2009 Emmy Award Nominations announced

A few days ago the nominations for the 2009 Primetime Emmy Awards were announced. 30 Rock was nominated for 22 awards - more nominations in a year than any other comedy in history. The other highlights:

• The nominees for Outstanding Comedy Series are: 30 Rock, Entourage, Family Guy, Flight of the Conchords, How I Met Your Mother, The Office and Weeds.
• The nominees for Outstanding Drama Series are: Big Love, Breaking Bad, Damages, Dexter, House, Lost and Mad Men.
• The nominees for Outstanding Variety, Music and Comedy series are: The Colbert Report, The Daily Show with John Stewart, Late Show with David Letterman, Real Time with Bill Maher and Saturday Night Live.
• Among the actors nominated for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series are Alec Baldwin (Jack Donaghy) in 30 Rock, Steve Carell (Michael Scott) in The Office and Jemaine Clement (a fictionalized version of himself) in Flight of the Conchords.
  
• Tina Fey is up for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series for portraying Liz Lemon on 30 Rock and Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series for portraying Sarah Palin this season on Saturday Night Live.
  
• Kristen Chenoweth was nominated for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for playing Olive Snook in the dearly departed ABC dark comedy Pushing Daisies.
  

US Chart News: 7/16/09

• On the Billboard Hot 100, "Use Somebody" by Kings of Leon is down from #20 to #21. "21 Guns" by Green Day is up from #37 to #26.
• On the Modern Rock Tracks chart, "1901" by Phoenix debuts at #35. It is the French indie rock band's first entry onto the chart. "Notion" by Kings of Leon makes a jump from #12 to #10.
• On the Billboard 200 album chart, Wilco's Wilco (The Album) is down from #4 to #11. LP, the debut album by the Vampire Weekend/Ra Ra Riot side project Discovery debuts at #89.

Video of the Day: "Dimmer" by Bishop Allen

This wonderful little video here is the video for the single "Dimmer" by Brooklyn indie rock quartet Bishop Allen. The song can be heard on their recently released album Grrr.

Video of the Day: "Extinction" by the Soft Pack

Today I begin the first phase of moving out of my current apartment to a new one. So you'll be seeing alot of Video of the Day posts over the next month and a half because they're easy to do. This video comes to us from the band The Soft Pack. Its for their excellent single "Extinction". Enjoy.

Welcome to this week's installment of Late Night This Week our weekly feature in which we list the highlights of who's on the various American late night talk shows.

7/13/09
Letterman: actor Jonah Hill

7/14/09
Letterman: Wilco and Leslie Feist perform

7/14/09
Letterman: musician Paul McCartney
Conan: actor Dana Carvey
Fallon: television personality Alexa Chung
Daly: actor Masi Oka

7/15/09
Kimmel: actress Zooey Deschanel
Letterman: Grizzly Bear perform

7/16/09
Letterman: Metric perform
Conan: actor/"Robot Chicken" creator Seth Green
Fallon: The Dead Weather perform

UK Chart News: 7/12/09

• Arctic Monkeys' new single "Crying Lightning" debuts this week at #12. The single debuted on iTunes last week, shortly after it was premiered on BBC Radio 1's Zane Lowe Show. The song is not due for physical release until next month.
• "Rabbit Heart (Raise it Up)" by Florence and the Machine drops from #18 to #19. The band's album Lungs debuts at #2 on the album chart.

Silversun Pickups on MTV Unplugged

A few months ago MTV finally remembered "oh yeah! we're supposed to be about music!" and began showing videos in the morning again. Last month, they revived the beloved MTV Unplugged series by splicing the performance of British jazz-pop singer Adele into that afformentioned morning block of Videos. The next band for for the new MTV Unplugged? L.A. shoegazers Silversun Pickups. The band performed six of their songs: "Well Thought Out Twinkles", "Catch and Release", "Panic Switch", "Kissing Families", "Growing Old is Getting Old" and "Lazy Eye" for the show. A link to the Unplugged website and the videos is here.

