoned up more heart, soul, and feeling than many of their contemporaries as they put a bit of everything into a whirlwind blend of ’70s country-rock.
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