Wiretap: Cold War Kids Hang It Up to Dry with Letterman

One of the victims of the fickle music blog hype parade, the Cold War Kids are currently cresting high on a wave of backlash to the backlash from their initial nut-busting praise. Or something. You can read this article in the Village Voice and figure it out.

Suffice it to say, we're never ahead of the curve so we're still in our moony, first-thrush-of-love phase with the band. Yeah, we get that they've ripped some of their shtick from Tom Waits, but we're okay with that. Better than being the second coming of Survivor or something.