John Legend & The Roots released their covers album Wake Up! back in September. We posted live video of their Arcade Fire cover around the same time. The studio version didn't end up making the…   Read Story »

Elvis is busy in NYC right now, no surprise, the man tends toward a brisk pace of performance and productivity and NYC is the perfect foil. To wit: On Tuesday he performed at the Celeste Bartos Forum…   Read Story »

Kid Cudi packed the stage with lots of friends for "Maniac." St. Vincent did her sample -- from Actor's "The Strangers" live, while Cage sang/rapped and the Roots backed them. The best instrument on…   Read Story »

Hundreds of thousands of bloggers Americans gathered at the National Mall in D.C. today to watch Comedy Central stars John Stewart and Stephen Colbert and friends (e.g., Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Father…   Read Story »

Like Gorillaz did a few days before, My Morning Jacket treated the Ed Sullivan Theater audience to a nearly hour-long set of music on Tuesday for The Late Show's Live On Letterman webcast. As you can…   Read Story »

Justin Timberlake was on Jimmy Fallon last night to promote, I don't know, his role in The Social Network, the Yogi Bear movie, his next Saturday Night Live cameo, his Sony commercial. Not an album.…   Read Story »

Arcade Fire were the stars of the Terry Gilliam-directed first installment of American Express, VEVO, and YouTube’s five-part UNSTAGED series. They show up in this new edition, too, via John Legend…   Read Story »

Cinematic wartime clip from everyone's favorite late night talk show house band, call it How I Got Over Private Ryan, or something. How I Got Over is out via Def Jam. Reminder: Questo is…   Read Story »

As he did on Leno the other night, Big Boi brought the Sir Luscious smoker "Shutterbugg" to late night TV, with a band on hand to recreate the cut's freaky talkbox syncopations and right-brained…   Read Story »

A couple of months ago MoMA PS1 Director Klaus Biesenbach -- the person who organized MoMA's ridiculously popular Marina Abramović exhibition, among other things -- asked me if I'd want to help…   Read Story »