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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

Kings of Leon, Kanye West, Arcade Fire, The Strokes To Headline Coachella

Posted 1-19-11 by Kara Manning
Tags: Arcade Fire, Coachella, Kanye West, Kings of Leon, The Strokes

The Coachella Music and Arts Festival has unfurled its huge lineup and Kings of Leon, Arcade Fire, Kanye West and The Strokes will take on the mantle of headliners. The Black Keys, Interpol, Animal Collective, Mumford & Sons, PJ Harvey, Bright Eyes, Duran Duran, The National, the Chemical Brothers and even Ms. Lauryn Hill (the Ms. prefix is hers) will also appear along with dozens more. The festival will take place in Indio, California the weekend of April 15-17.

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SXSW Lineup Includes Bright Eyes, Surfer Blood, Bombay Bicycle Club, Chromeo, Friendly Fires, Owen Pallett And Scores More

Posted 1-18-11 by Kara Manning
Tags: Bombay Bicycle Club, Bright Eyes, Chromeo, Friendly Fires, Owen Pallett, Surfer Blood

Throngs of musicians, fans and music industry types will descend on Austin, Texas from March 16-20 for SXSW and the overwhelming list of bands includes Bright Eyes, Surfer Blood, the much buzzed-over Anna Calvi, Bombay Bicycle Club, Friendly Fires, Chromeo, Owen Pallett, Toro Y Moi, Gold Panda, The Kills, The Twilight Sad, The Joy Formidable and scores more.

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The Kills Announce Spring 2011 Dates

Posted 1-18-11 by Kara Manning
Tags: Cold Cave, The Kills

The Kills, who announced last week that their fourth album Blood Pressures will drop on April 5 on Domino, have revealed a lengthy list of tour dates in North America and Europe. The duo will kick everything off at SXSW in Austin this March. Pre-sale begins today, January 18.

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Arcade Fire And Spike Jonze Set To Premiere Film This February In Berlin

Posted 1-18-11 by Kara Manning
Tags: Arcade Fire, Spike Jones

Arcade Fire and director Spike Jonze, who have been collaborating far beyond the clip they did together for the single "The Suburbs," will finally debut their short film Scenes From The Suburbs at the Berlin International Film Festival in February. That news accompanies Arcade Fire's announcement of an array of European festival dates.

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The TAS Top 20 For The Week Ending January 23

Posted 1-18-11 by Kara Manning
Tags: Belle and Sebastian, British Sea Power, Cut Copy, Deerhunter, Destroyer, Gorillaz, Matt and Kim, PJ Harvey, Smith Westerns, The Greenhornes, The Posies

PJ Harvey, Cut Copy, Destroyer and Smith Westerns gambol onto this week's TAS Top 20 while those quirky Scots still dominate the apex of the album chart.

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TAS In Session: Moondoggies

Posted 1-17-11 by Kara Manning, Alisa Ali
Tags: Moondoggies

Seattle's The Moondoggies have had a busy year, releasing their second album Tidelands, touring extensively and finding themselves featured in MTV's $5 Cover web series. Not long ago the quartet, who kick off a their winter tour in San Francisco tomorrow, January 18, and play Brooklyn's Rock Shop on January 30, dropped by The Alternate Side's Studio A to chat and play four songs from Tidelands.

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