This Week in Rock & Roll TV: August 14 - 20, 2006

Just who are these Dirty Pretty Things you ask? Well, it’s Carl Barat’s new project –- basically the Libertines minus Pete Doherty, plus Anthony Rossomando (who was Doherty's replacement in the Libertines when Doherty was arrested in the summer of 2004) and Didz Hammond (formerly of the Cooper Temple Clause). They have a new album out called Waterloo to Anywhere (Universal International) and they’ve just generally been touring the US and creating a lot of buzz for themselves ever since SXSW. Worth checking out. But, this week’s highlight clearly has to be Thursday night when Neil Young goes toe-to-toe with Stephen Colbert on The Colbert Report. What with Colbert bouncing his faux-conservative bit off of Young’s progressively opinionated weed-stenched jean jacket. That should be goooo-oood.

Here's the full line-up:

MON 14: Gnarls Barkley on Letterman
MON 14: *Clap Your Hands Say Yeah on Conan
TUE 15: Dirty Pretty Things on Letterman
WED 16: Top 10 Musical Moments [TV LAND]
WED 16: Alice Cooper on Craig Ferguson
WED 16: *Aimee Mann on Carson Daly
THU 17: Neil Young on The Colbert Report
THU 17: *Dropkick Murphys on Conan
FRI 18: *Belle & Sebastian on Conan
SUN 20: Dirty Pretty Things on Subterranean

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