Mark Moody

2 weeks ago | undertheradarmag.com | Mark Moody

Web Exclusive Someone forgot to tell the house band it was last call and lights out a few hours ago. And thankfully so. Each song on Florry’s latest, Sounds Like…, plays out bleary eyed and bled through. Whether wistfully weary on “Sexy” or with a full case of the jittters on “First it was a movie, then it was a book,” Francie Medosch’s latest entry shows that unbridled is the only way to ride.

3 weeks ago | undertheradarmag.com | Mark Moody

Web Exclusive The Dan Wriggins-fronted ensemble Friendship is back for their fifth album and second since signing with Merge. Ever adjacent to his compadres at Dear Life Records, Jon Samuels (MJ Lenderman), Peter Gill (2nd Grade), and Michael Cormier (Hour) are the players that flesh out the sound on Caveman Wakes Up. And flesh it out they do.

3 weeks ago | undertheradarmag.com | Mark Moody

Web Exclusive Jordan Topf’s path to a solo career (he performs as Windser) travelled some well-worn trails, but with a decidedly unconventional twist. Raised in Santa Cruz, California, the music surrounding him at a young age was fairly typical. “My mom was into folk music, Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell and my dad was into the early rock stuff like The Rolling Stones,” Topf shares via Zoom from his Los Angeles studio.

1 month ago | undertheradarmag.com | Mark Moody

Lael Neale at her family's farm in Virginia. Web Exclusive Releasing her third album on Sub Pop in five years, Lael Neale reflects that each of the records she has put out on the label has been a reaction to living in or living away from Los Angeles. “I write in response to the environment [I’m in]. Acquainted with Night was a response to living in LA.

1 month ago | undertheradarmag.com | Mark Moody

Web Exclusive If turnabout is fair play, then The Convenience is the fairest band in the land. On Like Cartoon Vampires, the New Orleans-based duo of Nick Corson and Duncan Troast do a complete 180 from their 2021 debut, Accelerator. On the earlier album, Corson and Troast proved out that there are limits in modeling yourself as a Prince copy band.