Monday, October 13, 2008
Music news Dead Confederate tore it up on Conan O'Brien this weekend
Posted by Chad Radford @ChadRad on Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 2:26 PM
Athens rising stars Dead Confederate played one of their typically morphine/raucous sets on Late Night with Conan O'Brien on Fri., Oct. 10th. There's a lot about these guys' sound and image that recalls Radiohead circa, OK Computer, Dinosaur Jr's latter albums, and even Nirvana from time to time. The group portrays a sense of threadbare emotion and spontaneity, but it sticks very closely to the means of straightforward rock music; albeit a bit on the morose side.
Their performance on Conan posessed a level of energy that's been missing from many of the more tolerable high-profile rock bands in quite some time. It's refreshing to watch musicians get so lost in the moment that the their guitar player goes tumbling over backwards during a song, sending stage hands running to his aide from every direction.
Sure this kind of thing happens with some regularity at Lenny's or the Drunken Unicorn, but to see it on national television makes it all the more poignant.
In case you missed their performace, here's a video.
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