.jpg)
Tonight's Musical Guest, Today
The Beatles on Ed Sullivan. Nirvana on Saturday Night Live. Warren Zevon on David Letterman. Sometimes, late-night TV musical performances live on forever. Most don’t. But we still want to talk about them.
Each week on “Tonight’s Musical Guest, Today”, long-time friends Alex Beaton and Jon Hillman dive in on the music and cultural memory of a band through the arc of their late-night TV performances. Watch along with Alex and Jon as they examine and react to these musical history moments preserved in the amber of time alongside two celebrity guests and a talk show host.
From Conan to Colbert, Letterman to Leno, or SNL to MadTV, there is no shortage of iconic late-night musical moments. And no end to the ones you don’t remember.
Tonight's Musical Guest, Today
Radiohead
Use Left/Right to seek, Home/End to jump to start or end. Hold shift to jump forward or backward.
It's a career arc that spanned genres, oceans, and mainstream musical movements that came and went. And at the center of it, an enigmatic frontman that refused to make anything easy. It's RADIOHEAD week!
The guys give a quick upcoming concert report before Jon reveals a shocking secret about his relationship with the band of the week. The clip story begins with Radiohead as a fish out of water on MTV Beach House until Thom Yorke literally gets wet. Back to back clips on Jools Holland captures The Bends and OK Computer era, with a quick Dave Grohl Corner in between. Kid A creates the foundation for modern music culture and provides an SNL performance for the ages. And Radiohead is on the 2009 Grammys for In Rainbows and ends up in the middle of one of the more ridiculous live performance lineups you'll ever hear.
Want to watch along with us? Check out the links below for the performances discussed this week!
Interview/Creep/Anyone Can Play Guitar, 7/4/1993 on MTV Beach House
High and Dry/The Bends, 5/16/1995 on Later...with Jools Holland
Paranoid Android/No Surprises/Airbag, 5/31/1997 on Later...with Jools Holland
The National Anthem/Idioteque, 10/14/2000 on Saturday Night Live
Interview/Pyramid Song/Knives Out, 5/25/2001 on Top of the Pops
15 Step, 2/8/2009 on the 51st Annual Grammy Awards
Interview/Bloom/The Daily Mail/Little by Little, 9/26/2011 on The Colbert Report
