Wintersleep is going to be playing on David Letterman this Friday, January 14, around midnight. It’s totally true. Check their website if you don’t believe me. They say they’ll be playing an “old fav of ours.” (At this very moment, a friend is reading over my shoulder and yelling “Or-CA! Or-CA!”) Then in a couple of weeks the boys will be heading off on a tour with the Hold Steady. It’s just another year in Wintersleep-world, where the heights of achievement are seemingly infinite.
This article appears in Jan 6-12, 2011.
“Weighty Ghost.” That’s what they should play, and they’re crazy if they don’t.