Aural Ambush: TV On The Radio

You can get away with calling TV on the Radio lots of things -- post-punk, art rock, whatever you like. The amateur music critics we found at Mockingbird Station Monday afternoon tried all those and then some -- even hinting that the track "Golden Age" off the New York set's...

By Patrick Michels

October 28, 2008

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You can get away with calling TV on the Radio lots of things -- post-punk, art rock, whatever you like. The amateur music critics we found at Mockingbird Station Monday afternoon tried all those and then some -- even hinting that the track "Golden Age" off the New York set's new album Dear Science, was just way too old for them. After all, it came out a little over a month ago.

TV on the Radio play the Lakewood Theater tonight, but this week's Aural Ambush is playing right now, after the jump.

Here's the entire song, without the added commentary: --Patrick Michels

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