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The High Strung
12+ albums
indie rockindieMichiganAlldaytrotter
about
Josh Malerman, the voice of the High Strung, likes to say it's because the band has been best friends since they were eleven that they were able to live in a bus together for 300 shows a year, five years running. But he also says it's the songs... and the way Derek Berk (drums) and Chad Stocker (bass) play them... that gets them to love the experience as much now as when they were, well, eleven. The High Strung are a curious band. Extremely hard workers (Malerman once hung up on a potential manager who said a band wasn't good just because they work hard), they are often mistaken as something much more simple than they are. The High Strung are not a traditional rock and roll band. The High Strung don't have a bluesy bone in their body (though they sometimes long for one). And because of a vigorous tour schedule that wasn't planned but continued to feed off itself nonetheless, the High Strung do not belong to any one scene or "movement". They can't sit still! It is hard to say exactly who the band sounds like (the words "quirky" and "autonomous" are ascribed them often) and it's maybe more telling to explain them in unusual musical terms. Maybe the High Strung have the SPIRIT of The Flaming Lips. Guided By Voices. Bands who produce seemingly impossible numbers (1200 shows, 400 songs) and who's audience exists more from word of mouth than by being in the right place and the right time. Maybe the High Strung have the SPIRIT of the Merry Pranksters. Leaving their tour bus at th
top songs
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The Luck You Got
62,5322The Luck You Got (Main Title)
5,3363The Lifestyle That Got Away
2,6244There Was No One Before You, There Was No One Before Me
2,4765Standing At the Door of Self Discovery
2,4406Never Saw It As Union
2,1587The Baddest Ship
2,0868Maybe You're Coming Down With It
1,7669N Over C
1,36510Missed Easily
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