Foster the People treated their Los Angeles fans with a free show via Twitter in support of their new album “Supermodel,” which will be released March 18, 2014 through Columbia Records. Founded in 2009, Foster the People received their instant rise to fame in 2011 with the release of their first record “Torches.”

The band tweeted the concert’s not so secret, secret location at a downtown parking lot in Los Angeles where they shot the “Coming of Age” music video. The freshly painted seven-story mural in the heart of skid row was created to help beautify the ever-changing downtown scene. Check out the mural’s progression, from inception to completion, on YouTube.

Young & Sick, who also designed the cover art for the band’s first album, designed the vivid mural that will also be used as the cover for their upcoming release. The abstract artwork features a model surrounded by paparazzi as she poses on a pedestal with poetry streaming down from locks of hair.

“I ate it all; plastic, diamonds and sugar-coated arsenic as we danced in honey and sea-salt sprinkled laxative. Coral blossomed portraits in Rembrandt light; cheekbones high and fashionable. Snap! goes the moment; a photograph is time travel, like the light of dead stars painting us with their warm, titanic blood. Parasitic kaleidoscopes and psychotropic glow worms stop me dead in my tracks. Aphids sucking the red off a rose, but for beauty I will gladly feed my life into the mouths of rainbows; their technicolor teeth cutting prisms and smiling benevolently on the pallid hue of the working class hero.”

After the show, lead singer Mark Foster gave a dedication to the mural and a promise to the community to help the developing downtown area with art and music. The local band has a heart for the town, living just blocks away from the show. Playing hits from “Torches” and new songs from “Supermodel,” the band lit up the darkness of the downtown with their electric set. The backdrop of the LA skyscrapers and lights not only united fans of Foster the People but united them also as a community.

Fans were invited to join the mural by painting their hands in brightly colored paint directly after the band painted and pressed their hands against the wall. Mark Foster took a moment to greet fans and snap a photo with me as well.

You can pre-order the new album “Supermodel” on the band’s website www.fosterthepeople.com and find them on tour this spring at Coachella.