Chicago – John Hauldren has been a fan of the Chicago Cubs all his life. During the last farm of the team, he received a text message from a friend of high school. It was the first text he had received from him.
The central gardener of the puppies, Pete Crow-Armstrong, had just used “Front To Back”, a song from the electronic music group of Hauldren, Levity, such as his walk music in a game against the Los Angeles Dodgers.
“I thought ‘What? As, in no way,'” Hauldren recalled. “I had to do my research for myself.”
Indeed, it was true. Hauldren confirmed the authenticity of the moment through a tangential connection with the emerging star.
Crow-Armstrong’s girlfriend has a cousin who is a friend of PJ Carberry’s girlfriend, another member of Levity.
“My girlfriend, her cousin and her sister really went to see them in Arizona,” said Crow-Armstrong. “I had already been talking about making one of his songs my strike, so I decided to do it.”
Crow-Armstrong, a 23-year-old native in southern California, also uses “Still Boomin” by Larry June for her walking song. He said he is not a great admirer of Dubstep, the subset of electronic dance music where Levity lands most of the time, but he likes Levity’s things.
Music is a prominent part of the daily routine of Crow-Armstrong, and enjoys the process of choosing a walking song.
“Music is the best in history. I mean, literally, universally, it is the best,” he said.
Hauldren, 26, has a similar opinion when it comes to the Crow-Armstrong baseball team. Hauldren is the youngest of four brothers in a family of the white socks of the Chicago suburbs. He grew up going to White Sox games at the South Side.
But he was always a fan of puppies.
“He simply stayed a little, and many of my friends were also fans of the puppies,” he said. “Fortunately, my dad would absorb his pride or as you would call it and take me to a game of puppies from time to time.”
The beginning of lightness dates back to Hauldren and Carberry that connect at the University of Iowa in 2017. They met Josh Tarum through mutual friends, and began to make music together.
Hauldren and Carberry live in Chicago, and Hauldren worked in large part of “front behind” at his home in Bucktown, not far from Wrigley Field.
“My window is the Chicago horizon and those things,” said Hauldren. “And so, seeing that song at Wrigley Field when the Chicago horizon was seen and being very close to Wrigley Field was crazy for me.”
After Crow-Armstrong used the song as his walking music, Hauldren published on Instagram about how much it meant for him. He labeled Crow-Armstrong in the position, and the two spoke. They hope to meet at some point.
Levity played Coachella This year, and goes to Lollapalooza This summer in the Grant Park in Chicago. But Hauldren said that his connection with Crow-Armstrong is located just there when it comes to his most memorable experiences with his group.
“I am very happy that if someone touches a strike song for us, they were the puppies,” he said. “As if I couldn’t be happier of that, you know, of all the teams that was my team.”
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