In a few months, Vampire Weekend will also perform the same amount of songs for the same program.

Ramblings: Ramblings' Revenge

• It's really been a while since i've done an entry in our Ramblings feature. I'm really sorry about that, but i've mostly turned this site into a site that's just videos, Chart News, Late Night This Week and (bi-monthly) Live Dates. So we need some more stuff.
• Did not know this, but former WWE superstar Brock Lesnar is now with UFC. And he's pretty damn popular.
• The popular Scotland-based music festival T in the Park is being held this weekend. Among the performers are The Airborne Toxic Event, Bloc Party, Blur, Camera Obscura, Crystal Castles, Doves, Eagles of Death Metal, Edwyn Collins, Elbow, Florence and the Machine, Foals, Franz Ferdinand, Friendly Fires, The Gaslight Anthem, Glasvegas, Hockey, The Horrors, James, Jane's Addiction, Keane, The Killers, Kings of Leon, Ladyhawke, Lily Allen, M83, The Manic Street Preachers, The Mars Volta, Maximo Park, Mogwai, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Nine Inch Nails, Noisettes, Of Montreal, Paolo Nutuni, Patrick Wolf, Passion Pit, Pendulum, Regina Spektor, Snow Patrol, The Specials, Squeeze, Starsailor, The Streets, That Petrol Emotion, TV on the Radio, White Lies, Yeah Yeah Yeahs and dozens more.
• A British man died at a festival at a fortress in Serbia early Saturday according to the BBC. The man, who is from London, died after falling from a wall at the Exit Music Festival in Belgrade. The festival was headlined by British bands Arctic Monkeys, Madness and the Manic Street Preachers.

Video of the Day: "Heads Will Roll" by Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Here's the video for the new single from the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, "Heads Will Roll". Enjoy.

Yeah Yeah Yeahs |MTV Music

US Chart News: 7/9/09

• On the Billboard Hot 100, "Use Somebody" by Kings of Leon remains at #20. Green Day's new single "21 Guns" jumps from #55 to #37.
• On the Modern Rock/Alternative chart, "I've Got Friends" by Manchester Orchestra makes a jump from #10 to #9.
• On the Billboard 200 album chart, Wilco's new seventh album, Wilco (The Album) debuts at #4, the same chart peak that their previous album, Sky Blue Sky achieved. Moby's new album Wait for Me debuts at #22. Phoenix's Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix is down from #66 to #73. Grizzly Bear's Veckatimest is down from #72 to #100.

Video of the Day: "Can't Look Down" by Zox

Along with Les Savy Fav (who later moved to New York City) and Lightning Bolt, the alternative/reggae/ska band Zox is probably the most successful band to come out of my home state of Rhode Island since The Throwing Muses. This is video for their 2005 single "Can't Look Down" from their excellent album The Wait.

New Arctic Monkeys Single released

Yesterday, Arctic Monkeys debuted their new single "Crying Lightning" on the Zane Lowe show on BBC Radio 1 and then released the single on iTunes.

A bunch of blogs have the single up on their site, but the one i'm linking to is We All Want Someone To Shout For, whose post which features an MP3 of the song is here.

"Crying Lightning" is really, really good, too.

Late Night This Week: Week of 7/5/09

This has been an on and off feature on AIIY for quite a long time. Again, this is who's on the US late night shows this week that would be of interest to our readership

7/6/09
Letterman: Conor Oberst and the Mystic Valley Band perform
Ferguson: comedian Eric Idle
Conan: Death Cab for Cutie perform
Fallon: comedian Andy Samberg, actor Jorge Garcia, The Lonely Island perform (REPEAT)
Daly: Late Night host Jimmy Fallon

7/7/09
Kimmel: Ben Harper performs (REPEAT)
Letterman: comedian Sasha Baron Cohen
Conan: Andrew Bird performs
Daly: comedian Patton Oswalt, M83 perform (REPEAT)

