TV on the Radio

Colin Stetson

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 >>

Pazz & Jop 2011: Michael Tedder On Fucked Up's Majesty, Danny Brown's Cunning Skills, And The Joy Formidable's Outro Power

To supplement this year's Pazz & Jop launch, Sound of the City asked a few critics to expand on the reasonings behind their voting. Here, Michael Tedder breaks down his entire ballot, and along the way he talks about about the operatic heights of Fucked Up, the shredding ability of Annie Clark and R ... More >>

People Who Died 2011: The Year In Obituaries

Amy Winehouse passed away on July 23. ​In memory of the people, places, and things that passed away in 2011, here's a collection of links and streaming-video artifacts.

I'm Up For A Grammy Award!

​As you'll recall, I'm in TV on the Radio's video for Nine Types of Light. I brilliantly played a hapless janitor, Carol Burnett-style, thanks to filmmakers Amy Davis and Jon Mortisugu, who cast me with a mop in mind and also nabbed Murray Hill to play the nightclub MC. And it's up for the G ... More >>

BACK TO EARTH

TV on the Radio, on the waterfront

Live: TV On The Radio Pop Up In The Sky

​ TV on the Radio Billboard at the corner of Lafayette and Great Jones Sts. Wednesday, August 17 Better than: "Not a concert," said someone standing next to me. Two days ago Maura forwarded me an email from a Heineken rep giving her the heads-up on a "newsworthy event" set to take place the ... More >>

Man Man

​ TV on the Radio Billboard at the corner of Lafayette and Great Jones Sts. Wednesday, August 17 Better than: "Not a concert," said someone standing next to me. Two days ago Maura forwarded me an email from a Heineken rep giving her the heads-up on a "newsworthy event" set to take place the ... More >>

Man Man

​ TV on the Radio Billboard at the corner of Lafayette and Great Jones Sts. Wednesday, August 17 Better than: "Not a concert," said someone standing next to me. Two days ago Maura forwarded me an email from a Heineken rep giving her the heads-up on a "newsworthy event" set to take place the ... More >>

Week In Review: Their Eyes Were Watching You

​ The week that was in music: "Weird Al" Yankovic made Lady Gaga blink. Beyoncé overloaded everyone's eardrums. Fleetwood Mac is in rock critics' comfort zone.

My Cameo In Music Video Spawns Some Press

​Paper magazine astutely noticed me and Murray Hill in a video for the Brooklyn band TV On The Radio (one in a cycle of 10 videos they've put together all at once) and promptly did an in-depth interview with me and filmmaker Amy Davis about it.

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 >>

HEAD RUSH

TVOTR are back!

I Had My Dream Role in A Music Video

The second I was asked to be in a music video for TV on the Radio's song "No Future Shock," I did a little Google search and squealed, "Yes!" OMG, the Brooklyn band is huge -- in fact, they're headlining Radio City in April!

Hear A New TV On The Radio Track, "Will Do"

​TV on the Radio has debuted a new track on the radio, appropriately enough: Courtesy Seattle's 107.7 The End, please enjoy TVOTR's "Will Do," a remarkably airy, uncluttered, elegant semi-slow jam set to anchor the band's upcoming Nine Types of Light, due out April 12.

TV On The Radio Announce New Album, Show At Radio City Music Hall

​Brooklyn's finest critically beloved art-rock institution are back at it: TV on the Radio have announced that their fourth album, Nine Types of Light, will be out this spring, no doubt a worthy follow-up to 2008's Pazz & Jop victor Dear Science. Plus no pesky comma issues to fuck with the typ ... 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 >>

Celebration

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 >>

Video: Kyp Malone Covers Talking Heads' "This Must Be The Place" On Our Show

Here we have the TV on the Radio luminary tackling what he acknowledges is many folks' favorite Talking Heads song -- an underrated first-dance-at-your-wedding number, really -- in a characteristically yelp-y, jittery, anxiety-ridden style (those high notes are tough). But the result, as captured ... More >>

ONE QUESTION

How many songs will Jeff Mangum do?

