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Sasquatch!: Of Montreal Amazes

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By Alyssa Noel (CHARTattack) May 29, 2009 3:05 pm
May 23 I'd prefer to start my day with a Rolling Rock than Starbucks. Cracking the former before noon indicates you're going to spend a day in the blistering heat enjoying a magical spread of the biggest buzz bands of the year. Pouring the latter into your mug means you're back at your desk cranking out doomsday copy in the moderately warm...
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Sasquatch! Festival (photo by Alyssa Noel)
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TV On The Radio — Dear Science

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By Erik Leijon (CHARTattack) September 23, 2008 2:24 pm
If this Brooklyn, N.Y.-based band's third disc is so mired in uncertainty and desperation, then why is it so irresistibly funky? It could be a metaphor for 2008 in general, as a rapidly expanding economic crisis, a divisive U.S. presidential election, the precarious nature of international relations and the ever-present grim spectre of terrorism...
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TV On The Radio Play New Song

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By Kate Harper (CHARTattack) July 4, 2008 11:00 am
There are good opening acts and there are bad opening acts, and Brooklyn, N.Y.'s Vivian Girls (not to be confused with the defunct Australian band of the same name), who kicked off Wednesday's show, were bad. Their mostly three-chord punk with an ethereal multi-vocal approach made them sound like a less talented version of The Breeders. They...
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TV On The Radio Topline Busy Weekend

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By Noah Love (CHARTattack) March 5, 2007 4:00 pm
There were two sold-out shows worth talking about this weekend, so here you get two reviews for the price of one. The first was at Lee's Palace on Saturday, where Shout Out Out Out Out played their second consecutive Toronto sell out, bringing along Toronto's Two Koreas and Norway's 120 Days for the ride. The Koreas battled sound problems for...
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TV On The Radio Dress To Impress

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By Noah Love (CHARTattack) October 13, 2006 4:30 pm
I'm the first to admit that TV On The Radio come off on paper as extremely pretentious art rockers. Just look at the band in the pages of the October issue of Chart. In addition to looking like models from East Village Hipster Monthly, lead singer Tunde Adebimpe's face is covered in a bandana. I'm pretty sure Brooklyn isn't under attack right now...
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TV On The Radio — Return To Cookie Mountain

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By Noah Love (CHARTattack) September 12, 2006 8:16 pm
A record titled Return To Cookie Mountain should be reserved for the novelty shelves, but TV On The Radio, as they always do, find a way to make the unconventional seem acceptable. The thing that primarily excuses the ridiculous album title is the fact that the LP is leaps and bounds better than Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes. And that's not...
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TV On The Radio — Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes

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By Joanne Huffa (CHARTattack) March 9, 2004 11:59 am
A healthy dose of skepticism is good, especially when it comes to bands being labelled the Big New Thing. But there's a lot happening on TV On The Radio's first album, Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes. Based out of the hipster enclave of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, TVOTR eschews trendiness for revelatory art rock, creating music that is both...
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Video Of The Day: TV On The Radio's "You"

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) June 10, 2011 3:54 pm
It's 10 years after TV On The Radio broke up, and the band members meet up for a reunion meal at a local diner. Dave Sitek has an authority problem, the late Gerard Smith is playing seven-string bass, Kyp Malone is into LARPing with fellow fans of Charles Schultz' Peanuts... and Tunde Adebimpe has one hell of a strange rock 'n' roll job. Bonus...
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I Read The News Today... For June 6, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) June 6, 2011 4:22 pm
Here's the bad news: The Red Hot Chili Peppers are releasing another album. The good news is it's not titled Dr. Johnny Skinz's Disproportionately Rambunctious Polar Express Machine-head. Here's some more bad news: That long-threatened Limp Bizkit album is actually coming out. Gold Cobra's in stores June 28. Unfortunately, there's no "silver...
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TV On The Radio's Nine Types Of Light Takes Over #1 On Campus Chart

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By Chris Burland (CHARTattack) May 17, 2011 11:32 am
 We have a new #1 and for the first time since the week of January 18, 2011, a international act holds the #1 spot on the campus chart. TV On The Radio's Nine Types Of Light switches spots with Timber Timbre's Creep On Creepin' On to take over the #1 album position on the campus top 50 chart for the week of May 17, 2011.tUnE-yArDs' w h o k i...
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Timber Timbre's Creep On Creepin' On Repeats At #1

