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)

Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, CBS
Tuesday, June 30: Martina McBride (April 23)
Wednesday, July 1: Diane Birch (June 2)

Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, NBC
Monday, June 29: Yeah Yeah Yeahs (April 15, pictured)
Thursday, July 2: Asher Roth (May 14)
Friday, July 3: Keane (May 26)

Jimmy Kimmel Live, ABC
Monday, June 29: Blink 182 (June 11)
Tuesday, June 30: the Jonas Brothers (June 16)
Wednesday, July 1: Eric Hutchinson (June 25)
Thursday, July 2: Phoenix (June 26)
Friday, July 3: Bat for Lashes (June 24)

Last Call with Carson Daly, NBC
Monday, June 29: Melanie Fiona (March 2)
Tuesday, June 30: Charles Hamilton (March 3)
Wednesday, July 1: Little Boots (March 4)
Thursday, July 2: Robert Francis (March 5)
Friday, July 3: N.A.S.A. (March 3)

Saturday Night Live, NBC
Saturday, July 4: Ludacris & T-Pain (November 23, 2008)

For those who missed, here’s St. Vincent performing “Marrow” on Letterman last week. This chick has got it going on. Keep an eye out for her.

VINYL:

Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso UFO – Dark Side Of The Black Moon: What Planet Are We On?
More proggy psych from Acid Mothers Temple — mixes Pink Floyd with fuzzy wah guitars and cosmic sounds. Double LP includes an exclusive bonus D-side track.

Neko Case – Middle Cyclone

Dinosaur Jr. - Farm
Double LP comes in beautiful litho-wrapped gatefold jackets and includes MP3 download.

Earth - Radio Live
Vinyl only release. Radio Live is comprised of two tracks from a live radio broadcast on KFJC (12/31/07) and two tracks from a live performance in Vienna on their 2008 European tour.

God Help The Girl - God Help The Girl
After the success of Belle And Sebastian’s most recent album, The Life Pursuit, band leader/singer/songwriter Stuart Murdoch decided to pursue the writing of a rock musical scored for female singers. After auditioning vocalists via Internet contests, he made his choices and, with all members of Belle And Sebastian backing him up, recorded this record. It combines the strengths of early Belle And Sebastian records in a broader musical palette, drawing equally on musicals, ‘60s girl groups, ‘80s indie, and classic pop. LP includes MP3 download.

Green Day - Know Your Enemy 7”
Ultra-limited edition 7” single features the non-album B-side “Hearts Collide”. We have a limited few remaining after Vinyl Saturday!

Patterson Hood – Murdering Oscar (and other love songs)
The second solo record from the leader of the Drive By Truckers. Most of his DBT band mates join him, along with Don Chambers, Will Johnson, and Scott Danbom from Centro-matic.

Grace Jones – Nightclubbing
180 gram reissue.

Of Montreal - For Our Elegant Castle 7”+MP3
The third single from Skeletal Lamping is backed with a remix by Depressed Buttons (Todd and Jacob of The Faint). Initial pressing is limited to 2000 copies on colored vinyl and includes digital download code with songs and bonus video.

Pavement – Brighten The Corners: Nicene Creedence Edition 4xLP+MP3
Vinyl edition of the deluxe reissue of Brighten The Corners includes eight extra tracks not on the CD reissue, several of which are previously unreleased. Also includes material from the CD version: the re-mastered original twelve song album, ten non-album B-sides, ten outtakes, and fourteen live radio session tracks. Super deluxe M-Pak accordion style box set, 16-page, 12″x12″ full color booklet, MP3 coupon, and huge essay by New Yorker critic Alex Ross.

R.E.M. – Murmur
R.E.M. – Reckoning

Rodriguez – Coming From Reality

Regina Spektor – Laughing With 7”

Regina Spektor – Far

Those Darlins – Those Darlins
After seducing live audiences nationwide while supporting artists as diverse as Dan Auerbach, Boss Hog, Wanda Jackson, Ida Maria and Deer Tick, Those Darlins quickly became the next “it” band at this year’s SXSW.

Tortoise – Beacons Of Ancestorship LP w/MP3download
Their first new record in over five years, Beacons Of Ancestorship gives nods to techno, punk, electro, lo-fi noise, cut up beats, heavily processed synths, and mournful, elegiac dirges. In fewer words, it is exactly what you’d expect from Tortoise.

