Alt-J looked to both the past and the present during their Monday visit to The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. The British indie rock trio performed their latest single “U&ME” from their recently released album The Dream before revisiting their 2012 single “Breezeblocks” as a web exclusive to celebrate the …
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Sleater-Kinney were the musical guests on Wednesday night’sLate Show, performing the song “Worry With You” from their new albumPath of Wellness. Although some late-night music acts have now opted to play in front of a live studio audience, as in pre-Covid-10 times, the band chose to do a pre-taped performance …
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Country star Mickey Guyton performed her historic, Grammy-nominated single, “Black Like Me,” on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert on Monday, February 1st. The performance found Guyton stripping back some of the elements of the song and presenting it with just piano and guitar accompaniment. With a wash of candles …
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The cast of Broadway musical Tina: The Tina Turner Musical stopped by The Late Show to perform “River Deep, Mountain High.” Led by the musical’s star Adrienne Warren, the cast was joined for the performance by an orchestra who barely fit on host Stephen Colbert’s stage. Tina opened on Broadway …
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Hours after Empire actor Jussie Smollett was arrested for filing a false report in connection to what police believe was a staged hate crime, The Late Show‘s Stephen Colbert summarized the complex case with three words: “What a dick.” The comedian recapped the bizarre incident in his monologue Thursday, detailing …
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Issa Rae stopped byThe Late Show With Stephen Colbert ahead of Sunday’s return of her Emmy-nominated showInsecure. She talked about meeting celebrities and her mom’s concern for the show’s racy content. At the top of her segment, Colbert congratulated Rae for her Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series Emmy …
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Stephen Colbert criticized President Trump’s plan to arm schoolteachers in the aftermath of the Parkland shooting on Thursday’s Late Show. “The national conversation continues to be how to keep our children safe from gun violence,” Colbert said. “Everyone acknowledges this is a crisis – from the president to the Republican …
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John Oliver and Stephen Colbert offered Donald Trump a bit of advice on The Late Show Monday, encouraging the president to follow his instincts and sit down for an interview with Special Counsel Robert Mueller. As Colbert noted, Trump has said that he’d be happy to talk with Mueller – …
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Mavis Staples recruited Wilco‘s Jeff Tweedy – who wrote and produced the R&B icon’s upcoming LP, If All I Was Was Black – to help perform her new protest song “Build a Bridge” on Tuesday’s Late Show. Staples fronted the performance with subtle elegance, belting politically charged lines over a …
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