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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 Interview: Moshi Moshi's Summer Camp, James Yuill And The Wave Pictures Give Us Their Christmas Wrap

Posted 12-16-10 by Kara Manning
Tags: James Yuill, Moshi Moshi, Summer Camp, The Wave Pictures

One of our favorite holiday compilations of the year is the new EP from the Moshi Moshi label, A Christmas Gift For You, which features cool Yule tunes from Summer Camp (taking on The Waitresses' "Christmas Wrapping), Slow Club, James Yuill with Rod Thomas, The Wave Pictures and more. The Alternate Side caught up with Summer Camp, Yuill and bassist Franic X from The Wave Pictures and learned how their holiday season was panning out ... and what they were anticipating for 2011.

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The Decemberists' Colin Meloy Previews New Album In Studio A

Posted 12-15-10 by Kara Manning, Rita Houston
Tags: Colin Meloy, The Decemberists

The Decemberists' Colin Meloy recently dropped by WFUV and The Alternate Side's Studio A and chatted with music director Rita Houston about the band's soon-to-be-released album The King Is Dead, due out January 18 on Rough Trade. After the jump, how you can link to the full session via WFUV and NPR.

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Bright Eyes Set Late Winter Tour In Anticipation Of Seventh Studio Album

Posted 12-14-10 by Kara Manning
Tags: Bright Eyes, Conor Oberst, Mike Mogis, Nathaniel Walcott

Bright Eyes' seventh studio album, The People's Key, drops on February 15 and the trio of Conor Oberst, Mike Mogis and Nathaniel Walcott (joined by four other touring musicians) has set a slew of late winter tour dates, including a second date at New York's Radio City Music Hall on March 8.

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The TAS Top 20 For The Week Ending December 19

Posted 12-14-10 by Russ Borris
Tags: Antony and the Johnson, Belle and Sebastian, Chromeo, Deerhunter, LCD Soundsystem, Mark Ronson, Matt and Kim, Sufjan Stevens, Superchunk, The Posies

Little surprise that Deerhunter's excellent Halcyon Digest is back atop the TAS Top 20 album chart, but the "and" bands -  Matt and Kim, Antony and the Johnsons and Belle and Sebastian - are challenging Bradford Cox and his crew.

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TAS In Session: The Tallest Man On Earth

Posted 12-13-10 by Kara Manning, Alisa Ali
Tags: Kristian Matsson, The Tallest Man On Earth

Soft-spoken Swedish singer Kristian Matsson, better known as The Tallest Man on Earth, dropped by The Alternate Side not long ago to chat about his recent EP, Sometimes The Blues is Just a Passing Bird, the fairly quick followup to his second album, The Wild Hunt, which was released in the spring. Kristian wanted to play his red electric guitar for us, so we were treated to plugged-in versions of "The Dreamer" and "Tangle in This Trampled Wheat." But who ever figured Kristian for a "Fresh Prince of Bel Air" fan?

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Win Tickets To See Crystal Castles

Posted 12-13-10 by Sandra Fung
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Crystal Castles, the Toronto-based dance duo of Ethan Kath and Alice Glass, had one of the best singles of 2010, a surprising collaboration with the Cure's Robert Smith on "Not in Love." Kath and Glass, whose live shows are known to be unpredictable and sometimes incendiary, return to North America in March and April supporting Crystal Castles II.  Win tickets to see their New York show on March 18 at Terminal 5.

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