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John Grant: TAS In Session

John Grant's personal struggles have fueled, not foiled, his artistic output. A recovering drug addict and alcoholic who, newly sober, then faced an HIV-positive diagnosis, Grant discovered that honesty about those predicaments freed him creatively. For his powerful second solo album, Pale Green Ghosts, Grant relocated to Iceland, delving into the electronic music that defined his adolescence. Listen to a compelling TAS session with John Grant on TAS on 91.5 WNYE this Friday, June 21, at 11 a.m. ET, also streaming online. Watch videos of Grant's performance in Studio A now (backed by his Icelandic bandmates) and read highlights of his candid conversation with The Alternate Side's Russ Borris.

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Posted 6-17-13 by Kara Manning
Tags: John Grant, In-Studio

Win Tickets To See Passion Pit's Nearly New Year's Eve Show

Posted 11-29-10 by Sandra Fung
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Since the release of Passion Pit's 2009 debut Manners, the band has been on an exhausting year-and-a-half worldwide tour, traversing the States numerous times. A sophomore album is in the works, so expect Michael Angelakos' and his bandmates to take a notable hiatus following this current tour. And what better way to usher in 2011 on New Year's Eve eve than with a show at Wellmont Theater on December 30. And TAS would like you to be there - so enter now to win tickets.   

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Win Tickets To See Tapes 'n Tapes

Posted 11-29-10 by Sandra Fung
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Tapes 'n Tapes, have relaunched their own label, Ibid Records, and are on the brink of releasing their third album Outside due out on January 11. You'll be able to check out the new tunes, like "Freak Out" and "Hidee Ho,"  live when the band plays the Music Hall of Williamsburg on February 4 with Oberhofer and we'd like you to win a pair of tickets. It might take a little planning ahead since the gig is two months away, but what else are you going to be doing in the middle of winter? 

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Win Tickets To See Ghostland Observatory

Posted 11-29-10 by Sandra Fung
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Ghostland Observatory's frontman Aaron Behrens and producer/drummer Thomas Turner are hot off their fourth studio album, Codename: Rondo. The Austin-based duo, known for their ambitious mix of musical forms, are in the middle of a long North American tour which they'll wrap on December 17 at Terminal 5 - and The Alternate Side is offering up the chance to win tickets.  

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Portishead To Curate ATP Event And Hint At US Tour

Posted 11-25-10 by Kara Manning
Tags: ATP Festival, Beach House, Doom, Liars, Portishhead, Swans, The Books

Portishead will curate the first UK "I'll Be Your Mirror" event with ATP this July, the only live dates the band has announced for 2011. The lineup includes Beach House, Liars, Swans, The Books, the original lineup of Company Flow and Geoff Barrow's side project Beak> with more bands to be announced in the coming months. In addition, Portishead are planning US tour dates in September and October 2011.

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TAS Interview: Bill Janovitz of Buffalo Tom

Posted 11-24-10 by Kara Manning
Tags: Buffalo Tom, Mean Creek, Soda Frog, The Russians, Tom Waits, You Can Be A Wesley

Along with Pavement and Dinosaur Jr., Buffalo Tom were among the bands that defined one of the most significant, non-grunge, American alternative sounds of the Nineties, crafting a raucous thrash with wiry tenderness. The trio took a nine-year hiatus at the end of that decade, reforming in 2007 for Three Easy Pieces. Their next album, Skins, drops next February on their own label, Scrawny Records, and The Alternate Side had a chance to catch up with frontman Bill Janovitz to talk about this invigorating new chapter in the band's long life.

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PJ Harvey Shakes Up A New Album In February

Posted 11-24-10 by Kara Manning
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PJ Harvey will release her next album Let England Shake on Valentine's Day in the UK and on February 15 in the States. The album, her first since 2007's White Chalk, was produced by Flood and reunites Harvey with John Parish, her collaborator on last year's A Woman A Man Walked By. Tour dates will follow.

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