CHICAGO (AP) — John Hauldren has been a Chicago Cubs fan all his life. Throughout the workforce’s final homestand, he bought a textual content message from a highschool pal. It was the primary textual content he had obtained from him.
Cubs heart fielder Pete Crow-Armstrong had simply used “Front to Back” — a track from Hauldren’s digital music group, Levity — as his walkup music in a recreation towards the Los Angeles Dodgers.
“I was like ‘What? Like, no way,'” Hauldren recalled. “I, like, had to do my research for myself.”
Certain sufficient, it was true. Hauldren confirmed the authenticity of the second by way of a tangential connection to the rising star.
Crow-Armstrong’s girlfriend has a cousin who’s pals with the girlfriend of PJ Carberry, one other member of Levity.
“My girlfriend, her cousin and her sister actually all just went to go watch them in Arizona,” Crow-Armstrong mentioned. “I had already been talking about making one of their songs my walkout, so I just decided to do it.”
Crow-Armstrong, a 23-year-old Southern California native, additionally makes use of Larry June’s “Still Boomin” for his walkup track. He mentioned he is not a giant fan of dubstep — the subset of digital dance music the place Levity lands more often than not — however he likes Levity’s stuff.
Music is a outstanding a part of Crow-Armstrong’s day by day routine, and he enjoys the method of selecting a walkup track.
“Music’s the best thing ever. I mean, literally, universally, it is the best thing ever,” he mentioned.
Hauldren, 26, has the same opinion in relation to Crow-Armstrong’s baseball workforce. Hauldren is the youngest of 4 siblings in a White Sox household from suburban Chicago. He grew up going to White Sox video games on the South Aspect.
However he was at all times a Cubs fan.
“It just kind of stuck, and a lot of my friends were Cubs fans, too,” he mentioned. “So thankfully my dad would suck up his pride or whatever you would call it and take me to a Cubs game every once in a while.”
The start of Levity goes again to Hauldren and Carberry connecting on the College of Iowa in 2017. They met Josh Tarum by way of mutual pals, and so they began making music collectively.
Hauldren and Carberry dwell in Chicago, and Hauldren labored on a lot of “Front to Back” at their place in Bucktown — not removed from Wrigley Subject.
“My window is the skyline of Chicago and stuff,” Hauldren mentioned. “And so seeing that song get played at Wrigley Field when it was made watching the skyline of Chicago and being very close to Wrigley Field was just insane to me.”
After Crow-Armstrong used the track as his walkup music, Hauldren posted on Instagram about how a lot it meant to him. He tagged Crow-Armstrong within the submit, and the 2 talked. They’re hoping to satisfy up in some unspecified time in the future.
Levity performed Coachella this 12 months, and it’ll Lollapalooza this summer time in Chicago’s Grant Park. However Hauldren mentioned his reference to Crow-Armstrong ranks proper up there in relation to his most memorable experiences together with his group.
“I’m just very happy that if someone ever plays a walkout song for us, that it was the Cubs,” he mentioned. “Like I couldn’t be happier that, you know, of all the teams that it was my team.”
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