Earlier today, TV On The Radio announced the fall 2014 release of their fifth album, Seeds. It will be the band’s first LP since 2011′s Nine Types Of Light, a strong collection that somehow never quite got its due. Why, though? Have we taken the band for granted? It certainly seems that way. After spending [...]

TV On The Radio have been dropping new songs over the last half year or so — some studio recordings, some in the live setting — so it’s not a huge surprise that they’ve got a new album on the way. Not a surprise, but still great, great news. As the band announced in a [...]

During the offseason, SNL cast member Vanessa Bayer is getting busy with her Sound Advice video series, in which she plays a PR consultant who gives really, really bad advice to musicians. Her last victim was Drake, and now she’s sat down with 80% of TV On The Radio, though in this installment she mostly [...]

Back in April, we wondered if Napa Valley’s second BottleRock festival offered the strangest festival lineup of 2014. Headline sets from the Cure, OutKast, and Eric Church are not unusual, of course, but the rest of the bill promised a very curious mix of indie faves (TV On The Radio, Thee Oh Sees, No Age, [...]

The second year of Napa Valley’s BottleRock festival got off to a slow start yesterday, as a modest crowd milled around through some of the festival’s lesser known acts. By the time TV On The Radio started off the evening, however, a more sizable group of fans had gathered to see one of the Brooklyn [...]