The Mercury Prize snubbed Arctic Alex and his mate Miles of the Rascals, but the two are too young and well dressed and possessed of tuneful throwback British songs to care much. You don't have to take my inference for... CONTINUE READING THE LAST SHADOW PUPPETS SWING BY CONAN, ALEX TURNER ENJOYS HIS TIME ON THE COUCH»
Posted on October 30, 2008 (6 comments)
Tags: Arctic Monkeys | Conan O'Brien | The Last Shadow Puppets | Throw Me The Statue
The sextet that is North Carolina's Annuals swelled to include a four piece string section last night at 30 Rock, performing So Much Fun's lead (and best) single, "Confessor." I wouldn't have known this before CMJ but the violinist on... CONTINUE READING ANNUALS VISIT CONAN WITH "CONFESSOR"»
Posted on October 28, 2008 in (23 comments)
Tags: Annuals | Conan O'Brien | The Physics Of Meaning | Vampire Weekend
Last night Meg White's biggest fan brought Gossip In The Grain's "You Are The Best Thing" to Conan. It's unclear why he didn't do "Meg White" (I didn't mean it that way) considering Conan's Stripes connection. Probably 'cause this is... CONTINUE READING RAY LAMONTAGNE TELLS CONAN "YOU ARE THE BEST THING" »
Posted on October 16, 2008 in (2 comments)
Tags: Coachella | Conan O'Brien | Ray LaMontagne | Throbbing Gristle
Last night, taking a break from his Jenny Lewis duties, Ben Gibbard and his increasingly skinny body performed "Cath..." on Conan O'Brien. We've heard the Narrow Stairs song in various forms -- solo acoustic, Daytrotter, Autumn de Wilde -- but... CONTINUE READING DEATH CAB BRING "CATH..." TO CONAN»
Posted on October 9, 2008 in , (2 comments)
Tags: Bonnaroo | Coachella | Conan O'Brien | David Byrne | Death Cab For Cutie | Tinariwen
From the first announcement -- and through those weak sketches featuring her special friend Johnathan Rice and fellow Postal worker Ben Gibbard -- Jenny's been intent on keeping this an extended family affair. Last night she brought Rice and other... CONTINUE READING JENNY LEWIS GIVES CONAN HER "ACID TONGUE"»
Posted on October 7, 2008 in (8 comments)
Tags: Coachella | Conan O'Brien | Conor Oberst | Jenny Lewis | Johnathan Rice
Last night, while you were resting up from all those winks in the Vice Presidential debate, Regina Spektor joined Ben Folds for a playful version of "You Don't Know Me" on Conan O'Brien. As tipster Marc C. points out, there's... CONTINUE READING BEN FOLDS, REGINA SPEKTOR, AND JASON SUDEIKIS'S LEAKY TROMBONE DO CONAN»
Posted on October 3, 2008 in (21 comments)
Tags: Ben Folds | Conan O'Brien | Jason Sudeikis | Regina Spektor | Throbbing Gristle
Not like live television debut, I mean like they had never before played as a band in public until last night, when they did so before a nationally televised audience. No pressure, guys. And yes that came pretty fast, but... CONTINUE READING DEPARTMENT OF EAGLES MAKE THEIR LIVE DEBUT ON CONAN»
Posted on October 2, 2008 in , (42 comments)
Tags: Conan O'Brien | Dan Rossen | Department Of Eagles | Dirty Projectors | Grizzly Bear | Holy Fuck | Louis C.K. | Menomena | Nat Baldwin
Artist To Watch Lykke Li gave Americans the first opportunity to watch her on late night TV last night. The buzz Swede visited Studio 6A, where she performed icy dance pop tune "Breaking It Up" with an invisible choir. Looks... CONTINUE READING LYKKE LI VISITS LATE NIGHT»
Posted on August 29, 2008 in , (26 comments)
Tags: Casiokids | Conan O'Brien | Dirty Projectors | Lykke Li | SXSW
Did you see Conan last night? That Anne Hathaway is delightful. Did you know she used to be in a college a cappella group? My Morning Jacket were on too, and they did "Touch Me I'm Going to Scream (Part... CONTINUE READING MY MORNING JACKET MEET THEIR BIGGEST FAN ON CONAN»
