Gave Spaceline a try. Spacemacs's powerline theme. Setup was super simple (Thanks Eivind Fonn and Sylvain Benner):
(use-package spaceline :ensure t
:config
(use-package spaceline-config
:config
(spaceline-toggle-minor-modes-off)
(spaceline-toggle-buffer-encoding-off)
(spaceline-toggle-buffer-encoding-abbrev-off)
(setq powerline-default-separator 'rounded)
(setq spaceline-highlight-face-func 'spaceline-highlight-face-evil-state)
(spaceline-define-segment line-column
"The current line and column numbers."
"l:%l c:%2c")
(spaceline-define-segment time
"The current time."
(format-time-string "%H:%M"))
(spaceline-define-segment date
"The current date."
(format-time-string "%h %d"))
(spaceline-toggle-time-on)
(spaceline-emacs-theme 'date 'time))