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By Chris Burland (CHARTattack) April 26, 2011 1:35 pm
For a second week in a row, it pays to double the name of your band (sort of) to secure success on the campus radio charts. Timber Timbre's Creep On Creepin' On holds the #1 album spot for the week of April 29, besting Mother Mother's Eureka, the previous chart topper, which remains at #2. Creep On Creepin' On received 1,422 total points compared...
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TV On The Radio Bassist Passes Away

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) April 20, 2011 3:35 pm
TV On The Radio bassist Gerard Smith has passed away from lung cancer after his battle with the disease was revealed just last month. Smith, who was just 34 years old, died early today, according to a post on the band's website. "We are very sad to announce the death of our beloved friend and bandmate, Gerard Smith, following a courageous fight...
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I Read The News Today... For April 12, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) April 12, 2011 2:26 pm
Handsome Furs will release their third album, Sound Kapital, on June 28. The nine-track LP is the follow-up to 2009's Face Control. —Sub Pop My Morning Jacket have a free download of their seven-minute single "Circuital" up on their website. It's the title track from their sixth studio album that comes out May 31. If you've got a daughter, niece...
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I Read The News Today... For April 6, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) April 6, 2011 3:06 pm
Death From Above 1979's Sebastien Grainger and Josh Reichmann are good buds, having formed the classily-named Bad Tits together last year. Now Grainger's offered his remixing skills to Reichmann, and has done a version of Reichmann's "All Day Wrong," which will be found on Reichmann's upcoming After Live album. —Spinner "SMASH BEEP WOOOOOOSH CLANG...
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I Read The News Today... For March 31, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) March 31, 2011 3:50 pm
Miracle Fortress is finally releasing a new album. Sophomore LP Was I The Wave?, which is the follow-up to the 2007 Polaris Music Prize short listed Five Roses, is out April 26. Listen to "Raw Spectacle" here. —Secret City Records Holy shitballs: Muse are building a special stage for their appearances at the Reading and Leeds festivals this year...
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Video Of The Day: TV On The Radio's "Will Do"

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) March 23, 2011 12:07 pm
Remember when you went to the arcade as a kid and sat with that virtual reality visor on your face, killing zombies, racing cars and being a general badass? TV On The Radio revive virtual reality in their clip for "Will Do," which finds Tunde Adebimpe getting down with a lady, Kyp Malone jamming on the guitar and other band members living out...
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Song Of The Day: TV On The Radio's "Caffeinated Consciousness"

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) March 18, 2011 1:37 pm
"Caffeinated Consciousness" might be one of the most straight-up rockin' songs TV On The Radio have done in a while. While the Brooklyn, N.Y. band are known for experimenting with different time signatures, instrumentation and merging styles, "Caffeinated Consciousness" is standard 4/4 time rock with a driving beat. And it really makes you wonder...
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I Read The News Today... For March 15, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) March 15, 2011 3:53 pm
Halifax's Quiet Parade are heading out on the road this April to support their Please Come Home (We Hate It Here Without You) album. —Acadian Embassy If "I want my band to be the next Nickelback" is running through your head on a constant basis and you feel absolutely no shame whatsoever for thinking that, you should enter 99.3 The Fox FM...
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I Read The News Today... For Feb. 23, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) February 23, 2011 5:27 pm
Gord Downie's playing some U.S. dates in support of last year's The Grand Bounce. He'll head south of the 49th parallel in April, will play a set at this year's Coachella and will also support City And Colour on a few U.S. dates in March. —gorddownie.com Braids have announced a few more North American dates that'll take place this spring,...
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I Read The News Today... For Feb. 8, 2011

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By CHARTattack Staff (CHARTattack) February 8, 2011 3:03 pm
The Trews will release their new Hope & Ruin album on April 12 through Bumstead Records. They're touring Australia in March, and North American gigs will undoubtedly be announced soon... —thetrewsmusic.com The recently reunited Death From Above 1979 have announced their first show in the U.K. in five years. Jesse Keeler and Sebastien Grainger...
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