Foster The People

8.2	Listal rating

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Country of origin: United States

Ethnicity: White / Caucasian

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37 votes

Libra Men ♎ (265 items)
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Published 10 months ago

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34 votes

Grammys 2012 (34 items)
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Published 1 year, 3 months ago

16 comments

24 votes

An artist, a song (162 items)
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Published 1 year, 8 months ago

1 comment

8 votes

The things I'd do to these guys.... (45 items)
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Published 1 year, 5 months ago

1 comment

5 votes

My favorite music videos (29 items)
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Published 1 year, 4 months ago

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Foster The People Videos

Foster The People - Pumped Up Kicks

30 Views, 1 votes

Added 1 year ago

Foster The People - Call It What You Want

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Added 1 year ago

Foster The People - Helena Beat

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Added 1 year ago

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About: Foster the People is an American indie pop band formed in Los Angeles, California, in 2009. Members Mark Foster (vocals, keyboards, piano, synthesizers, guitar, programming, percussion), Mark Pontius (drums and extra percussion), and Cubbie Fink (bass and backing vocals) formed the band while in their mid-twenties. Mark Pontius used to play drums and shoot/edit the music videos for the indie pop band Malbec. Mark Foster originally named his band Foster & the People, but people mishear Foster the People is an American indie pop band formed in Los Angeles, California, in 2009. Members Mark Foster (vocals, keyboards, piano, synthesizers, guitar, programming, percussion), Mark Pontius (drums and extra percussion), and Cubbie Fink (bass and backing vocals) formed the band while in their mid-twenties. Mark Pontius used to play drums and shoot/edit the music videos for the indie pop band Malbec.
Mark Foster originally named his band Foster & the People, but people misheard it as "Foster the People". Eventually, he took to the nurturing image it evoked of "taking care" of the people, so the name stuck.

NPR credits the band's rise to fame to getting play on The Hype Machine and performances at South by Southwest.

The band is best known for its song "Pumped Up Kicks", which reached number one on Billboard's Alternative Songs chart, number 3 on the Rock Songs tally and number 3 on the Billboard Hot 100. The song was featured on American pay television channel SyFy's series Warehouse 13 in episode 9 of season 2, "Vendetta", which aired August 31, 2010. The track was also used by the UK mobile phone company O2 for its 'Priority Moments' commercials.

The band was named in a lawsuit filed by Brandon Dorsky on May 24, 2011 for breach of contract and other claims. The case was settled for an undisclosed amount in July 2011.

Two live musicians, Sean Cimino (guitar, keyboard, synthesizer, and backing vocals) and Isom Innis (keyboard, piano, and backing vocals), also tour with the band. Cimino is credited with guitar on the track "Waste" from the album Torches, while Innis' role in the album is unknown or possibly uncredited due to limited contributions on the album. Zach "Reazon" Heiligman (sampler, MPC (Music Production Center), programming, digital percussion, SFX, other production, minimal backing vocals) appears to have been a member of the band until early 2011; however, he shares co-writer and additional production credits on "Miss You" with Mark Foster, suggesting that Heiligman may play a more behind-the-scenes role now in production of certain tracks during studio sessions rather than in live shows. Heiligman, an MC and songwriter, is a close friend of Mark Foster as well and worked with him on a Hip-Hop project during periods before and during the formation of Foster the People. ... (more)

TV

1. The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (1992)

Rating:

5.5

293 Watched

2. Le grand journal de Canal+ (2004)

Rating:

8.1

44 Watched

3. Last Call with Carson Daly (2002)

Rating:

36 Watched

4. MTV Video Music Awards 2011 (2011)

Rating:

7.3

17 Watched

5. The 54th Annual Grammy Awards (2012)

Rating:

3 Watched

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Music

1. Torches

Rating:

7.4

8 own

2. Foster The People - EP

Rating:

8.8

1 own

3. Pumped Up Kicks

Rating:

8.3

0 want this

4. Torches

Rating:

3 own

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Mimmi added this to a list 8 months, 3 weeks ago

Playlist of August 2012 (14 person items)

" Call it what you want Foster The People - Call It What You Want by Salim Dadi "

MariaJJ added this to a list 9 months, 4 weeks ago

Libra Men ♎ (265 person items)

"October 4, 1982 Cubbie Fink "

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music is: (71 person items)

Hotton Machado added this to a list 1 year ago

One-Album-Bands (6 person items)

" Pumped Up Kicks Album: Torches 01* Helena Beat 02* Pumped Up Kicks 03* Call It What You Want 04* Don't Stop (Color On The Walls) 05* Waste 06* I Would Do Anything For You 07* Houdini 08* Life on the Nickel 09* Miss You 10* Warrant"