TV on the Radio… Live in McCarren Park Pool
Posted on August 8, 2007
Filed Under Journal
A rainy Sunday at Brooklyn’s McCarren Park Pool… it somehow seems more fitting to TV on the Radio than a hot and sunny summer day. Hot and sunny like the week before when the Band of Horses headlined. Band of Horses are good, but honestly, they sound so very much like My Morning Jacket; who sound so very much like Neil Young and other 70′s rockers. Not a bad thing, but certainly not carving any new paths through the wilderness. TV on the Radio, however, do seem to be carving out a new sound.
We arrived late, we lingered extra long over a late late brunch at the tasty Brooklyn Label in Greenpoint. Who cares if the owner is allegedly a republican? Good eats there. It was raining pretty hard after all. So we only saw half of Celebration’s set (they are a relatively new Brooklyn band recently signed to 4AD) Thump thump thump and lead singer leg was all red from her wailing on it so hard with the tambourine. Celebration are kind of jammed out dance rock with a bit of a vintage feel. Turns out the guitarist/producer from TV on the Radio is producing their forthcoming album, and the whole gang seems like family. Tunde Adebimpe and TV’s other fuzzybear guitarist came on stage for the last few songs. Not a bad set…
And then TV on the Radio. A different experience up close; they just seem like nice guys, particularly Tunde, who acts a little dorky and self conscious… this is so much unlike their music which is big and brash at times. They went through most of the hits from their two albums and EP, but the set was sadly missing one of my favorite song from their new album, ‘Playhouses.’ The crowd seemed a bit more diverse this week, as in, not just the Williamsburg hipster set. Which is a good thing.
NYTimes did a video thing on the whole affair:
http://video.on.nytimes.com/?fr_story=e0dc1af27b6f4547a4cced0bd9cad7a76ec477ac