Allen Toussaint – Bright Mississippi

Tom Waits – Swordfishtrombones
HQ-180 vinyl reissue.

Wilco – You Never Know 7”
Ultra-limited edition 7” single includes the B-side “Unlikely Japan”.

Wino - Punctuated Equilibrium LP+10”
This deluxe gatefold edition of Punctuated Equilibrium is manufactured on HQ-180 vinyl and features a bonus 10″ with four brand new bonus tracks unavailable on the CD.

Pete Yorn & Scarlett Johansson – Relator b/w I Don’t Know What To Do 7”
Ultra-limited 7” released ahead of their forthcoming collaborative album Break Up, due late-summer 2009.

Thou – Tyrant

Young Widows/Pelican split 7”
Third in the series.

Wolves In The Throne Room – Black Cascade

CDs:

Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso UFO – Dark Side Of The Black Moon: What Planet Are We On?
More proggy psych from Acid Mothers Temple — mixes Pink Floyd with fuzzy wah guitars and cosmic sounds.

Away We Go Soundtrack
With music by Alexi Murdoch (including 3 brand new songs). The soundtrack also features music from George Harrison, Bob Dylan, The Velvet Underground and The Strangers.

Black Meteoric Star – Black Meteoric Star
The latest project by longtime DFA alumni Gavin Russom is inspired by equal parts Euro-disco, wonky early electronic body music from America’s Midwest, and a fascination with the outer reaches of global psychedelic rock.

Tom Brosseau – Posthumous Success

Cage – Depart From Me
Production by El-P. Guitar by F. Sean from HATEBREED. Appearances by Aesop Rock. 12 page booklet and digi by renowned artist Alex Pardee. Single mixed by Dave Ogilvie of Skinny Puppy fame.

Cosmos – Jar of Jam Ton of Bricks
The latest project from Robert Pollard.

Def Leppard – Adrenalize 2xCD
Remastered deluxe edition includes a bonus disc with rare, live, acoustic and demo versions.

Def Leppard - Pyromania 2xCD
Remastered deluxe edition includes a bonus disc of a previously unreleased show from the L.A. Forum in ‘83.

Dinosaur Jr. – Farm
Their fifth full-length album with the original lineup. At times wholly ‘70s guitar-epic, at times perfect for sitting by a babbling brook with Joni and Neil. Deluxe 2xCD version features a bonus disc containing four non-album tracks.

Dream Theater – Black Clouds & Silver Linings
Special Edition version adds a second CD containing six cover songs, as well as a third CD of instrumental mixes of the entire Black Clouds & Silver Linings album.

Envy/Jesu - split CD
Over 37 minutes of newly recorded music from the two forward-looking bands who are entering a new phase.

Ginuwine – A Man’s Thoughts
Includes guest appearances from Brandy, Missy Elliott, Bun B and Timberland.

Goatwhore - Carving Out The Eyes Of God
Features current and former members of Acid Bath, Soilent Green, Crowbar, and Nachtmystium.

God Help The Girl - God Help The Girl
After the success of Belle And Sebastian’s most recent album, The Life Pursuit, band leader/singer/songwriter Stuart Murdoch decided to pursue the writing of a rock musical scored for female singers. After auditioning vocalists via Internet contests, he made his choices and, with all members of Belle And Sebastian backing him up, recorded this record. It combines the strengths of early Belle And Sebastian records in a broader musical palette, drawing equally on musicals, ‘60s girl groups, ‘80s indie, and classic pop.

Isaac Hayes – Hot Buttered Soul (Deluxe Edition)
Remastered 40th Anniversary Edition features two bonus tracks, new photographs and expanded liner notes by Jim James (My Morning Jacket)!(?)!

Patterson Hood – Murdering Oscar (and other love songs)
The second solo record from the leader of the Drive By Truckers. Most of his DBT band mates join him, along with Don Chambers, Will Johnson, and Scott Danbom from Centro-matic.

Jedi Mind Tricks – Greatest Features
All of the tracks that Vinnie Paz has recorded outside of the Jedi Mind Tricks umbrella are collected in one place for the fans’ listening pleasure. Featuring 7L & Esoteric, Guilty Simpson, Percee P, Apathy, ILL Bill, Outerspace, and more.

