Have you detected a recurring demographic at your shows? GHOST ON THE SHORE LORD HURON GUITAR GUITAR HOW TOTrying to figure out how to make a living doing this is not easy. Is the music biz like you thought it would be? We're having a good time becoming part of the scene. musicians but the ones I've met have been great. I'm still not that familiar with too many L.A. People are really open to a lot of different styles so there's a lot of great experimental stuff happening. There's a pretty diverse music scene, at least compared to New York. It was my friends from Michigan who moved out here for the band. Once you find your niche, though, it's really a great place to live. How did you survive the culture shock when you moved to L. It wasn't too bad but I've got to admit, I didn't have much of an appetite. How was the food backstage at "The Tonight Show"? But you never know where you really stand, so you just keep going and see what happens. to playing on Jay Leno a couple years later. Everything that's happened has happened really fast, from playing to nobody in L.A. What was your big break in the music business, or have you had it yet? We don't agree on too much but we agree on a couple of things. It's a good place for artists to live, that's for sure. A lot of young people are moving there and the whole structure of the city is changing. It's had its ups and downs but it's kind of exciting what's happening in Detroit right now. Is he right about most things in your home state? I grew up there and I went to school there and then I kind of left after I finished college. What's happening in Michigan? You lived there or you're from there? We're excited to get back on the road and keep pushing it. I don't know if we're quite there yet but, you know, it's been a great response so far. How did "Lonesome Dreams" make out? Are you guys rich rock stars? I saw my buddies the Super Humanoids play there. So they have shows there every once in a while, or what? That's fitting because we're all North American mammals, I guess. I think they put us right in the North American Mammals Hall. What's up with that gig? Do you play by the dinosaur bones or what? in a few days to play at the Natural History Museum. I'm just on a little break right now for a couple weeks, seeing my family and visiting some friends in Michigan. Reached back in the Wolverine State, Schneider discussed the latest. The reinforcements include Brett Farkas and Tom Renaud, both on guitar and vocals Miguel Briseno on bass and percussion and Mark Berry on percussion and vocals. Lake Huron started out as a solo project of Michigan native-turned-Angeleno Ben Schneider, but four more guys from Michigan followed Horace Greeley's advice and have turned Schneider into a band leader. Much of the band buzz has to do with Lord Huron's full-length debut, "Lonesome Dreams," which was released in October and aptly described as a "slow-motion roller coaster ride." The group's folk-rock Americana sound just might enthrall fans of Mumford & Sons, Shovels & Rope and the Avett Brothers. Indie buzz band Lord Huron will play a cool, oddball gig ? sort of "Jurassic Park" meets "Night at the Museum" ? when it performs tonight among the fossils at the Museum of Natural History in Los Angeles. Be good now.Lord Huron will rock the fossils tonight at the Museum of Natural History Time washes aways what man creates, but ‘Long Lost’ might convince you that a note can live on. But somethin’ caught my eye: a hand-scratched note bound to a faded vinyl record called “Long Lost.” I brushed the dust off the cover and saw that the artist was none other than Lord Huron.Say, Tubbs, the note read. When I woke, the light from the next day was easin’ into the Pines and I was alone. I must have drifted off in a cosmic slumber with the tunes janglin’ heavy and happy in my heart. It was like some long, lost dream come to life, a forgotten classic from a parallel dimension, the echo of a memory that wasn’t mine. The boys filled the air-and my own soul-with those tales of hard luck, heartbreak, and redemption, as if they had become conduits for the spirits of the room and were usin’ them to tap into that cosmic eternal. I even heard ’em talk about recordin’ a gigantic string and woodwind orchestra in some dang place like Sweden. Guitars, cymbals, pianos, pedal steel, mandolins, microphones, saxophones-I was glad to see their hands on all of it. If you’ve ever recorded at the Pines, then you know nothin’ is off limits. Those boys know what they’re doin’, having made a few records with us. Recently, those good-time bootscooters known as Lord Huron booked the live room in Whispering Pines for a recordin’ spell.
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