WHAT IT IS: Without initial promotion or fanfare, Mt. Joy’s first-ever song took off on Spotify, racking up 5m+ streams. C3 and Billions soon followed, and the band played some of their first shows with The Head and the Heart on the way to SXSW, where Dualtone fell in love and quickly signed them. Their debut album is a startlingly open document, wracked with the anxieties and fears that come just as life seems to start working out, as they’ve gone from virtual unknowns to hot young commodities in a little over a year.
ALBUM: Mt. Joy
RELEASE DATE: 3/2
SINGLE: “Silver Lining”
TV: Conan
LIVE: Played Bonnaroo, Lollapalooza, Newport Folk and Made in America and toured with The Head and the Heart, The Lone Bellow and The Revivalists in 2017; upcoming headline tour pre and post-SXSW, plus spring dates with The Head and the Heart and Grouplove
INTERNET: 18m+ streams across the first four songs released
RADIO: Just debuted at AAA, #22 with over 75% of the panel spinning the record; early Modern Rock adds include Alt Nation, WEQX, WNFZ, WLKK, WEDG, Music Choice, KUCD, WZRH, KROX, WROX, KKDO, KQGO
PRESS: Rolling Stone (“On ‘Silver Lining’ they sing about friends they’ve lost to addiction and still kick a chorus that could raise the roof of a hockey arena”), NPR First Listen (“amiable and soaring”), Huffington Post, Nylon
BOOKING: Ali Hedrick/Billions
PUBLISHING: Secretly Publishing
MANAGEMENT: Jack Gallagher/C3