We’re pleased to announce that Thurston Moore will be performing on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon on Wed, 6/22, so adjust your DVRs accordingly.

And as the old adage goes, if you can’t beat them then join them in the studio audience of a hour long, late night talk show.

from Late Night with Jimmy Fallon:

Click on the link below and you will be directed to our “Band Bench” Sweepstakes entry form. Enter for a chance to win seats on our band benches and an opportunity to surround the stage during Thurston Moore’s performance.

Please make sure you include the following band code: TUM, in your entry form.

http://www.fallonbandbench.com

I’m not at all familiar with this “Lion King” business (admittedly, there are elements of popular culture I have no basic understanding of — popular music, for instance) but I’ll probably have to investigate further.  Video link via Boing Boing.

One of the many things we love about that sprightly Jimmy Fallon and his exceptionally music-friendly show is that they surround the stage with fans during the musical guest.  Below is info from the show on how to enter to be part of the screaming horde for Glasser:

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Attention all fans of Glasser:

On February 28^th, 2011 Glasser will be performing on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. Here is where you come in…

How would you like a chance to be close to Glasser’s performance on the show?

Click on the link below and you will be directed to our “Band Bench” Sweepstakes entry form. Enter for a chance to win seats on our band benches and an opportunity to surround the stage during Glasser’s performance.

Please make sure you include the following band code: GLA, in your entry form.

http://www.fallonbandbench.com

One day after kicking off their next leg of North American touring on behalf of their self-titled 4th album, Interpol will make their first appearance on Conan O’Brien’s new TBS program — the inventively dubbed “Conan” (hey, great minds think alike) — on Thursday, February 3, performing “Lights”. Since it’s a bit early to be setting your DVR, expect a few reminders from us between now and then.

As mentioned by Claire earlier this week, additional Interpol U.S. dates in April and May are on sale now.

photo by Jess Baumung

We are excited to announce that Damian Abraham of Fucked Up has his own TV show. That’s right, he’ll be appearing on Canada’s MuchMusic network every Wednesday night at 10 PM, as host of the relaunched Wedge. The Wedge is all original music programming, and Damian’s encyclopedic knowledge of underground music history (and indeed mainstream music history) is sure to make the show engrossing and entertaining in equal measures.

“The Wedge played a huge part in my musical development,” said Damian Abraham, host of revamped series The Wedge. “I’m honoured to be able to have the same impact on a new generation of music fans.”

Full press release here.

Gremlins say that FU might be recording a new studio album for release this year.

Hey y’all! Delorean was on national television this week playing their new single “Grow”! First time on TV for them in the USA and first time for any True Panther artist. Amazing!! Thanks to Fuel TV’s Daily Habit for having them, it looks like a great time.

Delorean continue their US tour w/Lemonade tonight in Montreal. They hit Manhattan’s Bowery Ballroom on Sunday.

Fri Nov 19 – Le Belmont – Montreal, QC *
Sat Nov 20 – Middle East Downstairs – Cambridge, MA *
Sun Nov 21 – Bowery Ballroom – New York, NY *
Mon Nov 22 – First Unitarian Church – Philadelphia, PA *
Tue Nov 23 – Rock and Roll Hotel – Washington, DC *
* w/Lemonade

Buy Subiza HERE

Delorean Live On Fuel TV

Ever wanted to go to a TV taping?  One where Pavement is playing?  Stick around to try and meet the band?  Go backstage?  Watch soundcheck?  Eat their food?  Talk fantasy sports with Malkmus?

Ever wanted to, you know, get your lazy ass off the couch and JOIN PAVEMENT?  Then do it, goofball.  Imagine the Twitter potential!

Pavement are performing on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon on September 23 – and YOU can play guitar with them on stage!  Just submit a video of you playing a Pavement song on guitar (apologies to bass players and drummers everywhere), the band will whittle it down, and then, as with all good things, the public decides.  Details here:

http://www.latenightwithjimmyfallon.com/pavement

Kudos to Fallon and Pavement for rolling with this crazy scheme!

photo poached from alterna2‘s flickr stream

Astute Matablog readers may have noticed that The New Pornographers released their much-celebrated new LP, ‘Together’ last week while, at the same time, teaching Roger Waters a thing or two on late nite tv, gearing up for a huge tour and unveiled a kick-ass video… as if that wasn’t enough, Carl Newman has been throwing some pretty insightful tidbits up on Rolling Stone’s website. There’s some highly-recommended reading below and if this table-of-contents doesn’t encourage you to click through and read these gems, please allow us to do so.

• How the New Pornographers Became Black Sabbath
• The Genius of Felt
• All Inspiration Begins in the Bathroom
• Dancing the Frug With the Unclaimed
• How a Dick Tune Inspired the New Pornographers’ Torch Song
• Go Buy Some Rock*A*Teens Records

Above : TL & RX doing “The Mighty Sparrow” from the just-released ‘The Brutalist Bricks’. Not shown : bumped guest Mark Linn-Baker being restrained by NBC security.

(photo by Connie Tsang)

Fucked Up are the winners of Canada’s Polaris Music Prize. Awarded annually to the best Canadian musical artist, there is only a single artist chosen and it is an highly prestigious award.

Liisa Ladouceur, who oversees the voting for Polaris, talked about the intensity of the process.

“We ask the jury to vote regardless of genre and they truly did,” stated Liisa Ladouceur, Representative of the jury. “Members of the jury believed that the Fucked Up’s Chemistry Of Common Life was not only the best hardcore album of the year, not only the best Canadian album of the year, but was the best album of the year in the world – period.”

