Since childhood, doctors warned Joshua Radin&mdash,who, as a toddler suffered a punctured eardrum, that he ran a grave risk of piercing pain if he ever immersed himself in water. &ldquo,I said, &lsquo,Alright, I&rsquo,m just going to live my life on land,&rsquo,&rdquo, he explained. That changed last year. He was penning Underwater in Los Angeles in near seclusion&mdash,an antidote to the last two years of being crammed on a tour bus with his band. And one day, he woke up and realized there was inspiration in the Pacific. So he bought earplugs and took the plunge. &ldquo,It was mind-blowingly cool,&rdquo, he says. Even when I&rsquo,m sleeping in bed. Read more
Since childhood, doctors warned Joshua Radin&mdash,who, as a toddler suffered a punctured eardrum, that he ran a grave risk of piercing pain if he ever immersed himself in water. &ldquo,I said, &lsquo,Alright, I&rsquo,m just going to live my life on land,&rsquo,&rdquo, he explained. That changed last year. He was penning Underwater in Los Angeles in near seclusion&mdash,an antidote to the last two years of being crammed on a tour bus with his band. And one day, he woke up and realized there was inspiration in the Pacific. So he bought earplugs and took the plunge. &ldquo,It was mind-blowingly cool,&rdquo, he says. Even when I&rsquo,m sleeping in bed, I can hear my heartbeat. I never realized the silence one experiences underwater. My brain was totally free to come up with a melody line, and that&rsquo,s where this album began, underwater.&rdquo,
That hope continues to trickle through the album in tracks such as the sweeping &ldquo,Anywhere Your Love Goes&rdquo, and the gently ambling &ldquo,Let It Go&rdquo, (about that time he jumped in his friend&rsquo,s convertible and high-tailed it up the Coast). Underwater is a more mature offering from Radin, who recruited a dream team of musicians to enhance his sound. Among them: pianist Benmont Tench (Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers), drummer Jim Keltner (Bob Dylan, John Lennon), and string arranger Jimmie Haskell (Simon and Garfunkel).
The singer has earned a loyal following for his wistful meditations: notably the rootsy-pop &ldquo,Streetlight&rdquo, (off 2010&rsquo,s The Rock and the Tide, which hit No. 5 on the iTunes album chart and No. 1 on its Alternative chart), the hushed, emotionally bare &ldquo,Winter&rdquo, (off 2006&rsquo,s We Were Here, which won a four-star review in Rolling Stone), and the lilting, melodic &ldquo,I&rsquo,d Rather Be With You&rdquo, (off 2008&rsquo,s Simple Times, which topped the iTunes album chart and went top 10 in ten different countries). The latter sold more than 300,000 albums worldwide. Radin&rsquo,s compositions have proven so affective that they&rsquo,ve seamlessly sound-tracked everything from Grey&rsquo,s Anatomy to American Idol to House. In fact, Radin&rsquo,s songs have been used more than 100 times in various films and television shows, making him a behind the scenes artist who&rsquo,s music you&rsquo,ve definitely heard but might not know it yet.
In 2008, Ellen DeGeneres personally asked Radin to perform at her intimate wedding with Portia de Rossi. &ldquo,I played six of my songs and Ellen and Portia just sat right in front of me looking at each other, crying, and looking at me,&rdquo, he recalls. &ldquo,I actually teared up a bit&mdash,that&rsquo,s never happened to me before.&rdquo,
Live performances have always been Radin&rsquo,s lifeblood. After stints as a screenwriter in New York and as an inner-city art teacher in Chicago, he moved out to Southern California to test his mettle as a musician. Because&hellip,why not? &ldquo,More than drawing, I taught those kids in Chicago a general perspective of the world&mdash,looking at something and not being overwhelmed. And it&rsquo,s how I&rsquo,ve always looked at life,&rdquo, he says. &ldquo,I&rsquo,ve always wanted to wake up every day and have the opportunity to be creative, to express what&rsquo,s going on in my head and heart, and to be able to connect with the world in that way. I may have started playing music much later in life than my peers, but i love going through life with the idea that it&rsquo,s never too late.&rdquo,
When his father gave him a guitar on a whim for his birthday, Radin taught himself C, D, and G chords. Then he upgraded to covers of Bob Dylan, Nick Drake, and Elliott Smith. Soon after, in 2004, he wrote his first song, &ldquo,Winter,&rdquo, about his fractured relationship with a longtime girlfriend.
