The Year’s Best Music Moments: A Mix of Performances, Videos and Song Snippets That We Just Really Loved
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ee4bfu_t3c
Best “Breakout” By Indie-Rock Lifers: Future Islands and Father John Misty on Letterman
Given less than four minutes on national television, Future Islands’ Samuel T. Herring stalked the stage and pounded his chest as if Planet of the Apes‘s hero primate Caesar had one last chance to save the human race. Josh Tillman’s alter ego Father John Misty took a different route, mocking concern like a charlatan preacher backed by a player piano, 22-piece string section, and occasional canned laughter. Two wonderfully bizarre performances–one stone-faced in its sincerity, the other in its insincerity–where years of tour practice and carefully developed stage presence finally won the rat race. — Lauren Beck
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIFrG_6fySg