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TV on the Radio’s second trek through San Diego in support of Nine Types of Light in the calendar year was a much tighter affair than May’s outing at 4th & B. Though the soundman once again had trouble with Tunde Adebimpe’s vocals bleeding into the overall mix, the Greek theater setting of Open Air was far more suited to the Brooklynites’ expansive art rock compositions.
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For six years, Pitchfork has been delighting an eclectic hipster crowd at Chicago’s Union Park. Will this year be any different? Will Odd Future be booed offstage? Are rompers still in fashion? These are the questions and here are the answers (in order of the questions) – yes, don’t know until Sunday, sorta if you’re a size 2. If I know one thing for certain it’s that this festival thrives on chaos, the unexpected, the subtle, the juxtaposed and the uncomfortable. …MORE
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As is now standard operating procedure, TV on the Radio are giving a preview of their fifth album, Nine Types of Light, online a week before the official release on April 12. You can stream the full album on Rhapsody, although you will have to sign up for a free trial membership (life is soooooo hard).
STREAM :: TV on the Radio – Nine Types of Light (Rhapsody)
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Why is URB posting the first song to come online from Jane’s Addiction’s next album? What are we, Spin circa 1990? Well, the new tune features TV on the Radio / Maximum Balloon man Dave Sitek on bass as well as production duties. And the result? Jane’s still isn’t the same without the Eric Avery’s insanely catch bass parts (who here didn’t learn the riff to “Mountain Song” when they were in High School), and Perry Farrell can’t hoot and hollar the way he used to. But Sitek does add some cool studio trickery, espeically in the intro, which kinda makes you imagine what could happen if Mad Professor got ahold of the master tapes from Ritual de lo Habitual. But it’s still fundamentally by the numbers alt-rock, which is to be expected I guess. …MORE
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