TV On The Radio Gets The Colbert Bump

Last night, TV On The Radio performed on The Colbert Report, but first band members Kyp Malone, Tunde Adebimpe and David Andrew Sitek were subjected to an interview with Stephen-the-character, whom the reserved band members didn't seem to quite know what to do with, in an adorable way. After the jump, Stephen asks the TVotR guys hardball questions about their last album "Return To Cookie Mountain" ("Why would you ever leave cookie mountain?"), informs them that they're about to lose their indie cred to the Colbert Bump, and suggests they hire Katy Perry to sing for them. (And then they perform "Dancing Chooose.")

The interview, in which Stephen strokes Kyps beard:

"Dancing Choose":

And in case you didn't catch Stephen's made-up examples of the band's influences, they were: "Relevant Elephant," "Rayon Mammoth," and "Bunker Sorbet." (Comedy-nerd musicians, take note.)

Posted by Lindsay at 11:00 AM in Interviews, Late Night, Music Related Content
Tags: Stephen Colbert | The Colbert Report | TV On The Radio

13 Comments

I'm so sick of this Scarf Rock genre.

Posted by: sarcasticmeow at 02/10/09 11:04 AM | Reply
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Scarf rockers are sick of YOU!

Posted by: I PEE GOLD  in reply to sarcasticmeow's comment at 02/10/09 2:59 PM | Reply
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someone should have helped kyp out.

Posted by: grace6697 at 02/10/09 11:24 AM | Reply
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Scarf rock? I don't even get that.

Posted by: Sam at 02/10/09 12:18 PM | Reply
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Phew! That performance was much better than the SNL one.

I like scarves!!

Posted by: Deezey at 02/10/09 12:21 PM | Reply
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Yeah they were terrible on SNL.

Posted by: apesofmath  in reply to Deezey 's comment at 02/10/09 3:10 PM | Reply
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I like how you can hear Stephen at the end thanking them for putting up with the schtick. Actually, turns out, I don't like it. Does anyone still believe people don't see the Colbert schtick coming anymore? Colbert has lost his indie cred.

Posted by: wubdub at 02/10/09 12:26 PM | Reply
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I liked Relevant Elephant's early stuff, but for the next few albums it just felt like they were re-releasing Broken Mahjongg with violins.

Posted by: dafs at 02/10/09 12:42 PM | Reply
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Yeah dafs, ever since Sergio left after Broken Mahjongg, Relevant Elehpant has been going downhill.

Posted by: tigerkite at 02/10/09 1:22 PM | Reply
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How much better did this sound than when they were on SNL? It just shows how braindead the soundboard is at NBC.

Posted by: Jeff at 02/10/09 5:42 PM | Reply
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They werent bad on SNL, it was just mixed so poorly. NBC for shame!

Posted by: jeff at 02/10/09 5:44 PM | Reply
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Did anyone else notice the cameraman trying to look up the saxophonist's dress at 1:54?

Posted by: meANDmy_mONKEY at 02/10/09 5:58 PM | Reply
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Call me an idiot, but this is definitely my favorite track off Dear Science, and they freakin' hit it out of the park on this take. I'm officially counting SNL to the bad soundboard and mixing.

Posted by: TalbainJ at 02/10/09 9:30 PM | Reply
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