CELEBRATE/BROOKLYN

Besides having a cool and unique name and a cool and unique look (which has been helpful in getting them major media attention and famous friends), TV on The Radio have an incredibly cool and unique sound.

In their music, one can find moments of passion, loss, pride, confusion and hope, amid a collage of rhythm, handsome melodies, atmospheres, soaring harmonies, acapellas and most of all soul.

Their new album, Return to Cookie Mountain, comes out in August in the US, but import versions are available now. Suffice to say it is bubbling over with life. They are also blowing audiences away on their current tour...as they wailed through the intermittent rain drops in Prospect Park at last week's Celebrate Brooklyn! show.

If you havent already heard the vital Desperate Youth... or their earlier EPs, go back and get edumacated.

Simply put, they're dope.