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Watch The National Perform 'Graceless' In Session With WFUV

Watch The National play "Graceless" off of its new album, Trouble Will Find Me, for FUV at the Cutting Room Studios in Manhattan, on NPR.org now. And tonight, listen to the session on WFUV tonight at 9 p.m. ET, also streaming online and available now.

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Posted 5-21-13 by TAS Staff, Russ Borris
Tags: The National, In-Studio

Win Tickets For Local Natives At Webster Hall

Posted 10-11-10 by Sandra Fung
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Los Angeles-based Local Natives are still touring in support of their debut album Gorilla Manor, touching down at the Austin City Limits Festival this past weekend. Only a few more dates remain of their North American tour, including two stops in New York, so try to win tickets to their sold-out show at Webster Hall on October 29.

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Win Tickets For Four Tet On October 22

Posted 10-11-10 by Sandra Fung
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Solo electronic performer Four Tet, real name Kieran Hebden, released his latest studio album, There Is Love in You, earlier this year on Domino. Experience Four Tet's surging sonic rhythms when he plays Webster Hall on October 22.

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Win Tickets To See The Heavy And Mayer Hawthorne & The County

Posted 10-11-10 by Sandra Fung
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Detroit's blue-eyed soul singer Mayer Hawthorne & The County join British blues-funk rockers The Heavy for a one-two punch at Music Hall of Williamsburg October 18 and The Alternate Side is giving you the chance to win a pair of tickets. How you like us now?

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Win Tickets To See JEFF the Brotherhood

Posted 10-11-10 by Sandra Fung
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Brothers? Yes... but neither is named Jeff. The Nashville duo of Jake and Jamin Orrall released their album, Heavy Days, last year and are currently on tour, creeping up the East Coast to play the Music Hall of Williamsburg on October 28. And we're giving you the chance to win a pair of tickets!

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Gorillaz Visit Live At Letterman

Posted 10-8-10 by Alisa Ali
Tags: Damon Albarn, Gorillaz, Live on Letterman

Gorillaz play their big New York show at Madison Square Garden later tonight, October 8, but on Thursday evening they streamed a special "Live at Letterman" webcast from the Ed Sullivan Theater, after "The Late Show with David Letterman" taped. The Alternate Side's Alisa Ali was there.

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TAS Interview: Dave Sitek of Maximum Balloon

Posted 10-6-10 by Kara Manning
Tags: Dave Sitek, David Byrne, Maximum Balloon, TV on the Radio

Dave Sitek, guitarist/producer for TV on the Radio (and producer for dozens of other artists), recently released his self-titled solo debut under the buoyant moniker Maximum Balloon. Though "solo" might not quite be the correct word; the project's impressive collection of vocalists includes David Byrne, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs' Karen O and TVOTR's Tunde Adebimpe and Kyp Malone. The Alternate Side caught up with Sitek from Los Angeles and learned more about his Maximum Balloon alter-ego and why a real tour is so sadly improbable.

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