Rock Critics Escape From Behind Keyboards Onto Late Night TV, WGA Strike Ends

Jess Harvell | February 12, 2008 11:25 am

Coincidence? Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot, longtime rock critics and hosts of the “Sound Opinions” radio show, were invited onto last night’s Late Night With Conan O’Brien to discuss the Grammys in lieu of a peppy young celeb, because when you want references to Kraftwerk and Robert Bly you still turn to music geeks. (But maybe I’m wrong and Hayden Panettiere and Zac Efron are big Radio-Activity fans? If so, sorry kids.) If you make it to the end, you can wonder why Conan’s Jim Morrison impression wasn’t just fleshed out into an entire sketch with Kot on organ and DeRo on drums. Or why he didn’t at least subject them to an “If They Mated” segment. (Do they even still do that? I’m too old to make it past the 10 o’clock news.)