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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

Win Tickets For Lucinda Black Bear At Mercury Lounge On January 30

Posted 1-3-11 by Kara Manning
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Singer and songwriter Christian Gibbs is the driving force behind Lucinda Black Bear, a Brooklyn collective that dabbles restlessly with fusions of folk, rock, orchestral pop, jazz and even ersatz waltzes on their new album Knives, which dropped in November. Win tickets to see this unique band kick off their winter at Mercury Lounge on January 30 along with Kerry Kennedy and Bronze.

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Win Tickets To See Suuns On January 27

Posted 1-3-11 by Kara Manning
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Mind-bending Montreal rockers Suuns had a triumphant stand at CMJ this fall and will happily bring their genre-defiant tsunami of rock-kicked dance psychedelia back to New York this month, supporting their powerful debut Zeroes QC on Secretly Canadian. Don't miss these not-so-secretive Canadians when they play Mercury Lounge on January 27.

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Ring In 2011 With The TAS Top 25 New Year's Eve Countdown

Posted 12-30-10 by Russ Borris
Tags: New Year's Eve

Not too happy about ringing in the New Year with Carson Daly or Ryan Seacrest? We hear you. That's why The Alternate Side's Russ Borris and Alisa Ali will ease you into 2011 with the top 25 TAS songs of 2010 starting this Friday, December 31, at 10 p.m. EST on The Alternate Side and WFUV. You just need to bring your own champagne and confetti.

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TAS New Year's Eve Special: Dave Sitek of Maximum Balloon

Posted 12-29-10 by Kara Manning, Rita Houston
Tags: Dave Sitek, Maximum Balloon, TV on the Radio

New Year's Eve might be the equivalent of the Superbowl for working DJs; it's a daunting responsibility to provide the perfect party soundtrack as 2010 segues to 2011 (let alone the pressure of sensing what to spin leading up to midnight and beyond).  WFUV's Rita Houston caught up with Dave Sitek of Maximum Balloon and TV on the Radio and they discussed, among sundry things, the art of the DJ.  Dave, who did a club DJ tour in lieu of touring behind Maximum Balloon,  also chatted about the making of his solo album, the immediate future of TV on the Radio and played us some of his favorite, unusual tracks.

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Breaking Bands: Which New Faces Will Cause A Commotion In 2011?

Posted 12-28-10 by TAS Staff
Tags: Bonjay, Car On The Moon, Creep, Dom, Hannah Peel, Jessica Lea Mayfield, Katie Costello, Let's Buy Happiness, Sherlock's Daughter, Tennis, The Chapman Family, The Rassle, The Vaccines, Twin Sister, Wise Blood, Yuck

As we boot 2010 out the door and get ready to begin not only a brand new year, but a freshly minted decade, what up-and-coming bands and artists will make their mark on 2011? The Alternate Side staff gazed into the future and picked the musicians who we thought (well, hoped) might make an impact in the next twelve months and beyond; our many choices range from Denver's husband-and-wife duo of Tennis to the brash British pop of The Vaccines to Long Island's ever-cool quintet, Twin Sister.

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TAS In Session: Flashback 2010 (Part Two)

Posted 12-27-10 by Kara Manning
Tags: Blitzen Trapper, El Guincho, Field Music, Fyfe Dangerfield, Stars, Stornoway, The Tallest Man On Earth, The Walkmen

Last week we gave you the first part of TAS In Session: Flashback 2010,  looking back at many of bands and musicians who passed through Studio A over the past year and highlighting some of the songs played in live performance. We also updated you on what these artists have planned for 2011, from tours to new recordings to free downloads you can find this very minute on their websites. This week, the promised Part Two of our reminiscence and we've rounded up another collection of 2010's  live performances from Stornoway, The Walkmen, Field Music, The Morning Benders, El Guincho, The Tallest Man on Earth, Stars, Lost in the Trees, K-os and many more.

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