Jawbox played 4 songs @ Fallon rehearsal, Neko Case shows her favorite movies on TV tonight too

In addition to all the other stuff going on tonight (12/8), there are at least two noteworthy music-related events airing on TV.

Jawbox plays their ONLY reunion performance on the Jimmy Fallon show. This morning they held a private rehearsal show in the Fallon studios. Those in attendance got four songs: “ff=66”, “68”, “savory” and “Desert Sea”.

Neko Case is TCM’s guest programmer today.

A Woody Allen fan, Case chooses Radio Days (1987) as her favorite Allen film with its “celebration of the entertainment industry.” Elia Kazan’s A Face in the Crowd (1957) remains “shocking” to her in its satire of the corruptive power of television. She admires Orson Welles (“a force of nature”) and Joseph Cot- ten (“the foxy Everyman”) in Carol Reed’s The Third Man (1949). The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945) casts a spell on her with its Oscar Wilde dialogue and appeal to “art-history nerds.” A bonus in Case’s selections is a collection of Dogville shorts from the 1930s.

Video of Neko performing on Letterman, below…