Golden Age: An Interview With TV On The Radio’s Tunde Adebimpe


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Words by Michael Cranston
Photos of Tunde by Nate Dorr
, photo of band by Michael Lavine

Rolling Stone. Spin. The Guardian. MTV. Alongside Pitchfork’s reader’s polls and several other smaller sites, the aforementioned were just a few publications to award TV On the Radio’s fourth studio release Dear Science the title of Best Album of 2008. Hailed as the musical coming of the Obama Era (not a self-ascribed label), Dear Science was (and is) an aggressive coming-of-age album that poignantly captured cultural life last year. “The age of miracles!” Kyp Malone proclaimed on “Golden Age”, and we had our soundtrack to American life. On Inauguration Day, Obama may have been ushered in to office to the tune of Air & Simple Gifts, but “Golden Age” was playing in our heads. Indeed, it’s no exaggeration to say that no band captured the cultural zeitgeist better than TV On the Radio.
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TV On The Radio To Finally Release Remix EP Tomorrow


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TV on the Radio was greeted with a host of critical acclaim upon the release of last year’s Dear Science, and even though the record was marked as the band’s fourth release, it placed the Brooklynites on the road to commercial success. Now, TV on the Radio will be releasing a remix EP of their most successful album, making it the first time the post-rock band will have delved into the world of remixing their material.
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