Nov 172009
Waking Up, the second full-length recording by OneRepublic, hits record stores today.
With origins here in Colorado, this band–one of my favorites–has a tale more complex than the typical “local boys make good in LA” story. A tribute to the power of new media, OneRepublic had a hit single, was making live prime-time television appearances, and was one of the biggest bands on MySpace–and had no record label. Their recording contract with Columbia had gone south months before. Their breakout hit, “Apologize”, was actually introduced to America as a feature track on a Timbaland record, and Timbaland signed them to his new label shortly afterward. The result was their long-anticipated debut record, Dreaming Out Loud.
Waking Up was recorded here in Denver, and is described on OneRepublic’s MySpace page as “the band’s most sweeping, cinematic effort to date, with even more strings and movie-like moments.” OneRepublic is also currently offering a collector’s edition package online, including an autographed copy of the lead sheet of the single “All the Right Moves” and some other goodies.
You can download the new release on Amazon or 
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