Under the Radar

JAY BARUCHEL

Godspeed You! Black Emperor’s Yanqui U.X.O is just the soundtrack to a fucking mental odyssey. I grew up in Montréal and if you were a kid in Montréal in the ’90s you obviously knew who the fuck Godspeed were. They were film students from Montréal that just started making the craziest, darkest, heaviest music ever recorded and I had listened to a few records and I’d always listen to them with the

You’re reading a preview, subscribe to read more.

More from Under the Radar

Under the Radar3 min read
John Cale
Joined by a star-studded cast of Welsh musicians (Gruff Rhys, Cate Le Bon, James Dean Bradfield of Manic Street Preachers) who count themselves as his musical offspring, John Cale celebrated his 80th birthday in October of 2022 with a headlining perf
Under the Radar13 min read
Weyes Blood
Here's a funny hypothesis for you: what if you could travel back to the late ‘60s or early ‘70s and hand someone like Jim Morrison or Karen Carpenter a Weyes Blood record? Would they be able to distinguish-just by listening to the songs-that this ind
Under the Radar3 min read
Bartees Strange
By all accounts Washington, D.C.'s Bartees Strange (birth name Bartees Leon Cox Jr.) has accomplished amazing things in the last year. Aside from releasing his sophomore album, Farm to Table (on 4AD), Strange has appeared on late night and early morn

Related Books & Audiobooks