Modest Mouse live last night!

[Davey]

Hey, stayed up last night (actually early this morning) to see Modest Mouse on the Carson Daly show, which comes on after Conan on NBC and they were fantastic. Carson said it was their first network TV appearance and the audience was loaded with young MM fans. And MM didn't play it safe at all. They played a new song that has much of the same appeal of the best songs on The Lonesome Crowded West, great riff coupled with moments of discordant noise and time shifts and lots of power and crazy lyrics. Think something like "Teeth Like God's Shoeshine". The drummer was a big presence too. Really glad to see this as it should mean that at least part of the new album will be returning closer to this sound, although I've heard the album is gonna be pretty diverse.

If you have a fast connection I just saw that the performance is available at least for now at http://homepage.mac.com/jcafaro/modestmouse/ but I haven't watched it so don't know exactly what you'll see. Carson Daly is a real waste of time, but the show only runs a half hour so it wasn't much of a problem for me to watch something else and just check back every few minutes until the start of MM. The clip should just be MM.