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Tuesday, October 26 2010

With a Little Help From My Friends: An Interview with Dave Sitek

Building your production studio after viewing a Craigslist ad? Producing a mix-tape with Aziz Ansari? Calling up David Byrne for a collaboration just 'cos you can? All in a day's work for TV on the Radio's Dave Sitek, here revealing all the details about his new Maximum Balloon side-project ...


Friday, December 19 2008

The Best Albums of 2008

PopMatters presents our 60 best albums of 2008, highlighted by the return of British trip-hop legends and some infectious American indie rock by way of the Cascade Mountains.


Saturday, December 23 2006

Best Albums of 2006

At long last, the annual rite of passage, the "best of" list... Here's PopMatters picks for the best 60 records of 2006.


Monday, November 27 2006

Five Really Strange People: An Interview with TV on the Radio

As the band delivers its best record yet, at least one member wonders if there's something more to do.


Reviews

Monday, April 11 2011

TV on the Radio: Nine Types of Light

TV on the Radio's newfound sensitivity on Nine Types of Light is a sign of a maturing band that has less to prove but still the same vigorous capacity to make magnificent music.


Wednesday, July 15 2009

TV on the Radio + Dirty Projectors: 5 June 2009 - New York

Despite a downpour, TV on the Radio was able to use the dreary, soggy night to accentuate the illuminating energy of its music and performance.


Tuesday, November 18 2008

TV on the Radio

If there’s a singular element that TV on the Radio is capable of delivering on a regular basis it’s surely charisma.


Monday, September 22 2008

TV on the Radio: Dear Science

The NYC band's dense sound is all one, a sonic totality of post-industrial digi-funk and the paranoid, lovesick blues of the Information Age.


Monday, July 21 2008

TV on the Radio

With TV on the Radio in town, blasting out new material alongside intense versions of “I Was a Lover” and “Wash the Day Away”, Buffalo, for a brief night, was the center of the universe.


Blogs

Monday, March 14 2011

New TV on the Radio - "Caffeinated Consciousness"

As anticipation for TV on the Radio's latest LP, Nine Types of Light, gets heavier by the day, the band recently threw the world another…


Thursday, February 24 2011

Listen: TV on the Radio’s New Song “Will Do”

On Wednesday, the Seattle radio station 107.7 The End premiered a new TV on the Radio song entitled “Will Do”. The track is from the…


Tuesday, February 8 2011

TV on the Radio Announce New Album

The upcoming album release schedule just got a lot more appealing. On Monday, art-rockers TV on the Radio announced that their hiatus is officially over…


Monday, April 20 2009

TV on the Radio: "Crying" (Live) (video)

TV on the Radio dropped by Jay Leno's show recently for a so-so performance of "Crying".


Monday, March 9 2009

TV on the Radio - Desperate Youth, Bloodthirsty Babes video collection (video)

Five years ago this week, critical faves TV on the Radio dropped Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes on the greatful indie masses. Our very own…


News

Thursday, October 30 2008

Reception's clear for TV on the Radio

Before co-founding TV on the Radio with David Sitek, Tunde Adebimpe dabbled in filmmaking. His cinematic sensibilities coupled with Sitek's atmospheric production skills birthed one…


Tuesday, October 7 2008

Reprogrammed TV on the Radio still stays left of the dial

Jaleel Bunton is feeling grateful and a little anxious. The drummer for TV on the Radio is still processing the overwhelmingly positive reviews that greeted…


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