Under the Radar (magazine)

Under the Radar

Under the Radar logo
Type	Music magazine
Owner(s)	Wendy Lynch Redfern and Mark Redfern
Publisher	Under the Radar
Editor	Mark Redfern
Founded	2001
Language	English
Headquarters	Los Angeles, CA
ISSN	1553-2305
Website	www.undertheradarmag.com

Under the Radar is an American magazine that bills itself as "The solution to music pollution" and features interviews with accompanying photo-shoots. Each issue includes opinion and commentary of the Indie music scene as well as reviews on books, DVDs and albums.

Items are reviewed based on a rating system in which each album, book and DVD receives a rating from 1 to 10. The magazine has been in publication since late 2001 and is issued quarterly each year, with Winter, Spring, Summer and Fall editions.

The magazine was founded by co-publishers (and husband and wife) Mark Redfern and Wendy Lynch Redfern who were married on June 2, 2007 and currently run the magazine. Mark is the magazine's Senior Editor and writes many of the magazine's articles. Lynch is the Creative Director and lays out each issue. She is also a music photographer and conducts photo-shoots for the magazine, including many of its covers.

In 2003 Mark Redfern and writer Marcus Kagler interviewed acclaimed singer/songwriter Elliott Smith for an Under the Radar cover story and Wendy Lynch photographed him for the cover. It was the first interview that Smith had done in a couple of years and at the time he was hard at work on his album From a Basement on a Hill. Elliott Smith took his own life later that year and the Under the Radar feature ended up being Smith's last ever interview and photo-shoot.

In 2004 and 2008, coinciding with the U.S. presidential elections, Under the Radar put together special “Protest Issue.” In addition to politically themed articles, bands were photographed with self-made protest signs and the photos ran in the issue. The autographed protest signs were later auctioned off on eBay, with all the profits donated to the political action group Music for America. Previous participants have included: Yoko Ono, Billy Bragg, Death Cab for Cutie, Badly Drawn Boy, Joan Baez, Devendra Banhart, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Bright Eyes, David Cross, Cursive, The Decemberists, Ani DiFranco, Elbow, Faithless, Perry Farrell, The Flaming Lips' Wayne Coyne, The (International) Noise Conspiracy, Interpol, Iron and Wine, Ted Leo, Les Savy Fav, Le Tigre, Luna, MC5, Metric, Pedro the Lion, Radio 4, The Secret Machines, Pete Seeger, The Sleepy Jackson, Super Furry Animals, They Might Be Giants, Sharon Jones, St. Vincent, Built to Spill, The Dresden Dolls, Modest Mouse, Jarvis Cocker, Shout Out Louds, The Dears, British Sea Power, Foals, Jamie Lidell, The Duke Spirit, Neon Neon, Lightspeed Champion, Stars.