With the exception of PBS faves like “Austin City Limits” and “Artist’s Den,” there’s virtually no outlet on primetime broadcast television for live music anymore. There’s no “American Bandstand,” no “ABC In Concert” — hell, there isn’t even “TLR” to check out all those kooky tween bands the kids love. If you look hard enough on deep cable however, you can find some gems (“Dinner with the Band” comes to mind). But you’d be hard-pressed to find any venue on TV that shows healthy doses of live punk rock. Which basically leaves the late night talk shows as your only source of indie rock on TV. Even the sometimes hip “Saturday Night Live” rarely books a band with any bombast these days. With that in mind, here’s a look at some punk rock bands on the various late night talk shows.

Here’s NOFX playing “Franco Un-American” on Conan, complete with Limo in a belly shirt:

What is that giant CD-type thing Letterman is holding up while he introduces X?:

Jay Leno introduces Against Me! on the “Tonight Show” by calling them one of the best punk bands ever. Funny, Jay always seemed like more of a Pennywise kind of guy:

A bunch of Irish dudes play on a Jewish dude’s show. It’s the Dropkick Murphys on Kimmel:

From New Jersey to NYC, the Gaslight Anthem playing live on Letterman:

What’s the deal with the Jai alai match going on behind Bad Religion during their song on Conan? This features Mr. Brett before he left and returned and before the band had like eight guitar players:

Green Day plays “Basket Case” on Letterman when they were just young whipper-snappers:

On Jimmy Kimmel’s show, Flogging Molly get perhaps the best pit ever on late night TV:

It would be more awesome to see The Sex Pistols on Merv Griffin in 1976, but we’ll take David Letterman in 1996 instead:

The Ramones — or at least half of them — play “Pet Cemetary” on Letterman in 1989 with Paul Shaffer and Letterman’s house band. Kudos to the spelling brainiac who put the titles on this sucker.

The British Buzzcocks play on the Scottish Craig Ferguson’s show in 2006:

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