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"  Photo: Getty Images If you were touring as often as the members of Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, you might forget what city you were in, too. &amp;quot;It takes me a second,&amp;quot; multi-instrumentalist group member Nora Kirkpatrick admitted to ELLE.com as she got her bearings mere minutes after waking up on the band&amp;#039;s tour bus in Milwaukee. &amp;quot;It gets a little confusing when all you see is cement.&amp;quot; Kirkpatrick then gazed out the window at the Marcus Amphitheater, where later that night she and her bandmates ignited the Summerfest crowd with a rowdy set that saw frontman Alex Ebert bum-rushing the crowd and chugging a beer. &amp;quot;I corrected someone yesterday. The person was like &amp;#039;I&amp;#039;m in Milwaukee.&amp;#039; I was like, &amp;#039;No, you&amp;#039;re in Minneapolis.&amp;#039;&amp;quot; Such is the on-the-go life for the 10-piece folk collective. Since they first burst onto the music scene with 2009&amp;#039;s hippie hymns of a debut LP, Up From Below, featuring the hit single &amp;quot;Home,&amp;quot; the band has played nearly every festival on nearly every continent. &amp;quot;We&amp;#039;ve been touring forever,&amp;quot; said singer Jade Castrinos. &amp;quot;At least it feels like it.&amp;quot; Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros have no plans of slowing down anytime soon: Next month they&amp;#039;ll release a new self-titled album, their second full-length release in as many years. The eponymous release, due on July 23, emerged from the sessions for last year&amp;#039;s Here. &amp;quot;When we recorded Here, we recorded about 40 songs,&amp;quot; Kirkpatrick said. &amp;quot;And 10 of those ended up on that album. But we had a bunch of leftover songs. So we took some of those and then we recorded some new ones that had come into being during that time period. So we kind of had a head start on the next album.&amp;quot; The band&amp;#039;s new songs are sonically rambunctious: &amp;quot;Better Days&amp;quot; features a shout-along chorus, hand-claps and Ebert proclaiming, &amp;quot;We don&amp;#039;t have to talk/Let&amp;#039;s dance!&amp;quot;; &amp;quot;Let&amp;#039;s Get High,&amp;quot; a lilting stroll, is eased along by a kazoo. And on &amp;quot;Two,&amp;quot; the band even ventures into calypso territory. They&amp;#039;ve been slowly working the new material into their always upbeat live show. &amp;quot;They&amp;#039;re certainly fun to play and a challenge,&amp;quot; Kirkpatrick said of the new tunes. &amp;quot;Everyone is on their toes trying to make it work. It&amp;#039;s exhilarating.&amp;quot; What also keeps the band engaged amid seemingly endless touring is each group member&amp;#039;s outside artistic endeavors: Kirkpatrick is an actress (she had a recurring role as Dwight&amp;#039;s girlfriend on the final season of The Office, and was previously on the ABC Family series Greek); Castrinos is piecing together a solo album (&amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s a little bit smaller in nature than the band stuff.&amp;quot;); and guitarist Christian Letts is also a painter. &amp;quot;Everybody&amp;#039;s kind of got their own thing going on,&amp;quot; Castrinos offered. But when the band gets together, &amp;quot;We&amp;#039;re all just trying to be of service to the song and give what we have to give.&amp;quot; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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