TV On The Radio is set to host “There Goes The Neighborhood,” a special homecoming event at Under The K Bridge Park in Brooklyn, on September 13th, 2025. The band has invited friends such as experimental electronic musician and producer Flying Lotus, genre-bending artist Sudan Archives, poet, musician and activist Moor Mother, and the experimental pop artist Spellling, with more to be announced. The celebration will feature a single stage with no overlapping sets, showcasing local food, drink, and art. Presale tickets go on sale this Thursday, June 26th at 10:00AM ET and fans can register now at tvontheradio.com for early access to purchase ahead of the public on sale on Friday, June 27th, at 10:00 AM ET. Fans can also purchase no-fee tickets at the Music Hall of Williamsburg box office on Saturdays from 12:00PM-6:00 PM.
“The ethos of our band has always been that there’s plenty of room for new ideas, and the weirder and the better. At the core of its expression, the music aims to bring people together, and create a space for whoever hears it to be their truest self. Same goes for the community and the scene that we came out of: everybody in bringing their own special thing is what made and makes it magnificent and we want to celebrate that now more than ever.”
Known for their energetic and cathartic live shows, TV On The Radio (Tunde Adebimpe, Kyp Malone and Jaleel Bunton) ended their five-year break from performing last year with multiple sold out shows in New York, Los Angeles and London. Since then they’ve gone on to announce even more dates in 2025, with both headlining sets and festival appearances, and Under The K Bridge will be their only stop in New York City this year. Founding member Dave Sitek is unable to join the live shows.
The band recently celebrated the twentith anniversary of their acclaimed debut album, Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes, releasing a special edition of the project with five bonus tracks, two of which are previously unreleased tracks, via their original label Tough & Go. They performed Staring At The Sun on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and visited NPR’s Tiny Desk for a four song set spanning their catalog.
Looking back at the band’s career, it is significant to note that TV On The Radio willfully pushed against stereotypes – musically and otherwise – simply by existing. The notion of a mostly Black indie rock band was, at first, a novelty for critics. But their identity and how it translated to lived experience is exactly what drives them to make the music they do; and over time, what has become more clear, is how they have carried forward the legacy of influential groups like Bad Brains, Death and Funkadelic before them. Similarly, it cannot be understated just how much of an impact TV On The Radio have made on future generations of Black indie artists pursuing their own path.
TV On The Radio has been called “one of the most compelling American rock and roll stories of the modern age” (BBC), “the most innovative band on the planet” (AV Club) and simply “superb” (Rolling Stone), proving themselves to be one of the most influential bands of the decade. The band consistently confounds expectations while managing to balance respect from critics and peers alike. Their last record Seeds(Harvest) topped New York Times’ Jon Pareles’ Best Albums of 2014 list. Their live show has been dubbed, “sexy nerdiness letting go in a controlled blast of unleashed energy” (The Boston Globe).
They’re influential, in their prime, they’re TV On The Radio, and they’ve established themselves as defining musicians of this generation. Seeds served as another step in continuing to heed their reputation as “the most vital, current band in America” (Associated Press). Prior to Seeds, TV On The Radio’s 2011 Nine Types of Light, was deemed “pure heaven” by the cherubs at Rolling Stone, earning the band a Grammy® nomination. Dear Science was voted #1 by fans in Pitchfork’s Reader’s Poll and the #1 album in the Village Voice’s “Pazz and Jop” poll, composed of reviews by more than 800 critics. Following the love the records received, the band went on to grace the stages of Saturday Night Live and The Colbert Report. Earlier records, Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes and Return To Cookie Mountainstole the hearts of fans and critics alike just the same, with the latter being named Spin’s “Album of the Year”.
