TV performance

ROBERT PLANT & SAVING GRACE Play LED ZEP Classic On The Late Show

Posted on by JL

10 April 2026

ROBERT PLANT and his touring band for 6 years now
released an album last September, titled Saving Grace,
the band’s name. For Plant it’s his 12th LP as a solo artist.

They’re about to embark on a North American tour.

To warm-up they went on The Late Show
a couple of days ago.

One of the 3 songs they performed was Led Zeppelin‘s
1969 classic Ramble On from their 2nd longplayer.

A remarkable rendition it was. Zealous and ardent.
And Plant‘s bluesy voice hasn’t aged whatsoever.

LED ZEP

SATURDAY NIGHT LIFE Celebrates Its 50th Season – Wacht NIRVANA Members And POST MALONE Smell Like Teen Spirit

Posted on by JL

Watch up?

15 February 2025

Legendary American late-night live sketch comedy, variety and music
show Saturday Night Life celebrates its 50th season on the telly.

Last night they broadcasted a nearly three-and-a-half-hour live concert with
a glamorous cast of celebs such as Lady Gaga, Eddie Vedder, Miley Cyrus, David
Byrne, Backstreet Boys, Devo and many more, with most of them performing a
cover of classic hits from the past 50 years.

Also on the show were original Nirvana heroes Dave Grohl and Krist Novoselic
who played with fabulous rapper Post Malone (who did a dumbfounded job)
behind the mic, the band’s immortal classic Smells Like Teen Spirit (more
than 2 billion streams on Spotify).

Watch a fragment right here.

SNL Website

LAUREN MAYBERRY Performed Her Pop Pearl ‘SOMETHING IN THE AIR’ On American TV Show

Posted on by JL

12 December 2024


Album artwork

Synth-pop band CHVRCHES‘ Scottish frontwoman LAUREN
MAYBERRY released her solo debut album VICIOUS CREATURE
last week.

NME wrote: “Mayberry is indeed on her own path of solo discovery, and that
leaves plenty of room to be excited about what lies on the road ahead as she
digs even deeper into her solo artistry.”

To TUTV’s ears, the record’s stand-out track – one of this year’s
best singles – is SOMETHING IN THE AIR. A vocal tour de force.

Last week she performed the solid gold
pop pearl on the Jimmy Kimmel Live Show.

Astounding.

VICIOUS CREATURE


.
Instagram – Spotify

Dublin Heroes FONTAINES D.C. Played Their New Single ‘STARBURSTER’ On American Telly

Posted on by JL

9 May 2024


New glammy look

Irish indie stars FONTAINES D.C. already have 3 top-drawer albums on their résumé. And number four is bagged now. They named it ROMANCE and will share it with the world on August 23rd. Pre-order info here.

The first single STARBURSTER is a tense jam, rollin’ on with a bone-chilling flow and frontman Grian Chatten rapping all over it with his characteristic uptight parlando.

They played it this week on The Tonight Show With Fallon.
New look, new single, new album.

Fontaines: Instagram

BIG THIEF Played New Staggering Unreleased Song ‘VAMPIRE EMPIRE’ On American TV Show

Posted on by JL

About a year ago Brooklyn’s folk pop-rockers BIG THIEF released their 5th album,
titled Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You. An enthralling 20-track record
with Adrienne Lenker‘s angelic voice as the heroine in the middle.

The band is on tour now and as they regularly do, they try out new songs live, before
recording them in the studio. One of them is a pearl called VAMPIRE EMPIRE which
they play for a while now on stage.

The Late Show with Colbert invited them to play that unreleased new one before their
audience. Wow! I was immediately struck by the energy and vitality of Vampire Empire
and its powerful performance. A staggering new gem by a staggering band.

Listen/watch.

BIG THIEF: Facebook – Instagram

Gorgeous Songstress ANGEL OLSEN Scores This Year’s Best Live Performance On The Telly

Posted on by JL

28 December 2022

The angel that sings gorgeous, sounds gorgeous, and looks gorgeous
released her new, heart-and-soul-and-mind touching LP Big Time last June.

Last August Olsen stopped at The Tonight Show on her promo tour, where
she played, with her big time band, that sublime country tearjerker of the
album ALL THE GOOD TIMES.

Magical.

ANGEL OLSEN: Facebook – Instagram

Live at Paradiso Club in Amsterdam – 15 October 2022 – photos by TUTV

BLOC PARTY On American TV With Rushing Rendition Of Single ‘TRAPS’ From Their Brand New Album

Posted on by JL

Watch this

25 May 2022

London’s indie warriors BLOC PARTY conducted by Kele Okereke came up with their
6th LP – Alpha Games – a couple of weeks ago. It was received by the press with mixed emotions, which I agree with.

But with single TRAPS they unleash their devils as they used to do in their early days.

And they showed they live on the American The Late Show.

Kele on a roll…

Alpha Games

.
BP: Facebook

British Hype YARD ACT From Nowhere To American TV

Posted on by JL

Last week the post-rap-punk gruppo YARD ACT out of Leeds, performed the title track
of their victorious debut LP on the popular American Tonight TV Show with Jimmy Fallon.

Until early last year, after a couple of singles, nobody ever heard about them (except me, of course). But halfway 2021, their name started to pop up here and there in the British media (the experts on hyping). A few months later they were suddenly the next big thing
of 2022 on multiple music websites/zines/blogs. And now they woke up Amercia up too.

Last January the debut LP The Overload landed and got euphoric reviews. Agreed, it’s a great debut, but after several plays it sounded too familiar with other British bands from the ongoing post-punk rebirth (Ditz, Crows, Life, Shame, Squid etc…) and therefore will not go in into history as one of the best debuts ever.

Anyways, from nowhere to American TV, here’s Yard Act…

THE OVERLOAD album…

.
YARD ACT: Facebook

COURTNEY BARNETT Sings And Swings On American TV

Posted on by JL

Last month the top-notch Australian songstress COURTNEY BARNETT
released her third full-length Things Take Time, Take Time.

In between concerts on her current North-American tour she jumped into
the studio of the Jimmy Kimmel Live show this week to play one of the tracks
from the LP, the sticky lullaby called If I Don’t Hear From You Tonight.

Tap your feet right here…

Full album…

.
COURTNEY BARNETT: Website

THE WAR ON DRUGS Sparkle On American TV

Posted on by JL

The by now world famous THE WAR ON DRUGS released their highly praised
fifth album I DON’T LIVE HERE ANYMORE at the end of last month.

Pitchfork said: “Every musical element from vintage synthesizers to even-more
vintage guitars is honed and cut clean, chipping off some of the hazier edges of
the band without losing the methodical and gorgeous production that Granduciel
and his co-producer, Shawn Everett, have mastered.” Score: 8.5.

As usual, when a new album comes out it’s followed by all kinds of promo (TV/interviews/gigs). Same process for The War On Drugs who played on the
American TV Show Jimmy Kimmel Late two days ago, playing a sparkling version
of the LP’s title track…

Full LP on Spotify…

.
TWOD: Facebook