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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
Monday, July 6: Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band (pictured)
Tuesday, July 7: Rob Thomas
Thursday, July 9: Levon Helm
Friday, June 10: Maxwell

The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien, NBC
Monday, July 6: Death Cab for Cutie
Tuesday, July 7: Andrew Bird
Thursday, July 9: Playing For Change
Friday, June 10: Ray LaMontagne Read the rest of this entry »

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 »

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
Tuesday, March 17: Bell X1
Wednesday, March 18: Modest Mouse (pictured, photo by Wendy Lynch
Thursday, March 19: Kara DioGuardi (rerun, Jan. 12)
Friday, March 20: David Sanborn with Sam Moore (Feb. 19)

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, NBC
Monday, March 16: Randy Rogers Band
Tuesday, March 17: Soundtrack of Our Lives
Wednesday, March 18: Naturally 7
Thursday, March 19: Kelly Clarkson
Friday, March 20: Chris Cornell

Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, CBS
Monday, March 16: The Upper Crust
Tuesday, March 17: Dropkick Murphys
Friday, March 20: Conor Oberst (rerun Aug. 7, 2008) Read the rest of this entry »

As a service to those who like to know what bands are playing on the five-nights-a-week late night talk shows, I’ve decided to offer a regular update. Make sure to set your TIVOs or DVRs if you don’t stay up late enough to catch the performances on your own.

The Late Show with David Letterman, CBS
Monday, January 26: Ben Kweller
Tuesday, January 27: Andrew Bird
Thursday, January 29: No traditional musical guest but Graham Nash sits in with Paul Shaffer and the CBS Orchestra
Friday, January 30: The Gaslight Anthem
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U2 announces the release date (March 3, 2009) and the title of (No Line on the Horizon) their forthcoming 12th album.

AllMusic.com releases part two of its list of “Favorite Indie Rock Albums of 2008.” Among the selected albums: Sea Lion by The Ruby Sons (which didn’t quite make my own top ten, but was still quite a nice work); M83’s Saturdays=Youth (pretty great shoegaze but haven’t gotten to listen to it enough to really rate it); No Age’s Nouns (didn’t really dig it); and Chemical Chords by Stereolab (good, but not too different from the past three Stereolab albums).

Peter Jackson hires on Brian Eno to score his latest film, The Lovely Bones, an adaptation of Alice Sebold’s novel about a teenage girl who is viciously raped and murdered, and watches from heaven as her family and friends deal with their grief.

Whitney Houston’s stepmother sues the 45-year-old singer over a $1 million insurance policy.

A new Doors documentary, When You Were Strange, to premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in January.