Foster the People is Mark Foster, Cubbie Fink and Mark Pontius. Founded by Foster in Los Angeles in 2009, the group achieved success with the 2011 release of their debut album Torches, which has sold nearly two million albums and over nine million singles worldwide. Torches features the #1 hit single “Pumped Up Kicks,” which […]
Los Angeles-based trio Fairground Saints create their warm and wistful sound by playing off the delicate contradictions at the heart of their music. With each member sharing songwriting duties, Mason Van Valin and Elijah Edwards impart a starkly literate, sometimes-gritty sense of introspection informed by artists like Bob Dylan and Jim Messina, while their fellow […]
I first heard Donavon through Jack Johnson and found myself flashing back to my college days. Back in those days it was coffee houses and singer-songwriters. When I saw Donovan’s concert this past weekend at KAABOO it took me right back to the first time I heard him. He played on the main stage in the […]
While the buzz was building in early 2014 about the Internet of Things, Allen Stone was recording in his rustic Washington State cabin and extolling the virtues of an old-fangled kind of connection – the one that exists between people playing music together. The 26- year-old soul singer, praised as a “pitch-perfect powerhouse” by USA […]
Sixteen essential Frank Zappa albums are newly available for download purchase from all major digital music retailers worldwide, including studio, concert and audio documentary recordings originally released between 1999 and 2013. Zappa Records/UMe will follow the new Frank Zappa digital releases with a remastered 40th Anniversary Edition of Frank Zappa & the Mothers of Invention’s […]