TV on the Radio News

TV on the Radio singer-guitarist Kyp Malone has revealed plans to release a solo album this fall under the moniker Rain Machine.

Robert Smigel, the comedian behind Triumph the Insult Comic Dog, visited Bonaroo this year, a Tennessee music festival that boasts over a hundred bands.

Telepathea s Busy Gangnes and Melissa Livaudais failed to impress Thursday at the El Mocambo.

The Brooklyn-based group TV on the Radio mixes post-punk, electronic, and other atmoshperic elements in such a creative way that it only makes sense that its core duo, vocalist Tunde Adebimpe and multi-instrumentalist/producer David Andrew Sitek, are both visual artists as well as musicians.

Virtually everything that musician/producer Dave Sitek touches - including albums by his own band, TV on the Radio - turns to gold, and the Sitek-helmed Dance Mother from Brooklyn avant-synthpoppers Telepathe is no exception.

Posted By: Alexandra_Bolen Ba-da bum bum bum, ba-da bum bumI just can't get TV on the Radio's "Halfway Home" out of my head since the band kicked off Central Park's SummerStage at Rumsey Playfield with a big bang this Friday.

The week in rock starts strong with two shows from brilliant experimental post-punk band TV on the Radio, one of the few truly great bands that earns critical acclaim and record sales.

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? Even in incredibly lousy circumstances, like, say, a rain-befouled Central Park gig, everyone mercilessly pelted and soaked to the bone and ...

In its second year, the Roots Picnic at Philadelphia's Festival Pier on Saturday offered an atmosphere as informal and relaxing as the word "picnic" suggests.

BROOKLYN'S acclaimed art rock band TV on the Radio played the first open-air concert of the season in Central Park Friday -- with the visual disconnection their name implies.

Yeah, it was Philly, but so what--SOTC special correspondent Christopher R. Weingarten reports.

Shortly after Dirty Projectors completed their mind-blowing set opening up for TV on the Radio at the House of Blues, vocalists and multi-instrumentalists Angel Deradoorian and Amber Coffman came back on stage.

It's hard to know, exactly, where to begin when talking about everything TV on the Radio did right at a sold-out House of Blues Thursday night.

This Bostonist can still recall a time, years ago, when he grabbed a couple of tickets to a taping of the Last Call with Carson Daly just to see TV On The Radio .

If critical acclaim were everything, TV On the Radio would be the biggest rock band on the planet.

They had us at hello. And then it went downhill, at least initially, from there.

Express yourself people! Show off your Watusi at a Metallica show. Do the mashed potato at Nine Inch Nails.

Brooklyn's TV on the Radio made waves in 2008 with one of the year's most acclaimed releases, Dear Science.

For all intents and purposes, TV on the Radio is a band best enjoyed via a good set of headphones.

Artist: TV on the Radio Brooklyn's experimental alt-rock act TV on the Radio have just come off their most critically acclaimed year to date with their latest disc, Dear Science, named the best album of 2008 by Rolling Stone, The Guardian, Spin, and Entertainment Weekly, among others.