Sampha’s latest album Process is due to be out February 3rd via Young Turks. He was the musical guest on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” last night. Watch him perform his new single “(No One Knows Me) Like the Piano.”
Late Night Performances
Watch Flaming Lips perform, play Game with Fred Armisen and Queen Latifah on “Fallon”
On last night’s episode of “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon,” they featured a ton of music-related segments. Watch the Flaming Lips perform “The Castle” from their upcoming album Oczy Mlody, and talk about having multiple Hells Angels encounters while on tour; “Portlandia”’s Fred Armisen chat with Jimmy Fallon and read fake proverbs; the Roots do their classic reenactment of “The Bachelor” and freestyle songs about audience members; and John Legend jokily break down the lyrics of his song “All of Me” below. Wayne Coyne and Armisen played a game called “Humannequins” with Queen Latifah as well which is below too.
The Flaming Lips also appeared on “Portlandia” as two different sets of Flaming Lips.
Watch Whitney perform “Golden Days” on “Colbert”
Whitney were on “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” as the musical guests last night. On their TV debut, the performed “Golden Days” from Light Upon the Lake. Watch the performance below.
Watch Childish Gambino perform “Redbone” on “Fallon”
Childish Gambino performed on last night’s “Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.” Donald Glover showed up his vocal chops to perform “Redbone” from “Awaken My Love.” Watch it below. He also shared a virtual reality video for “Me and Your Mama” last month taken from his PHAROS concerts.
Watch Car Seat Headrest perform “Drunk Drivers/Killer Whales” on “Fallon”
Car Seat Headrest were on“Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” as the musical guests. They performed a completely revamped (and shorter) version the Teens of Denial hit “Drunk Drivers/Killer Whales” with help from members of the Roots. Watch it below.
Vic Mensa calls Trump racist, performs with Travis Barker on “Kimmel”
Last night, Vic Mensa performed his song “16 Shots” on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!,” with Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker. Mensa was also accompanied on stage by dancers dressed as police in riot gear, who he begins struggling near the end of the song. Mensa also abruptly stopped short to monologue.
“I’m a young black man from Chicago and I’m tired of not being able to trust the police,” he said. “I don’t want to see another 17-year-old kid like Laquan McDonald murdered in the street. So when I hear a candidate talking about law and order, and stop and frisk as the answer to our problems… You don’t know our problems in Chicago, and you damn sure don’t speak for us. Tomorrow we have the biggest election of our lifetime. You gotta get out and vote against hate, because Donald Trump is a racist and if you don’t vote, racism wins.” Watch the performance below.
Watch Thundercat have a “Bass-Off” with a Hannibal Buress robot on “The Eric Andre Show”
Thundercat was the musical guest on this week’s episode of “The Eric Andre Show.” In a clip from the show, the bassist has a “bass-off” with a Hannibal Buress robot. A man without pants comes out in the middle of the clip and hugs Thundercat. Watch the clip below. “The Eric Andre Show” airs Fridays at midnight on Adult Swim.
Watch Jack White perform two songs, chat on “Fallon”
Jack White was the musical guest on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” last night. After having a chat where he teases Fallon’s go-to guitar, “a beginner’s guitar for children,” he performed a medley from his career-spanning compilation Acoustic Recordings 1998-2016. It is his first acoustic TV performance. Watch him perform two songs “Love Is the Truth,” from when Jack did a Coca Cola commercial and the White Stripes’ “You’ve Got Her in Your Pocket” below.
Watch clipping. perform “A Better Place” on “Corden”
Daveed Diggs’ (Marquis de Lafayette and Thomas Jefferson in Hamilton) rap trio clipping. last night made their television debut on “The Late Late Show With James Corden.” Watch their performance below. They performed “A Better Place,” from their most recent album, Splendor & Misery. Diggs won a Tony Award for “Best Featured Actor in a Musical” but left Hamilton in July.
Watch Albert Hammond Jr. perform “Losing Touch” on James Corden
Albert Hammond Jr. appeared on Corden’s show last in February, where he played “Caught By My Shadow.” Last night, Hammond, who is done promoting the Strokes’ recent EP apparently, went back to promoting last year’s solo album Momentary Masters. He and his band, during the song, played the single “Losing Touch,” and you can watch it below.
Momentary Masters is out July 31st through Vagrant.
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