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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Somehow the actual announcement of these flew by my radar, so I’ll share them all in one fell swoop. (Thanks to Gabe for posting something about Bad Brains.)

Friday, March 6, Skindred (State Theatre, St. Petersburg)

Saturday, March 7, Tricky (pictured, State Theatre, St. Petersburg)

Friday, March 13, Papa Grows Funk (State Theatre, St. Petersburg)

Saturday, April 11, New Found Glory (Jannus Landing, St. Petersburg)

Monday, April 27, James Taylor (Ruth Eckerd Hall, Clearwater)

Tuesday, August 11, Rock Star Mayhem Festival 2009 with Marilyn Manson/Slayer/All That Remains/Cannibal Corpse/Trivium/The Black Dahlia Murder/others (Ford Amphitheatre, Tampa)