For their fall arts preview, the New York Times has a lengthy profile of TV on the Radio, their excellent new album Dear Science, and the gentrification of their Williamsburg neighborhood.

Jon Pareles’ story traces the band’s ascension from Brooklyn locals to major-label artistes, and how them, Liars, and Yeah Yeah Yeahs helped launch the new Brooklyn music scene onto the national conciousness.

Those were the indie days, when TV on the Radio was passing out homemade discs at cafes, and band members squeezed bits of recording time between hours spent at day jobs. Over the past five years TV on the Radio has made its way steadily up the circuit, from independent to major label, from local clubs to international tours, while its music has grown ever more ambitious. Those ambitions are bohemian ones: packing a world of ideas into each song while ignoring both commercial imperatives and ingrown hipster cachet.

“They build one skyscraper, and skyscrapers get lonely,” Mr. Sitek said in his three-pack-a-day rasp, lighting up in the alley alongside his favorite Williamsburg club, Zebulon. “So then they call their friends and more skyscrapers come, and they throw a party. And the next thing you know there’s a skyscraper blogging about the skyscraper scene in Williamsburg.”