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TV on the Radio

  • Blogs

    March 23, 2012

    Nada Surf's Matthew Caws 10 Most Played iTunes Songs

    As opposed to our favorite songs, or songs we'd like to think define our listening habits, taking a look at what a person actually listens to can be far more revealing. With that in mind, every so often we'll ask an artist to take a look at the most-played songs in their iTunes libraries and share w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 13, 2012

    Spoek Mathambo's Debut Sub Pop LP Is Certainly Futuristic, But Doesn't Try to Black Up

    Spoek Mathambo Father Creeper 3/13, Sub Pop It's hard to listen to Spoek Mathambo's music without being reminded of his Sub Pop labelmate Shabazz Palaces. The South African rapper/producer back signed to the label just a few days before the release of Shabazz Palaces' much-lauded Black Up, and both ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 29, 2011

    Listen To All 32 Tracks From This Week's Print Feature "2011: The Songs I Heard...On KEXP"

    sargenthouse.tumblr.comTreats!​While wrapping your morning's seafood catch, you may have noticed that one of the pages from this week's print edition featured a list of a ton of songs I heard over KEXP's airwaves this year. You may have even marveled at the exquisite descriptions that accompan ... More >>

  • Music

    December 28, 2011

    2011: The Songs I Heard ... on KEXP

    I kept track of everything that I liked. And, well, here's everything*.

  • Calendar

    October 19, 2011

    Theophilus London

    I kept track of everything that I liked. And, well, here's everything*.

  • Blogs

    September 7, 2011

    Whisker Tones: What the Hair On Your Face Says About Your Music

    ​As the saying goes, you shouldn't judge a book by its cover, but you can discover plenty about a band or celebrity by looking at nothing more than the follicles of their face. Don't believe me? Read on for proof. Or see for yourself in person. Fleet Foxes (Wednesday), Iron & Wine (Saturday), ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 1, 2011

    Well, That's My Capitol Hill Block Party Schedule All Sorted Out

    Hard to argue with such unsafe ladder usage. Today, the Capitol Hill Block Party announced some line-up additions as well as the full day-by-day schedule, which means it's time to start thinking about my itinerary. So far, there's only one truly vexing conflict: Les Savy Fav and Cold Cave, both pla ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 18, 2011

    Capitol Hill Block Party 2011: The Good, the Bad, and Lots of Local

    The first round of lineup announcements for the annual Capitol Hill Block Party goes out today, but rather than just copypasta the press release, I thought we'd have some fun and sort out the bands announced thus far into the good, the bad, and the local. So . . . The Good: TV ON THE RADIO Alway ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 18, 2011

    Get a Taste of TV On The Radio's CHBP Set From Last Night's Bassless Leno Performance

    I couldn't agree more with Grandy's prediction of an "especially otherworldly elegiac" set from "an awe-inspiring band" when talking about TV On The Radio's booking to headline the three-day Capitol Hill Block Party. After losing bassist Gerard Smith to lung cancer just last month, it was hard to pr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 3, 2011

    Through @ 2: Kaylee Cole Talks Ballard Douchebags, Couch Surfing, and Making Phat Beats with Dave Sitek

    Ben BloodKaylee Cole plays KEXP's Audioasis at the Sunset Tavern this Saturday, January 8.​ The situation: Late on a Wednesday evening, I'm having drinks and tapas at Ocho on Market Street with lovely 24-year-old singer-songwriter-pianist Kaylee Cole. Intoxication: We're both drinking red win ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 2, 2010

    'Bacontrepreneur' Dave Lefkow on Fat Boys, The Who and Which Local Band to Thank for His Marriage

    ​Dave Lefkow is the kind of businessman who knows what he wants. It's bacon. He wants bacon. He's the "D" in J&D Foods, a company that makes Bacon Salt, Baconnaise, bacon popcorn, bacon-flavored envelopes, and other bacon-flavored goods--all kosher and vegetarian (if at least in letter of the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 11, 2010

    Tonight: Hercules & Love Affair at Neumos, PonyHomie at the Comet

    ​Hercules & Love Affair, with CyberTramp, DJ Colby B. Neumos, 925 E. Pike St., 709-9467. 8 p.m. $17.50. Hercules & Love Affair, the brainchild of New York DJ Andy Butler and his BFF Kim Ann Foxman, shook up the club scene in 2008 with their eponymous debut on James Murphy's DFA Records. That w ... More >>