7/8/09
Kimmel: Franz Ferdinand performs (REPEAT)
Ferguson: comedian Michael Ian Black

7/9/09
Conan: actress/musician Zooey Deschanel
Fallon: actor/comedian Steve Martin (REPEAT)

7/10/09
Kimmel: actor Jack Black, actor Michael Cera
Letterman: actor Rainn Wilson

UK Chart News: 7/5/09

• The death of Michael Jackson continues to have a major effect on the chart, as even more of his hits return to the chart this week. Jackson died on a Thursday, so the chart, compiled on a Sunday, showed that Jackson's music was in very high demand in the few days after his death. This week's chart shows that even more. Many of the songs that returned to the chart last week have actually jumped several places, notably "Man in the Mirror" which makes a jump from #11 to #2. The other Jackson songs in the Top 40 are: "Billie Jean" (up from #25 to #10), "Thriller" (up from #23 to #11), "Smooth Criminal" (up from #28 to #12), "Beat It" (up from #30 to #19), "Black Or White" (up from #45 to #25), "Dirty Diana" (up from #50 to #26), "They Don't Care About Us" (up from #67 to #32), "Earth Song" (up from #38 to #33), "The Way You Make Me Feel" (up from #47 to #34), "You Are Not Alone" (up from #44 to #35), "Don't Stop Til You Get Enough" (up from #48 to #38) and "Bad" (up from #57 to #40). That gives Jackson a probably record breaking 13 songs in the Top 40. There's most likely more in the rest of the Top 75.
• "Rabbit Heart (Raise it Up)" by Florence and the Machine falls from #12 to #18 on the singles chart
• On the album chart, Flying High, the third solo album from former UB40 lead singer Ali Campbell, debuts at #13.
  

Former NFL QB Steve McNair found shot in Nashville

These last two week have been filled to the brim with celebrity deaths including those of Michael Jackson, Ed McMahon, Farrah Fawcett, Sky Saxon, Billy Mays, Karl Malden, Mollie Sugden, Allen Klien and Herve Presnall. Now in what is probably the most shocking off all, former American football player Steve McNair was found shot to death in an apartment in Nashville, Tennessee this afternoon. The quarterback was 36.

McNair was best known for his tenure with the Houston Oilers/Tennessee Titans franchise.

We normally don't report about sports, but i'm making an exception for this shocking turn of events.

Video of the Day: "Special" by Mew

Danish alt-prog act Mew have a new coming out this year called No More Stories/Are Told Today/I'm Sorry/They Washed Away//No More Stories/The World Is Grey/I'm Tired/Let's Wash Away or just No More Stories... for short (as to confuse us, the band is releasing an EP called just No More Stories a few weeks before the album's release). That album's first two singles, "Introducing Palace Players" and "Repeaterbeater" are floating around the net right now, but here's the video for their best known song, "Special" from their wonderful 2005 release And The Glass Handed Kites.

Mew |MTV Music

US Chart News: 7/2/09

• On the Billboard Hot 100, "Use Somebody" by Kings of Leon is up from #23 to #20
• On the Billboard 200 album chart, Regina Spektor's new album, Far, debuts at #3. The Mars Volta's Octahedron debuts at #12. Dinosaur Jr.'s Farm debuts at #29. Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix by Phoenix is up from #71 to #66. Swoon by Silversun Pickups is up from #105 to #99
• Now you might be asking "Where's the Michael Jackson in the Billboard 200?". Well, there isn't any. This is because older albums that have dropped off the Billboard 200 are not allowed to return to the chart like in the UK. Older, or "catalog" albums have their own chart, Top Pop Catalog. There, Jackson holds the top 9 spots, stopped only from having a stranglehold on the chart by the soundtrack to Woodstock. Here's what charted on that chart: Number Ones (#1), The Essential Michael Jackson (#2), Thriller (#3), Off the Wall (#4), Jackson 5's The Ultimate Collection (#5), Bad (#6), Dangerous (#7), HIStory (#8) and The Ultimate Collection (#9).
• On the Modern Rock/Alternative Tracks chart, "No You Girls" by Franz Ferdinand is up from #9 to #7. "I've Got Friends" by Manchester Orchestra jumps from #14 to #10.

