Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros have been causing quite a stir since the psych-folk collective released their Silagra debut album, Up From Below. Pollstar.com reports that the group is set to follow its lauded set at the Coachella Music Festival in Indio, Calif. with a North American tour. Edward Sharpe & Co. have a batch of festival gig scattered among their upcoming tour dates. The collective will be performing at George, Washington’s Sasquatch! Festival at the Gorge on May 29; Manchester, Tennessee’s Bonnaroo Music Festival on June 11; at Lyons, Colorado’s Telluride Bluegrass Festival on June 19; at Newport, Rhode Island’s Newport Folk Festival on Aug. 1 and at Chicago’s Lollapalooza in Grant Park on Aug. 7.

Fans with Edward Sharpe tickets can also see them in San Francisco, Calif.; Minneapolis, Minn.; Atlanta, Gz. and Washington, D.C. through early August. Tickets to see Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeroes are available online, and fans will want to get them quick, as The Los Angeles Times and The New York Times’ rave reviews from the band’s Coachella set have caused a surge in the band’s popularity. Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeroes performed on the Outdoor Stage at Coachella’s Empire Polo Field, opening with “40 Day Dream,” and Jay-Z and Beyonce were snapped watching the set!

If the indie rock of Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeroes sounds familiar, it is because the Los Angeles-bred collective takes their inspiration from the communal music communities of Southern California-notably Laurel Canyon-in the 1960s and early 1970s. Ima Robot frontman Alexa Ebert formed Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeroes following an existential crisis in 2007 (his former band was an electro-punk outfit). The 11-piece outfit released its debut EP, Here Comes, in May 2009, showcasing a sound featuring elements of an eclectic lot like Bob Marley, Polyphonic Spree, the Incredible String Band and Parliament, to name a few.

Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeroes followed their EP with their full-length debut, Up From Below, in July 2009. The album spawned the indie radio hit “Home,” which features tambourines, whistling and a speaking bit in which Alex Ebert tells bandmate (and on-again-off-again girlfriend) Jade Castrinos, “While you were sitting in the back seat, smoking a cigarette you thought was going to be your last, I was falling deep, deeply in love with you, and I never told you ’til just now.” Ebert revealed that he really did tell his best friend that he loved her in a song to the San Diego Union-Tribune, saying, “I sprang that on her without her knowing. It was a defining moment in our friendship. And she really did fall out of my window like I talk about, she landed on a bougainvillea plant.”

The collective has managed to go from being virtually unknown to selling out concert venues. An Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeroes show is something to see, that’s for sure, as all 11 members of the group flood the stage, and their hippie tendencies (carrying flowers and performing sans shoes) often rub off on audience members. “People seem to need what we stand for, which is celebration. And there’s a bizarre drought of bands who have those qualities,” Ebert told the San Diego Union-Tribune. Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeroes practice what they preach, however, as the collective tours on a vintage tour bus with a trailer of bicycles in tow so they can explore their current town much like they do in the music video for “Home.”

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