We have teamed up with our friends at Homeslice Pizza for their super-fun SXSW day parties on March 18th-20th called “Music by the Slice.” Totally free and open to the public! Come by, have some delicious pizza and see some great music!
Merge bands @ Music by the Slice!
Homeslice Pizza – 1415 S. Congress St. Austin, TX
Thursday:
1:30 The Love Language
2:15 Radar Brothers
Friday:
Noon Let’s Wrestle
3:45 Wye Oak
6:45 Lou Barlow
Full party line-up can be found here!
On March 23, Radar Brothers will release The Illustrated Garden. Jim Putnam has found a new band of brothers in bass player Be Hussey and drummer Stevie Treichel, two partners who are equally passionate about the band.
The original line-up of Radar Brothers died on January 29th, 2008. The band was on stage at the Echo in Los Angeles playing the record release show for their new album, Auditorium. However, after a brief hiatus, the new configuration of Radar Brothers began with live performances. Jim, Be and Stevie built a tight bond while touring together in the US and Europe. Writing together was the natural next step and March 23rd, 2010 represents the culmination of the Radar Brothers rebirth.
The Illustrated Garden is the punchiest, most lyrically direct set of songs the band has released to date. The songs are unmistakably Radar Brothers, but the Treichel/Hussey rhythm section often pushes them in unexpected directions.
Radar Brothers will perform at SXSW in March and a US tour is planned for early summer. Brian Cleary (The Movies), keyboard player and guitarist Dan Iead (The Broken West) will join Radar Brothers touring band and on future recordings.
Download a free MP3 of “Horses Warriors” from The Illustrated Garden now!
Movies:
The Hangover
I Love You Man (“I’ll take a coldish”)
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Whatever Works
Hurt Locker
Music:
Extra Golden: Thank You Very Quickly
Animal Collective: Merriweather Post Pavilion
The Movies: Based on a True Story
Trans Am: What Day is it Tonight
Kraftwerk: The Catalogue
Best TV Show:
Soft Focus
photo credit: Piper Ferguson
Radar Bros. are working on a new record! To keep us all posted on their activities, they have a new blog and can now be found on twitter.
The Bros. will perform at XX Merge, and you can visit the Merge store for all of your Radar Bros. shopping needs, including some cute girly t-shirts!
Radar Bros. and Wye Oak contributed covers of traditional folk songs for Splice Today‘s first annual mix of original recordings of traditional folk music, The Old Lonesome Sound. They are joined by Headlights, Deer Tick and many more. Visit Splice Today to listen & download The Old Lonesome Sound
Radar Bros. and The Broken West contributed covers of songs from Paul McCartney’s RAM for Aquarium Drunkard’s RAM on LA: A Los Angeles Music Sampler. Radar Bros. chose “Uncle Albert / Admiral Halsey” and The Broken West give their take on “Eat at Home”.
The RAM love continues tonight on WFMU. Portastatic, Ted Leo, Aimee Mann, Death Cab for Cutie and others have covered the songs of RAM as a benefit for The Best Show on WFMU. Portastatic covered “Ram On” as his contribution.
If you visit the WFMU website or call 800-989-9368 tonight between 8 and 11 PM EST during The Best Show and pledge at least $75 you will receive a prize pack that includes both a new Scharpling & Wurster cd of guaranteed hilarity, but also a CD of various artists covering the entirety of Paul and Linda McCartney’s album RAM.
Jim Putnam & the Bros. will stop by this afternoon at WERS in Boston! Tune in at 5pm EST for a few live songs & interview, and be sure to catch the few remaining Radar Bros. dates on the east coast!
12/9 Cambridge MA The Middle East Upstairs
12/10 Brooklyn NY Union Hall
12/12 Baltimore MD Talking Head
Auditorium is on sale now in the Merge store!
Radar Bros. played Emo’s on Day 1 of SXSW this year. Here’s a sample of the set!
Radar Bros. @ Urban Outfitters! We’ll have a takeaway show to post before long, too! Get your copy of Auditorium here.
Portastatic at the Other Music Party:
Stock up on Portastatic records here.
Wye Oak play in a Yaris! Pre-order If Children here.
Shout Out Louds played the NPR party (amongst many others!) Full concert for download here. Purchase Our Ill Wills here.
She & Him played a few songs for the KGSR morning show. Download live versions of “Change is Hard” and “You Really Got a Hold on Me”. Purchase Volume One here.
Destroyer at the Stereogum party! More great photos here! Get your copy of Destroyer’s newly released record Trouble in Dreams here.
Let us know if you see more SXSW reports that we may have missed! See ya next year, Austin!
A selection of photos from our SXSW 2008 experience:
Wye Oak warming up backstage at The Parish
She & Him trying to stay cool!
A hard-earned Shout Out Louds’ nap!
Jimmy Putnam and the new Radar Bros. onstage at The Parish
Carl “Lipsill” von Arbin from Shout Out Louds & Mac Merge/Portastatic
Bebban & Ted from Shout Out Louds
Bejar & Fisher of Destroyer
Christina Merge & Ross “Rusty79″ Flournoy of The Broken West
“Blogger Cage” at the Stereogum/Paste Lounge
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