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John Mulaney’s ‘Everybody’s Live’ Drums Up Renewed Hope For Musicians On Late-Night TV

The number of musical performances on late-night dropped from around 800 between 2011 and 2013 to closer to 200 in 2023.

Gordon has said the song, which was released on Sonic Youth’s iconic 1995 LP Washing Machine, was about “wanting to be seen for who you really are”, which is an apt metaphor for one of Mulaney’s key roles on his gonzo talk show: eclectic music nerd. Night Music featured artists such as The Pixies, Sonic Youth and Red Hot Chili Peppers as well as pairing the likes of Marianne Faithfull with Dizzy Gillespie, Bootsy Collins and Loudon Wainwright III and Sonny Rollins with Leonard Cohen. There was a memorable 1995 performance from Minutemen’s Mike Watt, who was backed by Nirvana’s Dave Grohl and Pat Smear, a former member of The Germs, and Pearl Jam’s Eddie Vedder, as well as a two-song set from Marilyn Manson, which saw the controversial goth rocker burn what appeared to be a bible (it turned out to be a lunchbox).

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