Late Night with Conan O'Brien Goodbye

Conan's last show as the host of "Late Night with Conan O'Brien" and also his last show with New York as the show's home was a very emotional one. His very last musical guest chosen was The White Stripes, doing a slightly different, yet very emotional version of "We're Going to Be Friends" to help Conan bid farewell to his 12:35am "Late Night" spot. After the performance, Conan walks to the performers, as per usual after a performance, but you can hear him thanking both Jack and Meg and also telling Jack, "That meant the world to me."

Here is a video of the performance



An mp3 of the performance can be downloaded here (thanks to Stereogum)

Taking over for Mr. O'Brien (as many may already know) is Jimmy Fallon. So, soon, everyone will say hello to "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon", but not without being preceded by "The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien" (that felt awkward to type...)

Conan has served late night, as well as his "Late Night" spot, amazingly for the past 16 years. I am hoping that when Conan comes here to L.A., his style and the comedic genius of his show is preserved, as well as the great musical guests he has on oh, so often.

Conan begins his new 11:35am "Tonight Show" run on June 1st.

2/21/09

This was Saturday's, 2/21/09, rather eccentric playlist, as far as some of these songs finding a home together. Today's show had kind of a theme going, which was called "Numeric Life". All the songs have numbers in the title.

1. James Figurine - 55566688833
2. Q And Not U - 7 Daughters
3. Sunny Day Real Estate - 47
4. OK Go - 1000 Miles Per Hour
5. Cafe Tacuba - 24 Horas
6. John Lennon - #9 Dream
7. Elliott Smith - Waltz #2 (XO)
8. The Vines - 1969
9. The Stooges - 1970
10. mewithoutYou - January 1979
11. Death Cab for Cutie - Expo '86
12. Saul Williams - 1987
13. Crystal Castles - 1991
14. Modest Mouse - 3rd Planet
15. Arcade Fire - Neighborhood #2 (Laika)
16. Interpol - Obstacle 2
17. Bloc Party - Waiting for the 7.18
18. MGMT - 4th Dimensional Transition
19. Arctic Monkeys - 505
20. The White Stripes - 300 M.P.H. Torrential Outpour Blues
21. At the Drive-In - 198d
22. Circa Survive - 1,000 Witnesses
23. The Dismemberment Plan - 8.5 Minutes
24. Blonde Redhead - 10 Feet High
25. The Prize Fighter Inferno - 78
26. Radiohead - 2+2=5 (The Lukewarm)

Thanks to everyone who tuned in or wanted to but couldn't. =]

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Tune in next week for some music that I personally love and I hope you will to, whether you have heard of it or not.


Peace & Love
.erick.

Live Video of the Week

Hello everyone!

Today is Saturday (barely, almost over...stupid non-compliant internet) and that means today I put up the Live Video of the Week!!!

Today's video is probably my favorite live Radiohead performance captured on camera. I'm not sure where it's from or what year, but I think it's Paris in 2001...I am unsure though. However, what I am sure about is this is such an amazing performance of "Everything In It's Right Place"



Enjoy, my friends!


Thank you.
Peace & Love
.erick.

02/15/09

Here's the play list for my broadcast on Sunday, 02/15/09, which was an hour long.


1. The Crimea - Lottery Winners on Acid
2. Wolf Parade - Grounds for Divorce
3. Silversun Pickups - Melatonin
4. Albert Hammond, Jr - In Transit
5. Arcade Fire - (Antichrist Television Blues)
6. Bright Eyes - Happy Birthday to Me (Feb. 15)
7. Elliott Smith - Junk Bond Trader
8. Les Savy Fav - Pots and Pans
9. OK Go - Oh Lately It's So Quiet
10. Of Montreal - Gronlandic Edit
11. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Pin (Remix)
12. The Shins - Pink Bullets
13. Vampire Weekend - Bryn
14. Tilly and the Wall - Sing Songs Along

Thanks to everyone who tuned in.
I will be on again this coming Saturday night (02/21/09) from 8pm - 10pm.
Thanks for listening to Aural Life and continue to support http://radio23.org

Peace and Love
.erick.

Welcome to Aural Life!

Aural Life is the blog created for and as part of Aural Life (Radio) that will be broadcasting on Saturdays from 8pm-10pm, Live on http://radio23.org. I will posts each week's show topic/subject and the play list from that show on here. As well as updating with some music news, etc.

So, thanks everyone and enjoy Aural Life.