Bono needs to practice more on his rapping skills...

instead of practicing his pickup lines on the LOML. U2 performed "Sunday Bloody Sunday" for the 2009 MTV Europe Music Awards (that's Berlin's Brandenburg Gate in the background). Jay-Z came out about half-way through to freestyle a few lines and then, for some reason, Bono thought he could drop some rhymes of his own. Stick to pop, brother.

U2 - New Music - More Music Videos

New music

• Them Crooked Vultures, full album stream of No One Loves Me and Neither Do I (Nov 17th) via YouTube, Prefix
  
• Wale ft. K'Naan (produced by TVOTR's Dave Sitek, "TV on the Radio," Attention Deficit (Nov 10th), Prefix
• Yeasayer, "Ambling Alp," album and release date TBD, The Mad Mackerel
• Tokyo Police Club, "Hands Reversed," Forthcoming (TBD), MOKB
  

This week's late night TV lineup

Jimmy Kimmel

• Friday - Huey Lewis & the News

Letterman

• Thursday - The Cribs

Craig Ferguson

• Wednesday - The Swell Season

Conan

• Monday - David Gray

Jimmy Fallon

• Tuesday - Wale
  

This week's late night TV lineup

Craig Ferguson

• Friday - Regina Spektor

Carson Daly

• Monday -Arctic Monkeys
• Tuesday - La Roux
• Thursday - Matisyahu

Conan

• Wednesday - The Bravery

Jimmy Fallon

• Wednesday - Monsters of Folk

This week's late night TV lineup

Jimmy Kimmel

• Monday - The Sounds

Letterman

• Tuesday - Florence and the Machine
• Thursday and Friday - Weezer

Craig Ferguson

• Wednesday - Rodrigo y Gabriela
• Friday - Fruit Bats

Conan

• Monday - Wolfmother
• Tuesday - Julian Cassablanca
• Thursday - Swell Season
• Friday - Alice in Chains
  

Finally - a full Them Crooked Vultures tune!

People might want to hold off their "best of" lists until after Nov 17th, when their self-titled album is released. This is killer...

This week's late night TV lineup

Craig Ferguson

• Friday - The Avett Brothers

Jimmy Kimmel

• Tuesday - The Sounds
• Friday - Echo and the Bunnymen

Conan

• Wednesday - Phoenix
• Thursday - DMB

New music

• Vampire Weekend, "Horchata," Contra (early 2010 release), Ultra 8201
• LCD Soundsystem, "Bye Bye Bayou" (Alan Vega cover), digital single (Nov 24th), P-fork
• Julian Casablanca (of the Strokes), "River of Breaklights," Phrazes for the Young (Nov 3rd)
• Mos Def, Jim Jones & the Black Keys, "Ain't Nothing Like You (Hoochie Coo)," BlakRoc (Nov 27th)
  

All this and a Pearl Jam concert to boot?

So imagine being at a PJ concert and Chris Cornell is on hand to belt out his parts of "Hunger Strike." THEN later in the evening, Jerry Cantrell hops onstage to bang out the guitar solo on "Alive." Only in LA (that's what they say, isn't it?).

No, I wasn't there, but goddamn if I wish I was. Thanks to Jude for passing this on. While the videos leave much to be desired, it's more about the story - and what an f-ing story it will be for those at the Gibson Amphitheater that night!

This week's late night TV lineup

Craig Ferguson

• Thursday - A Fine Frenzy

Conan

• Monday - Grizzly Bear
• Tuesday - The Flaming Lips

Carson Daly

• Wednesday - Phoenix

Jimmy Fallon

• Thursday - Hockey

Jimmy Kimmel

• Monday - Kid Cudi

Boop!

This week's late night TV lineup

Jimmy Kimmel

• Tuesday - The Gossip

Jimmy Fallon

• Wednesday - Lenny Kravitz
• Friday - Cory Chisel

Carson Daly

• Monday - Pete Yorn
• Thursday - Joss Stone

Letterman

• Friday - Brett Dennen
  

This week's late night TV lineup

Jimmy Kimmel

• Monday - Matt & Kim
• Tuesday - Kid Cudi

Carson Daly

• Monday - Metric
• Tuesday - Wild Light
• Thursday - Arctic Monkeys
• Friday - Yo La Tengo

Jimmy Fallon

• Monday - Dirty Projectors
• Tuesday - Sunny Day Real Estate

Thom Yorke - "The Hollow Earth"

The video isn't official, but the song is available now via the Radiohead website as the B-side to the "Feeling Pulled Apart By Horses" single. Thanks to P-fork.

This week's late night TV lineup

Jimmy Kimmel

• Monday - Matt & Kim
• Tuesday - Kid Cudi

Letterman

• Thursday - Snow Patrol
• Friday - The Noisettes

Craig Ferguson

• Monday - Black Joe Lewis and the Honey Bears
• Wednesday - Arctic Monkeys

Conan

• Tuesday - Monsters of Folk
• Friday - Rodrigo Y Gabriela

Carson Daly

• Monday - Franz Ferdinand
• Tuesday - Mat Kerney
• Wednesday - Amazing Baby
• Thursday - Paolo Nutini
• Friday - Ladyhawke

Jimmy Fallon

• Thursday - Phoenix
  

New music

• The Flaming Lips, "Convinced of the Hex," Embryonic (Oct 13th), live from Wednesday's Colbert Report (also can stream the entire album until Monday, Sept 21st from the home page)
• Julian Casablanca (of the Strokes), "11th Dimension," Phrazes for the Young (Oct 20th). P-fork
• Death Cab for Cutie, "Meet Me on the Equinox," The Twilight Saga: New Moon soundtrack (Oct 20th), P-fork

This week's late night TV lineup

Carson Daly

• Monday - Franz Ferdinand
• Tuesday - Metric
• Wednesday - Pete Yorn
• Thursday - Emily Wells

Conan

• Monday - DMB
• Tuesday - Phoenix
• Wednesday - Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Jimmy Fallon

• Monday - Rufus Wainwright
• Tuesday - Ghostface
• Wednesday - Q-Tip

Jay Leno

• Monday - Jay-Z w/ Rihanna & Kanye West
• Thursday - Bruce Hornsby and special guest Epic Clapton

Letterman

• Monday - Cage The Elephant

This week's late night TV lineup

Letterman

• Friday - Kid Cudi

Carson Daly

• Wednesday - The Cure

Jimmy Kimmel

• Thursday - White Lies

The Flaming Lips - Festival Pier (8/29/09)

Not too much to write about this show, as the skies opened up about 30 minutes into the Lips' set. We (the Lips and the crowd) were starting to hit our groove, but shit... or rain/thunder/lightning happens. Pretty badass version of "Fight Test" and the two(?) new songs they played sounded pretty good live. I've tried to explain their entrance to a few people and I think failed miserably on each attempt. Luckily, I found the below clip on YouTube. Don't stare directly at the pulsating vazhïn...

The Black Crowes on Letterman

"Good Morning Captain" from their just released Before the Frost...Until the Freeze. My job would be a lot cooler if I could show up to work wearing Chris Robinson's getup.