{"id":803603,"date":"2020-01-29T13:47:47","date_gmt":"2020-01-29T20:47:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=944833"},"modified":"2020-01-29T13:47:47","modified_gmt":"2020-01-29T20:47:47","slug":"watch-jimmy-eat-worlds-joyous-tiny-desk-concert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/watch-jimmy-eat-worlds-joyous-tiny-desk-concert\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Jimmy Eat World\u2019s Joyous \u2018Tiny Desk\u2019 Concert"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/NPR.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>It\u2019s been 20 years since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/jimmy-eat-world\/\" id=\"auto-tag_jimmy-eat-world\" data-tag=\"jimmy-eat-world\">Jimmy Eat World<\/a>\u2019s breakthrough&nbsp;<i>Clarity<\/i>, but the band is quietly releasing music that stands up to their endearing early emo-rock work.<\/p>\n<p>An example: \u201cLove Never,\u201d a song that was released as a seven-inch in 2018, which the band \u2014 frontman Jim Adkins, touring multi-instrumentalist Robin Vining and percussionist Zach Lind \u2014 opened with during their recent appearance on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/npr\/\" id=\"auto-tag_npr\" data-tag=\"npr\">NPR<\/a>\u2019s Tiny Desk concert.<\/p>\n<p>With manic energy, big harmonies and a message about the consequences of love, the song could have been on 2001\u2019s <em>Bleed American<\/em>. But the band didn\u2019t take the performance too seriously: It ends with Lind dramatically hitting a gong.<\/p>\n<p>The performance includes a big singalong of \u201cAll the Way (Stay),\u201d from the band\u2019s new album <i>Surviving, <\/i>which came out in October. Back then, the band <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/jimmy-eat-world-all-the-way-stay-888692\/\">said<\/a> the song \u201cextolls the virtues of letting people discover the real you while exposing your vulnerabilities.\u201d Adkins added: \u201c<i>Surviving<\/i> explores some of the different kinds of weights my ego tells me I have to carry, what I see people around me choosing to carry and what I have found to be the truth when I choose to let go.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Next, the band played their biggest hit, \u201cThe Middle.\u201d \u201cIt ties in with a lot of our newer songs thematically in a way,\u201d Adkins said. \u201cYour sense of self-worth coming from external validation is just kind of an empty pursuit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The band have a lot of tour dates coming up, including shows in Michigan, Indiana and Wisconsin in May.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-contextual-player\">\n<h3> Popular on Rolling Stone <\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/jimmy-eat-world-tiny-desk-944833\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s been 20 years since Jimmy Eat World\u2019s breakthrough&nbsp;Clarity, but the band is quietly releasing music that stands up to their endearing early emo-rock work. An example: \u201cLove Never,\u201d a song that was released as a seven-inch in 2018, which the band \u2014 frontman Jim Adkins, touring multi-instrumentalist Robin Vining and percussionist Zach Lind \u2014 [&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-803603","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-24 07:51:21","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\/803603","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=803603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803603\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}