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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

Beastie Boys On Track To Release New Album This Spring

Posted 1-6-11 by Kara Manning
Tags: Beastie Boys

Mike D confirms that while Hot Sauce Committee Pt  1 is still delayed, the Beastie Boys will release Hot Sauce Committee Pt 2 this spring following bandmate Adam Yauch's good news regarding his cancer battle. Although plans for touring are still sketchy, a new video is in the works. UPDATE: Yauch has issued a statement explaining that he's not cancer-free following erroneous reports.

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Bright Eyes Give Away "Shell Games" From Their Upcoming Album

Posted 1-5-11 by Kara Manning
Tags: Bright Eyes

Bright Eyes don't release their seventh studio album, The People's Key,  until February 15, but the band is offering up their first single, "Shell Games," for free on the band's label website.

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Listen To The Decemberists' New Album, The King Is Dead

Posted 1-4-11 by Kara Manning
Tags: Gillian Welch, NPR, Peter Buck, The Decemberists

As WFUV's Sarah Wardrop puts it so aptly, The Decemberists' upcoming album The King Is Dead signals "a new musical lightness" for the band. You can listen to the album now, streaming over at NPR, until the record's release on January 18. 

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Jack White's Video Preview of Third Man Records 2011

Posted 1-4-11 by Kara Manning
Tags: Dungen, First Aid Kit, Jack White, Reggie Watts, Third Man Records, Wanda Jackson

Third Man Records label head Jack White is an ambitious advocate for the continued renaissance of vinyl records and just released a video previewing some of the developments and schemes (like the Third Man Monkey Band) that he hopes will drum up even more enthusiasm for upcoming releases by Wanda Jackson, Dungen, First Aid Kit and more. Video after the jump.

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The TAS Top 20 For The Week Ending January 9

Posted 1-4-11 by Russ Borris
Tags: Belle and Sebastian, Blonde Redhead, Clinic, Deerhunter, Gorillaz, LCD Soundsystem, Matt and Kim, Sufjan Stevens, The Greenhornes, The Twilight Singers

The Twilight Singers' upcoming release on Sub Pop, Gorillaz' Christmas surprise and the latest, asterisk-abundant record from The Greenhornes all enter the first TAS Top 20 album chart for 2011 as another long-lived group takes over the top spot.

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TAS In Session: Erland And The Carnival

Posted 1-3-11 by Kara Manning, Alisa Ali
Tags: Blur, Erland and the Carnival, The Bad and The Queen, The Good, The Verve

Psychedelic folk rockers Erland and the Carnival release their second album Nightingale this March and recently the London-based band - which includes Scottish singer and songwriter Erland Cooper, guitarist Simon Tong (Gorillaz, Blur, The Verve, The Good, The Bad & The Queen), and drummer David Nock (Paul McCartney, The Orb) - visited The Alternate Side to play a few tracks from their eponymous debut album and new EP Trouble in Mind, including "You Don't Have To Be Lonely" and "Everything Came Too Easy."

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