Video of the Day: "Wind Phoenix" by Cymbals Eat Guitars (Live at KEXP)

Here's a pretty nifty video that features New York indie rockers Cymbals Eat Guitars playing their song "Wind Phoenix" on the Seattle public radio station KEXP's Morning Show with John Richards.

Jens Lekman has swine flu

Pitchfork is reporting today that Swedish indie pop singer Jens Lekman has come down with swine flu. Lekman states on his blog that he came down with the flu while touring in South America. He is being quarantined for ten days at his home in Sweden, but expected fully recover and play at a festival in Portugal next month.

Video of the Day: "Genetic Engineering" by Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark

This is the video for "Genetic Engineering", the first single from Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark's criminally overlooked 1983 experimental album Dazzle Ships. Enjoy.

Oh No! Not Billy Mays Too!

Yesterday informercial pitchman/beloved cult figure Billy Mays died. These have been some of the worst couple of days ever.

And now reports are coming in that Walter Cronkite is close to death.

These are truly depressing times.

UK Chart News: 6/28/09

• The death of Michael Jackson has caused a spike in the sales of his singles and albums and it show's on this week's UK Singles Chart. 20 Michael Jackson songs appear on the UK Top 75 this week, with six in the Top 40: "Man in the Mirror" (#11, which is actually higher than its original peak of #21 from 1988), "Thriller" (#23), "Billie Jean" (#25), "Smooth Criminal" (#28), "Beat It" (#30) and "Earth Song" (#38). The other songs that managed to climb into the Top 75 this week are: "You Are Not Alone" (#44), "Black Or White" (#45), "The Way You Make Me Feel" (#47), "Don't Stop Til You Get Enough" (#48), "Dirty Diana" (#50), The Jackson 5's "I Want You Back" (#55), "Bad" (#57), "Ben" (#58), The Jackson 5's "ABC" (#65), "They Don't Care About Us" (#67), The Jackson 5's "I'll Be There" (#71), "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'" (#72), "Rock With You" (#73) and The Jacksons' "Blame It On The Boogie" (#75)
• It's the same news over at the album chart where several of Jackson's albums appear throughout. The chart is topped this week by Jackson's Number Ones greatest hits album. The other Jackson albums to appear are: Thriller (#7), another greatest hits album, King of Pop (#14), Off the Wall (#17), yet another greatest hits album, The Essential Michael Jackson (#20), Thriller 25 (#45) and Bad (#59).
• In non-Michael Jackson news on the singles chart, indie rock band Florence and the Machine make their chart debut as "Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up)" debuts at #12. "Raindrops", the new single from Basement Jaxx debuts at #21. "Never Forget You" by Noisettes jumps from #48 to #31 to became that band's second Top 40 entry. "Heavy Cross" by Gossip is up from #40 to #38.
• On the album chart, Kasabian's West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum tumbles from #1 to #2 (thanks in part to the aforementioned Michael Jackson greatest hit album). Far, the new album from Regina Spektor, debut at #30. Blur's second greatest hits album Midlife: The Beginner's Guide to Blur drops from #20 to #38. Friendly Fires' self titled album makes a jump from #98 to #62. Octahedron, the latest release from The Mars Volta, debuts at #64.
  

