Headlining artists for Catalpa's inaugural year were The Black Keys, Snoop Dogg performing Doggystyle, TV on the Radio, Umphrey's McGee, Girl Talk, Matt & Kim, Cold War Kids, ASAP Rocky, Matisyahu and Hercules and Love Affair.
Cold War Kids, an American indie rock band from Long Beach, California
The B-side to "Kiss with a Fist" is a cover version of the Cold War Kids song "Hospital Beds".
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The B-side and the band's cover of "Hospital Beds" by the Cold War Kids has been described as "exemplifing their acoustic bar/pub goodness".
Some of the more notable names that received early support from Indie 103.1 and Check One Two were The Airborne Toxic Event, Silversun Pickups, She Wants Revenge, Cold War Kids, Warpaint, and The Submarines.
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He has created music video clips for The Young Knives, Graham Coxon, The Holloways, The Pigeon Detectives, Larrikin Love, Marvin, My Passion, The Whip, The Go Team, Little Man Tate, iLIKETRAiNS, Cold War Kids, Forward Russia, Gallows and Polytechnic as well as viral animations for The Charlatans.
Drummers featured on the cover of Tom Tom Magazine include Cindy Blackman, Susie Ibarra,Kim Thompson (Beyoncé), Sheila E., Palmolive, Janet Weiss, Liv Marsico (Cold War Kids), Suphala, Evelyn Glennie, Yoshimi, Sara Lund (Unwound).
The song "Something Is Not Right with Me" was made available as a low-quality free download on Cold War Kids' website prior to the album's release, and was later used in the movie Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant.