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Monday 23 January 2:48 p.m.
In early 2010 Mark
Foster, Cubbie Fink and Mark Pontius released "Pumped Up Kicks" under the guise
of Foster The People. The band put
the unknowingly, transmittable song on the internet and emailed it to a few
friends. A year later, and they've got over 1.4 million streams and a song that every DJ from
California to Australia can’t stop playing.
Foster
The People released an EP in January that includes “Pumped Up Kicks” and two
other equally contagious songs: “Houdini”
and “Helena Beat.” By the
end of their January residency in Los Angeles, 300 curious fans were stuck
outside the over capacity Echo and forced to wait until the Coachella to see
the songs take shape live. Meanwhile the fans inside experienced what the L.A. Times called, “chilled-out dance
floor ready indie-pop”. The frenzy continued two days later as the band played
to an over capacity crowd at the Detroit Bar in Costa Mesa.
And with the end of a successful residency,
a single in the Top 15 at Alternative radio and the completion of their first
full-length album, it became apparent that even in the coldest month of the
year, Foster The People had created
something that could withstand the winter and become more than the summer hit
that was declared to be "stunningly catchy." Foster The People
had created the soundtrack for your endless summer!