Late Night This Week: Week of 6/28/09

This has been an on and off feature on AIIY for quite a long time. Again, this is who's on the US late night shows this week that would be of interest to our readership

6/29/09
Letterman: actor Zach Galifinakis (REPEAT)
Conan: Green Day perform (REPEAT)
Fallon: television host Morgan Webb, Yeah Yeah Yeahs perform (REPEAT)
Colbert: astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse-Tyson

6/30/09
Kimmel: humorist David Sedaris (REPEAT)
Fallon: comedian Seth Meyers (REPEAT)

7/1/09
Ferguson: actor Denis Leary (REPEAT)
Conan: actress/comedian Angela Kinsey (REPEAT)
Fallon: actor Zachary Quinto, actor Leonard Nimoy (REPEAT)

7/2/09
Kimmel: Phoenix perform (REPEAT)
Letterman: PJ Harvey and John Parish perform (REPEAT)
Conan: Neko Case performs (REPEAT)
Fallon: actress/writer Mindy Kaling (REPEAT)

7/3/09
Kimmel: Bat For Lashes performs (REPEAT)
Conan: actor William Shatner, Incubus perform (REPEAT)
Fallon: Keane perform (REPEAT)

Video of the Day: "Actor Out of Work" by St. Vincent

I've been really enjoying Actor, the new album from indie singer/guitarist Annie Clark, known professionally as St. Vincent. This is the video for the first single from the album, called "Actor Out of Work".

Sky Saxon of the Seeds dead at 63

Yesterday, Michael Jackson and Farrah Fawcett died, but another celebrity of importance also met his end. Sky Saxon was the lead singer and bassist for the 60's garage rock band The Seeds, who in 1966 had a hit single with "Pushin' Too Hard". Along with other garage rock bands around at the same time such as The Sonics and The Monks, The Seeds are often considered to be among the influences of the later punk rock movement. Saxon was 63 years old.

Michael Jackson is dead

Even though this is an indie/alternative rock blog, I just feel that I needed to say something about the passing of Michael Jackson, one of the most popular and influential performers of the last several decades. I turned on MSNBC around 5:45 (eastern time) yesterday to bide my time before a film on Turner Classic Movies came on, and the news anchor (possibly that new Ed guy) reported that Michael Jackson had been rushed to the hospital, then a while after that it was reported he was in a coma, then merely seconds after that report, he was dead.

I'm not a big fan of Michael Jackson, but his influence on popular culture since he first appeared in America's living rooms in October of 1969 as a member of the Jackson 5 is undeniable. Despite his falling out with most of the media and the American public in the mid-90's, his music from the 80's (and I guess a few songs from Dangerous and History from the 90's) is timeless. He will be missed by everyone in the music industry, be they the head of his record company or some kid with an indie rock blog like myself.

Phish announce album title and tracklist

We've known for a while that Phish will be releasing their new album on July 28. Well, the band has officially announced the name of the album (and it isn't Party Time or Light Yellow, both of which have been rumored to be the album's name) and its tracklist.. The new album will be called Joy and was produced by Steve Lillywhite, who produced their 1996 release Billy Breathes. The tracklist is as follows:

1. Twenty Years Later
2. Backwards Down the Number Line
3. Stealing Time from the Faulty Plan
4. Light
5. Joy
6. Sugar Shack
7. Ocelot
8. Kill Devil Falls
9. I've Been Around
10. Time Turns Elastic

US Chart News: 6/25/09

• Silversun Pickups' "Panic Switch" drops from #1 to #2 on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks (Soon to be Alternative Tracks), replaced at the top spot by the song that it replaced: "New Divide" by Linkin Park. Green Day's "21 Guns" jumps from #14 to #7. Franz Ferdinand's "No You Girls" jumps from #11 to #9. Kings of Leon's "Notion" jumps from #25 to #20.
• On the Billboard Hot 200 album chart, Incubus' greatest hits album Monuments and Melodies debuts at #5. Pete Yorn's new album Back and Fourth debuts at #44. Spinal Tap's Back from the Dead debuts at #52.

