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Northside Festival Adds Body/Head, Majical Cloudz, Bleached And More

The Northside Festival has added Kim Gordon and Bill Nace's Body/Head, Majical Cloudz, Bleached, A Place To Bury Strangers, Chance the Rapper, Young Magic and a long list of other bands to a lineup that already includes The Walkmen, Son Volt, Swans, the reformed Black Flag (Greg Ginn and the Jealous Again lineup) and more. The festival takes place June 13-16 and FUV's The Alternate Side will co-present Lambchop's show on June 16.

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Posted 5-22-13 by Kara Manning
Tags: Body/Head, Kim Gordon, Majical Cloudz, Swans, The Walkmen

Watch The xx and Jessie Ware Cover Stardust And Modjo

Posted 5-22-13 by Kara Manning
Tags: Jessie Ware, Night + Day 2013, The xx

The xx's Night + Day summer festival is underway in Europe, an event curated by the trio that doesn't simply include bands and DJs, but is structured as a fully immersive experience with emphasis on local markets, food and a unique locale. During their show in Berlin on Saturday, The xx brought out tourmate Jessie Ware for a mashup of Modjo's "Lady (Hear Me Tonight)" and Stardust's "Music Sounds Better With You." The side-of-the-stage video isn't the best, but it's such a cool cover (and Ware impressively handles the Stardust track with aplomb), it's worth watching.

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Watch The National Perform 'Graceless' In Session With WFUV

Posted 5-21-13 by TAS Staff, Russ Borris
Tags: The National

Watch The National play "Graceless" off of its new album, Trouble Will Find Me, for FUV at the Cutting Room Studios in Manhattan, on NPR.org now. And tonight, listen to the session on WFUV tonight at 9 p.m. ET, also streaming online and available now.

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First Listen: Tricky, "False Idols"

Posted 5-21-13 by guest
Tags: Tricky

The producer's best album since the mid-'90s, False Idols is one of 2013's biggest surprises so far. His signature mix of menace and seduction still sounds contemporary after Tricky's more than 20 years in (and out of) the spotlight. Listen to Tricky's False Idols streaming now via FUV and NPR Music prior to its release on May 28 (May 27 in the UK). Tricky plays New York's Webster Hall on June 13.

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The TAS Top 20 For The Week Ending May 26

Posted 5-21-13 by Russ Borris
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Deerhunter and Caveman make TAS Top 20 debuts while the James Blake juggernaut continues at the peak of the album chart.

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Daughter: TAS In Session

Posted 5-20-13 by Kara Manning
Tags: Daughter

When London's Daughter visited FUV and The Alternate Side last October, the band members — three self-professed perfectionists — were still working on their debut album, If You Leave. The album was finally released in March. Daughter wraps its first lengthy North American headlining tour this week, but the bandd returns this August to tour with The National. Late last month, Daughter's Igor Haefeli and Remi Aguilella stopped by for a conversation with The Alternate Side (Elena Tonra was battling a cold). Listen the interview, including performance highlights from Daughter's fall TAS session, this Friday, May 24, on TAS on 91.5 WNYE at 11 a.m. ET, also streaming online.

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Ticket Giveaway For The National At The Barclays Center On June 5

Posted 5-20-13 by TAS Staff
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Doing a home-borough Brooklyn gig for the first time in 2010 — and not playing "The Sorrow" for six hours straight as they did in Queens a couple of weeks ago — The National play the Barclays Center on June 5 supporting the brand spanking new Trouble Will Find Me. The Alternate Side is giving away tickets to the show which includes opener Youth Lagoon. What a nice way to spend a balmy June night; just enter by May 26 for a chance to win tickets to see The National.

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