  • Calendar

    August 11, 2010

    PonyHomie

    ​Hercules & Love Affair, with CyberTramp, DJ Colby B. Neumos, 925 E. Pike St., 709-9467. 8 p.m. $17.50. Hercules & Love Affair, the brainchild of New York DJ Andy Butler and his BFF Kim Ann Foxman, shook up the club scene in 2008 with their eponymous debut on James Murphy's DFA Records. That w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 15, 2010

    Michael Jackson's Karaoke Video Game, Missing the Old DMB, and More Love For Jurado

    Justin Dylan RenneyKaren O with the Yeah Yeah Yeahs at Bumbershoot 2009.​-- Consequence of Sound: Although Seattle's own The End gets credit for being the first to stream these new Arcade Fire songs (since pulled down), the streams for "Ready to Start" and "We Used to Wait" are still rolling a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 16, 2010

    Tonight: Ramona Falls @ the Croc, Maps & Atlases @ Neumos, Fuck Buttons @ Chop Suey

    ​Ramona Falls. Crocodile, 2200 Second Ave., 441-7416. 8 p.m. $10. With a long-awaited new Menomena album finally in the works, it's likely that Brent Knopf--one of Menomena's three multi-instrumentalists--will have less time for his stellar solo project, Ramona Falls. That's too bad, because 2 ... More >>

  • Calendar

    May 12, 2010

    Maps & Atlases

    ​Ramona Falls. Crocodile, 2200 Second Ave., 441-7416. 8 p.m. $10. With a long-awaited new Menomena album finally in the works, it's likely that Brent Knopf--one of Menomena's three multi-instrumentalists--will have less time for his stellar solo project, Ramona Falls. That's too bad, because 2 ... More >>

  • Calendar

    March 10, 2010

    Kaylee Cole

    ​Ramona Falls. Crocodile, 2200 Second Ave., 441-7416. 8 p.m. $10. With a long-awaited new Menomena album finally in the works, it's likely that Brent Knopf--one of Menomena's three multi-instrumentalists--will have less time for his stellar solo project, Ramona Falls. That's too bad, because 2 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 17, 2009

    Uh, Is This It?: 10 Flagrantly Wrong Things About NME's Greatest Albums of The Decade

    ​I personally wouldn't touch compiling a Best Albums of the Decade list with a ten-foot pole; besides feeling weird about ranking an unfathomable amount of musical releases over a ten year period and having my own eclectic yet deeply biased taste, I was in seventh grade at the turn of the cent ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 1, 2009

    Tonight: Tickets Are Two For One for Rain Machine

    ​As mentioned before, Kyp Malone from TV On The Radio will be debuting his new project Rain Machine tonight at Neumos, and according to their Twitter (don't knock it), you can buy tickets (going for $12 advance) for half the price at Moe Bar, the bar to the immediate left of the box office. Th ... More >>

  • Calendar

    September 30, 2009

    Rain Machine

    ​As mentioned before, Kyp Malone from TV On The Radio will be debuting his new project Rain Machine tonight at Neumos, and according to their Twitter (don't knock it), you can buy tickets (going for $12 advance) for half the price at Moe Bar, the bar to the immediate left of the box office. Th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 2, 2009

    Speaking of Living Colour

    They were my first inkling that black musicians and rock, especially heavier rock/metal, belonged in the same sentence. As a seven or eight-year-old kid in Detroit -- long before I heard about Jimi Hendrix or Bad Brains or Black Merda or Fishbone, hell before I even really knew about Chuck Berry o ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 26, 2009

    Sasquatch 2009 Wrap Up: Nine Inch Nails, Erykah Badu, Kings of Leon, and Plenty of Peeps

    Renee McMahonWatch a slideshow of Saturday at Sasquatch 2009 featuring Kings of Leon, Animal Collective, Saturday, May 23 Jonathan Cunningham on King Khan and the Shrines: "There aren't a lot of lead singers that can perform at a music festival dressed in solely underwear, a gold cape, Airwalk sh ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 26, 2009

    Champagne on the Radio

    Renee McMahonTunde Adebimpe at Sasquatch One of the many highlights to being at Sasquatch over the weekend was the noticeable interaction between artists off stage that were just hanging out, sharing meals, and shooting the shit with one another. I noticed some of the guys from TV on the Radio conv ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 16, 2009

