Pumped Up Kicks

Pumped Up Kicks

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Pumped Up Kicks is a song by American indie pop group Foster the People written and recorded by Mark Foster at Mophonics in the Venice district of Los Angeles. The song debuted on supergoodmusic.com in early 2010 in their weekly newsletter, The Concert Blast. It was first performed live at the Stand Up Charity Benefit in Venice during the first weekend of February 2010. Pumped Up Kicks was featured on Nylon's coverage of Fashion Week in February 2010 and emerged on YouTube in February 2010. It went viral after a popular German blog gave it a very positive review. The song was released as the debut single from the group in 2010 in North America and serves as the lead single from their debut self-titled EP. Nearly five months after the release of the EP, the song would appear on the band's debut album Torches. It was released in the United Kingdom on 19 June; with the album Torches released the following week.

On 23 May 2011, BBC Radio 1 DJ Greg James selected the song as his Record of the Week - which ran until 27 May. During this time, James released an accompanying video of him dancing to the song; which he entitled and promoted "The Bum Dance". The song premiered on Sirius XM Radio's Alt Nation channel since August 2010, with Seattle radio station KNDD having the terrestrial radio debut two months later.

The official remix of the single Pumped Up Kicks was released by New York City-duo The Knocks in April 2011, under the name Pumped Up Kicks (The Knocks Speeding Bullet Remix), and was made available to those subscribed to the band's emailing list.

The song placed at No. 32 in the Triple J Hottest 100 for 2010, a big achievement due to the band being relatively unknown in Australia at the time, and has topped the Billboard Alternative Songs chart in the U.S.Read more...

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