Daily Loaf

A weekly bulletin about who’s playing on late night TV; set your TIVOs or DVRs if you’ve got an early bedtime. See a day missing? No musical guest that night…

The Jay Leno Show, NBC
Monday, October 19: Rod Stewart
Tuesday, October 20: Ludacris (likely there to promote his latest film)

The Late Show with David Letterman, CBS
Monday, October 19: Rosanne Cash (rerun, 10/7)
Wednesday, October 21: Paul McCartney (7/15)

The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien, NBC
Tuesday, October 20: Cobra Starship feat. Estelle (8/11)
Wednesday, October 21: Phoenix (9/15)
Thursday, October 22: Dave Matthews Band (9/14)
Friday, October 23: All Time Low (8/13)

Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, CBS
Wednesday, October 21: Laura Izibor [pictured] (9/29)
Thursday, October 22: Lynyrd Skynyrd (10/2)
Friday, October 23: the Avett Brothers (10/6)
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A weekly bulletin about who’s playing on late night TV; set your TIVOs or DVRs if you’ve got an early bedtime. See a day missing? No musical guest that night…

The Jay Leno Show, NBC (he’s baaacckk!)
Monday, September 14: Jay-Z with Rihanna & Kanye West (likely performing their single, “Run This Town,” pictured right)
Wednesday, September 16: Miley Cyrus
Thursday, September 17: Bruce Hornsby & Eric Clapton

The Late Show with David Letterman, CBS
Monday, September 14: Cage the Elephant (rerun, July 30)
Tuesday, September 15: Care Bears on Fire (August 26)
Wednesday, September 16: John Fogerty (September 3)
Friday, September 18: Gary Mule Deer (August 20) Read the rest of this entry »

Look out for this week’s very special “Vinyl Saturday” releases, exclusive to indie music retailers.

VINYL:

Avett Brothers – “Slight Figure of Speech” 7″
Special Vinyl Saturday (September 5th) 7″ release with pic sleeve.

Big Star – “Feel” b/w “Mod Lang“ 7″
Special Vinyl Saturday (September 5th) 7″ release with pic sleeve.

The Black Crowes – Before the Frost… Until The Freeze
Before The Frost features 11 new unreleased Black Crowes studio songs. The bonus album Until the Freeze adds 8 new original Black Crowes studio songs plus a cover version of Stephen Stills’ “So Many Times”.

Mars Volta – Octahedron
Another special Vinyl Saturday (September 5th) release. 2LP set.

Queen – A Kind of Magic
Queen – Flash Gordon
Queen – News of the World
Queen – Queen
HQ-180 vinyl reissues — some include bonus tracks.

Various Artists – Ze 30: Ze Records 1979-2009
Ze remains one of the great cult labels of its time. With this new compilation, Strut takes a snapshot of the many weird and wonderful fusions that surfaced on its famous taxi cab-influenced yellow and black label. Highlights include one of the earliest outings by Was (Not Was) and a Larry Levan mix of Kid Creole’s biting parable about corruption in the Caribbean.  Other featured artists include Ze label regulars Cristina and Bill Laswell’s Material.

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A weekly bulletin about who’s playing on late night TV; set your TIVOs or DVRs if you’ve got an early bedtime. See a day missing? No musical guest that night…

The Late Show with David Letterman, CBS
Monday, August 31: Dirty Projectors
Tuesday, September 1: Black Crowes (which plays Ruth Eckerd Hall October 7)
Thursday, September 3: John Fogerty
Friday, September 4: Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros (pictured)

The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien, NBC
Monday, August 31: Pitbull (the Miami rap artist plays The Ritz this Friday, September 4)
Tuesday, September 1: Cheap Trick (read Gabe’s write up and see Mike Wilson’s pics from their August 14 show with Poison and Def Leppard at Ford Amp) Read the rest of this entry »

This week’s recommended releases as well as a breakdown of other worthy albums available now.

Vinyl:

Arctic Monkeys – Humbug
The band’s third album is a set of songs both heavier and lush than in previous efforts but still full of the Monkeys’ punch and vitality.

Jeff Beck – Beck-Ola
Jeff Beck – Truth
Exact replicas now available on pristine HQ-180 vinyl. Taken from the original analog master tapes.

Chocolate Watch Band – No Way Out
Chocolate Watch Band – Inner Mystique
Hailing from San Jose, Calif., the Watch Band — featuring the pouting, Mick Jagger-influenced lead vocals of Dave Aguilar, the thrilling guitars of Sean Tolby and Mark Loomis, the solid bass of Bill Flores and the thumping drums of Gary Andrijasevich — made all the right scenes in San Jose, including appearances with the Syndicate of Sound and Count Five.

John Fogerty – Blue Ridge Rangers Rides Again
Among the special guests are Bruce Springsteen.

Fugazi – 3 Songs 7″
Remastered.

Woody Guthrie – Woody, Cisco And Sonny
Woody Guthrie – Woody The Agitator
Woody Guthrie – Woody’s Roots
Woody Guthrie – Woody’s Greatest Hits
Classic Guthrie vinyl reissues — now available.

Jet – Shaka Rock
bass, drums, guitars and vocals.

Willie Nelson – American Classic

Pearl Jam – The Fixer 7″
Two new tracks from their upcoming album on white vinyl with glow-in-the-dark ink on the label!

Chuck Ragan/Brian Fallon split 7″
They of Hot Water Music and Gaslight Anthem fame, respectively.

Reigning Sound – Love and Curses
New release — now available on vinyl.

The Smiths – The Smiths
The Smiths – Meat Is Murder
The Smiths – Queen is Dead
The Smiths – Strangeways Here We Come
180 gram vinyl reissues. Remastering supervised by Johnny Marr. Read the rest of this entry »