Lord Huron Biography
Lord Huron is an American indie band based in Los Angeles. The group’s debut album, Lonesome Dreams, was released in 2012 on Iamsound in the US. Play It Again Sam was released in the UK and Ireland in 2013.
The band’s name was inspired by Lake Huron, the lake which band founder Ben Schneider grew up visiting, where he would spend evenings playing music around the campfire. The band’s third album, Vide Noir, was released on April 20, 2018.
Lord Huron Formation
Founding member Ben Schneider began writing music in his hometown of Okemos, Michigan. Schneider went on to study visual art at the University of Michigan and finished his degree in France, before moving to New York City where he worked for an artist.
In 2005, Schneider moved to Los Angeles. Schneider formed Lord Huron as a solo project in 2010, recording his first few EPs entirely on his own and steadily adding members to help play in live shows, most of whom he had known since childhood.
A second EP, Mighty, was released on November 2010, coupled with a video for the standout track “The Stranger.” The year 2011 was full of touring, with appearances at larger festivals like South by Southwest, Outside Lands, and Lollapalooza.
At this point, Schneider solidified his band lineup with childhood friends Mark Barry on drums, Brett Farkas who is no longer in the band on guitar, Miguel Briseno on bass, and Tom Renaud on guitar.
Lord Huron Career
Their first full-length album, Lonesome Dreams, was released on October 9, 2012. It peaked at No. 3 on Billboard’s Heatseekers Albums chart, selling 3,000 copies in its first week. The album has sold 87,000 copies in the United States as of April 2015.
With the release of Lonesome Dreams, the band also slowly released a series of music videos, all filmed in a western ’70s style, which Schneider says was the focal point and narrative for the album. “We had this fun idea that Lonesome Dreams was kind of this series of old adventure tales.
In an interview, Schneider alluded to influence from a specific work, called “The Collected Works of Billy the Kid: Left-Handed Poems”. It’s sort of a collection of pulp fiction and we wanted the videos to kind of reflect that and have that same feel and style,” Schneider said during another interview. They also decided to release a theatrical version of the videos.
The band released their second album, Strange Trails, on April 6, 2015, in the United Kingdom and April 7, 2015, in the United States. The album debuted on the Billboard 200 at No. 23, and Folk Albums at No. 1, and No. 10 on the Top Album Sales chart, with 18,000 copies sold. The song “The Night We Met” was RIAA certified gold on June 26, 2017, and certified platinum on February 15, 2018.
Lord Huron Songs
The Night We Met
Ends Of The Earth
Meet Me in The Woods
When The Night Is Over
Fool For Love
Wait By The River
The World Ender
She Lit A Fire
Love Like Ghosts
The Ghosts On The Shore
Time To Run
La Belle Fleur Sauvage
The Yawning Grave
Frozen Pines
Secret Of Life
Lord Huron Vide Noir
On January 26, 2018, several short videos released on Lord Huron’s official Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter accounts with short clips of audio hence led to speculation of an upcoming album release. The album was officially announced to be the band’s third album, Vide Noir, and was released on April 20, 2018. On January 26, 2018, Lord Huron released their first single from the album, a two-part song called “Ancient Names”.
Lord Huron released the next single, “Wait By the River” On February 16, 2018. On March 7, 2018, they made an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live! to perform “Wait By The River”. Lord Huron performed an extended preview of Vide Noir on March 8, 2018, at Teragram Ballroom in Los Angeles, CA.
They debuted five songs off the new album: “Ancient Names Part I”, “Ancient Names Part II”, “Wait by the River”, “Never Ever”, and “Vide Noir”. On March 27, 2018, they performed another preview set at Le Poisson Rouge in New York.
They played the same five new songs as at Teragram Ballroom plus two more songs from the yet-to-be-released album, “When The Night Is Over” and “Back From the Edge” On the day of the album release, April 20, 2018, Lord Huron played an official release show in Grand Rapids, Michigan, Schneider’s home state.
On July 11, 2018, Lord Huron recorded two Spotify Singles ‘When the Night is Over’ and Neil Young’s ‘Harvest Moon’ at Spotify Studios. On August 11, 2018, Lord Huron performed a medley of the songs Never Ever, When the Night is Over, and Moonbeam from the album Vide Noir on the CBS This Morning: Saturday Sessions.
Lord Huron Net Worth
They have an estimated net worth of $7 Million
Lord Huron Twitter
Cosmic drifters,
Vide Noir is out today. We hope you’ll take the time to listen to it. Find a comfortable corner, close your eyes, open your mind and see where it takes you.https://t.co/g5Q1AHauD4 pic.twitter.com/vNjGMj9KZa— Lord Huron (@LordHuron) April 20, 2018
Mexico City!
We’re thrilled to announce Lord Huron’s first ever show in CDMX at El Plaza Condesa on Sunday, October 13th.
Pre-sale begins Thursday 7/11 at 10am with code neverever, and all remaining tickets go on sale Monday, 7/15. See you soon!https://t.co/4qR7mlr4JY pic.twitter.com/xW6xWBtHai— Lord Huron (@LordHuron) July 10, 2019
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