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TV on the Radio broadcasts fall tour plans
Indie-rockers TV on the Radio have lined up their first serious headlining tour in several months, a West Coast swing that includes a pair of outdoor festival appearances.
The New York outfit kicks off the run Sept. 5 in Portland, OR, as part of MusicFest NW, a four-day event featuring dozens of bands playing at venues throughout the city. The 10-city trek ends with the group holding down a Sept. 20 slot at San Francisco's Treasure Island Music Festival. Dates are below.
The band continues to tour behind 2006's "Return to Cookie Mountain," which garnered overwhelmingly positive reviews following its release and placed high on year-end best-albums lists in many music publications.
The set, which followed the group's full-length debut, 2004's "Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes," featured several guest vocalists, including David Bowie, Katrina Ford of alt-rockers Celebration, and Blonde Redhead's Kazu Makino.
Earlier this year, the band's vocalist/guitarist Kyp Malone and lead singer Tunde Adebimpe teamed with hip-hop outfit The Roots to record a song for "Soundtrack for a Revolution," a currently in production documentary directed by Bill Guttentag & Dan Sturman (and executive produced by Danny Glover) for Louveture Films that highlights "some of America's top contemporary musicians as they perform new and vibrant renditions of the Civil Rights Movement's freedom songs--songs originally sung by civil rights protesters in mass meetings, on picket lines, in paddy wagons, and in jail cells throughout the American South," according to a press release.
The group released a four-song live EP, "Live at Amoeba Music," in March of last year.
