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

They Might Be Giants

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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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Sir Mix-a-Lot | 1992

While watching a Budweiser commercial during the Super Bowl, Sir Mix-a-Lot thought the skinny female models in the ad didn’t represent reality. So he wrote this ode to ample bottoms, featuring its famous to-the-point lyric: “I like big butts and I cannot lie.” MTV banished the video, featuring shaking booties and sexually suggestive fruit, to 9 p.m. or later. “I thought my career was over,” he told Rolling Stone. “Then I called Rick Rubin, and I told him the video was banned, and he was like, 'Great!' We sold another 2 million records.”

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