{"id":803937,"date":"2020-02-07T07:36:26","date_gmt":"2020-02-07T14:36:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=949153"},"modified":"2020-02-07T07:36:26","modified_gmt":"2020-02-07T14:36:26","slug":"hamilton-leithauser-gets-beaten-up-by-ethan-hawke-drops-new-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/hamilton-leithauser-gets-beaten-up-by-ethan-hawke-drops-new-song\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamilton Leithauser Gets Beaten Up by Ethan Hawke, Drops New Song"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/Hamilton-Leithauser.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/ethan-hawke\/\" id=\"auto-tag_ethan-hawke\" data-tag=\"ethan-hawke\">Ethan Hawke<\/a> beats up <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/hamilton-leithauser\/\" id=\"auto-tag_hamilton-leithauser\" data-tag=\"hamilton-leithauser\">Hamilton Leithauser<\/a> in the hilarious new teaser for \u201cHere They Come,\u201d his first new single since 2017.<\/p>\n<p>The clip opens with the singer sauntering past Lexington Avenue in a cossack hat, boombox in hand. \u201cAll of the songs on my new record are about people,\u201d he states in a voiceover. \u201cThe song \u2018Here They Come\u2019 is about a friend who tends to run from his problems.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI love him to death, but when the going gets tough, he tends to just cut and run,\u201d he continues. \u201cThe song is about the specific moment when the lights are coming up in a movie theater where he\u2019s been hiding out all day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/k6owA-A7fxQ?version=3&amp;enablejsapi=1&amp;origin=https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com&amp;rel=1&amp;fs=1&amp;autohide=2&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Leithauser suspects that writing such detailed songs about people in his life may make them \u201ctouchy,\u201d so he brings the boombox to the Caf\u00e9 Carlyle in Manhattan \u2014 where the singer recently performed his third annual five-night residency in January.<\/p>\n<p>He arrives to find an irritated Ethan Hawke, who appears to have finished off a bottle of red wine while waiting for his friend. The musician plays the actor \u201cHere They Come,\u201d a rollicking track that opens with Leithauser singing in a haunting, Leonard Cohen-like baritone over acoustic guitar before it escalates into a twangy earworm at the chorus: \u201cI was a fool\/I was blind\/I kept my eyes shut half the time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hawke abruptly turns off the boombox once he realizes the song is about him. He knocks Leithauser to the ground with a chair, then beats him up some more \u2014 shattering the wine glass on his head. \u201cI guess you didn\u2019t like it?\u201d the musician asks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGotta give a huge thanks to my man Ethan Hawke for delivering a knockout (pun intended) performance,\u201d Leithauser <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HLeithauser\/status\/1225497684414541824?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">tweeted<\/a> of the clip. \u201cIt was an absolute hoot working with him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The former Walkmen frontman has reportedly been working on his upcoming album for the last four years. He recently<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/lana-del-rey-hamilton-leithauser-bob-dylan-915303\/\"> joined Lana Del Rey <\/a>on stage&nbsp;to perform a cover of Bob Dylan\u2019s \u201cDon\u2019t Think Twice, It\u2019s All Right\u201d in Nashville. His last single, 2017\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tM1L_1fkCzQ&amp;feature=emb_title\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cHeartstruck (Wild Hunger)\u201d<\/a> featured Angel Olsen on vocals.<\/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\/hamilton-leithauser-here-they-come-ethan-hawke-949153\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethan Hawke beats up Hamilton Leithauser in the hilarious new teaser for \u201cHere They Come,\u201d his first new single since 2017. The clip opens with the singer sauntering past Lexington Avenue in a cossack hat, boombox in hand. \u201cAll of the songs on my new record are about people,\u201d he states in a voiceover. \u201cThe [&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-803937","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-23 10:14:46","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\/803937","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=803937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803937\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}