The song so moved his college buddy Zach Braff, that the actor passed it along to a producer on his TV show Scrubs. Three weeks later, you could hear it on the show. The Scrubs buzz was fast and furious, crashing the NBC site and winning Radin a cache of fans. Radin worked hard to build a grassroots following after that experience, frequently posting fresh compositions on social-media sites.
&ldquo,I&rsquo,ve grown in terms of my live performance,&rdquo, he says, looking back. &ldquo,When I started, I was so nervous. I didn&rsquo,t even know how to play the guitar while standing&mdash,I had to sit. I couldn&rsquo,t open my eyes&mdash,I didn&rsquo,t want to see anyone. you have to understand that I never wanted the spotlight growing up. i never was drawn to the stage. So when i began composing music, just as a hobby, I was immediately thrust into a world I wasn&rsquo,t ready for, and I&rsquo,ve learned what I&rsquo,ve learned, without a net. Seven years later and four albums in, i see the stage as my home.&rdquo,
Underwater captures that feeling of surmounting fears, but it&rsquo,s also a culmination of Radin&rsquo,s love of the stage. Much of the album, co-produced by Radin and Kevin Augunas (John Brion, Edward Sharpe &, The Magnetic Zeros) was recorded at the storied Sound City, the once-ramshackle space that hosted Tom Petty&rsquo,s &ldquo,Damn the Torpedoes&rdquo, and Neil Young&rsquo,s &ldquo,After the Gold Rush&rdquo, sessions. They captured single takes on analog tape, to give the work a more organic feel. &ldquo,When you cut to tape, you record like you&rsquo,re playing live. That&rsquo,s why this album has more of a performance feel,&rdquo, he says.
To help pull off this feat, &ldquo,we brought in the most amazing musicians ever,&rdquo, Radin notes, admiringly of Tench, Keltner, and Haskell. The work of the latter (who also composed the strings for &ldquo,Bridge Over Troubled Water&rdquo,) is never more gutting than in &ldquo,Any Day Now,&rdquo, which closes the album. &ldquo,I wrote that on a guitar, and we ultimately decided to take all the guitar out,&rdquo, Radin says. &ldquo,Roger Joesph Manning Jr. (Fiona Apple, Beck) came in and played a bit of the Andromeda, an electric harpsichord, and some Wurlitzer. Then Jimmie arranged the strings around it. It&rsquo,s so cinematic. The opening of the song sounds like the camera swooping down into an old movie from the 1950&rsquo,s.
Radin will put Underwater&rsquo,s timelessness to the test this summer, touring throughout the world.
This biography was provided by the artist or their representative.
Since childhood, doctors warned Joshua Radin&mdash,who, as a toddler suffered a punctured eardrum, that he ran a grave risk of piercing pain if he ever immersed himself in water. &ldquo,I said, &lsquo,Alright, I&rsquo,m just going to live my life on land,&rsquo,&rdquo, he explained. That changed last year. He was penning Underwater in Los Angeles in near seclusion&mdash,an antidote to the last two years of being crammed on a tour bus with his band. And one day, he woke up and realized there was inspiration in the Pacific. So he bought earplugs and took the plunge. &ldquo,It was mind-blowingly cool,&rdquo, he says. Even when I&rsquo,m sleeping in bed, I can hear my heartbeat. I never realized the silence one experiences underwater. My brain was totally free to come up with a melody line, and that&rsquo,s where this album began, underwater.&rdquo,
That hope continues to trickle through the album in tracks such as the sweeping &ldquo,Anywhere Your Love Goes&rdquo, and the gently ambling &ldquo,Let It Go&rdquo, (about that time he jumped in his friend&rsquo,s convertible and high-tailed it up the Coast). Underwater is a more mature offering from Radin, who recruited a dream team of musicians to enhance his sound. Among them: pianist Benmont Tench (Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers), drummer Jim Keltner (Bob Dylan, John Lennon), and string arranger Jimmie Haskell (Simon and Garfunkel).
