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Bon Joviver

Nathan — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 12:44:10 +0000

Indie rock band, Miracles of Modern Science, have given the internet world a fun little treat with their new mini-project, Bon Joviver. They have taken the musical stylings of Bon Iver and combined them with the classic 80′s pop tune, “You Give Love a Bad Name”, written by, of course, Bon Jovi. Thus, giving us the name, Bon Joviver. Short and silly, but very entertaining. I’m pretty surprised that Jimmy Fallon hadn’t already come up with this.

Lessons From Late Night

Alex — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 23:41:16 +0000

Hello I Hope Your Ears Bleed world! My name is Alex “Ceach” McEachin and I have been blessed to begin a new series entitled “Lessons from Late Night” in which I will review notable performances that take place on the many late night shows.

In this inaugural post I would like to draw attention to the newest late night show, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. I have begun following his show closely after taking over for the legendary Conan O’Brien. I have honestly been pretty impressed with how well he has assumed this new role. I love how he has gone to great lengths to become relevant by embracing all of the new cultural and technological norms such as Twitter and Facebook (although it seems the show tries too hard at times). And I am especially impressed with the musical guests he has been able to line up thus far. The debut show, that aired March 5, 2009, included the legendary artist Van Morrison in which he played “Sweet Thing.” The two performances I would like to highlight are Glen Hansard of The Frames performing a cover of “Hair Shirt” by R.E.M. on March 12, 2009; a very intimate performance of a man and his Mandolin. The second is Vampire Weekend on March 18, 2009 debuting a brand new song, “White Sky.” This song will be included on their new album that will hopefully be released this coming fall. I bring attention to each of these notable performances so that you may venture over to hulu.com and watch them for yourselves.

We have embedded the March 18th episode so that you can watch the Vampire Weekend performance right here, right now. This is truly one of the best late night performances I have ever seen. For those of you who have been living underground for the past year and have yet to hear their debut album, you must go out and get it immediately. You won’t be disappointed. Unfortunately we couldn’t find a video with just their performance, so what you have here is the entire episode. But if you want to jump straight to Vampire Weekend’s performance, just click on the second to last white dot at the bottom of the video. Unfortunately the Van Morrison performance is no longer available, but if you head over to hulu.com, you can find the Glen Hansard performance and many more. I hope they bring you as much joy as they brought to me. I hope your ears bleed and maybe even your eyes a little with these amazing performances. More to come soon.

Vampire Weekend – White Sky

Van Morrison – Sweet Thing

Jimmy Fallon Reveals House Band

Nathan — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 12:07:54 +0000

So Jimmy Fallon has started a blog in an effort to build up his upcoming take over of Late Night on March 2nd. Apparently every night from now on Fallon is going to do a little webisode that he will upload onto his blog at 12:30. The majority of what he’ll be doing on them is answering his viewers questions. Yeah, so nothing to get too excited about. And you know I’m not too sure what I think about the one SNL cast member who could never make it through a sketch without laughing being a talk-show host. But one thing I did find interesting was who he chose to be his band. That’s right they are already a band, and one you’ve most likely heard of.

That’s right The Roots are going to be playing live on Late Night with Jimmy Kimmel every night. How weird is that. That seems to be reason enough that it won’t tank after just one season. Although I wonder how long they’ll want to do that. What would be cool though is if after a season then he gets another band to come and do it for a year. I wouldn’t doubt it if after this news there are a a bunch of bands contacting the other evening and late night hosts about becoming a permanent feature on their show.

Anyway, props to Jimmy for getting The Roots to join his crew. Maybe he will continue to bring artists with actual talent on his show as guests every night. I’m not getting my hopes up though. The one band that popped into his head as he was showing where the band would play on his model studio was Green Day. Well here are a few tracks from Rising Down, the newest release from The Roots.

The Roots – The Show (feat. Common and Dice R)

The Roots – Rising Up (feat. Wale & Chrisette Michele)

Conan for Jay and Jimmy for Conan

Nathan — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 01:36:00 +0000

so this may be old news to you, but it’s new to me. apparently conan o’brien is taking over for jay leno on the tonight show next year, which i am super pumped about. now i won’t have to stay up til midnight to watch a tall lanky red-head bounce jump around and flip his hair (which still makes me smile every time i see it.) but i am not sure how i feel about jimmy fallon taking over for late night. it’s not that he hasn’t made me laugh in the past, i just never really pictured him as a talk show host. he’s just gonna laugh at everything that his guests say. but i guess that doesn’t really matter, since now i don’t have to stay up that late. here is one of the aforementioned instances where jimmy has made me laugh.

jimmy fallon – idiot boyfriend (removed 8/28)