Radar Bros. or Radar Brothers, the group’s focal point has, and always will be, Jim Putnam. Just prior to SXSW we caught up with the re-tooled, and newly christened, “Brothers” for an Aquarium Drunkard session at bassist Be Hussey’s Glendale studio. The band worked through four tracks off their new Merge Records release The Illustrated [...]

(Diversions, a recurring feature on Aquarium Drunkard, catches up with our favorite artists as they wax on subjects other than recording and performing.) Since their inception Le Switch have been called a lot of things, from Waits-ian barroom growlers to whiskey-soaked, confessional, soul-pop.  Both fitting, but one common descriptor that always manages to find its [...]

It’s hard to know what will work and what won’t, commercially, when it comes to influences. Critics are quick to call out a band for too closely appropriating a certain sound without adding much of its own originality, and when it comes to what Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings are doing, it would be an [...]