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X AMBASSADORS
Some of our most enduring rock and roll is built upon the following truth: Sometimes you have to replant yourself to find your roots. Nearly a decade ago, three of the four young members of Ithaca, New York, quartet X Ambassadors left home with great ambition, vowing not to look back. Like so many small-town kids before them, they yearned to find fame and fortune in the city. They wanted, as they confess in one of their most powerful new songs, to “go big.” And after years of hustling and overcoming personal challenges, rock stardom felt imminent. But something was missing. Some bands never get that missing piece back, but the potentially great ones go looking for it. More often than not, the search leads them right back home.
X Ambassadors’ stomping, syncopated full-length debut, VHS, is all about that exploration. The album features the Top 5 Alternative radio hit “Renegades” — a bouncing folk-rock ode to the misfits and adventurers, a staple on radio and television commercials.
X Ambassadors consists of four band members: Sam Harris (lead vocals, guitar, saxophone), Casey Harris (keyboard), Noah Feldshuh (guitar) and Adam Levin (drums). Sam Harris and Casey Harris are brothers, and have been friends with Feldshuh since kindergarten in Ithaca. Sam met Levin while attending the New School in New York City in 2010. Casey Harris has been blind since birth.
X AMBASSADORS, play Monday,
July 11th
at 9 p.m.
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