Watch Ted Leo and his gang of musicians play “The Mighty Sparrow” from his upcoming LP The Brutalist Bricks on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.

The new album is available today in North America via Matador.

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Jimmy Fallon is proving to be the slightly cooler version of Carson Daly these days when it comes to late night television. It was not long ago when he invited Raekwon to perform on his show, and he recently nabbed Yeasayer to bring their special brand of psychedelia-influenced pop. They played “Ambling Alp,” complete with bells!

As much as we all hate the Animal Collective comparisons, their stage set-up does seem to take cues from Animal Collective’s staging for their Merriweather Post Pavilion tour. Just an observation.

Yeasayer’s new album, Odd Blood, is currently available on Secretly Canadian. You should also check out this new “Ambling Alp” remix below:

Yeasayer – “Ambling Alp (The Very Best Remix)”

Let’s be real: Raekwon’s Only Built 4 Cuban Linx…Pt II was probably one of the greatest hip-hop albums of 2009, if not the best. That being said, it’s no surprise that Jimmy Fallon introduced him as one of the most acclaimed artists in hip-hop, and Raekwon returned the praise by giving a host shout-out. (“Jimmy, what up baby?”)

Raekwon took the stage on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon to perform the cut “Catalina” from the aforementioned album. The Roots served quite nicely as Rae’s backing band, and Black Thought (though not normally a singer) substituted for Lyfe Jennings on the verses. Check out the performance here.

It seems that last night was the night for bands to play new songs on late night talk shows. In addition to Modest Mouse performing new song ‘Satellite Skin’ on Letterman, Vampire Weekend played ‘White Sky’ on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.

The new song has been in Vampire Weekend’s live set since last summer and will be on their upcoming sophomore album which lead singer Ezra Koenig informs us will be out “hopefully fall”.

Check out the video of the performance after the jump.
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