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Music: TV On The Radio

TV on the Radio is a Brooklyn-based band that was formed in 2000. They are known for their Genre Busting sound, often combining elements of hip-hop, soul, post-punk, electronica, and alternative rock into their music.

Band members:

Tunde Adebimpe: vocals, loops
Kyp Malone: guitars, keyboards, loops
David Andrew Sitek: vocals, guitars, bass, loops
Jaleel Bunton: drums, vocals, loops, guitars
Gerard Smith: bass, keyboards (deceased)

Albums:

OK Calculator (2002)
Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes (2004)
Return to Cookie Mountain (2006)
Dear Science (2008)
Nine Types Of Light (2011)

David Sitek has also produced quite a few albums, including all three of the albums from Yeah Yeah Yeahs.

Tropes exhibited by this band include:

Album Title Drop - The title of their first album, "Desperate Youth, Bloodthirsty Babes", shows up during the climax of the first song, "The Wrong Way".
Author Existence Failure - Gerard Smith, the band's bassist, died of lung cancer one week after the release of Nine Types of Light.
Badass Beard - Tunde usually sports a respectable stubble, but Kyp Malone's facial hair could rival Rutherford B. Hayes'
Broken Record - "My repetition, my repetition is this" x20 or so at the end of "Repetition".
Destructo Nookie - "Lover's Day". Sweet Jesus, "Lover's Day."
Genre Busting
Genre Roulette - Their albums contain any number of different song styles, including drum-and-bass, avant-garde, trip hop, a capella, power ballad, or New Wave. With this as well as Genre Busting and Neoclassical Punk Zydeco Rockabilly under their belt, it is safe to say their music defies simple categorization.
He Also Did - Tunde Adebimpe has appeared in lead or major supporting roles in a couple films, notably Jump Tomorrow and Rachel Getting Married.
Heartbeat Soundtrack - "Tonight." Sounds more like a heart with a pacemaker or something though.
Hey, It's That Voice! - Yes, that is David Bowie providing backing vocals on "Province".
Magical Negro - Played with in the song "The Wrong Way":
Wake up in a magic nigger movie/with the bright lights pointed at me/as a metaphor/teachin' folks the score/about patience, understanding, agape babe/and sweet sweet amour
Mind Screw - tons of their music videos. "Province" is a particularly outstanding example.
Neoclassical Punk Zydeco Rockabilly: Post-punk, funk, electro, dub, Afrobeat, hip hop, progressive rock, gospel, noise rock, swing, synthpop... and that's just only a fraction of what you'll hear in an average TV on the Radio album.
Parody - their video for the song "You" in the video "Nine Types of Light" is a parody of Prince, possibly of the affectionate variety. In the movie, Tunde leaves the band and begins a solo career that is clearly modeled after Prince.
- Definitely an affectionate one, seeing as how they listed Prince as one of their main influences.
Shout Out - their first album, OK Calculator, was titled as a reference to Radiohead's Magnum Opus, OK Computer.
Signature Song - "Wolf Like Me."
Stylistic Suck - The werewolves in "Wolf Like Me" look like stop-motion killer poodles, probably deliberately.
Token Minority - David Sitek is the only white guy in a band that is otherwise entirely black.