The singer has earned a loyal following for his wistful meditations: notably the rootsy-pop &ldquo,Streetlight&rdquo, (off 2010&rsquo,s The Rock and the Tide, which hit No. 5 on the iTunes album chart and No. 1 on its Alternative chart), the hushed, emotionally bare &ldquo,Winter&rdquo, (off 2006&rsquo,s We Were Here, which won a four-star review in Rolling Stone), and the lilting, melodic &ldquo,I&rsquo,d Rather Be With You&rdquo, (off 2008&rsquo,s Simple Times, which topped the iTunes album chart and went top 10 in ten different countries). The latter sold more than 300,000 albums worldwide. Radin&rsquo,s compositions have proven so affective that they&rsquo,ve seamlessly sound-tracked everything from Grey&rsquo,s Anatomy to American Idol to House. In fact, Radin&rsquo,s songs have been used more than 100 times in various films and television shows, making him a behind the scenes artist who&rsquo,s music you&rsquo,ve definitely heard but might not know it yet.
In 2008, Ellen DeGeneres personally asked Radin to perform at her intimate wedding with Portia de Rossi. &ldquo,I played six of my songs and Ellen and Portia just sat right in front of me looking at each other, crying, and looking at me,&rdquo, he recalls. &ldquo,I actually teared up a bit&mdash,that&rsquo,s never happened to me before.&rdquo,
Live performances have always been Radin&rsquo,s lifeblood. After stints as a screenwriter in New York and as an inner-city art teacher in Chicago, he moved out to Southern California to test his mettle as a musician. Because&hellip,why not? &ldquo,More than drawing, I taught those kids in Chicago a general perspective of the world&mdash,looking at something and not being overwhelmed. And it&rsquo,s how I&rsquo,ve always looked at life,&rdquo, he says. &ldquo,I&rsquo,ve always wanted to wake up every day and have the opportunity to be creative, to express what&rsquo,s going on in my head and heart, and to be able to connect with the world in that way. I may have started playing music much later in life than my peers, but i love going through life with the idea that it&rsquo,s never too late.&rdquo,
When his father gave him a guitar on a whim for his birthday, Radin taught himself C, D, and G chords. Then he upgraded to covers of Bob Dylan, Nick Drake, and Elliott Smith. Soon after, in 2004, he wrote his first song, &ldquo,Winter,&rdquo, about his fractured relationship with a longtime girlfriend.
The song so moved his college buddy Zach Braff, that the actor passed it along to a producer on his TV show Scrubs. Three weeks later, you could hear it on the show. The Scrubs buzz was fast and furious, crashing the NBC site and winning Radin a cache of fans. Radin worked hard to build a grassroots following after that experience, frequently posting fresh compositions on social-media sites.
&ldquo,I&rsquo,ve grown in terms of my live performance,&rdquo, he says, looking back. &ldquo,When I started, I was so nervous. I didn&rsquo,t even know how to play the guitar while standing&mdash,I had to sit. I couldn&rsquo,t open my eyes&mdash,I didn&rsquo,t want to see anyone. you have to understand that I never wanted the spotlight growing up. i never was drawn to the stage. So when i began composing music, just as a hobby, I was immediately thrust into a world I wasn&rsquo,t ready for, and I&rsquo,ve learned what I&rsquo,ve learned, without a net. Seven years later and four albums in, i see the stage as my home.&rdquo,
Underwater captures that feeling of surmounting fears, but it&rsquo,s also a culmination of Radin&rsquo,s love of the stage. Much of the album, co-produced by Radin and Kevin Augunas (John Brion, Edward Sharpe &, The Magnetic Zeros) was recorded at the storied Sound City, the once-ramshackle space that hosted Tom Petty&rsquo,s &ldquo,Damn the Torpedoes&rdquo, and Neil Young&rsquo,s &ldquo,After the Gold Rush&rdquo, sessions. They captured single takes on analog tape, to give the work a more organic feel. &ldquo,When you cut to tape, you record like you&rsquo,re playing live. That&rsquo,s why this album has more of a performance feel,&rdquo, he says.
