Video: Modest Mouse - The World At Large (Live)

Although we don't have times for any of the bands yet, it's not too early to pick out the must-see acts of the weekend. Today I'm previewing Friday at Electric Picnic 2010 and the top ten artists I suggest seeing on the festival's opening day.

Can you imagine that it was five years ago when this was recorded? I feel so old. And I'm not so old, which makes it weirder that I feel that way. Whatever. This is a live performance of Modest Mouse's "The World At Large" that seems to have aired on PBS in 2005. It's a solid performance all around, even of a song that's not as loved as some of the band's other stuff, but the thing that puts it over the top is the fact that Isaac Brock decides to smoke a cigarette while singing. Isn't that [...]

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