Check out the new video for Lifehouse’s latest song, “Halfway Gone.”

Davis LeDuke rolls up his left sleeve. Like so many American rock gods in waiting, he has a tattoo. But this is no fake sleeve of random color-splurge that marks out the common or garden emo, this is ornate script curling around his forearm from elbow to wrist, reading thus: ‘I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked’.
“This is a Ginsberg quote, the first lines of ‘Howl’,” he explains. “He’s definitely my favorite poet but I read Burroughs, I read Robert Frost, I read …

For the duration of Los Angeles-based Lifehouse’s ten-year career they’ve been delicately balancing two identities: radio-ready song craftsmen and raucous live rock and roll band. On their forthcoming fifth studio album, Smoke & Mirrors, the band finally unites these two personalities. “We toured for over a year before we started making this record,” says singer and guitarist Jason Wade. “With the new album we really wanted to capture what we were doing on the road but halfway through recording, it was apparent we hadn’t focused enough on the equally important …