Emerging as one of the most promising bands from Los Angeles since god knows when, Foster The People’s debut album, Torches, has earned the band a cozy stay at the top of Billboard’s charts, stage time at the Grammy’s honoring The Beach Boys, an army of fans, sold out shows during their 2012 tour, and too many other noteworthy accomplishments to mention. Admitting the band’s success is a drastic change from the life he once knew, frontman Mark Foster spoke with me to make heads or tails of his relatively short journey from Cleveland, to L.A., to the top of the charts.
I always hesitate to say a band’s success has been “meteoric,” but there really isn’t a better way to describe Foster The People’s popularity. How would you describe it? How do you look back and understand and appreciate everything?
It’s…tough. It’s tough because I feel like, because of how busy we’ve been and how drastic the contrast is from our lives before to when it really started to take off, there’s really…







