Matt Fink

Oct 17, 2024 | undertheradarmag.com | Matt Fink

Issue #58 - The Protest Issue In the middle of April, the members of Viet Cong found themselves in an unusual position. It was a little over a year since their self-titled debut had established them as a post-punk buzz band, but they already had their sophomore album exactly how they wanted it: completely mixed, mastered, and its song titles chosen. But they still didn’t know what the name of the band was going to be.

Oct 17, 2024 | undertheradarmag.com | Matt Fink

Thurston Moore (photo by Wendy Lynch Redfern) and Moby (photo by David Studarus) Superchunk [Note: This article originally appeared in Under the Radar’s August/September/October 2016 Issue, which came out in early September. This is its debut online as we keep our print magazine articles exclusive to the print magazine for at least one month or more.

Oct 12, 2024 | undertheradarmag.com | Matt Fink

#36 - Music vs. Comedy The late Andy Kaufman once bristled at the suggestion that he was a comedian, contending that comedians told jokes while he was simply an entertainer, an artist who would use whatever he had—songs, props, characters—to make you laugh. As the 2006 winner of “The Andy Kaufman Award,” Reggie Watts is also an entertainer for whom the word “comedian” seems insufficient.

Aug 8, 2024 | undertheradarmag.com | Matt Fink

My Brightest Diamond After My Brightest Diamond‘s Shara Worden released her last album, 2011’s All Things Will Unwind, she found herself in an existential crisis. Having spent most of her adult life learning how to craft meticulously-arranged, exhaustingly-detailed albums, she was met with the realization that her music wasn’t translating into the era of iPod playlists and short attention spans. A chain reaction of questions followed.

Jul 3, 2024 | undertheradarmag.com | Matt Fink

Cliff Curtis You probably know more about The Walking Dead than Cliff Curtis. Though the zombie thriller has utterly dominated cable TV for the past three years, pulling in a record-setting 17 million viewers for its season five premiere, Curtis was not one of them.