Cold War Kids
A virtual overnight sensation, Cold War Kids formed in 2004 in Fullerton, a satellite town of Los Angeles with no music scene to speak of. The vocalist/pianist/guitarist Nathan Willett, guitarist Jonathan Russell, drummer Matt Aveiro, and bassist Matthew Maust, former friends from Loyola Marymount University, found the cheap rent and ample character studies of the poor, overworked, and spiritually undernourished to be great material for their future body of work. Initially, the twenty-somethings worked day jobs and made music for each other in a storage room above a Mulberry Street restaurant. The band’s name came from Maust, inspired during an Eastern European vacation that highlighted the post-Cold War history they had inherited.
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- Genre:
- Rock, Alternative/Indie
- City Of Origin:
- Fullerton, ,California United States
- Formed Date:
- 2004
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