Lord Huron

Lord Huron

Lord Huron was created by Los Angeles-based artist Ben Schneider in 2010. After writing and recording two independent EPs (Into the Sun and Mighty) on his own, demand grew for Lord Huron to perform live. Schneider recruited friends Mark Barry (percussion), Miguel Briseño (bass) and Tom Renaud (guitar). Having first played music together at the tender age of 12, the group reunited and quickly hit their stride, transforming the project into a full-fledged live band. Lord Huron’s debut LP Lonesome Dreams was released in 2012 followed by Strange Trails in 2015. The latter featured the multi-platinum single “The Night We Met,” which has gone on to become one of Spotify’s Top 40 most-streamed songs of all time. In 2018, Lord Huron earned widespread critical acclaim and a Top 5 debut on the Billboard Top 200 with their third album, Vide Noir. Lord Huron’s most recent LP Long Lost garnered praise from NPR, Time, Los Angeles Times, Spin and Stereogum and sparked performances on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel Live!, The Late Late Show with James Corden and CBS This Morning: Saturday. The band’s extensive touring includes headline shows at some of the most storied venues in the country (including the Hollywood Bowl, Red Rocks Amphitheatre, and the Ryman Auditorium) and festivals ranging from Coachella and Lollapalooza to Bonnaroo, Outside Lands and more. 

THE ARMY THE NAVY

The Army, The Navy hails from the foothills of Mount Tamalpais, embraced by the San Francisco Bay and the Pacific Ocean. In the morning, dense fog encircles the mountain’s peak only to burn off by noon, when the sun’s rays penetrate dense canopies of redwoods. Maia Ciambriello and Sasha Goldberg no longer live here, but they’ve carried home throughout their
discography—the natural world tethers their astral songwriting to Earth. On their debut album, Fake Brave Life, The Army, The Navy tap into a cosmic power. The album is courageous, desperate, and exhausting all at once, a chronicle of what it feels like to take a risk, to fake bravery in service of a dream. It’s an album for and about artists, whose insecurities are
displayed each time they make an offering to an audience, hopeful that it will resonate. The Army, The Navy describes this as their most existential and intentional project to date, a moody odyssey through a dark, rainy night before the break of dawn. Fake Brave Life follows The Army, The Navy’s 2024 EPs, Fruit for Flies and Sugar for Bugs.

The duo amassed a following beginning in 2023 when their single “Vienna” caught fire online, leading them to open for artists like Dora Jar, Paris Paloma, and Matt Maltese. Last year, they sold out the majority of their headlining Gentle Hellraiser tour which took them across the United States and broadened their audience. Initially taken with spare production, The Army, The Navy threw themselves into making Fake Brave Life in both Athens, GA and New York City alongside producers Drew Vandenberg (Faye Webster, Of Montreal, Toro y Moi) and BLEACHERS’ Mikey Freedom Hart (Taylor Swift, Lana Del Rey, The Chicks). What started as an intimate process between two friends evolved into a full-blown studio production with session musicians and a string quartet who helped enact their vision.