Special Taylor Swift Concert Begins Airing Wednesday, Dec. 8; Intimate Florence + the Machine LIVE ON LETTERMAN Webcast Launches Thursday, Dec. 16

Performances Will Be Broadcast From New York’s Ed Sullivan Theater Across Multiple Platforms Including Live and On-Demand Availability Through CBS Properties and VEVO

 

CBS Interactive Music Group’s leading concert webcast series, presented by AT&T, will feature groundbreaking artists Taylor Swift and Florence + the Machine in December.   

From the famed Ed Sullivan Theater in New York City, home of CBS’s LATE SHOW with DAVID LETTERMAN, four-time GRAMMY Award winner Taylor Swift kicks off the holiday season with an on-demand webcast which launches online Wednesday, Dec. 8.  (Swift’s concert webcast was taped after her October visit to the LATE SHOW.)   

Florence + the Machine, England’s newest breakout band and recent Grammy nominee, will perform a LIVE ON LETTERMAN webcast concert Thursday, Dec. 16, (8:00 PM, ET/5:00 PM, PT), following the taping of their appearance on the LATE SHOW with DAVID LETTERMAN, which will be broadcast later that evening (11:35 PM-12:37 AM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network.  LIVE ON LETTERMAN and CBS Interactive Music Group webcasts are broadcast worldwide at http://www.cbs.com/late_night/liveonletterman/.  

CBS supports the webcasts across the Company’s multiple assets, including:

• Live and/or on-demand concert streaming on the LATE SHOW website
• Broadcasts on select CBS RADIO stations throughout the country
• Live and/or on-demand availability through CBS Television Stations websites, TV.com and ETonline.com
• Promotion on Last.fm and mp3.com

Additional live access to LIVE ON LETTERMAN is available through CBS Interactive Music Group's distribution partner VEVO, which includes VEVO.com and VEVO’s mobile app on iPhone and iPod touch.  LIVE ON LETTERMAN is the first series to be streamed live on the VEVO app.  Post webcast, VEVO makes on-demand access available across its entire platform including online, mobile, connected devices (Google TV, Boxee) and syndication partners YouTube, AOL, BET and Univision.  

For more information on the series, or to watch previous webcasts from artists such as Tim McGraw, John Mayer, Mary J. Blige, MGMT, Sheryl Crow, Katy Perry, Gorillaz, My Morning Jacket, Brad Paisley, Bon Jovi and Rascal Flatts, please visit http://www.cbs.com/late_night/liveonletterman/.  

Taylor Swift is a four-time GRAMMY winner, the top-selling digital artist in music history, has had singles top both the Country and Pop radio charts, and had the #1 best-selling album in any genre of music in 2009.  Her most recent album, Speak Now, sold over a million copies in its debut week, making it the biggest debuting country studio album in history.  Speak Now charted an unprecedented 11 songs in a single week on the Billboard Hot 100.

Taylor, who writes all of her own songs, became the youngest artist in history to win the GRAMMY Award for Album of the Year and the CMA Award for Entertainer of the Year.  She was also named Artist of the Year at the 2009 American Music Awards.   Taylor currently holds the Billboard all-genre records for most first-week downloads by a female artist, for the longest charting album of this century and for most Top 20 debuts in a calendar year, as well as the Billboard record for the largest overall airplay audience for a country-based act. Taylor plans to tour in support of Speak Now, and is currently slated to play 87 shows in 19 countries in 2011.  

Florence Welch, the driving force behind Florence + the Machine, grew up in Camberwell, South London, surrounded by music of every genre, and got her start singing in clubs and pubs.  Florence’s honest, heartfelt debut album, Lungs, which is full of Gothic imagery, fairytale flights of fancy, love, pain and a cavalcade of instruments, was released in the summer of 2009 and has gained popularity ever since.  Her soaring, epic vocals, quirky melodies and self-contained musical world have already won Florence + the Machine the 2009 Critics Choice Award at the Brits and earned the band a GRAMMY Nomination for Best New Artist.  

Live, Florence + the Machine becomes an entirely different beast and no two performances are ever alike.  Florence, along with the Machine – a flexible entity which can go right down to Florence and a drum kit or a piano, but is currently a seven-piece band – go at it like a band possessed.   

About CBS Interactive Music Group
The CBS Interactive Music Group is comprised of a diverse collection of leading consumer music brands readily accessible across a variety of broadband, mobile and digital platforms by a worldwide audience of more than 45 million unique monthly users.  Home to such properties as Radio.com, Last.fm, and mp3.com, the CBS Interactive Music Group provides unmatched access for music fans to interact with material from the biggest names in the industry, as well as discover new and breaking artists and share their personal taste in music with friends and other like-minded fans.  

In addition, the CBS Interactive Music Group powers both AOL Radio and Yahoo! Music Radio bringing a total of more than 600 mainstream and specialty stations to the masses.  The division also has established content partnerships with VEVO, the web's leading premium music video and entertainment service, and Xbox Live, the popular gaming platform.  For more information please visit http://www.cbsimg.com.