Video of the Day: "Please Visit Your National Parks" by Oxford Collapse

Yesterday I reported here on the breakup of the Brooklyn indie rock band Oxford Collapse. As an example of how excellent this band was, here's the video for their 2006 single "Please Visit Your National Parks" from their criminally underrated third album Remember the Night Parties.

The Oxford Collapse collapse

According to Pitchfork Media, Brooklyn indie trio Oxford Collapse have announced they are breaking up after eight years and four albums, including last year's vastly underrated Bits and 2006's Remember the Night Parties, one of my favorite albums of that year. The band will play their final show on July 18 at Under the Tracks in Manhattan.

Live Dates: July/August 2009

Please view official websites of venues for pricing and times. Dates are subject to change. More concerts to be added as time rolls on, so keep checking this page for updates.

July 1: Richard Cheese and Lounge Against the Machine - House of Blues Boston
July 2: The Church - Showcase Live
July 6: Casiotone for the Painfully Alone - T.T. The Bear's Place
July 6: Handsome Furs - Great Scott
July 7: Reel Big Fish/The English Beat - House of Blues Boston
July 9: Ween - Lupo's Heartbreak Hotel
July 9: Peter Murphy - Showcase Live
July 10: Badfish/Someday Providence/Senior Discount/Scotty Don't - Lupo's Heartbreak Hotel
July 11: Audrye Sessions/Paper Route - Jerky's
July 12: Reel Big Fish/The English Beat - Lupo's Heartbreak Hotel
June 12: Brand New - The Middle East (Downstairs)
June 12: Japandroids - Great Scott
July 17: The Datsuns - T.T. The Bear's Place
July 17: Big Bad Voodoo Daddy - Showcase Live
July 18: The Dead Weather - House of Blues Boston
July 19: Cave In - Great Scott
July 24: Paolo Nutuni - House of Blues Boston
July 26: Pete Yorn - House of Blues Boston
July 30: Gin Blossoms - Showcase Live
July 31: Depeche Mode - Comcast Center
July 31: And You Know Us By the Trail of Dead - Jerky's
August 1: Incubus - Comcast Center
August 1: Dredg/RX Bandits - Paradise Rock Club
August 2: Airborne Toxic Event/Metric/Cage the Elephant - McFadden's
August 3: Coldplay - Comcast Center
August 4: Eagles of Death Metal - House of Blues Boston
August 5: Eagles of Death Metal - Lupo's Heartbreak Hotel
August 5: Arctic Monkeys - Paradise Rock Club
August 7: Guster - Newport Yachting Center
August 12: Audrye Sessions/Paper Route - Middle East (Upstairs)
August 13: Bat for Lashes - Paradise Rock Club
August 14: Six Finger Satellite - T.T. The Bear's Place
August 16: Trashcan Sinatras - T.T. The Bear's Place
August 17: The Breeders - Paradise Rock Club
August 19: De La Soul - Showcase Live
August 28: Hothouse Flowers - Showcase Live
August 30: We Are Scientists - Middle East (Downstairs)


Lupo's Heartbreak Hotel - 97 Washington St., Providence, RI
The Palladium - 261 Main St., Worcester, MA
Paradise Rock Club - 967 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, MA
T.T. the Bear's Place - 10 Brookline St., Cambridge, MA
The Middle East - 472 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA
Showcase Live - 23 Patriot Place, Foxboro MA
Somerville Theatre - 55 Davis Square, Somerville, MA
Great Scott - 1222 Commonwealth Ave, Allston, MA
Berklee Performance Center - 136 Massachusetts Avenue, Boston, MA
The House of Blues Boston - 15 Landsdowne St., Boston, MA
Agganis Arena - 925 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, MA
Club Hell - 73 Richmond St., Providence RI
Ryan Center - 1 Lincoln Almond Plaza, Kingston, RI
Wilbur Theatre - 246 Tremont St., Boston, MA
DCU Center - 50 Foster St., Worcester, MA
Jerky's Bar - 71 Richmond St., Providence, RI
McFadden's - 52 Pine St., Providence, RI
Comcast Center - 855 South Main St., Mansfield, MA
Newport Yachting Center - 4 Commercial Wharf, Newport, RI

Phish 6/21/09 and 6/22/09 Alpine Valley Music Theatre , East Troy, WI setlists

Well, we've come to the end of the first half of Phish's summer tour. The guys don't have another show until their four shows at Red Rocks in Colorado, which run from July 30 to August 2.

