* = w/ Ola Podrida

June 1 Pasadena, CA Make Music Pasadena
June 12 Los Angeles, CA The Satellite*
June 13 San Francisco, CA Cafe du Nord*
June 14 Davis, CA Sophia’s Thai Kitchen*
June 16 Portland, OR Doug Fir Lounge*
June 17 Seattle, WA Tractor Tavern*
June 18 Boise, ID Neurolux*
June 20 Englewood, CO Moe’s Denver*
June 21 Oklahoma City, OK The Conservatory*
June 22 Denton ,TX Rubber Gloves Rehearsal Studios
June 23 Austin, TX The Mohawk*
June 25 Phoenix, AZ The Crescent Ballroom
June 26 Tucson, AZ Club Congress

** SEE ALL SHOWS **

Radar Brothers – “House of Mirrors”
Directed by Steve Hanft

You can stream it, order it on LP, download it from iTunes, whatever suits you:

What they’re saying about EIGHT:

• RCRDLBL

• Pop Matters

• So Much Silence

• Austin Town Hall

Record Release shows:

EIGHT will be released on LP January 29, 2013 on Merge (US/Japan/Digital Worldwide) and Feb. 19 (UK/EU). LP includes a CD.

To be released on January 29, 2013 on Merge (US/Japan) and Feb. 19 (UK/EU).

Radar Brothers return with Eight, a very special new release only available on LP and digital beginning January 29. Featuring an expanded band of brothers including Stevie Treichel and Be Hussey from The Illustrated Garden as well as new members Dan Iead (formerly of The Broken West) on guitar/pedal steel, and Brian Cleary and Ethan Walter on piano and synthesizers. Between the two keyboards and Iead and Putnam’s guitars, the band orchestrates a swirling fervor that glides over Triechel and Hussey’s rhythmic aggressions.

The band called the record Eight (being their eighth), and it may well be Radar Brothers’ darkest, hardest rocking, most psychedelic, and yet most intensely personal album to date. From Putnam’s tribute to Joni Mitchell’s cover art (The Hissing of Summer Lawns) to the surreal, picturesque lyrics to the unidentifiable textures and sounds that pour from your speakers like liquid paintings – this may also be the band’s most visual album to date.

So forget everything that you know or have ever thought about Radar Brothers. From the very start, Eight explodes with newness and bold, otherworldly jaunts. While paying tribute to their past on several songs, the band retains its swagger in this new territory throughout the rest.

Pre-order Eight on LP now in the Merge store. LP will include CD in package. All pre-orders will be shipped to arrive on or before January 29 and receive a free Merge slipmat.

We’re in the middle of recording for the new record! It’s going great so far. Lots of dual-studio action, analog tape, and inspiration in all forms (see above photo…”Be Here Now”, “In The Studio with Michael Jackson” by Bruce Swedien, “1000 Record Covers”, and reels of old Quantegy/Ampex 499 and a new reel or two of ATR). As this is turning out the be the largest line-up of Brothers yet, (and maybe sisters??…who knows) it has been dubbed the RADAR BROTHERS FAMILY MAGNETIC. We like it so far. We’ll see if it has legs. Dan and Stevie have been living on the east coast (Brooklyn and D.C.) so the tracking has been fast and furious and dare we say, on point!

Since the last record, the line-up has increased to include Dan Iead (guitars), Ethan Walter (keyboards, guitar), and Brian Cleary (keyboards), in addition to Jim Putnam, Be Hussey, and Stevie Treichel. We’ll see who turns up for the live shows. It’s one big magnetic family!