{"id":488043,"date":"2019-07-16T03:20:39","date_gmt":"2019-07-16T09:20:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=859430"},"modified":"2019-07-16T03:20:39","modified_gmt":"2019-07-16T09:20:39","slug":"watch-x-ambassadors-perform-hold-you-down-on-colbert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/watch-x-ambassadors-perform-hold-you-down-on-colbert\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch X Ambassadors Perform \u2018Hold You Down\u2019 on \u2018Colbert\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/D_kgaB7W4AAzBNa.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>X Ambassadors made their debut on <em>The Late Show<\/em> with a rousing performance of \u201cHold You Down,\u201d a track off their recent album <em>Orion<\/em>. In the clip, the group offers an emotional rendition of the poignant, anthemic number, a rock number that is tinged with their signature electronic elements. Frontman Sam Harris gives it his all, offering an impassioned vocal performance as the band plays in moody lighting.<\/p>\n<p><em>Orion<\/em>, the band\u2019s second album, was released June 14th. In addition, to the album the band has also been collaborating with other artists, including Lizzo. They co-wrote and produced three songs off her album <em>Cuz I Love You<\/em>, including the title track. Harris, X Ambassadors lead singer\/songwriter, also wrote and produced eight songs on the <em>For the Throne \u2013 Music Inspired By The HBO Series Game of Thrones&nbsp;<\/em>soundtrack.<\/p>\n<p>X Ambassadors will embark on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/x-ambassadors-fall-tour-orion-834716\/\">The Orion Tour<\/a> in support of the new album. The trek kicks off October 8th in Tucson at the Rialto Theatre and finishes November 19th in San Francisco at the Warfield Theater. Tickets for the tour are currently on sale.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/watch-x-ambassadors-hold-you-down-colbert-859430\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>X Ambassadors made their debut on The Late Show with a rousing performance of \u201cHold You Down,\u201d a track off their recent album Orion. In the clip, the group offers an emotional rendition of the poignant, anthemic number, a rock number that is tinged with their signature electronic elements. Frontman Sam Harris gives it his [&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":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-488043","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-24 15:44:14","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":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=488043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488043\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}