Young the Giant brings Mirror Master to Edmonton
It’s a real trick to score radio hits and tour large halls in major cities and still be called “indie.”
Enter Young the Giant, which will play the Jubilee Auditorium on Friday, March 1, 2019. The Southern California quintet is touring behind their fourth studio album, Mirror Master. Tickets start at $27.50 and go on sale Friday.
Called a “modern rock melting pot” due to the multicultural nature of the band (singer Sameer Gadhia’s parents are East Indian, Payam Doostzadeh is from the Middle East, drummer Francois Comtois is from Quebec), the band had chart success from the very beginning. Two of the singles from their self-titled debut album in 2010, My Body and Cough Syrup, broke into the mainstream charts and can still be heard on the radio today. Three albums since then have made them stars of alternative rock. In short, indie – but if you consider indie a genre rather than a literal shortening of “independent,” Young the Giant certainly qualifies. Their music is all over the map, from folk to art-rock to touches of worldbeat, and like so many of their indie brethren is hard pin down to one genre.
It’s not as complicated as it sounds.
