You and a guest will meet Grouplove and enjoy tickets from the Artist's Guest List when you attend an upcoming US headline show of your choice! To see tour dates, click HERE.
After scoring success with their chart topping single “Tongue Tied” and spending over two years on the road supporting their 2011 debut Never Trust A Happy Song, Grouplove took less than a week’s break before beginning work on their new album, Spreading Rumours. Where most bands might opt to take more time off, the LA-based group found themselves invigorated and inspired by the energy shared with their fans and, perhaps more importantly, with each other whenever they took the stage.
The band’s own origin is a story of spontaneity, fate, and self-discovery, reflecting many of the album’s themes. On a whim, after knowing each other for a matter of days, Zucconi, a struggling musician in New York City, accompanied Hooper - an accomplished painter who remains responsible for all of the band’s visual art - to an arts colony on the island of Crete. Drawn to one another by a shared creative spirit, the couple met Angelenos Wessen and Rabin. An impromptu reunion in Los Angeles a year later resulted in recording sessions that became their 2010 self-released EP. Response to the music was overwhelmingly positive – completely unexpectedly, the five friends became a band. Released in 2011, Grouplove’s full-length debut Never Trust a Happy Song served as a buoyant and beautiful introduction to the world, wound together by irresistible choruses, radiant harmonies, and cheery bits of pop-rock perfection. Buoyed by a trio of singles “Colours,” “Itchin’ On A Photograph,” and the aforementioned “Tongue Tied,” Grouplove became a mainstay on Alternative radio. Meanwhile, live in concert, the band was harnessing a growing energy. And as their popularity grew, it paid service to this success by building up a live show that would come to define Grouplove as a band and result in back-to-back, sold-out headlining runs in the U.S. and high profile sets at the biggest music festivals in the world.