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In a dark kitchen in the middle of a sweaty night in Las Vegas, all 6’4” of Dan Reynolds is hunched over a laptop, slapping beats on the table and crooning lyrics into a tiny microphone. Before long, he and the other three members of indie rock band Imagine Dragons would be playing “It’s Time,” that same laptop-demo-turned-supersized-anthem, from the roof of a parking garage to a wave of thousands of screaming fans. This song title to the single from their 2012 debut KidInaKorner/Interscope release “Continued Silence EP” is an all too apt descriptor of the band’s hard-earned success—but it’s also emblematic of the deep-seated anxiety Reynolds and the rest of the band experienced leaving behind any realistic expectation of a normal job to do the thing they love most.

A third-generation Las Vegas native, Reynolds is no stranger to the adage “the house always wins,” choosing to pave his musical career with a near obsessive work ethic and hundreds of unused demos rather than roll the dice with the first songs that sprung from his mouth. It’s no surprise, then, that he was drawn to guitarist Wayne Sermon, another founding member of Imagine Dragons. Having practically grown up in a recording studio and graduated Berklee College of Music, Wayne had been practicing his guitar through meals and other socially inappropriate situations as long as he could remember; he challenged Dan in a way that was both uncomfortable and exactly what they both needed. When they began writing songs together and recognized something special was happening, Wayne called up his Berklee friend Ben McKee, who promptly dropped out of school with only a few credits left, moving across the country to play bass for the band. This sort of reckless/genius behavior is typical for Ben, who has an uncanny penchant for spicy food and a suitcase full of unbelievable road stories. More recently, the band was joined by drummer Daniel Platzman, another Bostonian schoolmate who seems way too nice to be playing rock and roll until you actually see him in action.

Several tours and three self-released EPs later, Imagine Dragons had made a serious name for itself, particularly in the west coast circuit. Although their songs vary from nearly whimsical and light to brooding and powerful, listeners are drawn to the inherent honesty in the music. The only rule of thumb for the band, it seems, is to write from a true place; the result is songs that literally run the spectrum of human emotion. Attend a concert, and it becomes clear that the live performance of deeply personal songs has a real effect on people. And the band itself is not immune, as demonstrated when Dan literally passed out into the drum set during a finale song, sending cymbals and drum stands crashing while the rest of the band played on until the close.

Great songwriting is bound to be noticed eventually. As proof that the harder you work, the luckier you get, one of those people who noticed was Grammy winning producer Alex da Kid (Eminem, Rihanna). Alex and Dan began collaborating on projects, and soon the band had developed a relationship with Alex and his team. The alchemy resulting from Alex’s hip hop sensibilities and Imagine Dragons’ anthemic rock is nothing short of explosive. The byproduct of this creative collision is “Continued Silence,” a six song in-your-face sonic grenade that breaks musical boundaries and yet is strangely relatable by its improbably diverse audience.

Despite it all, on any given day when they aren’t on the road playing shows, you can still find Imagine Dragons huddled away in a rehearsal room somewhere, banging out song after song in search of the next perfect track. Like most things in Vegas, the band is angled at going big or going bust. For the sake of those who love great music, we hope it’s the former.

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new acoustic album ‘Unerthed: Hole Erth Unplugged’ out 9/19. https://ToroyMoi.lnk.to/UHEU

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Please feel free to contact me about all of my projects, and the potential for future projects. I am always looking for new opportunities to make the world a more beautiful place.   
                                                          


mfrieder@risd.edu
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Max Levi Frieder is a 21-year-old artist who works in a variety of mediums, contexts and worlds. He is from Denver, Colorado but currently attends The Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) in Providence where he is majoring in Painting (2012). Although trained in painting, his work focuses on community-based public art founded on inspired participation. He also studied abroad at the Elam School of Fine Arts at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, for four months.

For the past three years Max has embarked upon five primary projects:

1. 2009 - Cross Country Bike Tour: Max and a companion RISD art student (Alan Johnson) biked from San Francisco to Rhode Island making public art in every state they went through. The trip took three months and totaled at 4000 miles. 

2. 2010 - The Traart Line:  An exhibit in the city of Providence consisting of a line of "thrown-away art" from RISD students. Over 3000 pieces were temporarily hung along electrical boxes, lamp posts, fences and trees with wire. Signs were displayed along the line saying “ Take any piece that you enjoy.” Over eighty percent of the pieces were taken by local people and art enthusiasts. 
  
3. 2010-2011 - The Long Lake Camp for the Arts Creative Director Position: For three months, Max painted murals with children at an arts camp in upstate NY. In three months he painted over twenty five murals with kids, ages eight to sixteen. He also experimented with onstage performance painting, rock climbing painting, horseback painting and a variety of other action-art activities.
  
4. 2010-2011 - The Foundstrument-Soundstrument: a large-scale percussion instrument made of found objects painted synesthetically, and attached to a bicycle. The Foundstrument had a two-day exhibition at the Providence Children’s Museum and now lives at the Rhode Island Recycling for Education Center.  


5.  The New Zealand Children’s Art House Mural Tour:  The first of it’s kind, this mural tour has affected the art life of ten communities all across New Zealand.  This website, www.maxlevifrieder.com, has been tracking all the murals and the stories that go along with this collaborative art form. Max wants this Mural Tour to be the beginning of something larger. The future of International Children’s public art has unimaginable potential, and this project is only the beginning.
Contact Info:

mfrieder@risd.edu
303-483-1456

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