Kyp Malone

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 >>

Q&A: The Impressions' Fred Cash On Curtis Mayfield, Politics In The '60s, And The Venues His Band Played Back In The Day

The story of Tennessee music is a tale of two cities, really: Nashville and Memphis. But to count out Chattanooga is to ignore the origins of the Impressions, the long-running, socially conscious soul group that launched the careers of Jerry Butler and Curtis Mayfield. On the street corners of mid-t ... More >>

Stand Up, Man: Das Racist, Immortal Technique, Dan Deacon, Tom Morello To Play May Day For Occupy Wall Street

Occupy Wall Street's plans for May Day are starting to take shape, and amidst the pickets and skill-shares and marches and mayhem, it's looking like there's going to be a lot of music too. We already told you about the Guitarmy being mustered for next Tuesday, but organizers have also announced a n ... More >>

Occupy Wall Street Dreams Of A Giant Jam Session May 1

"Band seeking 1000 guitar players. Other instruments also welcome. Influences include Woody Guthrie, Tom Morello, Willie Nile, and Sergio Ortega." Occupy Wall Street is raising a "Guitarmy." For months, activists have been preparing for May Day, laying plans for teach-ins, bank blockades, marches ... More >>

Live: Amadou & Mariam Engage In The Business Of Show At The Box

Amadou & Mariam The Box Monday, February 6 Better than: Waiting for the official tour. When it comes to music rooms with a stunning view, it was tough to beat the penthouse at the Cooper Square Hotel (now André Balazs's unfortunately named The Standard East Village) last summer, when Annie Ohayon ... More >>

Greg Fox Breaks Free from the Drum Circle

Little Scream

Tom Morello Plays Occupy Wall Street

Tom Morello at Occupy Wall Street this morning.​Tom Morello, the guitar player for Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave, made an appearance at Zuccotti Park this morning to play for Occupy Wall Street Protesters. "First they ignored you," Morello told the crowd. "Then you got pepper-spraye ... More >>

Peter Yarrow and Kyp Malone at Occupy Wall Street

Radiohead, everybody knows, didn't play a free show for the Occupy Wall Street protesters last Friday. But there's been a stream of high-profile musicians showing up in Zuccotti Park to offer their support. This afternoon, Peter Yarrow of Peter, Paul and Mary set up on a makeshift bandstand and pla ... More >>

TV on the Radio Turn Their Gaze Inward

​ For a brief moment in late 2008, it felt like the clouds were parting after eight dark years, and TV on the Radio's supremely great "Golden Age" might just be heralding the start of something truly amazing. The band went all in, leaving any arty pretension to the music video and earnestly pr ... More >>

Kyp Malone+Sharon Van Etten

Download: Holly Miranda Tears Up Etta James' "I'd Rather Go Blind" At Bowery Ballroom

Pic by Sterling Taylor​The mighty NYC Taper was present at Brooklyn dream-pop ingenue (and expert record-sneaker) Holly Miranda's pretty fantastic Wednesday-night Bowery Ballroom show, and was kind enough to pass along an MP3 of the set's highlight, a blistering, stupendous cover of the Etta J ... More >>

Week in Review: Uniformly Awful

In yr face. Photo by Rebecca Smeyne​In the week the world learned how dangerous a truffle-flavored french fry really can be, we watched in horror as the New York Times Magazine penned a brutal takedown of M.I.A.--who retaliated by going after the journalist who wrote it, of course. Were you pe ... 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 >>

ONE QUESTION

How many songs will Jeff Mangum do?

