Under the Radar

Under the Radar is obsessed with music. We're dedicated to breaking new bands and checking-in with our favorite established artists through our in-depth articles and eye-catching original photography. Each issue also contains a ridiculous number of reviews--all the better to help you find your new favorite album, film, TV show, book, comic book or video game.

Letter From The Editor

Staff’s Favorite Albums of the 1990s

Under the Radar

GARBAGE • An Island Unto Itself

THE CRANBERRIES • Protecting the Legacy

LISA LOEB on “Stay (I Missed You)” • Reality Rocks

BLONDE REDHEAD • A Great Exhale

SEMISONIC on “Closing Time” • Unexpected Ubiquity

PAVEMENT • on Successfully Spanning the ’90s Decade Defined

LUCY DACUS • on Green Day’s Woodstock ’94 Performance

SLEATERKINNEY • Digging Out Tenacity

STEREO MC’S on Connected • Rap, Dance, Love

COME TOGETHER THE STORY BEHIND WAR CHILD’S HELP ALBUM • Celebrating the Greatest Charity Album of the 1990s

SUPERGRASS on I Should Coco and In It For the Money • How to Survive Britpop Unscathed

SPIRITUALIZED on Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space • Pursue All Options

VELOCITY GIRL on Their ’90s Albums and Recent Reunion • Backwards Glance

SHOEGAZE IN THE ’90s Celebrating the Scene That Celebrated Itself • Genre Luminaries Slowdive, Ride, Lush, Cocteau Twins, Pale Saints, and Swerverdriver Reflect on Shoegaze’s Resurgence

MIKI BERENYI OF LUSH vs. HATCHIE • From Sweetness and Light to Sugar and Spice

THE BRITPOP INVASION OF NORTH AMERICA A SECOND COMING FOR ANGLOPHILES, NOT SO MUCH FOR EVERYONE ELSE • A Conversation with Members of The Boo Radleys, The Charlatans, Echobelly, Kula Shaker, Menswe@r, and Supergrass

BRITPOP B-SIDES

PENELOPE SPHEERIS on Directing Wayne’s World • Trust Me, It’s Funny

RON UNDERWOOD on Directing Tremors and City Slickers • Horror With Heart

GUS VAN SANT on Directing My Own Private Idaho and Good Will Hunting • Shattering Conventions

ORVILLE PECK ON MY OWN PRIVATE IDAHO

TERRY GILLIAM on Directing The Fisher King and 12 Monkeys • A Python’s ’90s Resurgence

TWIN PEAKS Building the Most Groundbreaking Show of the ’90s • A Conversation with Kyle MacLachlan, Mädchen Amick, Piper Laurie, Michael Horse, Jennifer Lynch, Kimmy Robertson, Wendy Robie, Charlotte Stewart, Carel Struycken, Duwayne Dunham, and John Thorne

THURSTON MOORE of Sonic Youth • on Goo and Dirty

THE CARDIGANS • A New Heyday

THE CARDIGANS DISCOGRAPHY

The REVIEWS

Gruff Rhys

EMMA ANDERSON of Lush on Her Debut Solo Album Pearlies • Carve Your Own Path

SHANNON LAY on The Simpsons

IAN PARTON OF THE GO! TEAM on My Bloody Valentine’s Loveless

KIP BERMAN of The Natvral on Hole’s Live Through This • No One Ached Like She Ached

TEENAGE FANCLUB on Their New Album Nothing Lasts Forever • Are You Sitting Down?

RIDE on Their New Album Interplay • Rising to the Occasion