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  Love Train: A Peek at Mumford & Sharpe's Rail-Riding Doc 'Big Easy Express'

  June 20, 2012 – The documentary Big Easy Express is equal parts The Real World and O Brother, the true story of 130 people, picked to live on a train and play indie-folk at rail stations from Oakland to New Orleans. It focuses on about 30 of those people: the members of British troubadours Mumford & Sons, Nashville old-timey bluegrass experts Old Crow Medicine Show and twangy L.A. …
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  Hangout Fest 2012: Flaming Lips, Edward Sharpe, Big Freedia and 3 More Sunday Highlights

  May 21, 2012 – Did you know you could sync up Dark Side of the Moon to... an actual solar eclipse? SPIN's final day at Alabama's Hangout Fest featured a psych-out, a legend, and lots of ass shaking. …
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  Edward Sharpe's Alex Ebert: 'We're Not the '60s Ride At Disneyland'

  May 15, 2012 – Squint your eyes at an Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros show and you might wonder what year you're in. Led by scraggly frontman Alex Ebert, the joyous hippy troupe was one of the biggest left-field success of the last few years, as its heavily '60s influenced debut, 2009's Up From Below, and the accompanying hit single "Home," helped turned the band into festival favorites. Ebert and Co. …
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• Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros, 'Here' (Community/Vagrant)

  May 14, 2012 – If Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros didn't exist, the deities who put on music festivals would have to invent them. The band has the loose feel of a jam act without the endless noodling. They radiate warm nostalgia on account of an ersatz Jesus frontman, Alex Ebert, backed by a beaming ten-member band who look zapped direct from Yasgur's farm. They play pleasant, low-key anthems that are easy to sing along to. …
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  Edward Sharpe Lead 'Man on Fire' Hoedown on 'Letterman'

  May 11, 2012 – "A lot going on," David Letterman enthused after Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeroes' performance last night on Late Show. "A lot of music." The late-night TV host wasn't wrong: As a live proposition, "Man on Fire," from from the band's upcoming sophomore album Here (out May 29 on Vagrant), turns into an enthusiastic exercise in old-timey gospel-folk maximalism. …
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  Edward Sharpe Discuss Tightening Up on New LP 'Here'

  April 20, 2012 – Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros' frontman Alex Ebert plays in a ramshackle folk-pop band cum traveling circus with nine other members, has a wild nest of hair atop his head, and spends large portions of his concerts wading messianically into the crowd. "Discipline" is a not a word you'd associate with this man. It also gives him some trouble. …
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  Edward Sharpe Debuts Down-Home Love Duet 'That's What's Up'

  April 3, 2012 – L.A.'s Edward Sharpe is still in folksy character on the latest track from May 29 album Here, the follow-up to 2009 breakthrough Up From Below. …
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