Dave Sitek

TV on the Radio - Brooklyn Academy of Music - 4/27/13

Better Than: Their headlining set at Pitchfork in 2011. TV On The Radio is at an interesting crossroads. After completing a three-album deal with Interscope, the Brooklyn four-piece is returning to the fold with a reinvigorated passion for their craft. Lead singer Tunde Adebimpe revealed to Spin ... More >>

Live: Janelle Monáe, TV On The Radio, And Toro Y Moi Break Boundaries At Afro-Punk

Afro-Punk Festival Commodore Barry Park Sunday, August 26 Better than: Sitting at home, waiting for Breaking Bad to start. Little Richard, Chuck Berry, and Bo Diddley were some of the original architects of rock and roll. Jimi Hendrix pushed it forward in the late '60s. Then came Prince. And Bad B ... More >>

Santigold's Gold Standard

Santi White's genre-bending adventures continue on her second album

The Top Six Contenders For 2012's Song Of The Summer

Now that the calendar has flipped to May, and the schedules for the area's big sheds have been announced, and the Hot 97 Summer Jam lineup is on the verge of being made public, it's time to think of other musical concerns related to the year's hottest months. Today, let's wonder about what song will ... More >>

Q&A: Elizabeth "Lissy Trullie" McChesney On The "Jackhammer" Hype Cycle, Her Workout Playlist, And Her New Album

NYC denizen Elizabeth McChesney answers to "Lissy Trullie," but Lissy Trullie is also a band: frontwoman McChesney and Eben D'Amico slinging guitars, Ian Fenger folding in stubbornly insinuative bass lines, Josh Elrod's backbeat lending teeth to the whole. The fierce, spiky interplay between the fou ... More >>

Jane's Addiction

Theophilus London's Indie-Rock Admirers, And His Mutual Affection For Them

​Here is a list of artists who have endorsed or collaborated with the gloriously monikered Theophilus London: M.I.A.; TV On The Radio's Dave Sitek; Sleigh Bells; Sara Quin from Tegan and Sara; John Hill of Santigold production repute; and one-time Jealous Girlfriends member Holly Miranda. Not, ... More >>

Spring Arts Guide: The Feelies Get Perpetually Nervous All Over Again

Plus CSS, Adele, and other spring music picks

Theophilus London

Week in Review: Where For Art Thou, Masta Killa?

Ariel Pink says hi. Photo by Rebecca Smeyne.​In the week we found out exactly how many professional music critics can actually name all nine members of the Wu-Tang Clan (the results may surprise and depress you!), we also found ourselves accusing Kanye West of maybe ripping off a Dr. Dog video ... More >>

Top 25 Headlines Not As Weird As "Dave Sitek Joins Jane's Addiction"

Good luck learning all the chord changes in "Jane Says," dude​So TV on the Radio's Dave Sitek has joined Jane's Addiction, in some unspecified bassist/songwriter/possibly-non-touring-member capacity, which is super bizarre when you first hear about it, but is, upon reflection, not the stranges ... More >>

The Most Overlooked Tracks of 2010: Benoit Piolard, Groove Armada featuring Jess Larabee, Holly Miranda

​Our look back at all things 2010 continues this week as we highlight some of the year's most overlooked tracks. In this edition: post-coffeeshop.

CMJ Day Three: Maximum Balloon Deal With Dance-Music Bias At Pitchfork's #Offline Festival

Electronic musicians are people too. Pic by Puja.​Maximum Balloon Brooklyn Bowl Thursday, October 21 Last night, Pitchfork kicked off their #Offline Festival -- a three-day, anti-CMJ stint at Brooklyn Bowl. For many, this is a neatly packaged delivery of the bigger buzz bands of 2010, featuri ... More >>

So Pitchfork Is Hosting A Huge Music Festival Called #Offline In New York Next Week, Just In Time to Compete With CMJ

​Well, that's one way to let CMJ know what you think of it, if you are the vast music recommendation website Pitchfork--by having a multi-day, 30-plus band festival in the middle of Williamsburg during the marathon's prime three nights. They're calling it #Offline, paradoxical hashtag and all; ... More >>

Q&A: Rapper Theophilus London Gives Tips For Remaining Cool and Fashionable at HARD NYC This Weekend

Eddie Brannan​"I was at M.I.A.'s secret birthday party two days ago when Drew Barrymore walked in," says a smitten-sounding Theophilus London, the much-championed young M.C. who, contrary to his rap name, hails from Brooklyn's Flatbush neighborhood. "M.I.A.'s brother invited all her friends, p ... More >>

