About Mt. Joy
Mt. Joy is an American five-piece indie rock band based in Los Angeles with roots in Philadelphia. Its members are Matt Quinn , Sam Cooper , Sotiris Eliopoulos , Jackie Miclau , and Michael Byrnes . The band debuted in 2016 with the single "Astrovan", recorded in Los Angeles by Quinn, Cooper, and Byrnes. This was followed up in 2017 by the trio of singles "Sheep", "Cardinal", and "Silver Lining". On March 2, 2018, Mt. Joy released its debut eponymous studio album. For the next two years, Mt. Joy performed at festivals and on tour as a support act, as well as headlining a North American and European tour. After a tour with The Lumineers was cut short due to COVID-19, Mt. Joy released its second studio album, Rearrange Us, on June 5, 2020. Its third studio album, Orange Blood, was released on June 17, 2022.
Having first met at Conestoga High School in suburban Philadelphia, Matt Quinn and Sam Cooper reunited in Los Angeles in 2016 and began working on music. Says Quinn, "It was just one of those cool, serendipitous life moments where a person that I’d been making music with in high school ended up in the same city as me, and I didn’t really know anybody else ... Just because we love music we were getting together and writing together." The pair named the project after a hill in Valley Forge National Park near where they grew up. The two recorded their single "Astrovan" with the help of future bandmate Michael Byrnes, whom they met on Craigslist, and Byrnes' then-roommate, producer Caleb Nelson, in April of that year and released the song in September.
The single's rapid streaming success, as well as the success of their second single, "Sheep", drew the three to add drummer Sotiris Eliopoulos and keyboardist Jackie Miclau to the group, together playing Bonnaroo, Newport Folk Festival, and Lollapalooza, as well as opening for bands such as The Head and the Heart, The Shins, Whitney, and The Revivalists. In 2017, Mt. Joy signed to Dualtone Records.
Throughout 2017, the now five-piece band recorded additional tracks with producer Jon Gilbert at his home studio in Pasadena, California, and released its debut album, Mt. Joy, on March 2, 2018. The song "Silver Lining" went to #2 on the Billboard Triple A charts. As of June 2020, tracks from the album have garnered more than 200 million streams on Spotify.
In 2018, Mt. Joy performed at Innings Music Festival, Shaky Knees Music Festival, ACL Fest, and Voodoo Fest, and performed on its own North American and European headlining tours.
The band toured with Rainbow Kitten Surprise in January and February 2019, then performed its own headlining tour in March and April 2019.
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