{"id":798804,"date":"2019-08-23T01:40:45","date_gmt":"2019-08-23T07:40:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=875575"},"modified":"2019-08-23T01:40:45","modified_gmt":"2019-08-23T07:40:45","slug":"watch-mumford-sons-interview-to-be-david-spades-house-band","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/watch-mumford-sons-interview-to-be-david-spades-house-band\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Mumford &amp; Sons Interview to be David Spade\u2019s House Band"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Screen-Shot-2019-08-23-at-8.34.36-AM.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/mumford-sons\/\" id=\"auto-tag_mumford-sons\" data-tag=\"mumford-sons\">Mumford &amp; Sons<\/a> apparently have a new career goal: become the house band for David Spade\u2019s Comedy Central talk show <em>Lights Out with David Spade<\/em>. In a new clip, the musicians interview with Spade and it doesn\u2019t quite go as well as expected.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know I\u2019m looking for a house band and not a vacuum cleaner repair store in the Valley that\u2019s going out of business,\u201d Spade tells the band after they introduce themselves. He adds, \u201cI love you guys. You guys are great. You\u2019re like Aerosmith for people with allergies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The band members struggle to keep straight faces as Spade riffs through the interview. Things really amp up when the host declares that frontman Marcus Mumford looks like Russell Crowe, specifically \u201cRussell Crowe during <em>Gladiator<\/em>.\u201d \u201cThat\u2019s hot,\u201d Spade says. \u201cDid you know Russell Crowe and I are the exact same age? He looks like he\u2019s my dad, but I keep telling everyone I look younger than him. No one\u2019s agreed yet.\u201d In the end, Spade notes that the band\u2019s interview was \u201cperfectly okay\u201d and doesn\u2019t confirm whether he\u2019ll hire them, prompting the musicians to suggest they key his car.<\/p>\n<p><em>Lights Out with David Spade&nbsp;<\/em>debuted in July and airs Monday through Thursday on Comedy Central following <em>The Daily Show with Trevor Noah<\/em>. It does not yet have an official house band.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/mumford-sons-interview-david-spade-house-band-875575\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mumford &amp; Sons apparently have a new career goal: become the house band for David Spade\u2019s Comedy Central talk show Lights Out with David Spade. In a new clip, the musicians interview with Spade and it doesn\u2019t quite go as well as expected. \u201cYou know I\u2019m looking for a house band and not a vacuum [&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":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-798804","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-20 11:51:21","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":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798804","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=798804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798804\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}