{"id":973462,"date":"2019-11-13T03:16:47","date_gmt":"2019-11-13T10:16:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=911619"},"modified":"2019-11-13T03:16:47","modified_gmt":"2019-11-13T10:16:47","slug":"watch-cold-war-kids-perform-complainer-on-colbert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/music-news\/watch-cold-war-kids-perform-complainer-on-colbert\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Cold War Kids Perform \u2018Complainer\u2019 on \u2018Colbert\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/Screen-Shot-2019-11-13-at-10.14.45-AM.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/cold-war-kids\/\" id=\"auto-tag_cold-war-kids\" data-tag=\"cold-war-kids\">Cold War Kids<\/a> appeared on <em>The Late Show<\/em> to perform their recent single \u201cComplainer.\u201d The lively number comes off the band\u2019s album <em>New Age Norms 1<\/em>, the first in a planned trilogy of new albums.<\/p>\n<p>In the clip, the band members give the funky number an energetic performance, complete with dance moves and a hooky chorus. \u201cYou say you want to change this world,\u201d frontman Nathan Willett howls. \u201cWell, do you really believe in magic?\/ But you can only change yourself\/ Don\u2019t sit around and complain about it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>New Age Norms<\/em> <em>1<\/em>, produced by Lars Stalfors, dropped earlier this month. \u201cComplainer\u201d was co-written for the album by Bonnie McKee and Electric Guest\u2019s Asa Taccone and was also released as an acoustic version, \u201cComplainer (Strings &amp; Keys).\u201d Cold War Kids are currently on a North American tour in support of the new album, with shows announced through February. The tour includes stop in San Francisco, Seattle, Toronto, New York and Nashville, with the closing night at Austin\u2019s Stubb\u2019s Waller Creek Amphitheater on February 15th.<\/p>\n<p>The band plans to release two follow-ups to <em>New Age Norms 1<\/em> in the coming months. \u201cThe idea that those Kanye records were coming out every month felt so cool, very of the moment,\u201d Willett said in a statement. \u201cEight songs, a very digestible amount of music that just keeps coming. And it really sunk in how fun it was to experience those in real time with all of us together\u2026 So it began a whole new chapter, what I would call <span class=\"il\">Cold<\/span>&nbsp;<span class=\"il\">War<\/span>&nbsp;<span class=\"il\">Kids<\/span>&nbsp;2.0. I think the approach, sonically, was in taking apart the idea of what the band is and just trying to take the doors off a bit to see where it can go.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/cold-war-kids-complainer-colbert-911619\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cold War Kids appeared on The Late Show to perform their recent single \u201cComplainer.\u201d The lively number comes off the band\u2019s album New Age Norms 1, the first in a planned trilogy of new albums. In the clip, the band members give the funky number an energetic performance, complete with dance moves and a hooky [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-973462","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-13 09:44:21","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KFMU Solar Powered Radio","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=973462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973462\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=973462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=973462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=973462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}