Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros will release their 13-song debut album, Up From Below this summer on Community Music & Fairfax Recordings. The band started playing shows together about two years ago. Fans are known to be so overcome with emotion at their lives shows that tears of euphoric joy are not uncommon.

There are many band members. They are known to circulate:

Alex Ebert Singer

Jade Castrinos Singer/Percussion

Tay Strathairn Piano

Josh Collazo Drums

Aaron Older Bass

Nico Aglietti Guitar and Synth

Christian Letts Guitar

Orpheo McCord Percussion

Nora Kirkpatrick Accordion

Stewart Cole Horns

EDWARD SHARPE & THE MAGNETIC ZEROS

Birthed by Mouth in the year two-thousand and five, young Edward Sharpe had to wait nearly two years before he was to grow his arms and legs and fingers and toes.    

Immaculately conceived, his father (a Robot who had magically become a real boy...but that's another story) declared his undying devotion to the creature. He perched the fleshy bust upon a teetering pedestal fashioned from stacked cereal boxes and positioned the display at his window for all the town to see. Young Edward soon proved no ordinary boy.    

Though his father had figured him deaf for his unresponsiveness to sounds, he in fact had the universally unique condition of being deaf from hearing too much or, more correctly put, too well. In plain words, he heard EVERYTHING AT ONCE.   

At first it proved rather painful like a wretched whining winding all hours, but very soon those who whisper visited young Edward and revealed to him the Tricks and Truths, the Ways and Plays, the Chords and Dischords of the Universe.   

He did not need to eat but the color of the sun, which was F#, and moved his bones to grow.   

His arms and legs and fingers and toes grew 'til the tower of boxes collapsed and he laughed. He moved thru the door which was C over B# and ran thru the village hearing ALL of its music! The workers and children and painters of buildings and dogs barking madly and trees bristling softly and OH!!   

Young Edward could not resist!  He began playing the tree which are the chords E and D 'gainst the mice in the grass which are A played with brass and the wooden fence F and then C and repeat with a drone of B Minor to bring in the street and the Birds B to B Sharp with fluttering strings and the sky mostly C unless he wants to bring in the rain and for rain bring the F Chord bombastic with organ's distortion and symbols a'crashin! 

Yes, and a music was born.