Pitchfork

Brooklyn art-rockers TV on the Radio have a busy fall planned, and whether you're aware or not, it involves you directly. As a fan of their gritty guitar jams, scary vocal harmonies and dim-lit sludge-pop, your purchase of their forthcoming new EP will be mandatory. Indeed, trailing just behind their "Staring at the Sun" single-- which featured two tracks from their early 18-song demo album OK Calculator-- comes "New Health Rock". Due out October 12th via Touch & Go, "New Health Rock" is headed up by a song of the same name, which, according to label publicist Miranda Lange, "is not necessarily going to add years to your life, but goddammit if you won't lose 6-7 lbs when you start moving uncontrollably to it." Jesus, is that safe?

The band will also be further cementing their union with the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Liars as the Holy Trinity of Post-Millennial Brooklyn Punk by covering the YYYs' "Modern Romance" on the EP. As you may be aware, these kids love to cover and/or reference each other: Yeah Yeah Yeahs laid down Liars' "Mr. You're on Fire Mr." on their "Pin" EP, and released a split EP with Liars last year, while TVOTR's debut EP, which featured guest spots from members of both Liars and Yeah Yeah Yeahs, was curiously titled Young Liars.

Now that everyone's head's spinning like Great Tiger, we'll deliver the Little Mac uppercut: The tour! Pow! The boys wrapped up a massive North American jaunt back in mid-May, but now they've got 27 more dates to drag across the continent like a cat with ass disease. After kicking off with a series of TBA dates at illustrious TBA venues late this month, the tour seems to get officially underfoot in early October, when the band heads out on tour opening for The Faint. Chicago's Metro gets stormed on October 7th, before the two bands stomp all over a number of other cities which, as the dates can be found below, would be too redundant to list. And then finally, in December, at the end of this exhaustive run, TV on the Radio will achieve true greatness by becoming the 82nd band in the union to open for the Pixies. The Happening:

08-26 TBA - TBA
08-28 TBA - TBA
08-29 TBA - TBA
10-07 Chicago, IL - Metro *
10-09 Detroit, MI - Majestic Theatre *
10-10 Toronto, Canada - Lee's Palace *
10-12 Boston, MA - - The Roxy *
10-14 Philadelphia, PA - Starlight Ballroom *
10-15 New York, NY Irving Plaza *
10-16 New York, NY - Webster Hall *
10-17 Washington, DC - 9:30 Club *
10-18 Raleigh, NC - Disco Rodeo *
10-19 Atlanta, GA - Variety Playhouse *
10-25 Nashville, TN - Exit In *
10-26 Columbia, MO - Blue Note *
11-02 Denver, CO - - Ogden Theatre *
11-05 Vancouver, Canada - Richard's on Richards *
11-06 Seattle, WA - Showbox *
11-09 San Francisco, CA - Grand Ballroom *
11-12 Pomona, CA - - Glass House *
11-13 San Diego, CA - Soma *
11-16 Las Vegas, NV - House of Blues *
11-17 Phoenix, AZ - Marquee Theatre *
11-20 Austin, TX - - La Zona Rosa *
11-21 Houston, TX - Numbers *
12-08 Washington, DC - Constitution Hall +
12-11 New York, NY - Hammerstein Ballroom +

* with The Faint
+ with the Pixies