Dragons of Zynth

Dragons of Zynth:
Live on Daytrotter
Live on Dublab

TV On The Radio Rarities

In anticipation of the Sept. 23 release of Dear Science, I've gathered together a collection of links to rare, live, and promotional materials that TV On The Radio have left in their wake over the past few years. With bold defiance of genre, rampant experimentation and a healthy mix of lyrical depth and humor, TVOTR have proven themselves to be one of the most interesting and entertaining bands of the new millennium. The links provided here collect material that frequently reveals the craftsmanship that underlies the layered soundscapes that they create in the studio.

Official Releases
"Dry Drunk Emperor" (2005) - free download offered in the wake of Hurricane Katrina
"You Could Be Love" and a vocal demo of "Staring at the Sun" (2004) - available from Touch & Go Records

Early Demos
OK Calculator (2002)
Tunde Adebimpe - The Colophone EP

Promotional Downloads
Live on The Current, MPR: 10/8/2006 - great take of "Dry Drunk Emperor"
Live on KEXP: 10/24/2006 - "Blues From Down Here" from this session is a personal favorite
Live on The Interface, Spinner: 11/2006 - great versions of "Wash the Day" and "Province"
Kyp Malone, Live on Má Fama: 7/24/2007 - fascinating solo cuts by Kyp with a revealing take on "Playhouses"

Other Promotional Material
Xfm, X-posure Live: 2/6/2004
Live on KEXP: 11/6/2004
Live on KCRW: 9/22/2006 - nice session; audio or video
Live on World Cafe, NPR: 12/21/2006 - superlative session and interview
NapsterLive

Because pretension is the worst quality in artists, a healthy dose of humor in the form of the Return To Cookie Mountain Advertising Campaign:
Pass It On
Lyrics
Mr. President
Breakdown City
Street Account
Dance Off

And while I'm at it, a collection of music videos thus far:
Staring at the Sun - from Desperate Youth, Bloodthirsty Babes
Dreams - from Desperate Youth, Bloodthirsty Babes
Dreams - from Desperate Youth, Bloodthirsty Babes (unofficial video)
Modern Romance - from New Health Rock EP (Yeah Yeah Yeahs cover)
Wolf Like Me - from Return To Cookie Mountain
Province - from Return Cookie Mountain

Summer Reading List

Read in Honors HUM-105, The History of Great Ideas:

• Leo Tolstoy - "How Much Land Does a Man Need?" (1886)
  
• Plato - "Allegory of the Cave" from The Republic (≈ 360 B.C.)
• Aristotle - "Aristotle on Slavery" from Politics (≈ 330 B.C.)
• Selections from the Rig-Veda (≈ 15th-10th Century B.C.), Upanishads, & the Bhagavad Gita (≈ 8th Century B.C.)
• Asvaghosa - "The Enlightenment of the Buddha: Buddhacarita" (2nd Century A.D.)
  
• Confucius - Selections from The Analects (5th Century B.C.)
• "Moses and the Ten Commandments: Israel at Mount Sinai" from The Torah (Events ≈ 13th Century B.C.)
• "The Night Journey" from The Koran (650)
• The Dalai Lama - "The Ethic of Compassion" from Ethics for the New Millennium (1999)
• Lao-tzu - Selections from the Tao-te Ching (6th Century B.C.)
• Alan Watts - "Beat Zen, Square Zen and Zen" (1958)
• C. S. Lewis - "Meditation in a Toolshed" from God In the Dock (1979)
  
• Niccolò Machiavelli - "The Qualities of the Prince" from The Prince (1513)
• Francis Bacon - "The Four Idols" from Novum Organum (1620)
• Voltaire - Candide: Or, Optimism (1759)
• Jonathan Swift - Gulliver's Travels (1726)
  
• Jonathan Swift - "A Modest Proposal" (1729)
• Margaret Killjoy & Colin Foran - Selections from A Steampunk's Guide to the Apocalypse (2007)
  
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau - "Origin of Civil Society" from The Social Contract (1762)
• Thomas Jefferson - "The Declaration of Independence" (1776)
• Elizabeth Cady Stanton - "Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions" (1848)
• Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels - The Communist Manifesto (1848)
• Charles Darwin - "Natural Selection" from On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection (1859)
• Stephen Jay Gould - "Nonmoral Nature" (1982)
• William Paley - Selection from Natural Theology (1802)
• Sigmund Freud - "The Oedipus Complex" from The Interpretation of Dreams (1899)
• Howard Gardner - "A Rounded Version: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences" (1993)
• Frederick Douglass - Selection from Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (1845)
• Jamaica Kincaid - Selections from A Small Place (1988)

Currently reading for fun:

• Robert Louis Stevenson - Treasure Island (1883)
  
• Herman Melville - Moby-Dick; or, The Whale (1851)