Anywho, here's the sets to both of this weekend's Wisconsin shows

6/21/09
Set One: Punch You In The Eye/Runaway Jim/Stash/Ya Mar/Bathtub Gin/Kill Devil Falls/Train Song/Farmhouse/Sparkle/Run Like An Antelope

Set Two: Waves/Sample in a Jar/Maze/Makisupa Policeman/Ghost/The Lizards/You Enjoy Myself/NICU/Prince Caspian/Waste/Fire

Encore: Character Zero

6/22/09

Set One: Brother/Wolfman's Brother/Funky Bitch/The Divided Sky/Joy/Back on the Train/Taste/Poor Heart/The Horse/Silent in the Morning/The Man Who Stepped into Yesterday>Avenu Malkanu>The Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday/Time Turns Elastic

Set Two: Crosseyed And Painless/Alpine Jam/Down with Disease/Bug/Piper/Wading in the Velvet Sea/Boogie on Reggae Woman/Slave to the Traffic Light

Encore: Grind/Frankenstien

Late Night This Week: Week of 4/21/09

This has been an on and off feature on AIIY for quite a long time. Again, this is who's on the US late night shows this week that would be of interest to our readership

4/22/09
Kimmel: actor Ed Helms, 311 perform (REPEAT)
Letterman: actor Samuel L. Jackson, The Brighton Port Authority (Fatboy Slim) and Iggy Pop perform
Conan: Pete Yorn performs
Fallon: Sonic Youth perform
Daly: Black Kids perform (REPEAT)

4/23/09
Letterman: MSTRKRFT perform
Conan: advertising pitchmen Billy Mays and Anthony Sullivan, Elvis Costello performs
Fallon: The Brighton Port Authority (Fatboy Slim) and Iggy Pop perform
Daily Show: actor/writer Larry David

4/24/09
Letterman: St. Vincent performs
Conan: Wilco perform
Fallon: astronomer Neil DeGrasse Tyson

4/25/09
Ferguson: actor/writer Larry David
Conan: comedian Sascha Baron Cohen
Fallon: Dinosaur Jr. perform

4/26/09
Kimmel: comedian David Cross, Phoenix perform
Letterman: Regina Spektor performs
Ferguson: Chairlift perform
Conan: Adele performs
Fallon: Grizzy Bear perform

Phish 6/19/09 Verizon Wireless Music Center , Noblesville, IN setlist

Here's yet another Phish setlist, this one from Friday night in Indiana.

Set One: Backwards Down the Number Line/AC DC Bag/Limb by Limb/The Moma Dance/Water in the Sky/Split Open and Melt/Lawn Boy/The Wedge/Stealing Time from the Faulty Plan/The Connection/Ocelot/Fluffhead

Set Two: A Song I Heard the Ocean Sing/Drowned/Noblesville Jam/Twist/Let Me Lie/Twist/2001/Suzy Greenberg/Possum

Encore: Sleeping Monkey/Tweezer Reprise

UK Chart News: 6/21/09

• Kasabian's "Fire" drops from #8 to #14 on the Singles chart. "Heavy Cross", the new single by The Gossip jumps from #42 to #40. Depeche Mode's new single, "Peace", debuts at #57.
  
• Kasabian's West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum remain at #1 for a second week on the album chart. Midlife: The Beginner's Guide to Blur, a new 2-disc Blur greatest hits album, debuts at #20.