TV on the Radio - "Caffeinated Consciousness" Free Download

"Caffeinated Consciousness", the 2nd song to be released from TV on the Radio's new record Nine Types of Light, is now available for free download.

Check it out here.

Nine Types of Light drops April 12.

TVOTR - 'Nine Types of Light' Album Art

Here's the album art for TV on the Radio's highly anticipated new record Nine Types of Light, which drops April 12.

You can listen to first single "Will Do" via the Soundcloud below.

TV On The Radio - "Will Do" by Interscope Records

TV on the Radio Tour Dates

I can't tell you how excited I am for TV on the Radio's new record Nine Types of Light. A new record of course also means the band will be touring.

Here are some dates:

04/08 - Philadelphia, PA - Electric Factory
04/09 - Charlottesville, VA - Jefferson Theatre
04/10 - Baltimore, MD - Rams Head Live
04/13 - New York, NY - Radio City Music Hall
04/16 - Boston, MA - House of Blues
04/17 - Montreal, Quebec - Metropolis
04/18 - Toronto, Ontario - Sound Academy
04/20 - Detroit, MI - St. Andrew's Hall
04/23 + 04/24 - Minneapolis, MN - First Avenue
04/25 - Denver, CO - Ogden Theatre
05/02 - San Diego, CA - 4th and B
06/22 - Zagreb, Croatia - T Mobile Inmusic Festival
07/03 - London, England - Wireless Festival
07/08 - Bilbao, Spain - BBK Live Festival

TV on the Radio - Nine Types of Light

Awesome news. I'm sick of hearing about all these bands breaking up and playing their final shows. TV on the Radio are back!

TVOTR are one of my favorite bands. Their most recent effort Dear Science was easily one of the best records of 2008. Members of the band have been busy with side projects Rain Machine and Maximum Balloon, among other things. I would have been happy to hear news that the band had reformed and would be STARTING to work on a new album. But not only is the band back together, but they have an album done already (or at least nearly done).

TV on the Radio's latest record is titled Nine Types of Light, and will drop Spring 2011. Mere months away!

Also, the band will be performing at Radio City Music Hall on April 13. I'm so thrilled. 2011 is shaping up to be a great year.

Interscope Press Release

TV on the Radio Official Site

Dave Sitek Working on New Jane's Addiction Record

Dave Sitek, guitarist for TV on the Radio, Maximum Balloon mastermind, and producer extraordinaire, is working on the new Jane's Addiction record, playing bass. Holy shit! Sounds like a very interesting pairing.

Honestly, this news doubles my interest in the new Jane's record. I've been a huge fan of Jane's - Nothing Shocking and Ritual de lo Habitual are classics. I wasn't expecting too much from a new record though. Sitek's involvement gives me hope this could actually turn out to be a great record. We shall see.

The new album from Jane's is scheduled to drop this summer.

Maximum Balloon

One of my favorite albums from 2008 is definitely TV on the Radio's Dear Science.  TVOTR make the kind of arty, funky electro pop I live for, and Dear Science is their masterpiece. (Some might argue that their previous album Return to Cookie Mountain is their best work, and I wouldn't kill them for it, but I would disagree). 

The band went on a (hopefully) brief hiatus after touring for that record, and the individual members are pursuing various projects in the meantime.  Guitarist/singer Kyp Malone has his group Rain Machine. Vocalist Tunde Adebimpe sang on a Massive Attack track, and he acted in the Anne Hathaway movie Rachel Getting Married (WTF?).

Then there's guitarist + producer Dave Sitek.  Sitek could probably just work as a full-time producer during the break (he's produced records for Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Liars and...Scarlett Johansson, as well as TVOTR), but apparently that's not good enough.  Now he's got his own project called Maximum Balloon.

Sitek ain't about to start singing though.  No, this is a Santana type project, with a different vocalist on each track.  His bandmates Kyp and Tunde each make one appearance each, as do Karen O and David Byrne.  Then there's some people I've never heard of (Theophilus London, Aku), but their tracks sound cool.  I expect the whole record to be top notch, frankly.

Maximum Balloon drops September 26.  Here's the tracklisting:

1. Groove Me (feat. Theophilus London)

2. Young Love (feat. Katrina Ford)

3. Absence of Light (feat. Tunde Adebimpe)

4. If You Return (feat. Little Dragon)

5. Shakedown (feat. Kyp Malone)

6. Communion (feat. Karen O)

7. Tiger (feat. Aku)

8. The Lesson (feat. Holly Miranda)

9. Apartment Wrestling (feat. David Byrne)

10. Pink Bricks (feat. Ambrosia Parsley)

last.fm Artists 11-15

11. Yeah Yeah Yeahs - 542 plays
It kinda quietly crept on me how much I like the Yeah Yeah Yeahs.  I loved "Maps" when it first came out, but didn't go any further than that.  Didn't even listen to Fever to Tell.  Seems strange now that I wouldn't have, considering.

But anyway, fast forward to It's Blitz! coming out, and the band has added some electro pop to their sound.  And electro pop is like my crack these days.  So I listened to It's Blitz!, loved it, listened to their previous two albums and loved them as well.  Now the YYY's are a staple.

Karen O seems like the ultimate frontwoman.  I have not had the pleasure of seeing this band live yet, but I hope to correct that very soon.

My favorite song of theirs is probably "Down Boy", off the Is Is EP.

12. MGMT - 529 plays
MGMT have risen the ranks!  Definitely the most recent addition to this upper territory of my last.fm chart.  This is in no small part to me loving their sophomore record Congratulations, only officially dropping this week.  Oracular Spectacular has the killer singles, and I do hope they make more songs like that again at some point.  But I love their new direction, it's a glorious album.  Do not understand the early wave of hate/disappointment.  I hope that over time it is vindicated, but who knows.

13. LCD Soundsystem - 499 plays
Just shy of 5k, LCD!  That will change by tonight.  This Is Happening is soooo fucking good.  James Murphy is a genius, and this is dance rock of the highest caliber.  That is all.

14.  TV on the Radio - 491 plays
Return to Cookie Mountain is one of the albums that got me into all this art-rock and electro-pop crap in the first place.  I was so impressed.  Dear Science is prolly even better, and came around during one of the best times in my life to date.  It'll hold a special place in my heart forever.

15. The White Stripes - 488 plays
The oldest band in the Top 15, in terms of when I started listening to them.  Jack White is the man.  His output across three bands (and counting?) in the past decade is legendary. 

"The Hardest Button to Button", "Seven Nation Army", "Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground", "Girl, You Have No Faith In Medicine" and "Conquest" are some faves.