Ava Luna

How many songs will Jeff Mangum do?

Jolie Holland+Rain Machine

How many songs will Jeff Mangum do?

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 >>

Rain Machine

​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 >>

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 >>

THE KYP SHOW

TVOTR force, unleashed alone

BLK JKS

TVOTR force, unleashed alone

TV ON THE BANDSHELL

BK boys come home

The Agony and the Ecstasy of Dirty Projectors

Art-rock lobsters tote an Excel spreadsheet to Central Park. Rain ensues.

This Week in the Voice

After a lifetime of political hackery, former city councilmember Noach Dear, who had never even practiced law, became a municipal judge. Who knew he'd become a savior to hundreds of New Yorkers harassed and dunned by unscrupulous and sometimes crooked debt collectors? And that he'd get standing ova ... More >>

Live: Enjoying a Central Park Downpour with TV on the Radio

So many umbrellas. TV on the Radio/Dirty Projectors Central Park SummerStage Friday, June 5 For a band that not too long ago had way better ideas than songs, way better better studio noises than hooks, TV on the Radio, long a critical favorite on record, grew up to be pretty fantastic live, no? E ... More >>

Shows This Weekend: TV on the Radio in Central Park, Hangover-Obliterating Techno, and Alcoholic-Chef Competitions

Friday Noted Björk collaborators the Dirty Projectors join 2008 Pazz & Jop winners TV on the Radio in Central Park Friday night to benefit this year's free Central Park SummerStage slate. Beware of projectile vomiting at Webster Hall; Chromeo's Dave 1 is DJing tonight. Trumpet virtuoso Ralph Ale ... More >>

GOOD VIBRATIONS

Your favorite compilation is now a live show

DANCE FEVER

Catch these Brooklyn gals before they hit the road

GRAPHIC BY NATURE

Morning Breath and Cycle bring in the skaters

Coachella: Paul McCartney's Coming to the Desert

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New Asobi Seksu Video, O'Death Mixtape, and Tonight's Brooklyn Vs. Baltimore Show Was Moved

Sound of the City roots for the home team and so does Impose Magazine's Jeremy Krinsley. Impose is having a birthday party show on Saturday at Cake Shop. It's free if you were born in January. O'Death mixtape. Unfortunately this doesn't include yodeling diss tracks aimed at Akron/Family. On that ... More >>

Week in Review: Gosford Park Trap Music

In the week we said "My President is Black" in about fifteen different, ecstatic ways, we also crowned TV on the Radio victorious in the 36th Annual Pazz & Jop Critics' Poll. Poll editor Rob Harvilla let the world know once more that he wasn't Charles Aaron, then instant-messaged away in the after ... More >>

Pazz + Jop 2008

TV on the Radio gets their revenge.

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

Pazz & Jop 2008: TV on the Radio Is #1; So Is M.I.A.

The 36th Annual Village Voice Critics' Poll, Pazz & Jop, has finally arrived, bringing with it the revenge of TV on the Radio (on Bob Dylan, among others) and of M.I.A. (on our insufficiently reverent 2007 singles poll). Read Andy Beta on TV on the Radio, Rob Harvilla on M.I.A., Estelle, and Beyo ... More >>

The Audacity of TV on the Radio

More dystopian ecstasy from a (slightly) more joyful band

Tonight: Atmosphere at Webster Hall

More dystopian ecstasy from a (slightly) more joyful band

BROTHAS & DRAGONS

Rappin’ and rockin’, NYC-style

Back to the Clubs, Everybody

The prime spots for your first big '08 hangover

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

The prime spots for your first big '08 hangover

'Voice' Cover Racist?

TV on the Radio guy thinks so

The Polyphonic We

Critics were simply flabbergasted by harmonies in 2006, but we all needed them

Band Name and Album Title Pretty Much Self-Explanatory

Critics were simply flabbergasted by harmonies in 2006, but we all needed them

Failing From Grace

Flying flawed like an eagle when art-reach exceeds grasp