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Conan Unveils 2011 Bonnaroo Lineup
Manchester, Tennessee’s Bonnaroo Festival recruited 2010 lineup member Conan O’Brien to announce the 2011 lineup, moments ago, for this summer’s June 9-12 event, which will star Arcade Fire, The Strokes, Eminem, The Walkmen, Lil Wayne, Mumford & Sons, the Black Keys, and — perhaps most notably — the reunited Buffalo Springfield, among others. Enjoy Conan’s intro above and check out the full lineup here (the official Bonnaroo site is down).
Watch: Conan O’Brien Covers Chuck Berry - “Run, Run, Rudolph”
Coco’s Late Night replacement on NBC, Jimmy Fallon, has made an amazing holiday season run — what with last night’s James Earle Jones/Aaron Neville take on “The Night Before Christmas,” The Roots (of course), and “Drunk on Christmas,” to name a few. But, hey, Conan’s got She & Him and now a classic Chuck Berry tune in his court. Soak in O’Brien and the Basic Cable Band’s take on “Run, Run, Rudolph,” complete with a tribute to his fans, Andy, the band, and his big transitional year, above.
P.S. This is by no means his first Berry cover.
Watch: Beach House On ‘Conan’ - “10 Mile Stereo”
Victoria Legrand and Alex Scally capped off their month of prominent placements on a host of top-2010 lists tonight with a much-deserved victory lap on Conan O’Brien’s TBS show tonight, performing a gorgeous, hypnotic take (as always) on Teen Dream cut “10 Mile Stereo.”
Watch: The Decemberists on “Conan” (w/ Gillian Welch) - “Down by the Water”
In only about 2 weeks time, the Decemberists have announced their new album, The King Is Dead, offered up a free single, “Down by the Water,” and debuted said single live on Conan O’Brien’s TBS show. Unfortunately, the song’s guest guitarist in the studio, one Peter Buck of R.E.M., didn’t make an appearance for their late-night performance tonight (okay, now I’m just getting greedy), but Gillian Welch showed up to provide her excellent — as always — vocals in support.
Watch: Conan and Jack White - “Twenty Flight Rock” (Eddie Cochran Cover)
Just as I suspected, Jack White was joined by Conan O’Brien himself tonight during his slot as the first-ever musical guest on Coco’s new late-night show. Backed by Jimmy Vivino and the Basic Cable Band, Conan and Jack tore through a rendition of Eddie Cochran’s 1956 song “Twenty Flight Rock,” a tune the pair recorded over the summer for O’Brien’s Third Man Records LP. Watch Team Coco-White rock TBS above (via Audio Perv).
Tonight at 11PM, Conan O’Brien will re-enter the late-night talk show fray with his former studio, stage, and TV collaborator Jack White in tow as the first musical guest on TBS’ Conan. White’s many memorable appearances on Coco’s Late Night, not to mention drumming with the Dead Weather on the short-lived Tonight Show run, are reason enough to be on the edge of your seat tonight, but it’s the pair’s post-Tonight Show bromance that will more likely inform/ensure the awesomeness of their basic cable premiere, I’d say.
Video of the next Coco-White affair will be promptly posted here once available, but until then, let’s re-watch 6 clips spanning Jack’s past Conan gigs over the last decade for some context.
**Update: Jack and Conan covered Eddie Cochran’s “Twenty Flight Rock,” which they recorded in Nashville for Conan’s LP earlier this year. Video is here or below…
Back in February of 2009, the White Stripes were Conan O’Brien’s final musical guests on Late Night and now — one stint as the Tonight Show host later — Jack White will help Conan inaugurate his brand new TBS show, Conan. Yahoo! reports (via Rock it Out! Blog) that the lineup for O’Brien’s premiere episode on November 8th will include actor Seth Rogan and the Third Man Records founder himself as the show’s first musical guest.
Something tells me that Team Coco-White just might be planning a collaboration for the event, as well.
We knew that a live album wasn’t the only recording Jack White and Conan O’Brien put to tape back in June, and now the latest release from Team Coco-White has been unveiled: “And They Call Me Mad?,” an “improvised take on the Frankenstein legend” by the former Tonight Show/Late Night host, is now available for pre-order at Third Man Records and will ship out next week.
In addition to the Jack White-produced, hysterically histrionic A-side, the 7” vinyl includes an interview between White and O’Brien on the flip side. As Hit Fix reports, 100 limited-edition 45s will be sold at Third Man HQ in Nashville next week, as well, with all proceeds from the $100 vinyl sales being donated to a charity for uninsured musicians victimized by this year’s Tennessee flood disaster.
Check out the album cover art above, order a copy here, and stream a snippet of hilarious “And They Call Me Mad?” audio here (top right corner).
Earlier in the week, the official Dead Weather YouTube channel awoke from its 4-week slumber with a new music video featuring Los Angeles artist Max Neutra live-painting frontwoman Alison Mosshart in Third Man Records’ signature colors (yellow, white, black) to the tune of Jack White and co.’s new single “Gasoline” (one of my favorite songs of the year so far). It’s a fun clip, excellent painting, and Neutra’s talents are pretty much undeniable, but I thankfully held off on posting it as only 3 days later we’ve got another new Dead Weather video.
Team Third Man gave Team Coco the world premiere of their equally artsy new video for “Blue Blood Blues,” crafted by Tim Wheeler and Christopher Mills from footage of the band performing live at their Nashville headquarters. Needless to say, this Jack White/Conan O’Brien bromance is still awesome. Watch both videos below:
(Photo by Molly Moormeier of Team Coco)
“I’ve had a crazy six months,” Conan O’Brien said from the stage of Jack White’s Third Man Records tonight. “Six months ago, I was the host of The Tonight Show, the greatest franchise in the history of television. Then I started a live tour, going from small theater to small theater. And tonight I’m pressing a vinyl recording. I’m going back in time! Next week I’ll be on vaudeville. Then i’ll be a steamship captain.” So that’s what they were building in there: a live album.
After White’s introduction, Coco and his “Legally Prohibited Band” tore through a set of cover songs, which included “On The Road Again,” the Band’s “The Weight,” White Stripes classic “Seven Nation Army” (vid of CT performance), “Blue Moon,” Stray Cats’ “Rock This Town,” and Radiohead’s “Creep,” of course. Jack White helped Conan close out the show with Eddie Cochran’s “20 Flight Rock.”
Fun fact: In keeping with Conan’s joke about “going back in time,” the performance/recording was briefly stalled due to the first reel of analog tape needing to be switched. Buddy Holly would be proud.
**Update: Conan O’Brien - Live At Third Man can be pre-ordered here.