LANDy – Eros And Omissions
LANDy is occasionally famous actor/filmmaker/musician Adam Goldberg, plus Steven Drozd (Flaming Lips), Aaron Espinoza (Earlimart), a host of others, and often times, Goldberg very much alone.

Lemonheads – Varshons
Produced by Gibby Haynes (Butthole Surfers) and featuring guest appearances by Liv Tyler and Kate Moss, the collection is filled with strange bedfellows, from G.G. Allin and Townes Van Zandt to Wire and Leonard Cohen.

Bob Marley - B Is For Bob
Executively produced by Ziggy Marley, B Is for Bob is a collection of original Bob Marley songs re-imagined for kids (and fans of all ages).

The Mars Volta – Octahedron
The Mars Volta’s punkperverted neo-psychedelia goes acoustic on Octahedron. Says the band’s Cedric Bixler Zavala: “There’s electricity throughout it! But that’s what our band does-celebrate mutations.”

Maylene & The Sons Of Disaster - III

John Mellencamp – Life Death Live And Freedom
Live performances of key songs from Mellencamp’s 2008 release, Life Death Love And Freedom. These live versions are presented just as they were performed: no overdubs or studio enhancements of any kind were added.

Merzbow - 13 Japanese Birds V.6
Sixth in the 13-month series of releases inspired by Olivier Messaien’s Catalogue D’Oiseaux.

Mount Eerie – Dawn CD+Book
The music of Mount Eerie and The Microphones has always been a very personal, almost voyeuristic, view inside the mind of Phil Elverum. Dawn is an archival core sample from an intensely creative period of Elverum’s life, the winter of 2002/2003 spent in arctic Norway, a kind of “lost album” finally properly recorded on just guitar and singing. Packaged with a 144-page hardcover book and 16 color photo cards, all bound in simulated “wood” paper.

Native Window – Native Window
Members of Kansas. Really.

R.E.M. - Reckoning
Remastered and expanded — includes the original album and a bonus disc of a previously unreleased concert from 1984 at Chicago’s Aragon Ballroom.

Regina Spektor - Far CD/CD+DVD
New album spotlights Spektor’s daring piano pop, vocal acrobatics and offbeat wit. Special Edition package adds a DVD featuring four videos.

Spinnerette - Spinnerette
The band lineup on the record includes Johannes (Queens of the Stone Age, Eleven) Tony Bevilacqua (The Distillers) and Jack Irons (Pearl Jam, Red Hot Chili Peppers).

Tortoise - Beacons Of Ancestorship
Their first new album in over five years, Beacons Of Ancestorship gives nods to techno, punk, electro, lo-fi noise, cut up beats, heavily processed synths, and mournful, elegiac dirges. In fewer words, it is exactly what you’d expect from Tortoise.

Various Artists – Dillanthology, Volume 2
The second volume of the Dillanthology series focuses on a collection of J. Dilla’s unique remixes for artists including Busta Rhymes, The Pharcyde, De La Soul, Artifacts, and Masta Ace.

Various Artists – Milky Disco 2
A collection of beats, textures, and melodies that mixes Detroit techno, German experimentalism, ’80s West Coast vibes, Italo disco, soul, industrial, ambient, and avant garde– what could loosely be called exploratory space dance music.

Widespread Panic – Huntsville 1996
This 3 disc set, released on their own independent record label, Widespread Records, available only at select independent record stores.

Woolfy - If Ya Know What’s Good For Ya
Woolfy’s vast knowledge and influences produce a blend of funk, pop, dirty disco, rare grooves, and new wave.

Pete Yorn – Back And Forth
Back And Fourth follows Yorn’s first three albums, which he considers a trilogy, and is his first album in three years. Yorn wrote all ten songs and recorded the album in Omaha, NE, with producer Mike Mogis (Bright Eyes, Rilo Kiley). Rick Rubin helped guide the project from its earliest demo stages to final mastering. We have an added-value acoustic CD to give away with purchase (while supplies last).

DVDs:

Jandek – Glasgow Sunday
His music crosses boundaries between folk, country and blues and his public image had been careful to ensure that Jandek himself remains a mysterious, anonymous figure. But 2004 saw Jandek step out of the shadows to play some shows and the unpublicized excursion included here sees him performing with a two-piece back-up band.

