So far, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon has failed to impress many, but the show’s first week of music wasn’t too shabby (the Roots as house band, Van Morrison, Justin Timberlake). Last night Clap Your Hands Say Yeah ripped out a new single, called “Statues” to a very excited audience (what’s with the people on the side of the stage, anyway?).
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A regular weekly bulletin on musical guests playing the five-nights-a-week late night talk shows (and SNL); set your TIVOs or DVRs.
The Late Show with David Letterman, CBS
Monday, March 2-Friday, March 6: U2 (pictured, and yes, they are the musical guest every night this week)
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, NBC
Monday, March 2: The Fray
Tuesday, March 3: Bettye Lavette
Wednesday, March 4: Neko Case
Thursday, March 5: Tom Jones
Friday, March 6: Papa Roach
Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, CBS
Thursday, March 5: Andrew Bird
Friday, March 6: M. Ward
Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, NBC
(Fallon takes the O’Brien torch with The Roots serving as his house band and kicks off his first week with a pretty fatty schedule of A-list guests and performers)
Monday, March 2: Justin Timberlake, Van Morrison
Tuesday, March 3: Jon Bon Jovi, Santogold
Wednesday, March 4: Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
Thursday, March 5: Ludacris Read the rest of this entry »
Engelbert Humperdinck returns to the area for the umpteenth time to play Ruth Eckerd Hall on Feb. 19. And I couldn’t be more annoyed. I’ve covered music professionally for close to a decade now and it seems not a year goes by without me having to write a pithy advance on him. Hump’s sentimental ballads and shit-eating grin have always grated me — but not as much as the 71-year-old’s stage name. Here’s what I have running in the Music Week section of the Feb. 14 issue of Creative Loafing:
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 19
ENGELBERT HUMPERDINCK The most annoying name in the history of show business (and it’s not even his real name), continues to make blue hairs cream with sentimental faves like “Release Me (And Let Me Love Again),†his breakthrough hit from ’67. (Ruth Eckerd Hall, Clearwater)
Not the greatest sentence ever written but you get my point.
From Wikipedia:
Aware that [Arnold George] Dorsey had been struggling several years to make it in music, [manager Gordon Mills] suggested a name change to the more arresting Engelbert Humperdinck, borrowed from the composer of such operas as Hansel and Gretel.
OK, enough on Hump. Here are nine other artist and band names that piss me off.
Top 10: Most annoying names in music
1. Engelbert Humperdinck
2. Limp Bizkit
3. Kid Rock
4. Phish
5. Was (Not Was)
6. blink-182
7. Hootie & the Blowfish
8. Portugal. The Man
9. Hoobastank
10. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah (Any band name that is longer than three words almost always sucks.)
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