Posted on June 20, 2008 in (19 comments)
Tags: Bonnaroo | Conan O'Brien | James Lipton | Metallica | My Morning Jacket | Nicole Atkins | St. Vincent | Zach Galifianakis
Santa Monica-based public radio station KCRW has a program where "guests sit down with KCRW DJs and share the music that has inspired them." This includes sets and reminiscences from Neil LaBute, John Cusack, Jason Schwartzman, Padma Lakshmi, and Danny... CONTINUE READING DJ CONAN O'BRIEN ON THE WHITE STRIPES, DYLAN»
Posted on June 18, 2008 (9 comments)
Tags: Bob Dylan | Conan O'Brien | The White Stripes
Late-show-performance post title puns can be hard work, but together we can continue to make it happen. Last time the Black Keys told Letterman "I Got Mine," but this time it's all about the "Strange Times," clocking in at twice... CONTINUE READING THE BLACK KEYS FIND LATE NIGHT WITH CONAN O'BRIEN TO BE "STRANGE TIMES"»
Posted on May 15, 2008 in (4 comments)
Tags: Conan O'Brien | The Black Keys
Alison "VV" Mosshart and Jamie "Hotel" Hince brought their nicknames and quotation marks to 30 Rock last night being for the benefit of Mr. O'Brien. Midnight Boom's chanting "Sour Cherry" came off relatively well and probably won over some young'ns... CONTINUE READING THE KILLS ARE THE ONLY "SOUR CHERRY" ON CONAN»
Posted on April 30, 2008 in (18 comments)
Tags: Conan O'Brien | The Kills
As part of NBC's week of environmentally-conscious themed programming, Late Night literally went "green" last night by booking Seth Green, Peter Greenberg, and Green Apple Quick Step Radiohead. Instead of flying to New York (carbon footprint equivalent to driving a... CONTINUE READING RADIOHEAD GO GREEN FOR CONAN»
Posted on April 24, 2008 in (14 comments)
Tags: Conan O'Brien | Radiohead
M. Ward recently told the New York Times: As long as people are listening to the songs first and not getting too caught up with who is making the songs, I'm happy. Agreed, and the surprisingly good Volume One would... CONTINUE READING SHE & HIM & YO LA TENGO & CONAN»
Posted on April 23, 2008 in (23 comments)
Tags: Conan O'Brien | M. Ward | She And Him | Yo La Tengo | Zooey Deschanel
Few songs get as much of pre-release buzz-up and as many swoony mentions as the Grizz's first glimpse at post-Yellow House/Friend, "While You Wait For The Others." You know a good tune when you remember exactly where you were when... CONTINUE READING GRIZZLY BEAR BRING "WHILE YOU WAIT FOR THE OTHERS" TO CONAN»
Posted on April 22, 2008 in (20 comments)
Tags: Conan O'Brien | Grizzly Bear
The most fabulous Roots crew have a new record out soon, and it looks like they're raising awareness by any means necessary: whether that entails collaborating with a Fall Out boy (see "Birthday Girl"), enlisting a porn star in their... CONTINUE READING THIS WEEK THE ROOTS BECAME COMEDY CENTRAL'S HOUSE BAND»
Posted on April 16, 2008 in (3 comments)
Tags: Adam Sandler | Amy Poehler | Ben Stiller | Conan O'Brien | Jon Stewart | Jonah Hill | Kelsey Grammar | Matthew Broderick | Megan Mullaly | Rob Schneider | Robert Smigel | Rosie O'Donnell | Stephen Colbert | Susan Sarandon | The Roots | Triumph The Insult Comic Dog | Will Arnett
Hot Chip's Made In The Dark clocks in as one of the year's best (bestest?) dance records, and the tropical good time infections of "One Pure Thought" is a strong and awesome anchor for the entire mood-spanning effort. For all... CONTINUE READING NEW HOT CHIP VIDEO - "ONE PURE THOUGHT" (& LIVE ON CONAN)»
Posted on April 9, 2008 in (7 comments)
Tags: Conan O'Brien | Hot Chip
