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somethin 4 the weekend

What Are Your Jukebox Staples?

Wednesday night I spent $16 on jukeboxes at two establishments in New York City. Sixteen dollars! That could buy, I don't know, three pints of ice cream at the bodega down the block. But I felt like the investment was worth it, particularly at the second bar I visited, where six Washingtons allowed me to blare 19 songs throughout the bar and my friend and I were pretty much the only customers left in the place. Not that other patrons would have stopped me from playing the Monkees' "Valleri" and the Raincoats' "In Love"*; after all, the huge catalogs of the Internet-jukebox era have made it a lot easier to impose your tastes on others, even if doing so costs you an extra credit per song. So this weekend, I wonder: What songs will you always play on a jukebox if you have some unused dollar bills rustling around your wallet? Five songs that I have no problem dropping 25 to 100 cents on after the jump. More »

how your sausage gets dropped on the floor

TV On The Radio's Commagate: The Plot Thickens,

Last month, we noted that, despite media outlets from Pitchfork to Paste to USA Today claiming there was a comma in the title of TV On The Radio's triumphant new record Dear Science, there was no punctuation to be found in the album's actual name. (He missed MTV, Blender, and AllMusic, all of which showed their commitment to the cuddly clause-container weeks after his expose broke.) More »

the last word

TV On The Radio Are Holding Out Hope

From time to time, we like to round up the all-important, all-summarizing last sentences of the biggest new-music reviews. After the jump, we look at the critical reaction to TV On The Radio's new album, Dear Science, which comes out in the US tomorrow. More »

videodrone

TV On The Radio Plop Down In Front Of The TV On A Saturday Morning


Much like its sonic accompaniment, the video for TV On The Radio's "Golden Age" is pretty great in so many ways, I'd probably run out of characters in this text-entry box to describe it. Sure, it has references to Joy Division and the Care Bears, to the Village People and to Voltron, all of which are played out on a blue-sky background that's seemingly within reach at any moment. But what I can't stop seeing is a clip that feels like the only culmination of a long life spent inhaling the culture (and "culture") of the cable-TV era, from the time of those clicky plastic boxes that could descramble the Playboy Channel if you hit the right buttons all the way through to the HD-ed out present. [YouTube]

The Apple-C, Apple-V Is Intentional Pretty Goes With Pretty calls on all those writers out there who are being "unnecessarily manipulated into poor grammatical choices" by the possible comma appended to the title of TV On The Radio's new album to rise up and cast free the shackles of oppression via press release. Could this be a call to... revolution? One hopes. [Pretty Goes With Pretty]

listening station

This New TV On The Radio Song Is Fantastic In Way Too Many Ways For Me To List

No, seriously, it is: It starts off with a twitchy bassline that reminds me of the Au Pairs' finest moments, then opens up into this absolutely gorgeous, string-laden track that sounds like it's meant to soundtrack a sumptuous dream, the type that results in you waking up with a satisfied smile playing across your lips. I'm only sorry that I didn't get to it until the end of the day (damn the RSS-cluttered world of the music blogger!), because that means that those of you who have already left work for the day won't be able to hear it until 15 hours from now or so. [TV On The Radio]

as summer festival announcements turn to fall

Monolith Festival Seemingly Comfortable With Indie-Intensive Lineup

A festival with Justice and Devotchka as the headliners? Where's the Jay-Z or Joe Jackson? Where's the Weiland? The ironically named Monolith Festival, which will hit Red Rocks Ampitheater on Sept. 13 and 14, is keeping the scale kind of small, but kind of awesome as well. TV On The Radio, CSS, Del The Funkee Homosapien, and bands with even less name recognition may not pull in the suburbanites, but it should make for an enjoyable show. Lineup after the jump. More »

leak of the day

ScarJo's Tribute To Tom Waits Is Actually Dave Sitek's Tribute To Ivo Watts-Russell

ARTIST: Scarlett Johansson
ALBUM: Anywhere I Lay My Head
RELEASE DATE: May 20, 2008
WEB DEBUT: April 30, 2008 More »

hey asshole

"Hey, Asshole!" Follow-Up: More Static At A TV On The Radio Show

hey_asshole_bu.jpgEarlier today, we posted a story from a TV On The Radio fan who had to deal with some pushy fans at the band's show in Columbus last night. This provoked an e-mail from another reader who had some unfortunate fauxhawked-jerk exposure while at a show by the band, which we reprint here even though—or perhaps because—its subject line uses one of our banned words: More »

hey asshole

"Hey, Asshole!": Cookie Mountain Gets A Little Bit Crowded

From time to time, we like to give our readers the floor for "Hey, Asshole!", which documents concert-going experiences that are ruined by the other people in attendance. If you feel like getting revenge on someone who put a damper on your show-going expierence, send your stories or cameraphone shots to asshole@idolator.com. Today's submission comes from Idolator reader David Hogue, whose view of TV On The Radio last night was obstructed by a big guy with a shaved head and his late-arriving friends: More »

new york times

New York "Times" Discovers Black People On The Radio

Yesterday, the New York Times ran a lengthy Sunday Styles piece on the perceived prominence of black musicians (specifically, members of TV On The Radio, Bloc Party, and the Dears) within the indie-music scene. Because the subject of race tends to get indie-types all hot and bothered—after all, it's a genre that seems to be produced and consumed almost exclusively by white people, a fact of which everyone seems to be aware—the story has been met with considerable debate, and one passage in general seems to have drawn the most ire: More »

karen o

TV On The Radio Vs. Stereogum's Commenters: A Handy Primer

Firestorm at Stereogum: In their second Karen O demo post, the leaker of the demos confessed, TV On The Radio guitarist Dave Sitek's damning blog post about the CD-R allegedly being stolen from him was reprinted, and the commenters waved "Live Free (Music) Or Die" flags. Since the thread is long and bilious (honestly, we don't blame Sitek, the demos' original owner, for quitting the Internet), we figured we'd break it down for you: More »