Every few months Late Night with Jimmy Fallon holds a “Band Bench” sweepstakes. “The Band Benches are a special audience seating area set aside for HUGE fans of musical guests appearing on the show,” the show explains. “Fans sitting on the Band Benches will be given the exclusive chance to come down to the studio floor and surround the musical guest during their performance on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon!”
This week’s Band Bench performers are listed below with the other must-see-music-TV coming soon to a small screen near you (and yes, you MUST see the two separate new appearances by Huey Lewis and the News scheduled for the next couple of days).
Enter to get close with Vampire Weekend, Phoenix, The Flaming Lips or others here.
Monday, May 13
-Vampire Weekend on Jimmy Fallon, NBC – 12:35AM
Tuesday, May 14
-Huey Lewis & The News on Live! With Kelly & Michael – syndicated
-Phoenix on Jimmy Fallon, NBC – 12:35AM
Wednesday, May 15
-Flaming Lips, Wilco, Alabama Shakes, Gary Clark Jr., Dawes, Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros, Dave Matthews Band, more live at Hangout Fest 2012, Palladia – 4:00PM
-Cyndi Lauper on Colbert Report, Comedy Central – 11:30PM
-Huey Lewis & The News on Jimmy Kimmel, ABC – 11:35PM
-The Flaming Lips on Jimmy Fallon, NBC – 12:35AM
Thursday, May 16
-Radiohead: The King of Limbs, Palladia – 12:00PM
-Dawes on Jimmy Kimmel, ABC – 11:35PM
-Tim McGraw on Jimmy Fallon, NBC – 12:35AM
Friday, May 17
-Radio 1’s Big Weekend 2008, Palladia – 9:00 AM
– Isle of Wight ’10: Hightlights Edition, Palladia – 10:00 AM
– Hard Rock Calling 2011, Palladia – 12:00 PM
– Lollapalooza Festival 2010, Palladia – 2:00 PM
– Oxegen Festival 2010, Palladia – 4:00 PM
– Radio 1’s Hackney Weekend: 2012, Palladia – 6:00 PM
-Glastonbury Festival 2011, Palladia – 8:00 PM
-Kurt Vile on Letterman, CBS – 11:35PM
-De La Soul on Jimmy Fallon, NBC – 12:35AM
Saturday, May 18
-Glastonbury Festival 2011, Palladia – 8:00 AM
-Flaming Lips, Wilco, more (see above) live at Hangout Fest 2012, Palladia – 7:00PM
-Kanye West on Saturday Night Live, NBC
Sunday, May 19
-Flaming Lips, Wilco, more (see above) live at Hangout Fest 2012, Palladia – 1:00PM
-Flaming Lips, Sonic Youth, Spoon, Vampire Weekend, Phish, LCD Soundsystem, more at Austin Limits Fest 2010, Palladia – 7:00PM
-Sigur Rós on The Simpson, Fox – 8:00PM
Monday, May 20
-Flaming Lips on 90210 (from 1995), Soap – 10AM and 3PM
-She & Him on Ellen – syndicated
-The National on Letterman, CBS – 11:35PM
-The Black Angels on Conan, TBS – 11PM
Tuesday, May 21
-John Fogerty on Letterman, CBS – 11:35PM
Wednesday, May 22
-The National on Colbert Report, Comedy Central – 11:30PM
-John Fogerty with Dawes on Letterman, CBS – 11:35PM
Thursday, May 23
-John Fogerty on The View – syndicated
-The Mowgli’s on Conan, TBS – 11PM
-Shout Out Louds on Leno, NBC – 11:35PM
-Reggie Watts on Jimmy Kimmel, ABC – 11:35PM
-The Men on Carson Daly, NBC – 1:35AM
Friday, May 24
-Grizzly Bear on Ellen – syndicated
-Sigur Ros on Leno, NBC – 11:35PM
-They Might Be Giants on Jimmy Fallon, NBC – 12:35AM
May 16th UPDATE
The rumors were true. Kind of…
Wayne Coyne was as naked as the FCC allows as he fronted the Flaming Lips last night on Fallon. That was after he played pictionary with Demi Lovato. Both songs the Lips performed – “Try to Explain” and David Bowie’s “Heroes” – have also recently been released as official “live” music videos. Watch those here, and the Fallon clips here, here, here, and here.
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