Blog: Buzz Bands

It's been a long trip for Luke Messimer, and maybe a strange one too, but certainly circular. Messimer was one of two frontmen in the Orange County-bred quintet Mississippi Man, which released a very promising album in mid-2010 and then called it quits by the end of that year . After the breakup, he lived in Seattle and played as a sideman, and then spent some time in a cabin in the woods of northern Arizona. There, he worked up the songs that would become his debut as Northern Youth before returning to southern California. [...]

• Northern Youth - She's in the Wild