Alternative Awesomeness

This week's entry comes from True Story reader and SMC alum Young Albatross:


"I don't know if you like these guys, they are Boilen favorites and "Home" has been playing on 102.7 (which I listen to going to and from work now that I know it comes in pretty clear down that way). Definitely cultish, definitely interesting, but pretty damn cool...

"Also......I'm pretty sure we could join the band if we just "let ourselves go" for a month or two...and learned how to play a tambourine or something... "



Also check out this live performance in the NPR music office in Washington, D.C. NPR sets us up for this spectacle:

Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros can't exactly slip into an office building unnoticed: Clad in the same clothes they'd worn at a concert the night before, the L.A. band's 10 ragtag misfits would have fit in far more seamlessly at, say, Burning Man. Seeming to exist in a blissed-out alternate universe — during the wonderful "Home," singer Jade Castrinos exclaims, "Good morning, everybody!" as the clock behind her reads 2:10 p.m. — this is a band whose performances beg to be seen as well as heard, not to mention shot through a wide-angle lens.

The biggest band to play a Tiny Desk Concert - the 10 members of The Magnetic Zeroes played three songs from their debut album (Up From Below).

The set included:
- Janglin
- Home
- 40 Day Daydream



(Editors Note: Is it too late to take accordion lessons???)

True Beards.