Music on TV - Week of 09.26.11: Pink Floyd week on Fallon

Like the Rolling Stones and Bob Marley in prior weeks, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon dedicates a week to legends of rock -- this week it's Pink Floyd week, featuring The Shins, Foo Fighters, MGMT and Pearl Jam all performing classic songs from the band's catalog. Meanwhile, members of Pink Floyd will also be stopping by to sit down with Fallon, specifically Nick Mason (Monday) and Roger Waters (Tuesday) -- who will also in with the Foo Fighters.

The week lines up with the reissue of Pink Floyd's entire back catalog, remastered -- 14 albums in total, also put together in a 16-disc box set (The Discovery Studio Album Box Set). On Monday, The Shins -- making their first late night appearance in over four years -- will be performing "Breathe (In the Air)" from The Dark Side of the Moon. Then on Tuesday it's Roger Waters joining Foo Fighters for a version of "In the Flesh?" from Waters' opus The Wall. Wednesday has MGMT reaching back to Syd Barrett-era Floyd with "Lucifer Sam," from 1967's The Piper at the Gates of Dawn. Thursday offers a country version of "Wish You Were Here" (1975's classic album of the same name) by Dierks Bentley. Finally, on Friday, Pearl Jam stop by to perform their version of "Mother," another track from 1979's The Wall.

Elsewhere, as previewed in last week's Music on TV calendar, Radiohead get an unprecedented whole hour episode dedicated to them on The Colbert Report, where they'll perform four songs from 2010's King of Limbs -- along with the unreleased song "The Daily Mail."

Picks for the week
Monday, September 26
ABC: Jimmy Kimmel Live: Kelly Rowland
CBS: Late Show With David Letterman: Fleet Foxes
COMEDY CENTRAL: The Colbert Report: Radiohead (Special One Hour Episode)
FUEL: The Daily Habit:
NBC: The Tonight Show with Jay Leno: Arctic Monkeys
NBC: Late Night With Jimmy Fallon: Nick Mason (Pink Floyd)
NBC: Last Call With Carson Daly: The Decemberists (REPEAT)
PBS: Tavis Smiley: Chris Cornell
Tuesday, September 27
ABC: Jimmy Kimmel Live: Glen Campbell
CBS: Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson: Trombone Shorty
NBC: Late Night With Jimmy Fallon: Roger Waters (Pink Floyd)
NBC: Last Call With Carson Daly: Butch Walker, Wye Oak
Wednesday, September 28
CBS: Late Show With David Letterman: The Knux
NBC: The Tonight Show with Jay Leno: Lisa Hannigan
NBC: Late Night With Jimmy Fallon: MGMT
NBC: Last Call With Carson Daly: Cliff Martinez
TBS: Conan: Kid Cudi, Daryl Hall
Thursday, September 29
ABC: Jimmy Kimmel Live: Givers
CBS: Late Show With David Letterman: Death Cab For Cutie
COMEDY CENTRAL: The Daily Show with Jon Stewart: Tony Bennett
NBC: The Tonight Show with Jay Leno: TV on the Radio
NBC: Late Night With Jimmy Fallon: Dierks Bentley
NBC: Last Call With Carson Daly: Laura Marling
TBS: Conan: Portugal.the Man
VH1: Behind the Music: Nelly
Friday, September 30
NBC: The Tonight Show with Jay Leno: The Airborne Toxic Event
NBC: Late Night With Jimmy Fallon: Pearl Jam
NBC: Last Call With Carson Daly: The Horrors
PBS: Hugh Laurie: Let Them Talk -- A Celebration of New Orleans Blues: Allen Toussaint, Irma Thomas, Tom Jones, Hugh Laurie
PBS: Tavis Smiley: Tony Bennett
Saturday, October 1
COMEDY CENTRAL: "Weird Al" Yankovic Live! -- The Alpocalypse Tour: "Weird Al" Yankovic
NBC: Saturday Night Live: Lady Antebellum
PBS: Austin City Limits: Mumford & Sons, Flogging Molly

Sasquatch 2011, Day 1: Photos, recap

Taylor Hawkins of Foo Fighters at Sasquatch!, May 27, 2011

The 10th Sasquatch! Music Festival happened this past weekend, and I was there with a long and expensive (rented) lens on a starter SLR camera... like monster truck wheels on a Honda Civic. The first day was really just the night, with the reunited Death From Above 1979 and headliners the Foo Fighters (pictured above).

