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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

TAS In Session: Mountain Man

Posted 2-7-11 by Kara Manning, Rita Houston
Tags: Mountain Man

The sweetly harmonizing trio of Mountain Man - Molly Erin Sarle, Alexandra Sauser-Monnig and Amelia Randall Meath - began singing together in dorm rooms at Bennington College. Flash forward a few years and the friends not only have a debut album, Made the Harbor, but they've also been touring with The Decemberists. The ladies of Mountain Man trekked to the Bronx on a cold winter's day to talk to WFUV's Rita Houston and sing four songs, including "Dog Song," the quirky track that inspired them to form a group.

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TV On The Radio Return With New Album, National Tour, RCMH Gig

Posted 2-7-11 by Kara Manning
Tags: TV on the Radio

So much for being on an indefinite hiatus; TV On The Radio will return this spring with the release of Nine Types of Light this spring and have announced a prestigious Radio City Music Hall show on April 13 which will launch a national tour. Tickets go on sale Friday, February 18.

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Listen To NPR's Stream of PJ Harvey's New Album

Posted 2-7-11 by Kara Manning
Tags: PJ Harvey

PJ Harvey will release her politically-charged eighth album, Let England Shake, in the States on February 15 (on Valentine's Day in the UK), but you can stream the album this week via NPR. Tickets are still available for shows in San Francisco and New York.

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Win Tickets For The Mountain Goats At Bowery Ballroom

Posted 2-7-11 by TAS Staff
Tags: The Mountain Goats

John Darnielle's The Mountain Goats are on the brink of releasing a new album on March 29, called All Eternals Deck, constructed with the help of several producers in a handful of studios. If you're a devoted fan of The Mountain Goats, we're giving you the chance to win tickets to their Bowery Ballroom gig on March 28. If you don't know The Mountain Goats, it's about time you find out what the fuss is about, isn't it?

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Win Tix To The Cave Singers At MHOW

Posted 2-7-11 by TAS Staff
Tags: The Cave Singers

The Cave Singers have been busy over the last few months, opening for Cold War Kids and The Moondoggies, but the folk-leaning Seattle band is launching their own winter tour supporting their  bluesy, harder-edged new album No Witch which drops February 22. Win a pair of tix to see The Cave Singers with opener Lia Ices when they land at Brooklyn's Music Hall of Williamsburg on March 31.

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Win Tickets For PS I Love You's Mercury Lounge Gig

Posted 2-7-11 by TAS Staff
Tags: PS I Love You

Canadian indie rock duo PS I Love You released their crafty, guitar-whipped debut, Meet Me At The Muster Station, last fall on Paper Bag Records. The duo of Paul Saulníer and Benjamin Nelson, who vaguely resemble refugees from Screaming Trees, will be touring with Diamond Rings in February, playing at SXSW and will arrive in New York on March 30 to play Mercury Lounge ... and we have tickets.

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