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Post image for Lana Del Rey to play SNL on Jan. 14th

Holy shit.

will make her U.S. TV debut on January 14 in advance of her new album Born to Die (January 31 / Interscope).

I’m impressed, if that’s even the right word. Not sure I would put this vixen up in front of a national TV audience and guarantee her two musical slots as a first shot, but she seems to be making hella waves right now and there’s still a huge swath of the public that does not get informed musically via the hipster music blogs. Carles is going to have a field day with this one…

and co. do the “Mellow Show with Jack Johnson” and Dave Matthews shows up as :

Whether or not you dig DMB’s music, you gotta admit that Dave does a solid Ozzy impression.

By the way, is it just me, or does Samberg’s Jack Johnson impression slowly morph into Mike Meyers as Dr. Evil?

Happy Monday, folks. As I wake up and get to some other posts I’ve had queued up, I wanted to make sure I sent out a hearty Happy Mother’s Day to all the moms that allowed all of us kids to go see live music and concerts when we were probably way too young to be attending such events. We love our moms. You should, also.

And it looks like and wanted to do something special for their moms this weekend, because they delivered a digital short on Saturday Night Live featuring the continuation of their “Dick in a Box” characters. The song is actually pretty amazing.

Saturday Night Live: Motherlover [Hulu]