{"id":2443181,"date":"2019-04-19T03:19:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-19T09:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=824614"},"modified":"2019-04-19T03:19:00","modified_gmt":"2019-04-19T09:19:00","slug":"watch-cage-the-elephant-perform-ready-to-let-go-on-colbert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/watch-cage-the-elephant-perform-ready-to-let-go-on-colbert\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Cage The Elephant Perform \u2018Ready To Let Go\u2019 on \u2018Colbert\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Screen-Shot-2019-04-19-at-11.03.13-AM.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/cage-the-elephant\/\" id=\"auto-tag_cage-the-elephant\" data-tag=\"cage-the-elephant\">Cage The Elephant<\/a> revealed a new aesthetic on <em>The Late Show<\/em> with a performance of their recent single \u201cReady To Let Go.\u201d The band played the mid-tempo rock number in front of a bright red background as frontman Matt Schulz slithered around the stage in a black latex suit and black cowboy hat.<\/p>\n<p>In the clip, the musicians, the rest wearing gray suits, keep things cool and restrained. The swagger is kept to a minimum as the band poses with their instruments, with only Schulz moving around the stage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cReady To Let Go\u201d comes off Cage The Elephant\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-album-reviews\/review-cage-the-elephant-social-issues-813483\/\">new album<\/a> <em>Social Cues<\/em>, which is out now. The song reflects on Schultz\u2019s divorce from his wife, a theme that threads through the album. Schultz <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/cage-elephant-new-album-social-cues-786774\/\">told <em>Rolling Stone<\/em><\/a> that the track is about a trip to Pompeii where Matt and his wife realized they needed to divorce. \u201cIt\u2019s hard when you love each other, but it just won\u2019t work,\u201d the singer said. \u201cI\u2019m glad to be past it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The album <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/cage-the-elephant-beck-night-running-814102\/\">also features<\/a> \u201cNight Running,\u201d a collaboration with Beck, who the band will tour with this summer. The Night Running Tour kicks off on July 11 in Ridgefield, WA at the Sunlight Supply Amphitheater. Spoon, Sunflower Bean, Wild Belle and Starcrawler will open select dates.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/watch-cage-the-elephant-perform-ready-to-let-go-colbert-824614\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cage The Elephant revealed a new aesthetic on The Late Show with a performance of their recent single \u201cReady To Let Go.\u201d The band played the mid-tempo rock number in front of a bright red background as frontman Matt Schulz slithered around the stage in a black latex suit and black cowboy hat. In the [&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":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2443181","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-17 14:37:12","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":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2443181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2443181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2443181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2443181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}