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Watch Boards Of Canada's New Video 'Reach For The Dead'

It has been a surprising year of long-awaited returns, daft and otherwise, and Boards of Canada will release its first album in eight years, called Tomorrow's Harvest, on June 11 (June 10 in the UK) on Warp Records. Watch the Scottish duo's first video and single from that record, the sun-bleached, fantastically eerie "Reach for the Dead."

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Posted 5-23-13 by Kara Manning
Tags: Boards of Canada, Video

Arctic Monkeys' Curiously Titled Fourth Album Is Due In June

Posted 3-10-11 by Kara Manning
Tags: Arctic Monkeys

There's always been a tinge of tongue-in-cheek bitterness seething under the surface of Arctic Monkeys' album titles and the British rockers' fourth album follows that pattern. The band will release Suck It and See on June 7 in the States, June 6 in the UK,  via Domino Records. Track listing after the jump.

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JEFF The Brotherhood Return With New Album, Tour Dates

Posted 3-9-11 by Kara Manning
Tags: Jeff the Brotherhood

Thorny punk-pop rockers JEFF the Brotherhood, siblings Jake and Jamin Orrall, will release their next album We Are The Champions (hmm, where have we heard that title before?) in early summer, but will treat fans to a tour-only, limited edition vinyl version of the album prior to its national release. They're also offering a free download of one of the new tracks, called "Diamond Way."

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Former Alice In Chains Bassist Mike Starr Dead At 44

Posted 3-8-11 by Kara Manning
Tags: Alice in Chains, Mike Starr

Mike Starr, the troubled original bass player for Alice in Chains who struggled with drug addiction for years, was found dead in a house in Salt Lake City on Tuesday afternoon. Starr, who had worked at sobriety via VH1's "Celebrity Rehab" a year ago, was 44.  

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Spiritualized Sign To Fat Possum, Plot New Album

Posted 3-8-11 by Kara Manning
Tags: Fat Possum, Jason Pierce, Spiritualized

Spiritualized, who sold out Radio City Music Hall last year with a performance of their 1997 landmark album Ladies and Gentlemen ... We Are Floating in Space, have floated to Fat Possum, signing with the label as the band works on their seventh album, due out this autumn. Jason Pierce and company have also announced their first gig of 2011 at London's Royal Albert Hall in October.

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The TAS Top 20 For The Week Ending March 13

Posted 3-8-11 by Russ Borris
Tags: Destroyer, Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx, Lykke Li, PJ Harvey, Smith Westerns, Tennis, The Mountain Goats, The Strokes, The Twilight Singers, Yuck

Provocative Swedish chanteuse Lykke Li, the Mountain Goats and the resurrected Strokes debut on the TAS top 20 album chart while nothing is gonna shake PJ Harvey from this week's top spot.

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TAS In Session (SXSW Artist): James Vincent McMorrow

Posted 3-7-11 by Kara Manning, Alisa Ali
Tags: James Vincent McMorrow

James Vincent McMorrow might be a late bloomer - he didn't begin studying the guitar until he was 19 - but the Irish singer songwriter, who jumps on board the SXSW carousel in ten days, found a more languid pace suited him artistically. Nearly a decade later he finally self-released his debut album, Early in The Morning, an album that finally came out in the States this past January. Earlier this winter, McMorrow visited The Alternate Side and played a set of songs from that album, including "Sparrow and the Wolf" and "Hear the Noise That Moves So Soft and Low."

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