December has finally arrived! But before you kick-off your gigging shoes, Last.fm and HP have announced their final pop-up session for the year. Brooklyn based New Yorkers We Are Augustines are set to perform an intimate set at The Book Club in London on Monday 12th December. This is a free show; no tickets are required so just pop by for the pop-up!
Emotionally charged, stadium-ready indie rock outfit We Are Augustines was formed in 2009 by Billy McCarthy, Eric Sanderson, and Rob Allen after the dissolution of the similarly themed Pela. After Pela’s breakup, McCarthy and Sanderson decided to pursue the batch of songs that were intended to appear on the ousted group’s sophomore outing, and put them toward a new project. The resulting album Rise Ye Sunken Ships, which tows the line between the spirited expansiveness of early U2, the lit-heavy heartache of The Hold Steady, and the introspective alt-rock of The National.
HP and Last.fm announced a partnership earlier this year, celebrating the Beats audio technology that comes with HP Premium PC, laptop and tablet devices through a series of live music events and artist interviews, curated by Last.fm.
After a successful summer of secret pop-up sessions from bands like Slow Club, The Boxer Rebellion and Ghostpoet, Last.fm and HP are back announced three more pop-up sessions to bookmark the end of the year as part of their Everybody On global campaign – DELS, The Leisure Society and We Are Augustines
Alongside the live music activations, HP gave its Facebook community access to exclusive content captured by Last.fm at some of the summer’s most popular music events. With access to some of the most hyped musicians of the moment, Last.fm and HP interviewed these artists around the Power of Sound in their lives and also took questions from the HP Facebook community to discover the influences behind their music and what drove their passion to write and perform.
Keep up to date on HP’s “Artists’ Lounge” and for the latest information on the pop-up sessions, exclusive content and artist interviews follow HP on Twitter.
