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Rock on TV Preview: They Might Be Giants Play Grown-Up Music on 'Fallon'

Also: Anna Calvi on 'Letterman' and Vanessa Carlton on 'Leno'

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July 27, 2011 3:35 PM ET
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Cult rockers They Might Be Giants will swing by Late Night with Jimmy Fallon tonight to promote the latest record Join Us. The new disc is their first non-children's album since 2007, so the group are likely to let out years of pent-up adult angst and sexuality in a blast of anguished vulgarity. Just kidding! They will almost certainly play a song that is adorable, cerebral and catchy because that is what They Might Be Giants do. But you know, maybe not! Tune in to find out.

Anna Calvi - Late Show with David Letterman, CBS 11:35 p.m.

Vanessa Carlton - Tonight Show with Jay Leno, NBC 11:35 p.m.

Chris Young - Jimmy Kimmel Live, ABC 12:00 a.m.

Austin Brown - Lopez Tonight, TBS 12:00 a.m.

They Might Be Giants - Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, 12:35 a.m.

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