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 ]
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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.
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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 ]
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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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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 ]
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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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TV on the Radio recorded their in-store performance at Amoeba Hollywood in September 2006. This EP was originally released on 3/27/07 only at the three Amoeba Music locations, and is now available through Insound!
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With lyrics and vocals that are just as ambitious and attention-getting as the music surrounding them, TV on the Radio have always had a lot going on in their music. Indeed, Return to Cookie Mountain was so elaborate that topping it would be difficult, so on Dear Science, (yes, the comma is intentional) the band channels its focus into lean, nimble songs with more structure and polish -- and more focus on Tunde Adepimbe's and Kyp Malone's vocals -- than any of TV on the Radio's previous wo [ read more ]
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