Radar Brothers
The Illustrated Garden

Record number four for West Coast psych disciples Radar Bros. can be heard as a new chapter for the long-standing and sadly underappreciated band, the...

“I’m a deer in your headlights”, singer Jim Putnam tells us as the start of this gauzy, languid record, “and I’m a bird in your gunsights.” It’s an ap...

A new Radar Bros album is as welcome as a cooling breeze from an open window amidst a room otherwise full of obnoxious, clamouring musical wannabes, t...

The new configuration of Radar Brothers finds founding member Jim Putnam (vocals, guitar, keyboard) in his usual position at the forefront now joined ...

Radar Bros.’ sixth LP The Illustrated Garden features an entirely new rhythm section and a surfeit of songs about birds (as opposed to the eclectic me...

After several solid albums-- many of them released by Merge-- and almost 15 years of effort, the bulk of Los Angeles' Radar Bros. have jumped ship. Am...

Jim Putnam’s ragged band of road warriors has faced a fair share of peaks and valleys these past few years. Radar Bros. have become a revolving door o...

After Radar Bros. seemingly came to an end in early 2008, main man Jim Putnam didn?t take too long before he found new band members with whom to conti...

Ironically, the abrupt change that nearly put the cap on theRadar Brothers' career two years ago actually resulted in the band's rebirth. Singer/guita...

This year has seen the return of Pavement, the poster children for that whole slacker-rock thing. But to me that label never quite seemed to fit Malkm...