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RENEE MONTAGNE, host:
Let's hear now from a new band, a band that's playing to sell-out shows and getting prime slots at big-name music festivals - this, even though the band hadn't released an album until now.
Foster the People is best known for the breezy-sounding single "Pumped Up Kicks," which fans are calling the anthem of the summer.
(Soundbite of song, "Pumped Up Kicks")
FOSTER THE PEOPLE (Rock Band): (Singing) All the other kids with the pumped up kicks. You'd better run, better run, outrun my gun. All the other kids with the pumped up kicks, you'd better run, better run, faster than my bullet. All the...
MONTAGNE: Foster the People is an L.A. band, though it's led by a musician who grew up in Cleveland, Ohio. Mark Foster credits that ultimate California band, The Beach Boys, with first piquing his interest in music and making him...