Live: Holly Miranda Decimates Bowery Ballroom With Some Help From Kyp Malone, A Horn Section, And Etta James

​Unhinged, raucous, gigantic. Pics by Sterling Taylor.​"I enjoy a good sleep," Holly Miranda told us yesterday, discussing the distinct snooze motif running through the Jealous Girlfriends singer's new woozy, eerily ethereal solo record, The Magician's Private Library, leading one to exp ... More >>

Tonight! Ava Luna, Holly Miranda, Class Actress, And Deluxx Fluxx

No one shall lay their unworthy eyes upon Holly Miranda without Shrek 3D goggles.​Ava Luna, the band that Christopher R. Weingarten boldly praised as post-every-band-you-like ("post-TVOTR, Dirty Projectors-inflected bedroom soul," to be exact) is headlining Silent Barn, bracketed by a similar ... More >>

Q&A: Holly Miranda on Magic, Sneaking Records, and The Need to "Come Out"

Sebastian MylanarskiHolly Miranda Known for being the face of Brooklyn rock act the Jealous Girlfriends, Holly Miranda quietly released her debut solo album The Magician's Private Library this past February. It's a washed-out, hazy record that has Miranda's airy voice sounding something like '80s 4 ... More >>

Take Donald Glover, Aziz Ansari, and Das Racist's Joke Rap Seriously

A new generation of MCs grapple with how funny they're allowed to be

Hear Aziz Ansari and Dave Sitek's Bravura Rap Attack "AAAAAAAANGRY (with eight A's)"

​A worthy successor to "How to Rob," if not "Second Round Knock Out," even if you hate laughing. Over five minutes formerly Brooklynite and world-beating comedian Aziz Ansari goes in on everyone from Dre to Eminem to Clipse to Kid Cudi, with the same loving attention to detail and hilarity he ... More >>

DJ AM and James Chance, Together at Last: Downtown Calling

​We are against hagiography as a rule, but let's take a moment to list just a few members of the cast of Shan Nicolson's late '70s New York doc Downtown Calling, narrated by Debbie Harry and opening at the Austin Film Festival, next weekend: DJ AM, Wild Style's Charlie Ahearn, TV on the Radio' ... More >>

TV ON THE BANDSHELL

BK boys come home

This Scarlett Johansson/Pete Yorn Song Is Actually Pretty Great, Guys

Scarlett Johansson, the musician, was last seen being loathed for Anywhere I Lay My Head, her Dave Sitek-assisted suite of Tom Waits covers, a project that was probably doomed (critically, anyway) by her incredible beauty and success way before it even got started. But that record was better than it ... More >>

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Telepathe's Melissa Livaudais On Their Brand-New Dance Mother, Monkey Costumes

Andres Lazlo Konrath Brooklyn-based electro-dance duo Telepathe began working on their first record way back in late 2007 with TV on the Radio's Dave Sitek. Over the course of six months, they worked around the clock pairing a haunting, vocal aesthetic with dark, distinctive synthetic sounding groo ... More >>

DANCE FEVER

Catch these Brooklyn gals before they hit the road

The Revenge of TV on the Radio

Bob Dylan (and the Voice itself) finally humbled, Dear Science wins the 36th Annual Pazz & Jop Critics' Poll

The Week of Obama Odes. Plus, Kool Keith, Still Batshit and Pervy

The Audacity of TV on the Radio

More dystopian ecstasy from a (slightly) more joyful band

Kings of Leon Get a Little Too Huge

The Dragons of Zynth Open Siren

Meet the first, and weirdest, and possibly best band on the bill

Scarlett Johansson's Tom Waits Tribute

Say what you will, but if any 23-year-old starlet can sing like Waits, it's her

Scarlett Johansson's Tom Waits Tribute Album: Pretty Good, Actually!

BROTHAS & DRAGONS

Rappin’ and rockin’, NYC-style

Wednesday

She & Him's Volume One

Not nearly as galling as it could've been

A Deeper Shade of Shoegaze

Vivid art-rockers Apollo Heights craft 'soul songs for people who hate our music'

Live: TV on the Radio Brings New York Back

Cookie Monsters of 'Rock'

TV on the Radio turn their frustrations into defiantly fascinating art

Failing From Grace

Flying flawed like an eagle when art-reach exceeds grasp

Electric Lady Land

Innocence Executed by Ohm