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5 Albums I Can’t Live Without: Wesley Schultz of The Lumineers
Name Wesley Schultz Best known for Bearing a strong resemblance to Princess Bride main character also named “Wesley,” Cary Elwes: “AS YOU WISHHHH…” Current City I live in Denver, CO, am currently on tour in Grand Rapids, MI. Really want to be in Daydreaming of being in South Africa at a vineyard drinking copious amounts of wine or on a safari drinking copious amounts of wine. Excited about The Brightside world tour we are on which starts in North America and moves on to Asia, South Africa, Australia and India later in the year. My current music collection has a lot of Singer songwriters from the 70s in it. And a little bit of A healthy amount of Motown. Preferred format I like Vinyl in the house–we put a record player in the kitchen because ...
The Lumineers’ Wesley Schultz Talks Tapping Into His Emotions Before Getting Onstage
This week on SPIN Presents Lipps Service, host Scott Lipps sat down with The Lumineers‘ Wesley Schultz. In their conversation, the singer/guitarist traced the band’s origins, sharing how they came up with the band’s name, how playing the open mic circuit lead to their discovery and what it’s like to open for artists like Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers and U2. Since it began in 2018, the acclaimed podcast has featured many of the biggest voices and personalities in music, including exclusive interviews with Red Hot Chili Peppers singer Anthony Kiedis, David Lee Roth, Shepard Fairey, Courtney Love, Dove Cameron, Mick Fleetwood, Nikki Sixx, Perry Farrell and many, many more. In the previous edition episode, Lipps sat down with April cover star Yungblud for the second time to reflect on his 2...
The Lumineers Announce New Album BRIGHTSIDE, Share Title Track
The Lumineers have announced their fourth studio album, BRIGHTSIDE, and shared its title track. “The song ‘BRIGHTSIDE’ was recorded in a single day,” says singer-guitarist Wesley Schultz. “It’s like a 15-year-old’s fever dream, an American love story in all its glory and heartbreak. The last couple left, on the run from something and all alone…” The album was produced by The Lumineers’ longtime collaborator Simone Felice and produced, mixed, and engineered by David Baron during two sessions — winter and spring 2021 — at Baron’s Sun Mountain Studios in Boiceville, NY. Schultz and Jeremiah Fraites performed virtually all of the instrumentation, with Baron helping out on keyboards and backing vocals, along with Felice, touring members Byron Isaacs and Lauren Jacobson, famed backing...
Cold War Kids Enlist The Lumineers’ Wesley Schultz on ‘1 x 1′
Cold War Kids have released a new track, “1 x 1,” that sheds light on a community that many have been falling under the radar. “This song was inspired by the stories of child migrants separated from their families at the border,” singer Nathan Willett said in a statement. “Now that we are all quarantined, it has taken on an extra meaning…One by one each of us are staying apart to help the whole of us.” The acoustic guitar-led track saw the band co-write the song’s lyrics with One Republic’s Brent Kutzle and features Wesley Schultz of The Lumineers on vocals. Cold War Kids shared some of the lyrics on Twitter to convey more of their message. Since (almost) everyone is staying at their own homes, the video shows Willett standing by himself at the mic with projections of Schultz an others on ...
