{"id":2446423,"date":"2019-07-17T03:35:08","date_gmt":"2019-07-17T09:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=859967"},"modified":"2019-07-17T03:35:08","modified_gmt":"2019-07-17T09:35:08","slug":"watch-stephen-colbert-perform-this-year-with-the-mountain-goats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/watch-stephen-colbert-perform-this-year-with-the-mountain-goats\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Stephen Colbert Perform \u2018This Year\u2019 With the Mountain Goats"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Screen-Shot-2019-07-17-at-10.28.22-AM.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><em>The Late Show<\/em> host Stephen Colbert couldn\u2019t contain his fandom as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/the-mountain-goats\/\" id=\"auto-tag_the-mountain-goats\" data-tag=\"the-mountain-goats\">The Mountain Goats<\/a> appeared on the late night show to perform their classic 2005 track \u201cThis Year.\u201d Colbert leapt onstage during the rendition to sing along with frontman John Darnielle, giving an impassioned performance of the tune.<\/p>\n<p>The band, who also played new track \u201cSicilian Crest,\u201d seemed game for the intrusion. \u201cI asked them to play this song for me because it\u2019s one of my favorite songs of theirs,\u201d Colbert explained to the crowd ahead of the performance. Apparently, it\u2019s not the first time they\u2019ve collaborated on the song. \u201c10 years ago we did this song with Stephen on Comedy Central but it never aired,\u201d the band <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mountain_goats\/status\/1151341402732879873?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">wrote on Twitter<\/a>. \u201cTonight we did it again.\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\/DtsBZjl5e4Y?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>The Mountain Goats\u2019 latest album, <em>In League with Dragons<\/em>, dropped in April via Merge Records. The 12-track album was recorded with producer Matt Ross-Spang at Nashville\u2019s Blackbird Studios.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis album began life as a rock opera about a besieged seaside community called Riversend ruled by a benevolent wizard, for which some five to seven songs were written,\u201d Darnielle <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/mountain-goats-new-album-in-league-with-dragons-785365\/\">explained in a statement<\/a>. \u201cAs I worked on the Riversend stuff, weird noir visions started creeping in\u2026 I thought these moods helped complicate the wizards and dragons a little, and, as I thought about my wizard, his health failing, the invasion by sea almost certain to wipe out half his people, I thought about what such a person might look like in the real world: watching a country show at a midwestern casino, or tryout pitching for an American League team years after having lit up the marquees.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added, \u201cI am earnestly hoping that a new genre called \u2018dragon noir\u2019 will spring from the forehead of nearly two years\u2019 work on these songs, but, if not, I am content for this to be the sole example of the style.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/watch-stephen-colbert-this-year-the-mountain-goats-859967\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Late Show host Stephen Colbert couldn\u2019t contain his fandom as The Mountain Goats appeared on the late night show to perform their classic 2005 track \u201cThis Year.\u201d Colbert leapt onstage during the rendition to sing along with frontman John Darnielle, giving an impassioned performance of the tune. The band, who also played new track [&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-2446423","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-24 16:52:02","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\/2446423","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=2446423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2446423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2446423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2446423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}