TV on the Bandstand

The black rock chix and I went to see TV on the Radio play a capacity crowd at the Prospect Park bandshell last night.

Luckily -- since access to the 'Friends' tent wasn't going to happen -- the rain held, and we got a full, ocassionally brilliant, set by Messrs. Sitek and company. On the bus home (oddly enough it was empty, don't hipsters understand what buses are? Or do they think they are some kind of ongoing city-wide performance art project involving poor people?) read Jon Caramanica's great article on the band in the Voice.

From article: David Sitek on art and music: "The music is mirroring what you're going through as a human being through this administration. It starts like it's a mild inconvenience, and then it becomes something very violent. I think the times are significantly more surprising and the absence of reason is more apparent. We don't need to stay in boxes anymore. There's no point. You can do whatever you want. We're really free as artists and musicians to put it all down. And I think that element of psychedelia or hippie or Dada in our world comes from the awareness that there's a complete absence of reason. There's absolutely no reason to make it regimented or understandable at this point."

Word.