Young Lovers (Los Angeles)

Guitarist Mikey Macapagal, drummer Ford Crispino, and bassist Josh Solomon formed Young Lovers in the summer of 2011. Originally best friends from high school, they decided one day to come together and create a band which was completely unlike any other band they had been in before. Mikey and Josh both met and played together in the school's marching band while Ford had previously played in a band with Mikey as well, so it only seemed fitting for the three to come together. Thinking mainly of their idealism and preoccupation with past loves, Ford had come up the name "Young Lovers" while folding laundry, simply because it was what the three friends truly were. This fit in with the creative ethos and the goal of the band, which is to express the three friends' innermost feelings and thoughts about love and loss, romance and realism, and the simultaneous beauty and terror of life itself, all in a way which could be understood universally.

Since then, they have spent the last few years honing and refining their sound, which loosely draws upon the sounds and textures of shoegaze, dreampop, and post-rock. Their raw intensity combined with a lush, expansive soundscape results in an almost overwhelming and introspective musical experience. Recently, they have added former FoxHollow guitarist and songwriter Jonathan Higa to their ranks to make their signature sound even wider and more emotionally devastating. They released their debut self-titled album in September 2014, and have since played popular Los Angeles venues such as pehrspace and The Smell, and have recently opened for The Fall of Troy at The Glass House in Pomona.