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Watch Mike D and Colbert Discuss Hip-Hop Semantics

The Colbert Report welcomed living hip-hop legend Mike D from the Beastie Boys to academically review both sides of the illin' arugment alongside host Stephen Colbert.  read more

Watch TV on the Radio and Tinariwen Join Forces on Colbert

Stephen Colbert may purport to only care about America in his persona, but his guest stars suggest he's more worldly than he lets on. The Mali-native collective Tinariwen appeared on The Colbert Report last night in support of their album Tassili, released earlier this year. The band played two cuts from the album and participated in an interesting interview.  read more

Watch Stephen Colbert, Brian Eno and Michael Stipe Sing Together

Last night on _The Colbert Report_, Stephen Colbert interviewed Brian Eno. After the interview, Colbert placed a copy of R.E.M.’s newest compilation on his shelf to commemorate the recently broken up band. But then Colbert went on to place R.E.M.’s Michael Stipe on his shelf as well, as Stipe, Colbert and Eno went on to all sing a rendition of “Lean on Me” together. Maybe one day they could form a band together….  read more

Brian Eno to Appear on The Colbert Report

Bringing on some of the most high profile British musicians currently alive (Radiohead and Coldplay so far), The Colbert Report has now announced that the famous producer, songwriter, and musician Brian Eno would be the guest on tonight's show.   read more

Watch Coldplay on The Colbert Report

Last night, Coldplay appeared on The Colbert Report to perform material from their fifth album Mylo Xyloto, which will see its official release this coming Monday, Oct. 24.  read more

Watch Radiohead Play The Colbert Report

“How did you guys get started? Did you win Idol or The X Factor or Britain’s Got Talent?” It’s about what you’d expect from a Radiohead appearance on The Colbert Report. As Pitchfork pointed out, the band played the Comedy Central host’s show and fielded awkward questions about global warming, the British invasion and big corporations.   read more

Watch LCD Soundsystem on The Colbert Report

Last night, James Murphy & Co. appeared on The Colbert Report for their last television appearance as LCD Soundsystem. Murphy chatted briefly about retirement, coffee and a rather disturbing mental image of Justin Bieber at 41....  read more

Watch The Black Keys, Vampire Weekend Whore Out for The Colbert Report

Last night, Stephen Colbert decided to have some fun with his Grammy ballot for this year. The late-night talk show host invited Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney of The Black Keys to battle Vampire Weekend frontman Ezra Koenig for Colbert’s Best Alternative Music Album vote. Colbert decided to have a “sell-out-off” where each side went through their various song placements in major television ads—including Zales, Honda, Tommy Hilfiger, Hewlett Packard and Sony Ericsson....  read more

The 20 Best Non-Fiction TV Shows of 2010

So much "Reality" programming represents the lowest common denominator of our culture, but the abundance of non-fiction programming has also produced some surprisingly great TV.  read more

The 20 Best TV Shows of 2010

TV has never been worse with an over-reliance on reality shows that seem to be in a race to sink as low as possible. But it's also never been better with more and more networks investing in original well-scripted, cinematic series and sitcoms that don't depend on tired gags and canned laughter.  read more