Too bad this YouTube doesn't capture last night's monologue, when Michael Buffer (random yes, but for the record he was out there for some other comedic reason) introduces Black Mountain as "weighing in at a combined 762 pounds." The guys... CONTINUE READING 'LET'S GET READY TO RUMBLE' GUY MICHAEL BUFFER INTRODUCES BLACK MOUNTAIN ON CONAN»
Posted on February 22, 2008 in (2 comments)
Tags: Black Mountain | Conan O'Brien
After watching election results roll in and Hillary and Barack engage in mutual post-primary-speech-impoliteness, we perked up when Mr. O'Brien introduced 31-year-old ukulele virtuoso Jake Shimabukoro who did a crazy good, solo, chord-melody laced rendition of the Beatles' "While My... CONTINUE READING JAKE SHIMABUKURO MAKES HIS UKULELE GENTLY WEEP FOR CONAN»
Posted on February 20, 2008 in (10 comments)
Tags: Conan O'Brien | Grizzly Bear | Jake Shimabukuro | The Beatles
Yeasayer made the long commute from Brooklyn to 30 Rock on Friday night, coming armed with background singers, new agey mysticism, and let's face it, lots of swagger. "2080"'s the tune they deemed fit for their live national television debut,... CONTINUE READING YEASAYER PERFORM CONAN'S "FAVORITE SONG IN A LONG TIME"»
Posted on February 18, 2008 in (12 comments)
Tags: Conan O'Brien | Yeasayer
You don't often see music critics on late night television. Maybe with good reason. Last night Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot, longtime Chicago writers and hosts of Sound Opinions, did a pretty good job on Conan. DeRogatis dissed the Dead... CONTINUE READING JIM DEROGATIS, GREG KOT, AND CONAN HATE THE DOORS»
Posted on February 12, 2008 in (17 comments)
Tags: Amy Winehouse | Conan O'Brien | Dave Matthews Band | Grammys | Greg Kot | Jim DeRogatis | Kanye West | The Doors | U2
Last night manic street punkers Les Savy Fav got their second big break, bringing the "Patty Lee" dance party to Conan's house. Tim starts as a superhero, but you get a sense of where things are headed when the cape comes off and the hips start gyrating a bit. The sliced bird head, that's still a little wtf. Bonusly, you'll find even more reasons to think Tim Harrington is the coolest man alive: He picks up after himself. What a great guest.
Conan giving a post-performance bow is a sign that they should be back in the future. That shit was deadly squire.
Posted on February 1, 2008 in (24 comments)
By Amrit Singh Kate Nash rolled into NYC this week for an instore (at the soon-to-be-dearly-departed Union Square Virgin Megastore) and a long-soldout headlining gig at Bowery Ballroom, in support of the Stateside release of her UK-dominating debut Made... CONTINUE READING KATE NASH @ BOWERY BALLROOM, NYC 1/9/07»
Posted on January 10, 2008 in , (15 comments)
Tags: Conan O'Brien | Kate Nash
We didn't need to watch Conan covering Radiohead to see this development a mile away: no writers + late night time to kill = lots of Conan on guitar. Still didn't expect the awesomeness that is O'Brien full on singing... CONTINUE READING NEW CONAN O'BRIEN LIVE VIDEO - "BLUE MOON OF KENTUCKY"»
Posted on January 7, 2008 in (14 comments)
Tags: Billy Corgan | Conan O'Brien | Rings | The Smashing Pumpkins
Night owls looking for freshly written jokes received a semi-infusion of comedic relief last night when the late night funny men finally returned for duty (Letterman, Conan, Kimmel, Leno -- Carson did a little while back but we clearly said... CONTINUE READING LATE NIGHT TV RETURNS WITH BEARDS, CONAN ON GUITAR»
Posted on January 3, 2008 in , (24 comments)
Tags: Beastie Boys | Conan O'Brien | Cream | David Letterman | Jay Leno | Jimi Hendrix | Jimmy Kimmel | Mike Huckabee | Radiohead
