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Best Coast Sets Own Spring Headlining Dates, Joins Green Day Tour In Late March

Posted 3-21-13 by
Tags: Best Coast, Green Day, Guards, Lovely Bad Things

Best Coast's Bethany Cosentino and Bobb Bruno will kick off a tour supporting Green Day next week, March 28, and the SoCal duo begins their own headlining tour on May 26 in Austin, Texas. So New York and New Jersey has two chances to see Best Coast this spring: with Green Day at Barclays Center on April 7 and at the Governor's Ball on June 7.  

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Listen to Best Coast And Iggy Pop's 'True Blood' Collaboration

Posted 7-6-12 by
Tags: Best Coast, Bethany Cosentino, Iggy Pop

Along with the not-so-surprising news that Iggy Pop is a fan of HBO's emo vampire series True Blood, comes his collaboration with Best Coast's Bethany Cosentino on a song for the series, which will be heard on the episode airing this Sunday, July 8. After the jump, listen to the Pop and Cosentino track "Let's Boot and Rally."

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The TAS Top 20 For The Week Ending July 8

Posted 7-3-12 by
Tags: Best Coast, Chromatics, Guided By Voices, Hot Chip, Japandroids, Metric, Poliça, Sigur Rós, Sun Kil Moon, The Walkmen

Guided by Voices, headlining this weekend's CBGB Festival in New York, debut on the TAS Top 20 while The Walkmen ascend to the apex of the album chart with Heaven.

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The TAS Top 20 For The Week Ending July 1

Posted 6-26-12 by
Tags: Beach House, Best Coast, Father John Misty, Hot Chip, Jack White, Japandroids, Metric, Poliça, Soulsavers, Sun Kil Moon, The Walkmen

The TAS Top 20 heats up with Hot Chip and Sun Kil Moon while Beach House sprawls leisurely along the shoreline of the album chart.

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The TAS Top 20 For The Week Ending June 24

Posted 6-19-12 by
Tags: 2:54, Beach House, Best Coast, Chromatics, Father John Misty, Japandroids, Metric, Poliça, Sigur Rós, Silversun Pickups, Soulsavers, Spiritualized

With Beach House and Best Coast vying for the Number One spot this week as we segue to a new season, The Alternate Side is firmly in a summertime frame of mind.

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The TAS Top 20 For The Week Ending June 10

Posted 6-5-12 by
Tags: 2:54, Beach House, Best Coast, Father John Misty, Here We Go Magic, Jack White, Japandroids, Poliça, Silversun Pickups, The Walkmen, Zeus

Vancouver's Japandroids and Britain's sister duo 2:54 make TAS Top 20 debuts while the West Coast rules with Silversun Pickups at the peak of this week's album chart.

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The TAS Top 20 For The Week Ending June 3

Posted 5-29-12 by
Tags: Beach House, Best Coast, Father John Misty, Jack White, Poliça, Santigold, Silversun Pickups, Soulsavers, The Walkmen, White Rabbits, Zeus

The TAS album chart sounds weirdly evangelical with Soulsavers and Father John Misty entering the Top 20 while Best Coast rises above the pack to No. 1.

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The TAS Top 20 For The Week Ending May 27

Posted 5-22-12 by
Tags: Beach House, Best Coast, Here We Go Magic, Jack White, Poliça, Santigold, Silversun Pickups, The Walkmen, White Rabbits, Zeus

Poliça haunts the peak of the TAS Top 20 with Give You The Ghost while Here We Go Magic and the Walkmen sail onto the album chart with two exceptionally good albums.

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Best Coast Ticket Giveaway For Terminal 5 Show On July 17

Posted 5-21-12 by
Tags: Best Coast, Those Darlins

Best Coast's Bethany Cosentino and Bobb Bruno just released a sophomore album, The Only Place, which departs from the sunnier climes of their debut and casts a more overcast tone. That said, Best Coast's vibrant live shows are a perfect way to spend a summer's night and The Alternate Side is giving away tickets to see the band at Terminal 5 on July 17. Opening is Those Darlins who did a Studio A session for WFUV last year.

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The TAS Top 20 For The Week Ending May 20

Posted 5-15-12 by
Tags: Best Coast, Chromatics, Jack White, Lost In The Trees, Mark Lanegan Band, Poliça, Santigold, Silversun Pickups, White Rabbits, Zeus

Both Silversun Pickups and Best Coast realize that the TAS Top 20 is the only place to be whle Jack White has no intention of vacating his spot at the peak of the album chart.

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Arctic Monkeys, Modest Mouse, Best Coast Tapped For New Metallica-Founded Festival

Posted 2-7-12 by
Tags: Arctic Monkeys, Best Coast, Cage the Elephant, Metallica, Modest Mouse, The Gaslight Anthem

Arctic Monkeys, Modest Mouse, Best Coast, Avenged Sevenfold and Cage The Elephant are among the diverse bands slated to kick off Orion Music + More, a new music and arts festival founded by, surprise, Metallica. Hard rock's  heavyhitters will headline both nights of the two-day festival, which takes place the weekend of June 23-24 in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Tickets go on sale to the public on Saturday, February 11 at 10 a.m. but pre-sale for Metallica club members begins Wednesday, February 8.

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TAS Giveaway: Win 3-Day Passes And Camping Privileges For Escape To New York Festival

Posted 7-21-11 by
Tags: Best Coast, Chairlift, Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros, Of Montreal, Patti Smith, The Psychedelic Furs, The Vaccines, White Rabbits

The inaugural Escape To New York festival, with a lineup that includes Of Montreal, Best Coast, Chairlift, Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros, Patti Smith, The Psychedelic Furs and The Vaccines, takes place August 5-7 on the Shinnecock Reservation in Southampton, New York. The Alternate Side is giving away five packages of three-day passes with camping privileges  - you just need to enter by Monday, July 25 at 12 noon EDT.

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Best Coast and Wavves Hook Up For Winter Tour

Posted 11-9-10 by
Tags: Best Coast, Wavves

While couples-as-duos have been touring around and about of late, like Jenny and Johnny, romantic partners Best Coast's Bethany Cosentino and Wavves' Nathan Williams will hook up their respective bands on tour this winter. The announcement was made by their cat, Snacks.

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Marnie Stern Lines Up Autumn Dates, Coinciding With New Album Release This October

Posted 9-21-10 by
Tags: Best Coast, Marnie Stern

Wily and wickedly gifted guitar virtuoso Marnie Stern drops her self-titled third album on October 5 and she's lined up a slew of North American dates. Plus, she reveals the sad circumstances that influenced her new collection of songs.

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