Jonathan Rado
Musical artist
Jonathan Rado is an American musician, record producer and engineer, best known as a multi-instrumentalist in the indie rock duo Foxygen. Rado is a native of Westlake Village, California, where he formed Foxygen with his classmate Sam France in 2005.
After releasing four albums with Foxygen, Rado began producing albums for other artists, including the Killers, the Lemon Twigs, Tim Heidecker, Matt Maltese, Whitney, Alex Cameron, Father John Misty and Weyes Blood. In 2018, Billboard called Rado "one of indie rock's most in-demand producers". Rolling Stone called him an "analog fetishist who's become a producer of choice for a particular breed of like-minded indie-pop artists."
Rado is married to singer-songwriter Jackie Cohen. He also appeared in a 2008 episode of the television series Weeds and a 2009 episode of the sitcom Community. Rado is of Hungarian descent. He studied screenwriting at the School of Visual Arts in New York.
01Discography
Solo
- Law and Order (2013)
- Born to Run (2017)
- For Who the Bell Tolls For (2023)
with Foxygen
- Jurrassic Exxplosion Phillipic (2007)
- Take the Kids Off Broadway (2011)
- We Are the 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace & Magic (2013)
- ...And Star Power (2014)
- Hang (2017)
- Seeing Other People (2019)
02Credits
| Year | Artist | Album | Credits |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | Foxygen | We Are the 21st Century Ambassadors of Peace & Magic | Performer, Songwriter |
| 2014 | Foxygen | ...And Star Power | Producer, Performer, Songwriter |
| Dub Thompson | 9 Songs | Producer | |
| 2015 | Dante Elephante | Anglo-Saxon Summer | Producer |
| 2016 | Tim Heidecker | In Glendale | Additional Production |
| Whitney | Light Upon the Lake | Producer | |
| The Lemon Twigs | Do Hollywood | Producer | |
| 2017 | Foxygen | Hang | Producer, Performer, Songwriter |
| Los Angeles Police Department | Los Angeles Police Department | Producer | |
| Beach Fossils | Somersault | Producer | |
| Trevor Sensor | Andy Warhol's Dream | Producer | |
| Alex Cameron | Forced Witness | Producer | |
| 2018 | Cut Worms | Hollow Ground | Producer |
| Father John Misty | God's Favorite Customer | Producer | |
| Matt Maltese | Bad Contestant | Producer | |
| Jackie Cohen | Tacoma Night Terror, Part 1: I've Got the Blues | Producer | |
| Houndmouth | Golden Age | Producer | |
| Jackie Cohen | Tacoma Night Terror, Part 2: Self-Fulfilling Elegy | Producer | |
| 2019 | Weyes Blood | Titanic Rising | Producer |
| Foxygen | Seeing Other People | Producer, Performer, Songwriter | |
| Houndmouth | "Talk of the Town" from California Voodoo Part II | Producer, Songwriter | |
| Jackie Cohen | Zagg | Producer, Songwriter | |
| Tim Heidecker | What the Brokenhearted Do... | Producer | |
| Cuco | "KeepingTabs" and "Far Away From Home" from Para Mi | Producer | |
| Whitney | Forever Turned Around | Producer | |
| Alex Cameron | Miami Memory | Producer | |
| Jungle Green | Runaway with Jungle Green | Producer | |
| Adam Green | Engine of Paradise | Producer | |
| 2020 | Purr | Like New | Producer |
| Alex Izenberg | "Caravan Château" from Caravan Château | Producer | |
| Matt Maltese | "Queen Bee", "Madhouse", "Leather Wearing AA" from Madhouse EP | Producer | |
| The Lemon Twigs | Songs for the General Public | Additional Production | |
| The Killers | Imploding the Mirage | Producer, Songwriter | |
| Tim Heidecker | Fear of Death | Additional Production | |
| 2021 | Crumb | Ice Melt | Producer |
| Silvertwin | Silvertwin | Producer | |
| The Killers | Pressure Machine | Producer, Performer, Songwriter | |
| Oberhofer | Smothered | Producer, Performer | |
| 2022 | Diane Coffee | With People | Producer, Performer |
| Jackie Cohen | Pratfall | Producer | |
| Weyes Blood | And in the Darkness, Hearts Aglow | Producer | |
| 2023 | Whitney | "For a While" | Producer, Performer |
| Purr | Who is Afraid of Blue? | Producer | |
| Whitney | "Kansas" | Producer | |
| 2024 | Beyonce & Miley Cyrus | "II Most Wanted" from Cowboy Carter | Additional Production, Performer |
| Crumb | Amama | Producer | |
| The Killers | "Bright Lights" | Producer | |
| 2025 | Miley Cyrus | Something Beautiful | Producer, Songwriter, Performer |
| 2026 | Brandon Flowers | Thrasher | Performer, Producer |
Sources and credits
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- Foxygen (28446493249) (cropped).jpg by Caitlin Ison, Public domain
- Jonathan Rado and Sam France of Foxygen @ Flow 2015 (cropped).jpg by Kim Metso, CC BY-SA 4.0
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