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Comprised of five men who pride themselves on playing big-hearted, high-impact rock songs, Glorious Sons are one of North America's most compelling new bands. At home in Canada, they're already headlining shows in some of the country's largest venues, including Toronto's Scotiabank Arena. A hit from their second album Young Beauties and Fools, "S.O.S. (Sawed-Off Shotgun)" won new fans for Glorious Sons in the U.S. when it reached No. 2 on Billboard's mainstream rock singles chart, heightening anticipation for the band's most extensive Stateside tour to date.

For Glorious Sons, it's all about adding more members to a tight-knit family that began with the five of them in 2011. Like many who grew up in Kingston, Ontario, singer Brett Emmons found inspiration in hometown heroes The Tragically Hip — "Wheat Kings" was the first song he learned to sing and play on guitar. He began creating his own music when he quit school to join the band founded by his guitarist big-brother Jay.

The name was chosen to reflect the strong family values they shared. Listeners far beyond Kingston's city limits discovered what was created by those bonds when "Mama" — included on their first EP, Shapeless Art, in 2013 – became the first in a long string of Top 10 singles at Canadian rock radio.

After signing to Black Box Music, Glorious Sons headed into a Hamilton studio with The Trews' John-Angus MacDonald to create The Union. It's a forceful statement of purpose that yielded three more hits in "Heavy," "Lightning," and "The Contender," and won them SiriusXM Indie Awards for Group of the Year and Rock Group of the Year.

Tours with Airbourne and The Trews fueled further interest in the band, who traveled to Los Angeles to record their second album. Full of frank lyrics that dig deep into his own experiences, Brett describes the hard-hitting songs on Young Beauties and Fools as "the mostly autobiographical story of my life." Adds the songwriter, "The whole thing is derived from the thoughts, actions, and feelings of a kid who doesn't really know himself and the consequence of those actions."

It feels like just the beginning of the story for the Emmons brothers and their bandmates — guitarist Chris Koster, bassist Chris Huot, and drummer Adam Paquette — as they live hard, play hard, and try to pick up some wisdom along the way.