Anyway, you can read and peruse the first batch of photos over at Bumpershine.

Music on TV - Week of 05.30.11: Foo Fighters

Foo Fighters play the 2011 MTV Movie Awards

In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is King. Not to say the Foo Fighters are metaphorically one-eyed, but their scheduled live performance at the 2011 MTV Movie Awards is not the norm for this column. Having seen them perform again just this past Friday night at Sasquatch! (I took the photo above from it), I can say that the Foos are unapologetic pros at this live music thing. Dave Grohl has this thing down pat.

Their latest release, Wasting Light is a surprising in that it's a return to their nearly great early recordings. I say "nearly" because I've mostly just appreciated their recordings. Live, though... Grohl and co. can seemingly do no wrong. So, take that to the bank, or something.

Elsewhere, My Morning Jacket has a couple appearances this week on smaller screens, the first being a special live stream Unstaged performance in their Kentucky home town of Louisville, directed by Todd Haynes (I'm Not There, Velvet Goldmine, the recent HBO mini-series Mildred Pierce). The other small screen appearance, and this would've been the lede story if I'd been aware sooner, is on VH1's Storytellers, which premieres on Friday, June 3. The performance is heavy on the new album, Circuital, released this week, but also features some old classics as well.

Picks for the week
Monday, May 30
ABC: Jimmy Kimmel Live: Rammstein (REPEAT)
CBS: Late Show With David Letterman: Wynton Marsalis (REPEAT)
FUEL: The Daily Habit: Game
NBC: The Tonight Show with Jay Leno: Sergio Mendes with Siedah Garrett (REPEAT)
NBC: Late Night With Jimmy Fallon: Twisted Sister (REPEAT)
NBC: Last Call With Carson Daly: Death (REPEAT)
TBS: Conan: FaR*eAst Movement (REPEAT)
Tuesday, May 31
ABC: Jimmy Kimmel Live: I See Stars
CBS: Late Show With David Letterman: Emmylou Harris (REPEAT)
FUEL: The Daily Habit: Friendly Fires
NBC: Last Call With Carson Daly: The Morning Benders (REPEAT)
Wednesday, June 1
CBS: Late Show With David Letterman: Brother (REPEAT)
FUEL: The Daily Habit: Tinnie Tempah
NBC: The Tonight Show with Jay Leno: The Civil Wars (REPEAT)
NBC: Late Night With Jimmy Fallon: Twin Shadow (REPEAT)
NBC: Last Call With Carson Daly: Ted Leo, The Greenhornes (REPEAT)
PBS: American Masters: James Levine: James Levine, Placido Domingo
TBS: Conan: Teddy Thompson (REPEAT)
Thursday, June 2
ABC: Jimmy Kimmel Live: Lykke Li
CBS: Late Show With David Letterman: The Twilight Singers (REPEAT)
FUEL: The Daily Habit: Hanni El Khatib
NBC: The Tonight Show with Jay Leno: Iron & Wine (REPEAT)
NBC: Last Call With Carson Daly: The Soundtrack of Our Lives, Oh Land (REPEAT)
TBS: Lopez Tonight: Panic! at the Disco (REPEAT)
TBS: Conan: Panic! at the Disco (REPEAT)
Friday, June 3
CBS: Late Show With David Letterman: Wiz Khalifa (REPEAT)
FUEL: The Daily Habit: Friendly Fires
NBC: The Tonight Show with Jay Leno: The Airborne Toxic Even (REPEAT)
NBC: Late Night With Jimmy Fallon: Lenny Kravitz (REPEAT)
NBC: Last Call With Carson Daly: Foster the People (REPEAT)
VH1: Storytellers: My Morning Jacket
Saturday, June 4
PBS: Austin City Limits: Esperanza Spalding, Madeleine Peyroux
Sunday, June 5
MTV: 2011 MTV Movie Awards: Foo Fighters, Lupe Fiasco with Trey Songz