Catch the band between Coachella & Bonnaroo at:
May 12 – Headliners Music Hall Louisville, Kentucky
May 16 – Stubb’s Austin, Texas
May 18 – Diamond Ballroom Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
May 22 – Fox Oakland Theatre Oakland, California
May 23 – Roseland Theatre Portland, Oregon
May 25 – Malkin Bowl Vancouver, British Columbia
May 27 – Edmonton Events Center Edmonton, Alberta
May 28 – Macewan Hall Calgary, Alberta
May 29 – Louis Pub Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
Jun 2 – Sound Academy Toronto, Ontario
Jun 3 – Metropolis Montreal, Quebec
Jun 4 – House Of Blues Boston, Massachusetts
Jun 5 – Central Park Summer Stage New York, New York
Jun 8 – 9:30 Club Washington, DC
In November, TVOTR released a Rock The Vote PSA.
MP3: TV On The Radio – Love Dog
Enjoy last night’s performance of ‘Dancing Choose’ below. MP3 at bottom.
MP3: TV On The Radio – Love Dog
Find out all the secrets behind Dear Science below. MP3 at bottom of post.
MP3: TV On The Radio – Love Dog
Enjoy the band’s 75 second announcement in the clip below. MP3 at bottom.
MP3: TV On The Radio – Love Dog
What would you name the pairing described below?
Our good friends at Spinner are reporting that TV On The Radio’s David Sitek will have his hands in the production for Massive Attack’s new LP, due out by the end of the year.
When asked about the project, David says: “I thought [they] were going to take my lunch money or something. Then to be asked to work on it I was like, ‘Holy f***.’ It’s one of those things I don’t even question.” I don’t know about this one. However, I’m keeping my reluctant fingers crossed that this collaboration produces some stellar results…
MP3: Massive Attack – Protection
Story via NME: The Village Voice has published an angry letter from TV On The Radio saxophonist/flutist MartÃn Perna condemning the paper’s cover last week. The famous New York publication ran a cover last week depicting caricatures of TV On The Radio’s Kyp Malone being run over by Bob Dylan on a scooter, in reference to Dylan beating TVOTR in the 34th Annual Pazz & Jop critics poll, prompting Perna to call the image “racist, unfunny, mean-spirited, and inaccurate”.
Perna wrote: “Even in the post-Chappelle era of it being hip and edgy to discuss and portray ideas about race, there are still wrong, tasteless ways and this was one of them. Nowhere in the consciousness of Voice editors or illustrator David O’Keefe can we find memories of James Byrd, a black man who was dragged behind a truck to his death by white racists in Jasper, Texas, in 1998, or Arthur “J.R.” Warren, who was run over four times and killed for being black and gay in West Virginia in 2000, and all the other lynchings that happened in the U.S. before and since. These events are still fresh in the minds of black people, as well as in the hearts and minds of the rest of us who may not be directly victimized by these particular lynchings but who are nonetheless endangered by racism and committed to social justice and healing America of its sick racist condition.
He also directly accuses staff at the paper of being racist, adding: “That this picture could be drawn and not questioned or vetoed by any of the people who saw it prior to publication shows the level of ignorance and racism that persists in leftist institutions like the Voice that continue to posture as hip and progressive. Intentionally or not, this cover sends the all-too-familiar message to people of color: Make something too unique, make something outside of your assigned place-role, and get run over by a white man.”
Guess they won’t be playing Siren Festival this summer.
Yes, it’s back. Somehow it’s already in its SIXTH YEAR (whoa!). Nominations and the celeb listmakers/voters should be announced very shortly (within the next 2 weeks). We will keep you updated, of course.
Also, last year’s re-naming of the prize to ‘New Pantheon’ is gone. The award will once again be titled The Shortlist Prize.
Past years’ winners:
2001: Sigur Ros
2002: N*E*R*D
2003: Damien Rice
2004: TV on the Radio
2005: Sufjan Stevens
I’m gonna go ahead and guess that the voters put The Decemberists, Joanna Newsom, TV On The Radio, The Knife and Thom Yorke in the top 5. Anybody wanna challenge me? And I think Joanna will take the top prize.
The LA Times learns about ‘blogs’, ‘buzz bands’ and these crazy things known as Monsterbirds and TV on Radios.
Article here!
They even quoted the editor of Bitchfork, jeezus!!
Big thumbs down.
I tried people, I really tried. After listening to TVotR’s first album I though, meh. But everyone else was so into them. I got Return to Cookie Mountain and still thought, what the hell?
But sometimes, a band is just so much better in person (see Editors) so I went to see them at Irving. And you know what? This just really ain’t my thing. It’s psychedelic jam rock. Their music is so layered with noise that it’s hard to distinguish the tune of the song. I felt that if they just pared down the layers of noise and add some hooks, they could actually have something good. Though I do think that ‘Wolves Like Me’ is pretty good.
The best part of the show? The two HUGE guys behind us who lit two joints and said only my friend and I could have. The smaller of the two got so excited at the encore that he bulldozed his way to the front, scattering hipsters as he ran, and started moshing with whomever he could bump into.
But mostly, this was my view of the night. I never noticed how pretty the chandelier at Irving is.
Though I did have some excitement. Before the show, I saw Randy Harrison from the American Queer as Folk. I am a huge fan, so that was pretty awesome. Rounds out me seeing his on screen boyfriend, Gale Harold, at the Dallas Museum of Art a couple of years ago.
