NextUp

The first day that Michael Alvarado met Carissa Rae, he knew he was going to marry her. “I left and I get back in the car with my college roommate, and I turn to him and I say, ‘I am going to marry this girl.’ And he’s like, ‘What, are you crazy? You’ve only known her for three hours! How could you possibly know that?’ And I told him sometimes when you know, you just know. And I knew it with her,”

The origin behind Kodaline's moniker is top secret. If you try and pry it from the members of the band (and trust us, we did), the four men will insist it's confidential. Here's what they did divulge during their #NextUp shoot with PopCrush.

The way Jeremy Messersmith tells it, becoming a musician was almost a happy accident. The soft-spoken singer's journey to signing with his label, Glassnote Records, was unconventional, to say the least. Jeremy, who defines milestones by each time he completes a song, originally pursued a completely different career path.

John Newman’s aesthetic is as distinct as his voice. A pompadour with a defiant streak of blonde sits atop his towering physique, which is sleek and tailored in all black. His olive eyes light up at the mention of Motown, which he listened to on countless nights after losing two best friends when he was only 16. From Otis Redding and James Brown to Jackson 5, Michael Jackson and Prince, Newman att