Critic's Notebook: 'Ho Hey,' songs like this are here to stay

One of the underreported music health stories of last year was the trouble brought on by the Lumineers virus. At the beginning of 2012, a three-headed body from Denver released to the world a thing called "Ho Hey," and it spread through ears and into heads and hearts until it had strengthened into a particularly virulent, if ultimately harmless, strain of ear worm.

By Randall Roberts, Los Angeles Times Pop Music Critic

February 2, 2013