{"id":2444319,"date":"2019-05-17T07:33:22","date_gmt":"2019-05-17T13:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=836618"},"modified":"2019-05-17T07:33:22","modified_gmt":"2019-05-17T13:33:22","slug":"watch-the-head-and-the-heart-deliver-pop-gem-missed-connection-on-fallon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/watch-the-head-and-the-heart-deliver-pop-gem-missed-connection-on-fallon\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch the Head and the Heart Deliver Pop Gem \u2018Missed Connection\u2019 on \u2018Fallon\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Screen-Shot-2019-05-17-at-8.58.42-AM-copy.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\">Folk outfit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/the-head-and-the-heart\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-head-and-the-heart\" data-tag=\"the-head-and-the-heart\">the Head and the Heart<\/a> performed their pop-inflected single <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/head-and-the-heart-new-song-missed-connection-living-mirage-808403\/\">\u201cMissed Connection\u201d<\/a> on <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/the-tonight-show\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-tonight-show\" data-tag=\"the-tonight-show\">The Tonight Show<\/a><\/em> Thursday. The track boasts an atmospheric grove of light piano and synths that drift above a steady drum shuffle. Frontman Jon Russell delivered the song\u2019s lyrics \u2014 which in part mirror the band\u2019s origin story of meeting at an open-mic night in Seattle \u2014 with silky ease while the rest of the group joined him on the gang vocals and harmonies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u201cMissed Connection\u201d appears on the Head and the Heart\u2019s new album, <em>Living Mirage<\/em>, which arrives today, May 17th, via Warner Bros.\/Reprise Records. The album marks the band\u2019s fourth LP and follows 2016\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-album-reviews\/review-head-and-the-heart-hulk-up-on-major-label-debut-signs-of-light-106234\/\"><em>Signs of Light<\/em><\/a>. It\u2019s also their first without co-founder Josiah Johnson, who amicably split with the group in 2016, though it does boast the return of keyboardist Kenny Hensley.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">In April, the Head in the Heart kicked off the first leg of their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/the-head-and-the-heart-north-american-tour-811871\/\">massive North American tour<\/a> in support of <em>Living Mirage<\/em>. The run is set to continue June 21st in Buffalo, New York and stretch all the way through October 20th in Toronto, Ontario.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/the-head-and-the-heart-missed-connection-tonight-show-fallon-836618\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Folk outfit the Head and the Heart performed their pop-inflected single \u201cMissed Connection\u201d on The Tonight Show Thursday. The track boasts an atmospheric grove of light piano and synths that drift above a steady drum shuffle. Frontman Jon Russell delivered the song\u2019s lyrics \u2014 which in part mirror the band\u2019s origin story of meeting at [&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-2444319","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-19 08:23:14","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\/2444319","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=2444319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444319\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2444319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2444319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2444319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}