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The TAS Top 20 For The Week Ending June 23

Mikal Cronin's summer-friendly power pop slips onto the TAS Top 20 as The National deflates Daft Punk's bid for another week at No. 1.

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Posted 6-18-13 by Russ Borris
Tags: Top Album Chart

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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The TAS Top 25 Singles of 2010

Posted 1-3-11 by Russ Borris
Tags: Arcade Fire, Beach House, Deerhunter, Gil Scott-Heron, Gorillaz, LCD Soundsystem, Yeasayer

If you missed The Alternate Side's Top 25 Countdown on New Year's Eve, spinning the singles that made the most impact on TAS over the last twelve months, we've got the full list right here.

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Win Tickets For Asobi Seksu At Mercury Lounge on February 17

Posted 1-3-11 by Kara Manning
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New York's blissful, shoegazing popsters Asobi Seksu are readying a new album, Fluorescence, that drops on February 15. The Alternate Side is giving you the chance to win tickets  to a release week show at Mercury Lounge on February 17 as the band celebrates that happy occasion, right before they kick off a North American tour with Brahms.  

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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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