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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

Win Tickets for Asobi Seksu At Bowery Ballroom

Posted 3-28-11 by TAS Staff
Tags: Asobi Seksu

Sparkling, dream popsters Asobi Seksu return to New York to play a hometown gig on April 7 to support their fourth album, Fluorescence, out now on Polyvinyl. Win tickets to see Yuki Chikudate and James Hanna's effervescent fuzz pop with openers Consortium Musicum and Sherlock's Daughter.

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Win Tickets For Cloud Nothings At Mercury Lounge

Posted 3-28-11 by TAS Staff
Tags: Cloud Nothings

The Cloud Nothings, which began as 18-year-old Dylan Baldi's lo-fi, solo project, has expanded to a live band, supporting a debut, self-titled album out now on Carpark Records. Win tickets to see music blog darling Baldi and his bandmates, who've just wrapped a tour with Toro y Moi, when they play Mercury Lounge on April 12.

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Win Tix For The Cabinet Of Wonders With Craig Wedren, Allison Moorer, More

Posted 3-28-11 by TAS Staff
Tags: Allison Moorer, Craig Wedren, John Wesley Harding, Mike Doughty, Tanya Donelly

John Wesley Harding's eclectic mix of musicians, comedians and writers, The Cabinet of Wonders, resumes on April 22 at City Winery with a lineup that includes former Shudder To Think frontman Craig Wedren, Allison Moorer, ex-Belly frontwoman Tanya Donelly, Mike Doughty, comedian Eugene Mirman and novelists Mary Gaitskill and Rick Moody. The Alternate Side is giving away eight pairs of tickets to see this special - and usually sold-out - revue.

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Thao Nguyen' s SXSW Blog

Posted 3-24-11 by Kara Manning
Tags: Mirah, SXSW, Thao and the Get Down Stay Down, Thao Nguyen

Singer and social advocate Thao Nguyen had a hectic SXSW schedule, juggling gigs with her band Thao and The Get Down Stay Down and participating in a panel on music and post-Katrina New Orleans. Intrigued by her many obligations - she's also releasing a collaborative album with Mirah Yom Tov Zeitlyn of Mirah on April 26 - The Alternate Side asked Thao if she'd blog about her Austin escapades.

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The Morning Benders To Release EP For Japan Relief

Posted 3-24-11 by Kara Manning
Tags: The Morning Benders

On the heels of the SXSW benefit for Japan's earthquake and tsunami survivors, SXSW4Japan, The Morning Benders will release a digital EP of unreleased music supporting the Japan Society's Earthquake Relief Fund. All proceeds from the Japan Echo EP, available now on the band's website,  will benefit those charitable efforts.

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Bon Iver's Justin Vernon Slates Sophomore Album

Posted 3-23-11 by Kara Manning
Tags: Bon Iver, Kanye West, SXSW

Winter might be over, but the melancholy, snowbound lyricism of Bon Iver's Justin Vernon is making a return - in June, of all times. No real clue as to whether Bon Iver's ten-track next album will reflect its sunnier release time, but as he admits in an interview with Rolling Stone regarding the nearly four year lapse since the release of 2007's For Emma, Forever Ago, "I forgot how to write songs."  

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