    Live Music Round Up: Thursday, April 16

    In hip hop tonight, Champagne Champagne, who's featured in this week's issue, performs on an excellent bill with They Live, Weekend, and Linda and Ron's Dad at Nectar; that starts at 9 p.m. and costs $7. There's also this: Portugal. The Man (pictured courtesy Jason Parry) at the Crocodile, 8 p.m ... More >>

  • Calendar

    April 15, 2009

    Portugal.The Man

    Thursday, April 16

  • Blogs

    February 17, 2009

    Sasquatch 2009 Line-Up Announced

    It's official as of this morning. My Memorial Day weekend just got a whole lot better. Tickets are officially on sale February 28. Saturday, May 23th Kings of Leon / Yeah Yeah Yeahs / The Decemberists / Animal Collective / Bon Iver / Devotchka / M. Ward / Doves / Sun Kil Moon / The Gaslight Anthem ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 30, 2009

    2009 Coachella Lineup Announced

    Sir Paul McCartney wants YOU to buy a ticket to Coachella Coachella music festival has announced it's full lineup this morning and I can imagine the internets are going to be on fire because of it. Tickets went on sale an hour ago, so if you head to their website, which is linked above, you can pur ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 28, 2009

    Nat King Cole's Re:Generation

    After hearing Cee-Lo's superb rendition of Nat King Cole's "Lush Life" on KEXP yesterday, I did some digging around to find out more about the upcoming Re:Generations album, a re-imagining of Cole classics by contemporary artists/producers. It's slated to hit stores March 10, according to a press re ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 28, 2008

    Tonight's Show Suggestions

    Little Penguins, Exploding High Fives, Red Sea Sharks at Comet Tavern, 9 p.m., $6There's no doubt the Little Penguins should have received more local attention for Welcome To The Celebration, the band's first album of somber pop songs. But sophomore release Offer You This Cape, which features a new, ... More >>

  • Calendar

    November 26, 2008

    Portugal. The Man

    Friday, November 28

  • Calendar

    September 3, 2008

    TV On The Radio

    Saturday, September 6

  • Blogs

    July 2, 2008

    Murder City Devils to play MusicFest NW

    Saturday, September 6

  • Calendar

    February 13, 2008

    Foals

    Saturday, February 16

  • Music

    January 30, 2008

    Yeasayer Is the Sum of Their (Lion King/Grizzly Bear) Influences

    Which may actually make them original.

  • Music

    December 19, 2007

    Walking in an Indie Wonderland

    Welcome to the Doug Fir Lounge, Portland's compound for hipsters.

  • Music

    March 28, 2007

    Show in a Box

    Welcome to the Doug Fir Lounge, Portland's compound for hipsters.

  • Music

    January 3, 2007

    Crazy Beautiful

    Coming soon to a record store near you: Travis DeVries' answering machine anthology.

  • Music

    December 27, 2006

    It Was Free Cuz I Stole It

    The year in unfair shares.

  • Music

    November 8, 2006

    Notable Shows

    Highlights-and otherwise-from this week's music calendar.

  • Music

    October 4, 2006

    Notable Shows

    Highlights-and otherwise-from this week's music calendar.

  • Music

    September 27, 2006

    Junior Boys

    Plus CD Reviews of Iron Maiden, Trainwreck Riders, and The Lights.

  • Music

    September 27, 2006

    Play It Forward

    TV on the Radio's positive rotation.

  • Arts

    September 6, 2006

    Pop Music Highlights

    TV on the Radio's positive rotation.

  • Film

    June 7, 2006

    Seattle Weekly PickCoachella

    Showing at Northwest Film Forum, Fri., June 9–Thurs., June 15. Not rated. 115 minutes.

  • Music

    May 24, 2006

    Back of the Room

    Your 2006 Sasquatch recommended playlist.

  • Arts

    May 3, 2006

    This Week's Critics' Picks

    Homoerotic cowboys, TV on the Radio, and SSO's Made in America series top our list.

  • Music

    May 3, 2006

    Cinco de Mayo Fiestas

    Homoerotic cowboys, TV on the Radio, and SSO's Made in America series top our list.

  • Music

    May 3, 2006

    Notable Shows

    Highlights from this week's music calendar.

  • Music

    April 19, 2006

    Sharing a Soliloquy

    Highlights from this week's music calendar.

  • Music

    April 7, 2004

    Step Forward

    Highlights from this week's music calendar.

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