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Today Sucks: RIP TV on the Radio's Gerard Smith

The Brooklyn-based, genre-defying juggernauts of style TV on the Radio have lost one of their own today and so too has the universe lost another shining star. Gerard Smith, multi-instrumentalist on three of the band’s most recent albums, passed away today after a valiant battle with lung cancer. News of Smith’s illness came only a month ago. The band’s latest effort Nine Types of Light was released last week on Interscope. Just go get it. Rest in Power, Gerard Smith. Read more of this story at Motherboard.

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