{"id":805427,"date":"2020-03-18T19:14:19","date_gmt":"2020-03-19T01:14:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=969501"},"modified":"2020-03-18T19:14:19","modified_gmt":"2020-03-19T01:14:19","slug":"the-avalanches-address-love-and-loss-in-running-red-lights-featuring-rivers-cuomo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/the-avalanches-address-love-and-loss-in-running-red-lights-featuring-rivers-cuomo\/","title":{"rendered":"The Avalanches Address Love and Loss in \u2018Running Red Lights\u2019 Featuring Rivers Cuomo"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Avalanches<\/a> have unveiled their video for new song \u201cRunning Red Lights,\u201d which features Rivers Cuomo<\/a> and rapper Pink Siifu. The clip is dedicated to the late David Berman<\/a> and stars dancer Erik Cavanaugh, a former contestant from America\u2019s Got Talent<\/em>, and a cameo from Los Angeles billboard icon Angelyne.<\/p>\n

\u201cRunning Red Lights\u201d addresses love and loss and the Greg Brunkalla-directed visual opens with Cavanaugh being told by a psychic that \u201cYou are coming full circle.\u201d Feeling inspired, he leaves the psychic and dances down the street as he heads to the object of his affection\u2019s apartment, only to be stopped in his tracks as he observes his love with another.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m a thundercloud, ready to burst,\u201d Cuomo sings. \u201cRunning, running red lights to get to you.\u201d That seemingly hopeful sentiment is contrasted with Pink Siifu reciting David Berman\u2019s lyrics from his Purple Mountains song, \u201cDarkness and Cold.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018Running Red Lights\u2019 didn\u2019t start out as a defining moment; \u2018a single\u2019 as it were. But Rivers responded to our fuzzed-out Spacemen 3 inspired jam with such open heartedness, that we soon dropped all pretense and got down to the heart of the matter\u2026 loss,\u201d the Avalanches\u2019 Robbie Chatter said in a statement. \u201cWe love that wide eyed, elated, almost evangelical Los Angeles sense of possibility that he tapped into. He captures that feeling that comes on the other side of the abyss, when you have lost everything and so then, there is nothing more to lose.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe way life is so beautiful and overwhelming and heartbreaking all at the same time. Rivers, like us, is always chasing the melancholy, that space \u2026 between the notes,\u201d Chatter continued. \u201cDavid had agreed to share his words with us for the middle 8 a few years back. It\u2019s a strange feeling releasing this now, six months after his passing, but we are so glad he got to hear the music, and it means a lot to us that he really liked it. David wrote to me often through some dark, dark years and really pulled me through \u2026 \u2018Running Red Lights\u2019 \u2026 is about such times.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The Avalanches have unveiled their video for new song \u201cRunning Red Lights,\u201d which features Rivers Cuomo and rapper Pink Siifu. The clip is dedicated to the late David Berman and stars dancer Erik Cavanaugh, a former contestant from America\u2019s Got Talent, and a cameo from Los Angeles billboard icon Angelyne. \u201cRunning Red Lights\u201d addresses love […]<\/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-805427","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-18 23:12:54","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\/805427","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=805427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805427\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=805427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=805427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}