Ever wonder what will happen during the last five minutes of late-night TV talk shows? Here are tonight’s notable performers:
The Late Show With David Letterman (CBS): Brendan Benson
If you’re unfamiliar with him, Benson is that other guy from the Raconteurs. Not Jack White. But to put it that way would be like talking down to him. Benson is a Nashville dude, but totally into power pop, and he just released his fourth solo album, My Old, Familiar Friend (ATO). The LP has been described as “pure, unbridled joy in recorded form,” and we’re stoked to watch him play.
The Tonight Show With Conan O’Brien (NBC): The Dead Weather
Rerun from June 18, The Dead Weather—the aforementioned Jack White, Alison Mosshart (Kills), Dean Fertita (Queens Of The Stone Age, Waxwings) and Jack Lawrence (Raconteurs)—performed their U.S. television debut on The Tonight Show, playing “Hang You From The Heavens” from their debut album, Horehound (Third Man).
