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Novelist David Keenan interviews Stephen from The Pastels and vice versa about life in Glasgow and This Is Memorial Device

On this day in 1994, Pavement put out a slacker masterpiece that toed the line between selling out and knowing your audience.

From Elvis Presley to John Prine to Lauryn Hill to Billie Eilish, here are the 100 greatest debut albums of all time.

From Elliott Smith to Britney Spears to Lauryn Hill to Portishead, here are our picks for the greatest debut albums of the 1990s.

Any artist figuratively bragging about bleeding for their craft would be stopped short by Thurston Moore’s Sonic Life: A Memoir. That’s not only because of the doorstopper’s near 500 page heft, but also because the Sonic Youth guitarist makes those pages whiz by with jolting anecdotes, including one about how he repeatedly lacerated his finger, spurting blood across the stage, while playing his famously abrasive riffs. Or as he puts it, during a recent video call with Under the Radar: “A...

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Dublin rock group Girl Band, rocked the Button Factory in Temple Bar on Saturday night 27th September 2014.

It was a brand new era, and it felt great.