Artist: Death Cab For Cutie Title: Kintsugi Label: Atlantic Records Genre: Indie Since forming in 1997, Death Cab For Cutie had never named a record until after it was finished, at which point they would all pitch ideas to one another and decide on a title together. This was the norm for over 15 years […]
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UTG @ CMJ 2014: Have Mercy Discuss Taco Bell, Their New Record, And Plans For 2015
October 27th, 2014 
Dana Reandelar Baltimore breakthrough alternative outfit, Have Mercy, played Big Picture Media’s CMJ showcase this year. Under The Gun got to sit down with the band and talk about their fantastic Hopeless Records debut, A Place Of Our Own, which comes out today, October 27. The band also talked a bit about their plans for 2015, which […]
UTG’s 31 Days Of Halloween: 10 Unforgettable Horror Shorts
October 26th, 2014 Brian Leak Of all the holidays celebrated worldwide, no single day is more loved by the UTG staff than Halloween. With the arrival of the year’s best month, the time has finally come to begin rolling out a plethora of features and special announcements we have prepared in celebration of our favorite day, including the one you’re […]
Jason Sudeikis, Bill Hader, And More Join ‘Angry Birds’ Movie
October 1st, 2014 James Shotwell Way to go, internet. You’ve tempted fate by devoting hundreds of thousands of hours to a single smartphone game, and now we are all going to pay the price. Angry Birds, known throughout most of the digital world as arguably the most popular app franchise of all time, has revealed a number of a major […]
UTG INTERVIEW: Vision The Kid & Tru Discuss ‘Somewhere In A Dark City’
September 29th, 2014 Brian Leak “I believe strongly in the message and music we create; naturally I want the masses to feel the same.” Roughly two years ago, rapper Vision The Kid and producer Tru joined forces to craft the best songs they could collaboratively, and the end result is the excellent 14-track LP Somewhere In A Dark City which […]
REST IN PEACE: Robin Williams (1951-2014)
August 11th, 2014 James Shotwell This is one of the hardest headlines I have ever had to write. The world has lost one of the funniest and most talented souls to ever walk its surface, and I am fighting back tears with each key stroke. News is breaking this evening that legendary comedian and silver screen icon Robin Williams was […]
UTG LIST: The Best Releases You Might Have Missed From The First Half of 2014
June 30th, 2014 Matthew Leimkuehler If there’s one thing 2014 has brought us thus far it is an array of fantastic music. It seems as though every week there is a new record released that needs to be thrown into the consideration for album of the year. For our mid-year review at Under The Gun, we wanted to bring you […]
UTG INTERVIEW: Filmmaker Andrew Rossi Talks ‘Ivory Tower’ And The Problem(s) With Higher Education
June 27th, 2014 James Shotwell It makes me feel old to say it, but when I entered college in 2006 the discussion over rising student loan debts had barely begun. By the time I graduated in 2010, however, that problem had evolved into a full-blown national crisis. Current students and those that have graduated have accrued more than one trillion […]
REVIEW: Ceres – ‘I Don’t Want To Be Anywhere But Here’
June 11th, 2014 Brenton Harris Artist: Ceres Album: I Don’t Want To Be Anywhere But Here Genre: Alt Rock, Emo Label: Hobbledehoy Records Emerging from somewhere among the hidden laneways, hipster cafes and Gothic architecture of Melbourne, alternative rock quartet Ceres have ridden their finely crafted tales of inner city life from the status of little known but revered local […]
EDITORIAL: Love You Like A Sister – Kathleen Hanna, Feminism And ‘The Punk Singer’
June 5th, 2014 Grace Duffy When I was in college, I went through a phase where “Sugar” by Bikini Kill was the answering machine message on my phone. I was young and nonchalent, so myself and my two best friends recorded ourselves singing it (woefully) and set it as the message that all rejected callers would hear. It seems like […]
UTG INTERVIEW: Oakes & Smith
February 1st, 2014 Brian Leak Robert Oakes and Katherine Smith met by chance in the summer of 2007 and as they connected immediately on many levels, the two brought their creative strengths together to form a project that has been progressing ever since. The two just released their brand new album, First Flight, in November of 2013, a beautiful folk […]
Leanne Cushing’s ‘Best of 2013’ In Music
January 1st, 2014 Leanne Cushing My friends, UTG colleagues and I are all driven and inspired by music in some way or another. It is the art form that we connect with the most; it is the way we communicate our aspirations to the outside world and helps connect us to people with similar loves, dreams and ambitions.