Pictureplane gets a shout-out on Pitchfork and Nathaniel Rateliff gets written up in Billboard, while DeVotchKa kills it on Conan and Flobots throw down on Carson Daly.
​In case you missed it, the Fray appeared on the Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien last night. A couple noteworthy things about the performance: Drummer Ben Wysocki pitched in on backing vocals, suggesting that Joe King's still experiencing voice problems, and the band tapped a string section to play on "Never Say Never," the latest single from the act's self-titled sophomore album. See the clip after the jump.
We're as sober as especially sober judges here at Westword -- yet, for whatever reason, we're just getting around to posting a joke Tonight Show host Conan O'Brien told about our search for a medical marijuana reviewer back on November 17.
At the end of our quest, we wound up doubling our (and hopefully your) pleasure by hiring not one but two medical marijuana critics. Check out samples of writing by William Breathes and The Wildflower Seed by clicking here and here. As for Conan's joke, it's
Remember yesterday when we wrote about OK Go and heaped praise on the LA-by-way-of-Chiago act for evading obscurity once again with yet another clever new video -- you know, the one with the marching bands and all that?
Seems we weren't the only ones completely aghast that the video couldn't be embedded. Having noticed that the clip for "This Too Shall Pass" had yet to go viral like its predecessor "Here It Goes Again," which got, like, fifty bazillion views or something, NewTeeVee blog call
Word of an Arrested movie can't quell our depression.Television, as Conan O'Brien will tell you, is a fickle business. They build you up, they use you up, they toss you aside. And sometimes the powers that be don't even wait to use you up -- they just decide that you're done, for reasons that have little to do with quality and everything to do with money, and you're a footnote in the television archives.
Not all cancellations are created equal, granted. Some shows deserve their grim fat
Now this is what you call going out on a high note. In case you missed it, Conan O'Brien ended his stint at NBC on Friday night by strapping on a Les Paul and playing "Freebird" with Will Ferrell, Ben Harper, Beck and ZZ Top's Bill Gibbons.
Ferrell actually does a pretty mean Ronnie Van Zandt and for once the tune didn't completely suck the air out of the room. Equally as noteworthy, Neil Young doing "Long May You Run" on the show. Watch that clip after the jump.
