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Now that I have this snazzy Shazam application<\/a> on my i phone, I'm zapping songs left & right.  I think I tagged this catchy tune while shopping in New York.<\/p>\n

\"Edward\"<\/a>
Well, just the name of this group is quite entertaining – Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros<\/p>\n

A review<\/a> reads, "Ask anyone who's held hands with a stranger or danced barefoot
\nin the front row at an Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros gig:
\nThe 10-piece folk-rock ensemble's shows are more like shamanistic
\ntent revivals than rock concerts.<\/p>\n

Ebert attributes their sound to a conscious
\neffort on his part to connect with his most childlike musical
\nimpulses.  Those childlike impulses come through in the band's name, too:
\nThere isn't an Edward Sharpe in the group, and Ebert named the band
\nafter the characters in a novel he was writing about a boy who
\ntranscended his dismal world by tapping into some sort of universal
\nmusic." <\/p>\n

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And another cool thing about them<\/a>, " Back in July, when Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros held an album release party for their debut LP Up From Below<\/em>,
\nthey raised money to help the Gulu Widows Group of Uganda start a farm
\nto sustain their community. After the first harvest, they celebrated by
\nsinging the band\u2019s song \u201cHome.\u201d<\/p>\n

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