Music on TV - Week of 05.16.11: Fleet Foxes

Fleet Foxes play Fallon on Friday, May 20

There's just enough advanced warning to grow your beards and dig out your flannel, as later this week on Fallon there's a NW beard folk double feature, with The Head and the Heart on Wednesday and Fleet Foxes on Friday, the latter of which we're more excited for. Last week, we went into how great FF's latest, Helplessness Blues, is, and now they're finally on the tube stateside to play it live.

Elsewhere, TV on the Radio is back on TV for the first time since the death of their bass player, Gerard Smith, who lost his battle with lung cancer last month at the tender age of 36. They'll be on Leno, unfortunately, so I doubt we'll get anything besides a performance. You know Fallon would try to get them to sit down for a talk, exuding the twitchiest of empathy over their loss.

Also look for Cee-Lo Green on VH1 Storytellers (Friday) and the legendary Randy Newman on Fallon (Monday).

Picks for the week
Monday, May 16
ABC: Jimmy Kimmel Live: Raphael Saadiq (REPEAT)
CBS: Late Show With David Letterman: White Lies
FUEL: The Daily Habit: She Wants Revenge
NBC: The Tonight Show with Jay Leno: Tedeschi Trucks Band
NBC: Late Night With Jimmy Fallon: Cee-Lo Green, Randy Newman
NBC: Last Call With Carson Daly: Biffy Clyro (REPEAT)
TBS: Lopez Tonight: Fitz and the Tantrums
TBS: Conan: Raphael Saadiq
Tuesday, May 17
CBS: Late Show With David Letterman: Tinie Tempah
FUEL: The Daily Habit: Wavves
NBC: The Tonight Show with Jay Leno: TV on the Radio
NBC: Late Night With Jimmy Fallon: Death Cab For Cutie, Robert Randolph
NBC: Last Call With Carson Daly: The Black Angels
PBS: Tavis Smiley: k.d. lang
SYNDICATION: The Ellen DeGeneres Show: Donny & Marie Osmond
SYNDICATION: Live With Regis and Kelly: Ellie Goulding
TBS: Conan: The Joy Formidable
Wednesday, May 18
CBS: Late Show With David Letterman: Ben Harper
FUEL: The Daily Habit: Foster the People
NBC: The Today Show: Nelly
NBC: The Tonight Show with Jay Leno: Iron & Wine
NBC: Late Night With Jimmy Fallon: The Head and the Heart
NBC: Last Call With Carson Daly: The Kills
TBS: Lopez Tonight: Sheila E
Thursday, May 19
ABC: Jimmy Kimmel Live: Rammstein
FUEL: The Daily Habit: Bayside
NBC: Last Call With Carson Daly: Nicole Atkins and the Black Sea
TBS: Lopez Tonight: Prince (REPEAT)
Friday, May 20
CBS: Late Show With David Letterman: The Airborne Toxic Event
FUEL: The Daily Habit: Foster the People
NBC: Late Night With Jimmy Fallon: Fleet Foxes
NBC: Last Call With Carson Daly: Frank Turner
PBS: Tavis Smiley: k.d. lang
VH1: VH1 Storytellers: Cee-Lo Green
Saturday, May 21
BBCAMERICA: The Graham Norton Show: Jennifer Hudson
NBC: Saturday Night Live: Lady Gaga
PBS: Austin City Limits: Sarah McLachlan, Duffy (REPEAT)