Late night music, June 29-July 4: The rerun edition, Vol. III (with video)

A weekly bulletin on musical guests playing late night TV; set your TIVOs or DVRs if you’ve got an early bedtime and you haven’t already caught these appearances (or want to see them again).

The Late Show with David Letterman, CBS
Monday, June 29: Steve Earle (June 3, pictured; photo by Ted Barron)
Tuesday, June 30: The Fray (April 2)
Wednesday, July 1: the Jonas Brothers (June 11)
Thursday, July 2: P.J. Harvey & John Parish (June 12)
Friday, July 3: Rick Ross with Magazeen (May 14)

The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien, NBC
Monday, June 29: Green Day (June 2)
Tuesday, June 30: John Mayer (June 4)
Wednesday, July 1: Bonnie Raitt and Taj Mahal (June 9)
Thursday, July 2: Neko Case (June 11)
Friday, July 3: Incubus (June 17) Read the rest of this entry »

Late Night Music, April 6-11: the Rerun Edition Vol. II

A weekly bulletin on musical guests playing the five-nights-a-week late night talk shows (and SNL); set your TIVOs or DVRs, if you haven’t already seen them…

The Late Show with David Letterman, CBS
Monday, April 6: Razorlight (original air date 03/11)
Tuesday, April 7: Cursive (03/13)
Wednesday, April 8: Bell X1 (03/17)
Friday, April 10: U2 (03/05)

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, NBC
Monday, April 6: Raul Malo (03/11)
Tuesday, April 7: Prince (03/27)
Wednesday, April 8: Prince (03/25)
Thursday, April 9: Naturally 7 (03/18)
Friday, April 10: PJ Harvey and John Parish (03/24)

Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, CBS
Monday, April 6: M. Ward (03/06)

Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, NBC
Monday, April 6: Clap Your Hands Say Yeah (03/04)
Wednesday, April 8: The Virgins (03/11)
Thursday, April 9: Gabriella Cilmi (03/24)
Friday, April 10: Trace Adkins (03/13) Read the rest of this entry »

Late night music, March 2-7

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 »

Anticlimatic ‘Sound’ off.


BBC News has finally revealed its number one “Sound of 2009” artist to watch in the new year. (If you don’t know what this new music series is by now, click here, here, here and here.)

Thus far, we’ve seen 1984 throwback duo La Roux at number five, tongue-in-cheek electro party band Empire of the Sun at number four, sassy UK songstress Florence and the Machine (my personal favorite) at number three, and dreary alt-rock trio White Lies at number two.

The number one artist to watch in 2009, according to BBC, is Little Boots. What I want to know is, who the fuck got paid to name this artist the most promising of 2009? Little fucking Boots? The name is as annoying as the music. Read the rest of this entry »

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