Laura Studarus

Editor at Under the Radar magazine. Contributor to MTV Iggy, eMusic, Nylon, Filter, Relevant, Paste, and more. Not Hip. Likes catsup and pie. Great. Now we have nothing left to discuss on the second date.

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Cinematic melancholy? Widescreen romanticism? Yup, must be another Stars album. (via Stars: The North (ATO)­ | Under The Radar)

Cinematic melancholy? Widescreen romanticism? Yup, must be another Stars album. (via Stars: The North (ATO)­ | Under The Radar)

Three things in life are certain: death, taxes, and that Stars’ fascination with mortality, love, and the great beyond isn’t going anywhere. “I consider it my responsibility to affirm kids’ belief that what they’re going through is huge,” says Stars frontman Torquil Campbell, mulling over his band’s pendant for leaning towards the epic and emotional. “I’m there to soundtrack it.” (via Stars: Northern Exposure | Under The Radar)

Three things in life are certain: death, taxes, and that Stars’ fascination with mortality, love, and the great beyond isn’t going anywhere. “I consider it my responsibility to affirm kids’ belief that what they’re going through is huge,” says Stars frontman Torquil Campbell, mulling over his band’s pendant for leaning towards the epic and emotional. “I’m there to soundtrack it.” (via Stars: Northern Exposure | Under The Radar)

musikgruppen del 7

In a few scant hours, Musikgruppen, del 7 will start pumping out the jams to the lucky citizens of Stockholm…who make their way to Snotty. In honor of the occasion, here’s my playlist for the month. I challenged myself to make as angst free of mix as possible. Think I got about halfway there. Eh, there’s always next month. 

Listen to the mix here. 

What better way to say, “I understand your ennui” than via cover song? Kinda like a birthday card that reminds you of your impending demise, covering a sad song can either be a killjoy, or evidence of a slyly perverse humor. For the final entry (for now anyway) in our ongoing “Cover Me” series, we took a look at our favorite Smiths and Morrissey covers. Check out our top ten favorite tributes to the maudlin musicians. (Read More)

What better way to say, “I understand your ennui” than via cover song? Kinda like a birthday card that reminds you of your impending demise, covering a sad song can either be a killjoy, or evidence of a slyly perverse humor. For the final entry (for now anyway) in our ongoing “Cover Me” series, we took a look at our favorite Smiths and Morrissey covers. Check out our top ten favorite tributes to the maudlin musicians.

(Read More)

Some musicians pour blood, sweat and tears into their work, laboring for years — sometimes lifetimes — to produce that one perfect album. Then there’s the other group of musicians, the kind whose creativity is seemingly limitless, and whose muse takes them in so many different directions that one band cannot contain their million different impulses. And thus, a side project is born. One suspects the first group of musicians must deeply resent the second, but we’d hate to interrupt genius at work to take a survey. (Read More)

Some musicians pour blood, sweat and tears into their work, laboring for years — sometimes lifetimes — to produce that one perfect album. Then there’s the other group of musicians, the kind whose creativity is seemingly limitless, and whose muse takes them in so many different directions that one band cannot contain their million different impulses. And thus, a side project is born. One suspects the first group of musicians must deeply resent the second, but we’d hate to interrupt genius at work to take a survey.

(Read More)