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Josh Malerman, guitarist, vocalist and founding member of The High Strung, has been been a buzz name over the last two weeks. His epic novel Bird Box, a New York Times best seller, was adapted into a feature film starring Sandra Bullock and John Malkovich and has become Netflix’s biggest hit to date.
But Bird Box is not the first thing to shed light on the band. Worldwide audiences will recognize their song “The Luck You Got” from the opening credits of Showtime’s Shameless. Quiet Riots, the band’s eighth and newest full-length album, is a powerful, witty, harmony laden masterwork that hums, zooms, soars, and roars through 14 songs in 38 minutes. Pre-order HERE.
The High Strung formed nearly 20 years ago, but the friendship of four core members started in the fifth grade–underscoring their long and continually winding road. Metro Detroit natives Josh Malerman, Derek Berk, Mark Owen, and Chad Stocker formed in 2000, along with Clevelander Jason Berkowitz. It wasn’t long before they’d completed a sizeable batch of songs around the lyrics of Malerman/Owen and hit the road to tour the Midwest. That taste for adventure found them relocating from Detroit to Williamsburg NY, just as they were slated to cut an album for Tee Pee Records. Their debut (These Are Good Times) made a splash, complete with feverish music videos (“Wretched Boy” and “Real Nice Boy”) that captured their signature livewire energy.