Jeff Mangum Is Going to Perform at Le Poisson Rouge in May, But Don't Get Too Excited

CREDITMangum: last spotted at Elephant 6's Surprise Tour in 2008Mr. Mangum will just be playing "a very short acoustic set" on May 6, according to Pitchfork. But please don't start freaking out. "It's not the start of a comeback," his publicist tells P4K. Mangum's appearance is, rather, an altruisti ... More >>

Watch Das Racist Tear the Beastie Boys' "Sabotage" To Tiny Bloody Pieces on Our Show at Santos Party House

Perhaps you recall local rap group Das Racist's disastrous-cum-triumphant stand at Cameo Gallery back in early February, when the duo "performed" the Beastie Boys' Paul's Boutique by alternately rapping along to the CD and antagonizing the crowd by just sort of lying supine on the stage, not doing ... More >>

Jolie Holland+Rain Machine

This Weekend! Justice, Harlem, Phantogram, Blank Dogs, The Magnetic Fields, Beach Fossils, The Beets, Suckers, Rain Machine, and Neon Indian

​While the city's alt-bros are locked up in Terminal 5 for a Justice DJ set and the subsequent Ed Banger 7th Anniversary Party, you can be crawling around in the cavernous Monster Island. There, the scuzzy (Frankie Rose and the Outs), the scuzzier (Harlem), and the scuzziest (Stupid Party) wil ... More >>

The Weekend In Clubbing: Ed Banger, "One Night Stand," Rain Machine, Fertile Ground, And More

​It's Valentine's Day weekend. I'm not one to buy into Hallmark holidays (publicly, at least), so we'll treat this weekend like any other. Excuse the cleverly named soirees and sexual innuendo. On Friday, lonely singles and teenagers unite at the One Night Stand warehouse party in Brooklyn. E ... More >>

Today Is the Day Fucked Up's "Do They Know It's Christmas" Cover Arrives

​The first and hopefully last time we'll spend a morning typing "Do They Know It's Christmas" into iTunes. Matador promises that the long awaited Band Aid cover, featuring what Fucked Up frontman Damian Abraham described to Pitchfork as "the best and the worst of the music industry," will hit ... More >>

Rain Machine

'Until the Light Takes Us Launch Party'

The Second Act of Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson

He's through writing about himself—and he means it this time

There Will Be Busta Rhymes at This Year's CMJ

​CMJ released the final lineup to the 2009 edition of the annual trial that is their festival. Since last we checked in--back when they announced the very metal additions of Pig Destroyer and, wow, Eyehategod--YACHT, Ted Leo, Hercules and Love Affair, Kyp Malone's Rain Machine, and token rap s ... More >>

THE KYP SHOW

TVOTR force, unleashed alone

News Roundup: Kyp Malone, Wavves, Leonard Cohen

--TV on the Radio's Kyp Malone has released a song from his solo project, Rain Machine. The track "Give Blood," has Malone going as nuts as he would on any TVOTR track. The self-titled, 11-track disc comes out September 22nd on Anti. Check out the Malone-designed pornographic cover art here.--Follow ... More >>

TV on the Radio

Summer Guide: Amadou & Mariam's A Global Affair

Damon Albarn lends this "blind couple from Mali" a dash of Britpop

Coachella 2009, By The Numbers

David AtlasLeonard Cohen: hymnal, transcendant Clubs editor Stacey Anderson sojourned in Indio, California this past weekend for Coachella. She already covered the frantic play-by-play over at our Twitter, so we asked her to wrap-up the festival with a by-the-numbers guide to her three days in the ... More >>

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

Zebulon Rising

An adventurous Brooklyn club gets bigger, better, and weirder simultaneously

BLACK MAGICK IN SCIENCE

Alchemy becomes TV on the Radio

TV on the Radio Get to Previewing Dear Science

The Dragons of Zynth Open Siren

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

Miles Benjamin Anthony Robinson's Empire of Dirt

An appealingly bummed-out troubadour slouches toward redemption

Last Night: "TV on the Radio Guy" and Scary Mansion at Glasslands

'Voice' Cover Racist?

TV on the Radio guy thinks so

CMJ Music Marathon Highlights

Live: TV on the Radio Brings New York Back

Desperate Youth

From TV on the Radio to music on film, BAM spotlights black punk culture

Cookie Monsters of 'Rock'

TV on the Radio turn their frustrations into defiantly fascinating art

Things I Learned Watching Afro-Punk

Plugged In

Plug Awards push play; Bright Eyes wins Artist of the Year

Tracking Shot

A Question of Time

Even Children Get Older