San Diego, California duo TV Girl make hypnotic pop that borrows from ’60s bubblegum and hip-hop-tinged beats with equal finesse. Trung Ngo and Brad Petering first drew attention in mid-2010, when their song “If You Want It” -- which samples Todd Rundgren’s “Hello It’s Me” -- earned acclaim from various music blogs. Rhino Entertainment, a subsidiary of Warner Music Group, issued notices to sites such as YouTube and Pitchfork to remove the song due to copyright infringement. Unfazed, the band released its self-titled EP (which included “If You Want It”) later that year. Ngo and Petering had a busy 2011, issuing a digital split EP with the like-minded Dirty Gold, the single Girls Like Me on Small Plates Records, and the Benny and the Jetts EP that July via their Bandcamp page.
TV Girl
Biography by Heather Phares
A duo from San Francisco that is equally at home with '60s bubblegum and hip-hop beats.
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