Jandek – London Tuesday
55th Jandek release. Recorded live at London’s St. Giles In The Fields church on October 18, 2005. Quite possibly an extended song divided into eight parts entitled No Mind Was A Good Mind. The cover features a man in black posed at a gate overlooking a town somewhere in the UK. The Corwood representative performs solo on acoustic guitar.

John Lennon & The Plastic Ono Band – Live In Toronto ’69
Filmed on the eve of the release Abbey Road, this is the only performance ever caught on film of John Lennon & The Plastic Ono Band.

Amanda Palmer - A Collection Of Music Videos
Subtitled: A Surrealist Mini-Mystery By Michael Pope. Featuring additional videos by Alex De Campi, Chip Yamada with The Danger Ensemble. Includes exclusive interview footage.

Various Artists - Punk In London
The London punk scene of the late 1970s is captured for posterity in this documentary that showcases some of the era’s most important bands. Includes interviews and performance footage featuring The Adverts, Chelsea, X-Ray Spex, The Lurkers, The Red Cow Club, The Jolt, The Killjoys, Subway Sect, The Jam, The Boomtown Rats, The Clash and more.

Various Artists - Punk In England
Picking up where Punk In London left off, this music-packed sequel features a variety of punk, post-punk, ska and new wave acts. Includes legendary performances and insightful interviews from The Clash, The Jam, Spizzenergi, Madness, The Pretenders and more.

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, June 8: Mos Def (Performing something off his fourth and latest solo album, The Ecstatic, out June 9. Maybe “Supermagic”?)
Tuesday, June 9: Black Eyed Peas
Wednesday, June 10: Sonic Youth
Thursday, June 11: the Jonas Brothers (Won’t these kids go away already? We still have to deal with the tour stopping here August 18.)
Friday, June 12: P.J. Harvey & John Parish

The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien, NBC
Tuesday, June 9: Bonnie Raitt and Taj Mahal (Likely promoting their “BonTaj Roulet” co-headlining tour, a series of concerts where the two veteran blues artists perform separate sets with their own bands, and then take the stage together for a blues jam)
Wednesday, June 10: Rancid
Thursday, June 11: Neko Case (The rest of this week’s schedule + video of Pearl Jam on Conan after the jump.)

Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, CBS
Wednesday, June 10: Theresa Andersson (pictured, photo by Miranda Penn Turin)

Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, NBC
Monday, June 8: Amadou & Mariam
Tuesday, June 9: Mos Def
Wednesday, June 10: Manchester Orchestra
Friday, June 12: Mary J. Blige

Jimmy Kimmel Live, ABC
Monday, June 8: the Airborne Toxic Event (rerun, May 14)
Tuesday, June 9: No Doubt
Wednesday, June 10: Bang Camaro (April 29)
Thursday, June 11: Blink 182

Last Call with Carson Daly, NBC
Monday, June 8: the Ting Tings (April 27)
Tuesday, June 9: Green Day
Wednesday, June 10: Green Day
Thursday, June 11: Green Day
Friday, June 12: Foxboro Hot Tubs

Saturday Night Live, NBC
Saturday, June 13: Green Day (jeez, you think we’ll get to see enough of Green Day this week?)

For those who missed it, here’s Pearl Jam closing Conan’s first day on the job of The Tonight Show with a new song, “Get Some,” off their forthcoming album.

Pearl Jam on The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien – June 1, 2009 from Bernie on Vimeo.

As an addendum to my recent column, “Traveling to see music without losing your money (or your mind),” I’ve put together this small group of shows and fests that provide some good selections for music-motivated travel. If you haven’t already made travel plans this summer, here are some of your best bets.

Grizzly Bear and TV on the Radio
Saturday, June 13, The Tabernacle, Atlanta
If you wanna go, get your tickets now — it’s a Saturday night co-headlining bill featuring of two of Brooklyn’s most hip and beloved bands, both with recent albums — Grizzly’s just-released Veckatimest, TVOTR’s fantastic Dear Science from last year — so the show will most definitely sell out. I would be at this show, front row, if I wasn’t just returning from a music-motivated vacation that same Thursday.

The Decemberists (pictured) with Andrew Bird and Blind Pilot
July 18-19, Edgefield, Portland, Oregon
The chamber rock quintet only comes as close as Atlanta and plays that date on Wednesday, June 3 — not at all convenient for a road trip unless you plan on taking that week off. But the tour also includes this appealing Saturday-Sunday run in Portland, and with whistling singer/songwriter Andrew Bird, and Portland’s own indie pop duo, Blind Pilot.

