Austin’s Zilker Park welcomed thousands of guests for the opening festivities of Austin City Limits Music Festival’s first weekend. Sunny skies and warm – but not scorching – temperatures ruled
Austin’s Zilker Park welcomed thousands of guests for the opening festivities of Austin City Limits Music Festival’s first weekend. Sunny skies and warm – but not scorching – temperatures ruled
Check out the indie-folk band’s stripped-down take on a Talking Heads classic.
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No one knows how long the indie-folk moment The Lumineers are spearheading will stay aflame but with performances, and sold out shows like this audiences will likely be able to see a progression and hopefully a maturation from the jam-based folksy energy into something more.
Thanks in part to their ubiquitous catchy shout-along, foot-stomping single, Hey Ho, The Lumineers emerged as arguably the biggest break-out act of 2012. The Denver-based band’s music was seemingly everywhere,
Authenticity, among other things, drives this album, and this band, to bridge the gulf between west-coast sunshine-pop and mid-west folksy rock. With the energy of youth and the buoyancy of hope and possibility, The Lighthouse and The Whaler deliver here with an engaging sound that shows room to grow and mature and will hopefully carry forward and be enhanced by their solid production, passionate lyrics and innovative instrumentation.
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he Lumineers is an incredibly impressive opening statement from a band with a lot to say, but who is determined to say it with a level of emotional integrity that is bound to resonate across genre.
Roots revivalists The Lumineers are poised to break out in 2012.
