On a Friday morning about a month ago, I became the lucky recipient of an additional “mix-tape” style CD kindly authored by our Music Librarian, Eric J. Lawrence, presenting some of the new or thrilling music that had recently been included with KCRW’s music library.

One of the paths that stood out to me was obviously a song from The Low Anthem’s newest album Smart Flesh called “Hey, All You Hippies!”

The Low Anthem, Smart Flesh – “Hey, All You Hippies!” by basis

I fell in love with your song for its drinking tune sing-a-long qualities and the way it instantly taught me to be feel like I was in the middle of an industry at a music festival a place.

I was listening to “Hey, All You Hippies!” once more this weekend and after doing digging around found footage from when The Low Anthem stopped simply by KCRW last year after SXSW. Worth talking about in their performance was their own live version of “To The particular Ghosts Who Write Background Books” from Oh My God, Charlie Darwin within which one member plays the singing saw while yet another plays the clarinet. It’s well established that bands with multi-instrumentalists make me vulnerable in the knees and the use of these instruments for this track gave a hauntingly beautiful result that is certainly no exception.

You can stream their entire Morning Becomes Eclectic efficiency from last year on demand the following.

I’m happy to report that The Lower Anthem are now actively touring using latest album and will be setting up a stop by The Autry at Griffith Car park on Monday, May Ninth. There are still tickets available and if they plan on pulling something like the below trick (concerning 3 and a half minutes directly into this great song), you can gamble I’ll be there!