All Points West Festival Music & Arts Festival
July 31-Aug. 2, Jersey City, New Jersey
The rather fatty fest lineup makes up for the unsavory setting, and you can always take a ride six miles over to NYC if you get tired of the obnoxious accents. Or the smell.
Music highlights: Tool (pictured), Coldplay, Beastie Boys, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, My Bloody Valentine, Echo & The Bunnymen, Vampire Weekend, The National, MGMT, the Ting Tings, Gogol Bordello, Fleet Foxes, MSTRKRFT, Q-Tip, the Pharcyde, Ra Ra Riot, Arctic Monkeys, Neko Case, Crystal Castles, Kool Keith, The Black Keys, Elbow, Telepathe, Tokyo Police Club, White Rabbits, the Postelles, Silversun Pickups, the Gaslight Anthem, Steel Train, Heartless Bastards, Mogwai, Ghostland Observatory, Lykke Li, Akron/Family and others.

Outside Lands Music & Arts Festival
August 28-30, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco
San Francisco is fun to visit, fog and all — there are literally dozens upon dozens of things to do aside from the music; the Ghirardelli Square (free chocolate!), Chinatown, Amoeba Music, Haight-Ashbury, City Lights … And this eco-friendly fest boasts a bevy of awesome acts with more TBA.
Music highlights: Pearl Jam, Dave Matthews Band, Incubus, Beastie Boys, Black Eyed Peas, M.I.A., Ween, The Mars Volta, Conor Oberst & the Mystic Valley Band, Lucinda Williams, Thievery Corporation, Tom Jones, Modest Mouse, Built to Spill, Mastodon, Raphael Saadiq, Band of Horses, TV on the Radio, Robert Randolph & The Family Band, Bat for Lashes, The Avett Brothers, Silversun Pickups, Calexico, Os Mutantes, Tea Leaf Green, Deerhunter, The National, Q-tip, Calexico, Kinky, The Dodos, Lila Downs, Bettye Lavette, Los Campesinos!, Lenka, Akron/Family John Vanderslice, The Morning Benders, West Indian Girl, Portugal. The Man, and Extra Golden.

A weekly bulletin on musical guests playing late night TV; set your TIVOs or DVRs,

The Late Show with David Letterman, CBS
Monday, April 13: A.C. Newman (pictured) with Nicole Atkins
Tuesday, April 14: Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Wednesday, April 15: Neko Case
Thursday, April 16: Rascal Flatts

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, NBC
Monday, April 13: Billy Ray Cyrus
Tuesday, April 14: the Airborne Toxic Event
Wednesday, April 15: Chris Botti featuring John Mayer
Thursday, April 16: Jonny Lang

Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, CBS
Monday, April 13: Dwight Yoakam
Tuesday, April 14: Brett Dennen
Friday, April 17: Martina McBride

Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, NBC
Monday, April 13: Sara Watkins & John Paul Jones
Tuesday, April 14: Akon
Wednesday, April 15: Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Thursday, April 16: Solange
Friday, April 17: Plain White T’s

Jimmy Kimmel Live, ABC
Monday, April 13: Lily Allen
Tuesday, April 14: Mims
Thursday, April 16: Pete Yorn
Friday, April 17: Franz Ferdinand

Last Call with Carson Daly, NBC
Monday, April 13: Cold War Kids (rerun April 1)
Tuesday, April 14: Adele
Wednesday, April 15: The Duke Spirit
Thursday, April 16: Lykke Li
Friday, April 17: Ben Harper and the Relentless 7

Saturday Night Live, NBC
Saturday, April 18: Justin Timberlake/Ciara

On Sunday, April 19, Skipper’s Smokehouse will host the 4th annual Alchemy Fest – an all-ages, family-friendly, outdoor event that’s like Easter, Earth Day and 4:20 all rolled into one.

This year, the concert will feature performances from Thomas Wynn and the Believers, Geri X, The Sheaks, Sons of Hippies and The Jim Morey Band.

There will also be face painting, tarot card reading by Natty Moss Bond, henna tattoos by Aleka Phoenix, arts and crafts activities for the kids and “many more surprises.”