The 2009 11-member gala Grand Jury are: Bryan Acker (Herohill), Brendan Murphy (Hour), Stuart Derdeyn (Vancouver Province), Mary Dickie (Elle), Brad Frenette (National Post), Nicholas Jennings (freelance journalist), Robert Mersereau (CBC), Mia Parang (Musique Plus), Ben Rayner (Toronto Star), Brad Wheeler (The Globe And Mail) and Lisa Wilton (Calgary Sun).

For their performance on the show, Fucked Up were joined by Final Fantasy and Lullabye Arkestra. Not to mention Mrs. Falco, better known as Jonah’s mom (she plays the flute intro that leads off The Chemistry Of Common Life). You can view their Polaris performance of “Son The Father” on the Much Music site if you visit this link and then expand the “MOST RECENT VIDEO” tab.

Don’t forget, Fucked Up will be doing a full-album performance of Chemistry at the Brooklyn Masonic Temple on November 5… with additional musicians to truly bring the multiple layers of density and allusiveness that make up that album. Get ticketing info here.

Buy ChemCom.

Though it might lack the storyline and starpower of Javier Aguilera’s terrific video for the same song, suffice to say we were awfully impressed with Julian Plenti’s network television premiere this past Friday night.

(order ‘Julian Plenti Is Skyscraper’ from the Matador Store)

Recreation Winner:      Jennifer Kirchoff!!

re: http://www.matadorrecords.com/matablog/2009/08/06/julian-plenti-photo-contest-to-win-fallon-tickets/

WIN a pair of tickets (and the new album) for the BAND BENCH (next to the stage) for tomorrow’s JIMMY FALLON taping/performance of Julian Plenti in New York City.

How? Recreate the following promo photo on your own and email to heathermacintyre@beggars.com – winner will be announced at 10am tomorrow 8/7:

*Ticket winners ust be 17+ of age & required to show up at NBC studios at 3:45pm

For the second time in 3 weeks, we humbly thank the Audio Perv for his uploading prowess.  ”No Way” can be found on Sonic Youth’s new LP/CD/digital album ‘The Eternal’, conveniently available from The Matador Store.

(photograph by Michael Schmelling)

Sonic Youth will be performing “No Way” from ‘The Eternal’ tonight on NBC’s “Late Night With Jimmy Fallon” (12:30 EST).  Jimmy’s other guests are John Legiuzamo and Nick Cannon. Nils, please remember you’re supposed to get my Criterion Collection copy

We don’t know who this “audio perv” person is, but I’m betting it isn’t a pseudonym for Paul Schaffer.

Sonic Youth will be performing “Sacred Trickster” from the just-released ‘The Eternal’ tonight on “The Late Show With David Letterman” (CBS, 11:35 EST). Dave’s other guest will be comedian Rick Shapiro Kathy Griffin.

“Sacred Trickster” and “Antenna” as seen on the BBC’s “Later With Jools Holland“.  Studio versions (duh) on the forthcoming LP/CD/digital album ‘The Eternal’.

Since the iPlayer isn’t happening for those of us without UK IP addresses, the below clip will have to do.

A.C. Newman — joined by Nicole Atkins — will be the featured musical guest tonight on CBS’ “The Late Show With David Letterman“. Several members of the Matador staff are attending, mostly to make sure Jon Wurster doesn’t say anything audible about Paul Schaffer’s stint on “A Year At The Top”. Dave’s other guests tonight : Zac Efron and ESPN’s MIke Greenburg & Mike Golic.

Tonight on NBC’s “Late Night With Conan O’Brien”, Ira Kaplan, Georgia Hubley and James McNew —- otherwise known as internationally famous pop trio Yo La Tengo — will serve as part of the backing ensemble for Merge recording artists She & Him, aka M. Ward and Zoey Deschanel.

She & Him are not to be confused with the obscure noise rock due You & It, nor the semi-popular Y&T.

I hope you will remember exactly where you were the day “I hope you waxed your asshole” entered the popular lexicon just as surely as “up your nose with a rubber hose”. “Horrible People” might not scale the creative heights of SCTV’s “The Days Of The Week”, but for 2008, this isn’t bad at all.  Video link swiped from Radosh.net.

If you’re not as Syked as we are, please, keep it to yourself. Wanda will be Jay Leno’s guest tonight at 11:30pm EST.

(also appearing : Cat Power and Dirty Delta Blues).

Every Sunday at midnight, or at least first thing Monday morning, I On-Demand (my verb) the next Wire episode. So, this morning while I’ve been trudging through other concerns, the 2/3 episode has played twice in the background. I won’t give anything away, but let’s just say that McNulty offers his critical take on Dead Meadow. No, let’s just say that Marlo’s people make a buy at a Dead Meadow show. No, let’s just say that Dead Meadow play a secret show at the mission. No, let’s just say that Senator Clay Davis rocks some Dead Meadow in the car. No, let’s just say that I’m more than a little stressed about this Just Farr A Laugh legal problem. For real.

Video link ripped off from Radosh.net. Hey, some of us have been laughing at Herc for years.

The subject of the previously touted “Abel Raises Cain” squares off in the above clip with chat-show host/producer Bill Boggs, long before this humble label got its hooks into the latter.

Filmoculous and New York Magazine both wanna know : if “The Office”‘s writing staff are amongst the strikers, who, pray tell, is updating Creed’s blog?

First person to say Scott Stapp is banned from the Matablog forever.

No square inch of scenery left to chew, no square inch of Shatner’s ass to kiss, and no clips of the interview on YouTube yet, but one can enjoy Mike Patton exploring everything that happened in music between The Infectious Grooves and Linkin Park!