Joshua Radin

United States

Joshua Radin was lying sideways across a hotel bed in Stockholm when he wrote his new album. Spending the day in bed might seem a counterintuitive approach to productivity, but after feeling that the creative well had run dry, Radin found himself writing the strongest material of his career after turning 90 degrees. Titled Onward and Sideways, the album artfully and honestly captures the experience of falling completely and utterly in love, with all the joy and hesitancy and exhilaration and fear and doubt it entails.

Love and its complications have long been Radin’s songwriting forte. Though he never intended to be a live performer, there was little choice when the first song he ever wrote, Winter, was featured in an episode of Scrubs. Over the following decade he toured the world countless times, sold hundreds of thousands of records, topped the iTunes charts and had his songs featured in more than 150 films, commercials and TV shows.

For Onward and Sideways, his sixth studio album, Radin enlisted an all-star team of collaborators, including Sheryl Crow, who duets with him on the sweetly acoustic Beautiful Day, drummer Matt Chamberlain (Elvis Costello, David Bowie), pedal steel guitarist Greg Leisz (Jackson Browne, Willie Nelson), keyboardist Patrick Warren (Bob Dylan, Emmylou Harris) and producer and guitarist Tony Berg (The Replacements, Lucius).

At Video Sound Art he played on July 12th 2015 at the Museo della Scienza e della Tecnologia in Milan, in the Sala Biancamano.