TV on the Radio
The Brooklyn-based group TV on the Radio mixes post-punk, electronic, and other atmoshperic elements in such a creative way that it only makes sense that its core duo, vocalist Tunde Adebimpe and multi-instrumentalist/producer David Andrew Sitek, are both visual artists as well as musicians. Adebimpe is a graduate of NYU's film school and specializes in stop-motion animation, which his Brothers Quay-like video for the Yeah Yeah Yeahs single "Pin" demonstrates amply. He is also a painter, as is Sitek, who also produced the Yeah Yeah Yeahs' Machine ...[more]
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Already being lauded as the Best Album of 2006, NYC's TV on the Radio bring you, "Return to Cookie Mountain," which by all acounts should become a modern day classic. Since 2001, TV on the Radio have been mixing postpunk, electronic and other atmospheric elements in such a creative way that it only seems fitting that it's core duo, Tunde Adebimpe and David Andrew Sitek, are both visual artists as well as musicians. Tunde is a graduate of NYU's film school and specializes in stopmotion animation. The duo me [ read more ]
CD $11.99
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Pop, rock, and art songs about discordant living, misrepresentation, life, afterlife, love, and love "after hours." Scandalous. Undeniably catchy songs with incredible production, arrangements, champion crooning, and a host of extras. Jane magazine says they sound "like Pere Ubu meets Belfegore meets The Tar Babies meets a way less chilly Notwist with a smidge of Metric thrown in." Which is to say, great.
CD $13.99
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WOW! We've slashed the price of the EP to celebrate TV ON THE RADIO's debut full-length, Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes. Songs about patience, guidance, realizing you have a soul, and the hopeful horror of that soul being forced out of your body into something, anything new. Songs about lost loves reincarnated with everything but the memory of you, beautiful eulogies for a dead century. Not-so-funny songs for a not-so-funny world, but still danceable, hummable, swayable. Includes the in [ read more ]
CDep $9.99
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VINYL FORMAT. Pop, rock, and art songs about discordant living, misrepresentation, life, afterlife, love, and love "after hours." Scandalous. Undeniably catchy songs with incredible production, arrangements, champion crooning, and a host of extras. "They sound like Pere Ubu meets Belfegore meets The Tar Babies meets a way less chilly Notwist with a smidge of Metric thrown in"--Jane.
2xLP $15.99
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THIS ITEM IS A PRE-ORDER. WE EXPECT IT TO SHIP ON OR BEFORE THE TBD RELEASE DATE. Available to ship a full THREE WEEKS PRIOR to its official TBD release date! Pre-order "Return to Cookie Mountain" from Insound and get your album before ANYONE ELSE!! VINYL FORMAT. Finally back in print! Pressed on two 180g LPs in a beautifully deluxe gatefold packaging. Frequently lauded as the Best Album of 2006, TV on the Radio's Return to Cookie Mountain by all accounts shoul [ read more ]
2xLP $28.98
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Insound Staff Pick - 2008! Produced by the group's multi-instrumentalist Dave Sitek, Dear Science finds Brooklyn group TV on the Radio fine-tuning what they did best on 2006's Return to Cookie Mountain: tweaking and looping and distorting a grand arsenal of aggressive percussion, new wave synths, epic guitar noise and various kitchen-sink devices, then layering them all into a big, beautiful art-rock symphony. Thematically, Dear Science addresses similar themes to Co [ read more ]
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VINYL FORMAT. Songs about patience, guidance, realizing you have a soul, and the hopeful horror of that soul being forced out of your body into something, anything new. Songs about lost loves reincarnated with everything but the memory of you, beautiful eulogies for a dead century. Not so funny songs for a not so funny world, but danceable, hummable, swayable.
12" $12.99
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ENHANCED CD. Insound Staff Pick - 2008! Produced by the group's multi-instrumentalist Dave Sitek, Dear Science finds Brooklyn group TV on the Radio fine-tuning what they did best on 2006's Return to Cookie Mountain: tweaking and looping and distorting a grand arsenal of aggressive percussion, new wave synths, epic guitar noise and various kitchen-sink devices, then layering them all into a big, beautiful art-rock symphony. Thematically, Dear Science addresses similar th [ read more ]
CD $17.99
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New Health Rock is TV on the Radio's New Single From Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes. The single features a brand new song (titled, yes, "New Health Rock"), as well as a cover of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs' "Modern Romance". And rounding out this three track single is "The Wrong Way.'
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This is a 15" x 24" TV on the Radio poster from the March 24, 2007 show in Vancouver. 4 color screenprint. Signed and numbered edition of 100. Designed by: Matt Terich // Design Medicine
Poster $19.99
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This is a 19" x 25" poster for the June 13, 2009 TV on the Radio show with Grizzly Bear at The Tabernacle. Hand-signed and numbered in an edition of 100.
Poster $24.99
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This is a 12" x 18" TV on the Radio poster for the March 30 and 31, 2007 shows at the Henry Fonda Theater in Los Angeles. 100 lb matte paper. Designed by Ivan Minsloff.
Poster $17.99
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