Tampa Calling

A weekly bulletin on musical guests playing late night TV; set your TIVOs or DVRs if you’ve got an early bedtime.

The Late Show with David Letterman, CBS
Wednesday, May 27: The Dead (rerun, April 23)
Thursday, May 28: The Killers (May 11)
Friday, May 29: Wynton Marsalis (May 13)

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, NBC
Tuesday, May 26: Dwight Yoakam
Wednesday, May 27: Sarah McLachlan
Thursday, May 28: Prince
Friday, May 29: James Taylor

Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, CBS
Friday, May 29: Erin McCarley (rerun, April 20)

Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, NBC
Tuesday, May 26: Keane
Wednesday, May 27: The-Dream
Thursday, May 28: Rodney Atkins

(Video of Tori Amos and the rest of the schedule on Leno after the jump)
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A selection of CDs, EPs, LPs, Digital Releases, DVDs and Box Sets that dropped today.

Arcade Fire, Miroir Noir DVD (Merge)
The Assemble Head in Sunburst Sound, When Sweet Sleep Returned (Tee Pee)
Bat for Lashes, Two Suns (Astralwerks)
Black Dice, Repo (Paw Tracks)
Casiotone for the Painfully Alone, Vs. Children (Tomlab)
Crystal Antlers, Tentacles (Touch & Go)
Del the Funky Homosapien, Funk Man: The Stimulus Package (digital self-release)
Doves, Kingdom of Rust (Astralwerks)
Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, A Stranger Here (Anti-)
Erasure, Total Pop! (Rhino) [box set]
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MySpace has be come the place to debut new material, and it’s not uncommon for artists to stream their forthcoming albums in full on MySpace leading up to the album’s release date. Usually it’s a redundant maneuver as new releases tend to leak weeks early, but for those who don’t have the time or patience to track down the leaks, this handy marketing practice offers an easy way of previewing the album before making a firm commitment to buy or not to buy.

Today’s streaming album is the Doves‘ fourth and latest, Kingdom of Rust (out tomorrow on Astralwerks). I’ve only heard the first minute and it sounds pretty interesting, psychedelic tastiness.