SOLD OUT: Cold War Kids
With Middle Kids.
Though “blue-eyed soul” may bring to mind images of Daryl Hall and John Oates, Cold War Kids have spent the past decade redefining that label. The Californians play a bluesy brand of indie rock that’s influenced in equal part by Death Cab for Cutie and Billie Holiday, and they’ve gotten quite good at it, as evidenced by their six full-length albums, with this year’s upcoming L.A. Divine marking their hard-earned major label debut. With Middle Kids.
$35 ($30 adv.). Doors 7 pm.
press release: Ten years have come and gone since Cold War Kids first took to the stage in their homegrown Southern California scene. Time is typically unkind to indie rock bands. So how is that Cold War Kids are still here in 2014, selling out tours and releasing their fifth album in a decade amidst these 40 seasons of torrential fate winds, while so many of their peers have vanished?
“We worked really fucking hard, that’s the answer,” says Nathan Willett. “We worked really hard and we were successful, which is freakishly impossible, and we should embrace it. That’s our story.”
New album L.A. Divine out April 7 via Capitol Records. The first single is "Love is Mystical."
"Love is Mystical," by Cold War Kids
The three-piece Middle Kids, led by vocalist / guitarist Hannah Joy, and producer / multi-instrumentalist Tim Fitz, with Harry Day on drums, first came to public attention with the release of their debut single 'Edge Of Town' in May last year. Sir Elton John declared himself a fan of the song, added it to his Apple Music playlist and aired it on his Beats 1 radio show. To date, 'Edge Of Town'has accumulated over 3 million streams on Spotify. Not bad for a band that, when they recorded the single, hadn't played a single show.