Luke Temple

Hometown: Brooklyn, N.Y.
Fun Fact: As a child, Massachusetts native Luke Temple begged his mother to take him to one the kitschy "witch museums" that populate the town of Salem, preserving the city's sordid past for tourists--and unsuspecting local children. "The second we walked in there, the floor lit up red and there was some cackling. I just completely lost my papers," he remembers. "I started screaming. She had to take me out."
Why He's Worth Watching: Temple's dreamscape lyrics, playful instrumentation and warm, ethereal tenor deftly nudge the would-be boundaries of the singer-songwriter tag.
For Fans Of: Jeff Buckley, St. Vincent, Grizzly Bear

To the imaginative outsider, Brooklyn might seem like some musical Magic Kingdom where all the finest indie rockers romp about together in skinny jeans, tossing out catchy songs like candy from parade floats. But in reality, it's no fairytale. Luke Temple, who admits his own "romantic love affair" with NYC drew him down from Boston after art school, knows this first-hand.

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