While the seated theater at Ace Hotel in downtown LA didn’t seem like the most practical of venues to host genre-bending rockers TV On The Radio, the grandiose gothic-style of this historic space quickly lent itself to the band’s strong slow-building opener “Young Liars”. Some audience members remained in their seats but the bulk of the fans stood for the performance as TV On The Radio started their maddening and cerebral musical catharsis. As usual, their set was a healthy mix of tracks from all 5 of their studio albums, most recently 2014’s “Seeds” from which they performed “Happy Idiot” “Could You” and “Winter” – all tracks filled with experimental edge and frontman Tunde Adebimpe’s earnest electricity as an artist. TV On The Radio yet again exemplified how much greater they are than the sum of their six live parts – a weighty performance of mixed emotions and magnetic rhythms. During “Forgotten” from 2011’s “9 Types Of Light” Adebimpe continued speaking a sound-tracked monologue saying “I’m preaching to the choir when I say shit is fucked up but I want you to know and I think that you know, and if you dont know you should know, we’re all in it together. We’re all breathing the same same air we’re all drinking the same water. We’re all sleeping the same sleep. We might be dreaming the same dream…” followed up with a trick for “getting weird” by asking the audience to look into the eyes of a stranger next to them as he chanted “1-2-3 LIGHT”. Regardless of whether or not he has said these words during this song in the same manner, it certainly felt like this time it was in recognition of the Paris tragedies. TV On The Radio closed their main set with the moody power of “DLZ” from 2008’s “Dear Science” and 2004-hit “Staring At The Sun”. Everyone stood in applause willing the band to return, which they did for a 3-song encore featuring surprise-guest Miguel who moved smoothly around the stage blending his jazz-funk vocals to his track “Adorn” and a cover of Can’s “Vitamin C”.