Joshua Radin

19 Oct 2010 / Roundhouse Main Space

From Cleveland via New York and LA, Joshua Radin is the uniquely word-of-mouth global success story that’s just about to get a whole lot bigger. Radin’s music career got off the ground when he became the first signing to American label mom&pop, a new independent launched by Q Prime, the management company behind Muse, Mars Volta and Red Hot Chili Peppers. Radin’s latest album, 'Simple Times', the follow-up to the charmingly lo-fi 2006 debut 'We Were Here', sees him collaborate with producer Rob Schnapf (Beck, Elliott Smith), following a series of demos recorded with the legendary Rick Rubin. 

'Simple Times' has already sold over 100,000 copies in the US and 500,000 downloads worldwide, with no publicity or physical release. These are the latest results of Radin’s organic expansion, that enabled him to sell out the Shepherds Bush Empire without a song on the radio, and to subsequently sign to 14th Floor Records, home to Damien Rice and Ray LaMontagne. 

This alternative route to prominence began when Zach Braff, star of US TV comedy-drama Scrubs, heard the demo of Radin's first song - a sparse, achingly pretty number, called ‘Winter’ - and featured it in a Scrubs episode in 2004. Since then, his songs have featured in shows including Grey’s Anatomy, One Tree Hill, House, 90210, Brothers and Sisters and Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip.

Radin believes his word-of-mouth success has given his fans a personal stake in it all: “I sell out shows because people hear my songs and look me up. When you get hammered in the ears by top 40 radio, the listener doesn’t feel a lot of ownership. But if they hear one of my songs under dialogue in a TV show or a film and like it enough to get on the internet and search for the lyric and they find it and find me and start listening to my songs, they feel like they want to stick with me.”

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