To help pull off this feat, &ldquo,we brought in the most amazing musicians ever,&rdquo, Radin notes, admiringly of Tench, Keltner, and Haskell. The work of the latter (who also composed the strings for &ldquo,Bridge Over Troubled Water&rdquo,) is never more gutting than in &ldquo,Any Day Now,&rdquo, which closes the album. &ldquo,I wrote that on a guitar, and we ultimately decided to take all the guitar out,&rdquo, Radin says. &ldquo,Roger Joesph Manning Jr. (Fiona Apple, Beck) came in and played a bit of the Andromeda, an electric harpsichord, and some Wurlitzer. Then Jimmie arranged the strings around it. It&rsquo,s so cinematic. The opening of the song sounds like the camera swooping down into an old movie from the 1950&rsquo,s.
Radin will put Underwater&rsquo,s timelessness to the test this summer, touring throughout the world.
This biography was provided by the artist or their representative.
Since childhood, doctors warned Joshua Radin&mdash,who, as a toddler suffered a punctured eardrum, that he ran a grave risk of piercing pain if he ever immersed himself in water. &ldquo,I said, &lsquo,Alright, I&rsquo,m just going to live my life on land,&rsquo,&rdquo, he explained. That changed last year. He was penning Underwater in Los Angeles in near seclusion&mdash,an antidote to the last two years of being crammed on a tour bus with his band. And one day, he woke up and realized there was inspiration in the Pacific. So he bought earplugs and took the plunge. &ldquo,It was mind-blowingly cool,&rdquo, he says. Even when I&rsquo,m sleeping in bed, I can hear my heartbeat. I never realized the silence one experiences underwater. My brain was totally free to come up with a melody line, and that&rsquo,s where this album began, underwater.&rdquo,
That hope continues to trickle through the album in tracks such as the sweeping &ldquo,Anywhere Your Love Goes&rdquo, and the gently ambling &ldquo,Let It Go&rdquo, (about that time he jumped in his friend&rsquo,s convertible and high-tailed it up the Coast). Underwater is a more mature offering from Radin, who recruited a dream team of musicians to enhance his sound. Among them: pianist Benmont Tench (Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers), drummer Jim Keltner (Bob Dylan, John Lennon), and string arranger Jimmie Haskell (Simon and Garfunkel).
The singer has earned a loyal following for his wistful meditations: notably the rootsy-pop &ldquo,Streetlight&rdquo, (off 2010&rsquo,s The Rock and the Tide, which hit No. 5 on the iTunes album chart and No. 1 on its Alternative chart), the hushed, emotionally bare &ldquo,Winter&rdquo, (off 2006&rsquo,s We Were Here, which won a four-star review in Rolling Stone), and the lilting, melodic &ldquo,I&rsquo,d Rather Be With You&rdquo, (off 2008&rsquo,s Simple Times, which topped the iTunes album chart and went top 10 in ten different countries). The latter sold more than 300,000 albums worldwide. Radin&rsquo,s compositions have proven so affective that they&rsquo,ve seamlessly sound-tracked everything from Grey&rsquo,s Anatomy to American Idol to House. In fact, Radin&rsquo,s songs have been used more than 100 times in various films and television shows, making him a behind the scenes artist who&rsquo,s music you&rsquo,ve definitely heard but might not know it yet.
