Posted by Joel Weiss on May. 10, 2009, at 10:54 pm
I wasn’t really sure what to expect going into Friday’s concert at Mahaffey Theater featuring an un-costumed, un-amplified-to-11 Christopher Guest, Michael McKean, and Harry Shearer. Maybe I was thinking too hard about it? After all, when you go see a band, they play their songs. When you go see a comedian, he does his material. With Guest, McKean, and Shearer, reality lay in between — a hilarious, two-hour multimedia jaunt down memory lane complete with stories, clips, and songs predominantly from two classic film satires about seemingly disparate genres of music. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: A Mighty Wind, Annette O'Toole, Berklee College of Music, Big Bottom, Break Like The Wind, Catherine O'Hara, Christopher Guest, concert, Concert-Review, David St. Hubbins, Derek Smalls, Elvis, Elvis-Presley, Eugene Levy, grammy, Harry Shearer, Jay Leno, Lego, Live Earth, Mahaffey Theater, Michael McKean, Mitch and Mickey, Muppets, NBC, new york times, Nigel Tufnel, NPR, Progress Energy Center for the Arts, review, rolling-stones, Spinal Tap, Statler, Stonehenge, Storytellers, Talk of the Nation, The Folksmen, The New Main Street Singers, The Tonight Show, This Is Spinal Tap, Unwigged & Unplugged, VH1, Waldorf, Wembley Stadium, Wolverine, X-Men, X-Men Origins: Wolverine
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Posted by Leilani Polk on Apr. 27, 2009, at 12:21 pm
A weekly bulletin on musical guests playing late night TV; set your TIVOs or DVRs.
The Late Show with David Letterman, CBS
Monday, April 27: The All-American Rejects
Tuesday, April 28: Dolly Parton
Wednesday, April 29: Manchester Orchestra
Friday, May 1: Bat for Lashes (pictured)
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, NBC
Monday, April 27: Big Bad Voodoo Daddy
Tuesday, April 28: Country Bones
Wednesday, April 29: Zac Brown Band
Thursday, April 30: Starsailor
Friday, May 1: Ziggy Marley
Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, CBS
Wednesday, April 29: Antony and the Johnsons Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: adele, Antony and the Johnsons, Asher Roth, Bang Camaro, Bat for Lashes, Ben Harper, Beyonce, big bad voodoo daddy, Carson Daly, Cold War Kids, Country Bones, Craig Ferguson, dolly-parton, Franz Ferdinand, Gomez, Jason Aldean, Jay Leno, Jimmy Fallon, jimmy kimmel, Kelly Clarkson, Late Late Show, Late Night, Late Night guests, Late Night Music, Manchester Orchestra, Morrissey, relentless 7, Santigold, Saturday-Night-Live, Starsailor, The All-American Rejects, The Duke Spirit, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, The Tonight Show, Zac Brown Band, Ziggy Marley
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Posted by Leilani Polk on Mar. 23, 2009, at 12:06 am
A 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 23: Bloc Party (pictured)
Tuesday, March 24: White Lies
Wednesday, March 25: Jesse Harris with Norah Jones
Thursday, March 26: U2 (rerun, March 6)
Friday, March 27: Lyle Lovett and John Hiatt (rerun, Feb. 4)
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, NBC
Monday, March 23: Playing For Change
Tuesday, March 24: PJ Harvey and John Parish
Wednesday, March 25: Prince
Thursday, March 26: Prince
Friday, March 27: Prince Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: All American Rejects, Ben Harper & Relentless 7, Bloc Party, Blue October, Chicago, Chris Cornell, Craig Ferguson, David Letterman, Gabriella Cilmi, Iglu & Hartly, Jay Leno, Jesse Harris, Jessie Harris Norah Jones, Jimmy Kimmel Live, John Hiatt, John Parish, John Rich, jonas brothers, Keri Hilson Lil Wayne, Last Call with Carson Daly, Late Late Show, Late Night guests, Late Night Music, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, Late Show guests, Lyle-Lovett, Melanie Fiona, Morrissey, N.E.R.D., Norah Jones, pj harvey, Playing For Change, Prince, Ra Ra Riot, Saturday-Night-Live, talk show guests, talk show music, The Damned, The Late Show, The Tonight Show, U2, White Lies
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Posted by Leilani Polk on Mar. 2, 2009, at 12:00 am
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 »
Tags: Andrew Bird, Bettye Lavette, Carson Daly, Charles Hamilton, Clap-Your-Hands-Say-Yeah, Craig Ferguson, Crooked X, Jay Leno, Jimmy Kimmel Live, Jon Bon Jovi, Justin Timberlake Van Morrison, Late Night Music, late night television, Late Show with David Letterman, Lil-Wayne, Little Boots, Ludacris, M. Ward, Melanie Fiona, NASA, Neko Case, New Kids on the Block, Oren Lavie, Papa Roach, Raphael Saadiq, Robert Francis, robyn, Santogold, The Fray, The Tonight Show, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, tom jones, U2 on Letterman U2
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