Pitchfork’s feature about late-night talk shows booking adventurous/indie/underground bands is pretty interesting. A couple gems from the piece: “Conan” booked Deerhunter for the band’s national television debut in part to make a statement about their freedom from NBC (Jay Leno is only mentioned once in the entire piece … in passing); Jimmy Kimmel’s staff struggled to get Joanna Newsom to cut down one of her songs to four-and-a-half minutes; and Jimmy Fallon was personally involved in making this amazing Odd Future performance (shown above) happen. (And a bonus: R.E.M.’s national TV debut on David Letterman back in 1983.)