In 2008, Ellen DeGeneres personally asked Radin to perform at her intimate wedding with Portia de Rossi. &ldquo,I played six of my songs and Ellen and Portia just sat right in front of me looking at each other, crying, and looking at me,&rdquo, he recalls. &ldquo,I actually teared up a bit&mdash,that&rsquo,s never happened to me before.&rdquo,
Live performances have always been Radin&rsquo,s lifeblood. After stints as a screenwriter in New York and as an inner-city art teacher in Chicago, he moved out to Southern California to test his mettle as a musician. Because&hellip,why not? &ldquo,More than drawing, I taught those kids in Chicago a general perspective of the world&mdash,looking at something and not being overwhelmed. And it&rsquo,s how I&rsquo,ve always looked at life,&rdquo, he says. &ldquo,I&rsquo,ve always wanted to wake up every day and have the opportunity to be creative, to express what&rsquo,s going on in my head and heart, and to be able to connect with the world in that way. I may have started playing music much later in life than my peers, but i love going through life with the idea that it&rsquo,s never too late.&rdquo,
When his father gave him a guitar on a whim for his birthday, Radin taught himself C, D, and G chords. Then he upgraded to covers of Bob Dylan, Nick Drake, and Elliott Smith. Soon after, in 2004, he wrote his first song, &ldquo,Winter,&rdquo, about his fractured relationship with a longtime girlfriend.
The song so moved his college buddy Zach Braff, that the actor passed it along to a producer on his TV show Scrubs. Three weeks later, you could hear it on the show. The Scrubs buzz was fast and furious, crashing the NBC site and winning Radin a cache of fans. Radin worked hard to build a grassroots following after that experience, frequently posting fresh compositions on social-media sites.
&ldquo,I&rsquo,ve grown in terms of my live performance,&rdquo, he says, looking back. &ldquo,When I started, I was so nervous. I didn&rsquo,t even know how to play the guitar while standing&mdash,I had to sit. I couldn&rsquo,t open my eyes&mdash,I didn&rsquo,t want to see anyone. you have to understand that I never wanted the spotlight growing up. i never was drawn to the stage. So when i began composing music, just as a hobby, I was immediately thrust into a world I wasn&rsquo,t ready for, and I&rsquo,ve learned what I&rsquo,ve learned, without a net. Seven years later and four albums in, i see the stage as my home.&rdquo,
Underwater captures that feeling of surmounting fears, but it&rsquo,s also a culmination of Radin&rsquo,s love of the stage. Much of the album, co-produced by Radin and Kevin Augunas (John Brion, Edward Sharpe &, The Magnetic Zeros) was recorded at the storied Sound City, the once-ramshackle space that hosted Tom Petty&rsquo,s &ldquo,Damn the Torpedoes&rdquo, and Neil Young&rsquo,s &ldquo,After the Gold Rush&rdquo, sessions. They captured single takes on analog tape, to give the work a more organic feel. &ldquo,When you cut to tape, you record like you&rsquo,re playing live. That&rsquo,s why this album has more of a performance feel,&rdquo, he says.
To help pull off this feat, &ldquo,we brought in the most amazing musicians ever,&rdquo, Radin notes, admiringly of Tench, Keltner, and Haskell. The work of the latter (who also composed the strings for &ldquo,Bridge Over Troubled Water&rdquo,) is never more gutting than in &ldquo,Any Day Now,&rdquo, which closes the album. &ldquo,I wrote that on a guitar, and we ultimately decided to take all the guitar out,&rdquo, Radin says. &ldquo,Roger Joesph Manning Jr. (Fiona Apple, Beck) came in and played a bit of the Andromeda, an electric harpsichord, and some Wurlitzer. Then Jimmie arranged the strings around it. It&rsquo,s so cinematic. The opening of the song sounds like the camera swooping down into an old movie from the 1950&rsquo,s.
Radin will put Underwater&rsquo,s timelessness to the test this summer, touring throughout the world.
This biography was provided by the artist or their representative.
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