The event starts at 2 p.m. and goes until 6 p.m. Admission is $10. Children 10 and under get in free. Skipper’s Smokehouse is also a restaurant that serves some of the best Florida/Cajun staples around such as hush puppies, crawfish and gator tail bites.

What: Alchemy Fest 4
When: Sunday, April 19
Where: Skipper’s Smokehouse, 910 Skipper Rd. Tampa
More: 2 – 6 p.m. | $10 | All Ages | 10 and under free

WIN TICKETS: Send MIXTAPE to 50618 for your chance to win a pair of tickets to Alchemy Fest 4.
Congratulations to our winners!

TWO VIDEOS AFTER THE JUMP …

Thomas Wynn and the Believers (RIYL: Pearl Jam, Creedence Clearwater Revival)

Geri X (RIYL: Damien Rice, Neko Case, Feist)

Neko Case: Middle Cyclone (Anti-)

Perhaps in 30 years we’ll look back at Neko Case with the same reverence that we do now with, say, Joni Mitchell — as a true original. Will Case ever carry the same legendary stature? Hard to say, but it seems to me that legends are not as easily made these days.

That’s OK. We have Case right now, 38 years old and at the peak of her powers. Middle Cyclone is a more than worthy follow-up to 2006’s brilliant Fox Confessor Brings the Flood. The new one builds on Case’s heady blend of country noir and airy folk-pop, with oblique song structures stitching together melodies that at first sound a bit unlikely, but quickly ingrain themselves. This is boldly inventive, new-sounding stuff that somehow evokes an antique feeling. Postmodern roots music, a contradiction in terms. All of which equates to something like wisdom.

Case is among the few artists in contemporary pop who is a legitimate poet. Her lyrics are like funhouse riddles left wide open to listener interpretation, yet not so obtuse as to be precious.

If there’s a prevailing theme that courses through Middle Cyclone, it’s the vagaries and dark alleys of love. In many cases, love is war — or at least a heated competition (“If you’re not by now dead and buried/ You’re most certifiably married”). By and large, Case’s narrator comes off as one hard chick — but not without her vulnerable side, as she reluctantly reveals on the title song: “Can’t give up actin’ tough/ It’s all that I’m made of/ Can’t scrape together quite enough/ To ride the bus to the outskirts/ Of the fact that I need love.”

Case — who wrote or co-wrote 12 of the 14 tunes and produced the disc with the help of her core musicians — concocted gauzy arrangements that use acoustic guitars as the bedrock, but also sprinkle in sweeps of cello and violin, an array of organic keyboards, chiming electric guitars and occasional horns. It all provides an apt backdrop for her clarion vocals, exquisitely calibrated, ranging from a sexy sigh to a pitch-perfect near-bellow.

Neko Case appeared on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno this week to perform “People Gotta Lot of Nerve” off her new album, Middle Cyclone, out now.

Here’s the video:

Bell X1, Blue Lights on the Runway (Yep Roc)

Boston Spaceships, Planets are Blasted (Guided by Voices)

Neko Case, Middle Cyclone (Anti-)

Justin Townes Earle, Midnight at the Movies (Bloodshot)

Molly Jenson, Maybe Tomorrow (Nettwerk)

The Prodigy, Invaders Must Die (Take Me to the Hospital/Cooking Vinyl)

The Soundtrack of Our Lives, Communion (Yep Roc)

U2, No Line on the Horizon (Interscope)

The Whip, X Marks Destination (Razor and Tie)

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

Last Call with Carson Daly, NBC
Monday, March 2: Melanie Fiona (pictured)
Tuesday, March 3: Charles Hamilton
Wednesday, March 4: Little Boots
Thursday, March 5: Robert Francis
Friday, March 6: N.A.S.A.

Jimmy Kimmel Live, ABC
Monday, March 2: New Kids on the Block
Tuesday, March 3: Lil’ Wayne, Robyn
Wednesday, March 4: Oren Lavie
Thursday, March 5: Raphael Saadiq
Friday, March 6: Crooked X

Saturday Night Live, NBC
Saturday, March 7 Ray LaMontagne

No video clips this week since everyone aired reruns last week and because people don’t seem to care about Jimmy Kimmel enough to tape, then YouTube his show. Otherwise, I woulda sicked some Ben Sollee on yer ass. Stay tuned for next week’s clip…