After 5 years away, TV On The Radio kicks off 2025 tour at Just Like Heaven Festival

Singer Tunde Adebimpe says that when TV On The Radio decided to play its first shows in five years at the end of 2024, he and his bandmates were excited, if a bit apprehensive.

“From the inside, especially if you haven’t done it for a while, it’s just hard to tell,” he says of the uncertainty of taking the indie rock band on the road again. “Like, when we stopped for a second in 2019, was that the end of it? Was that the wrong thing to do?

“Because five years in internet time is like 80 years...