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Broken Social Scene, Feist, Stars And More Celebrate Arts & Crafts Anniversary

Posted 2-27-13 by

Tags: Broken Social Scene, Feist, Stars

The scrappy and influential Canadian indie record label Arts & Crafts will mark its tenth anniversary this spring with a festival and a retrospective double album that will include Broken Social Scene, Feist, Stars, Zeus and many more. Arts & Crafts 2003-2013 is due out on April 16 and Toronto's A&C Field Trip festival, featuring those bands and more, will take place in June.

Win Broken Social Scene Tickets To Terminal 5 And A Deluxe Box Set Package

Posted 1-14-11 by

Tags: Broken Social Scene

Here's a dream package for any devout Broken Social Scene fan - win a pair of tickets to the band's show at Terminal 5 on January 18 along with a Forgiveness Rock Record vinyl box set and a year long membership to the BSS fan club. Enter now since the deadline is Monday, January 17. If you don't win, you can still watch BSS live that night online via a live YouTube stream.

The TAS Top Twenty Album Chart For The Week Ending July 4

Posted 6-29-10 by

Tags: Arcade Fire, Blitzen Trapper, Broken Social Scene, Foals, Freelance Whales, Goldfrapp, Gorillaz, Kele, LCD Soundsystem, MGMT, Phantogram, Sleigh Bells, The Apples in Stereo, The Black Keys, The Dead Weather, The Morning Benders, The National, The New Pornographers, The Roots

The Roots make their TAS Top 20 album chart debut with How I Got Over while The Black Keys, The National and LCD Soundsystem swap places. The Alternate Side's Russ Borris has your summer stats.

Festivals, Festivals, Festivals: Summer's Arrived

Posted 6-24-10 by

Tags: Broken Social Scene, GWAR

The Alternate Side's Alisa Ali has become a festival road warrior this month, bouncing from Bonnaroo to the Toronto Island Festival (for Broken Social Scene) and she's already plotting her Siren Festival agenda.

The TAS Top Twenty Album Chart For The Week Ending June 27

Posted 6-22-10 by

Tags: Arcade Fire, Blitzen Trapper, Broken Social Scene, Foals, Freelance Whales, Goldfrapp, Gorillaz, Kele, LCD Soundsystem, MGMT, Phantogram, Sleigh Bells, Ted Leo and The Pharmacists, The Apples in Stereo, The Black Keys, The Dead Weather, The Morning Bender, The National, The New Pornographers

Arcade Fire, who just added a second show at New York's Madison Square Garden on August 4, jump onto the TAS Top 20 album chart this week with The Suburbs, while The National and The Black Keys battle on for number one. Russ Borris has your weekly update.

The TAS Top Twenty Album Chart For The Week Ending June 13

Foals trot onto the TAS Top Twenty album chart with Total Life Forever while Brooklyn bands, The National and LCD Soundsystem, still arm wrestle for that number one spot. The Alternate Side's Russ Borris has this week's stats.

The TAS Top Twenty Album Chart For The Week Ending May 23

The Dead Weather and The Apples in Stereo travel through space and time to debut on this week's TAS Top 20 album chart while Broken Social Scene break their way to the top. Our assistant music director Russ Borris rounds up this week's chart climbers and crashers.

The TAS Top Twenty Album Chart For The Week Ending May 16

Everything is nearly broken as Broken Bells and Broken Social Scene challenge the seemingly unbreakable Gorillaz for the top spot. The Alternate Side's Russ Borris has this week's album chart rundown.

The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart, Matt and Kim, Ted Leo And The Pharmacists For Siren Festival

Posted 5-5-10 by

Tags: Beach House, Broken Social Scene, Frightened Rabbit, Harlem, M.I.A, Matt and Kim, Surfer Blood, Ted Leo, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, The Pharmacists

Brooklyn's Coney Island will be a rock 'n' roll mecca on July 17 thanks to the return of the Village Voice's Siren Festival, celebrating its tenth anniversary with a lineup that includes The Pains of Being Pure At Heart, Matt and Kim, Ted Leo and The Pharmacists, Surfer Blood and Harlem.

The TAS Top Twenty Album Chart For The Week Ending May 9

While Saratoga Springs' buoyant duo Phantogram make their TAS debut, this week's eclectic album chart is a zoo of Gorillaz, Freelance Whales and LCD Soundsystem's battalion of "Drunk Girls." Our own Russ Borris has the stats.

The TAS Top Twenty Album Chart For The Week Ending April 18

The Black Keys debut on the chart this week as Broken Bells crack the top slot. Assistant music director Russ Borris has your highest ranking albums getting spins on The Alternate Side.

The TAS Top Twenty Album Chart For The Week Ending April 11

As Gorillaz, Ted Leo and The Pharmacists and Broken Bells make their way to the top four, Yeasayer and Vampire Weekend arm wrestle for the top slot. Russ Borris has this week's Top 20 album chart. M

The TAS Top Twenty Album Chart For The Week Ending April 4

Posted 3-30-10 by

Tags: Broken Social Scene, MGMT, The New Pornographers, Yeasayer

While MGMT, Broken Social Scene and The New Pornographers segue into this week's Top Twenty album charts, Yeasayer stay atop the fray. Russ Borris has your weekly rundown of Top TAS records

TAS Playlist Report: Broken Social Scene, The Radio Dept., These New Puritans

Posted 2-25-10 by

Tags: Annuals, Broken Social Scene, Everybody Was in the French Resistance ... Now!, LoneLady, Salvador Santana, The Canon Logic, The Radio Department, These New Puritans, You Say Party! We Say Die!, Zeus Say Us

Fresh adds on The Alternate Side's playlist from Broken Social Scene, The Radio Dept., These New Puritans, Annuals, The Canon Logic, Zeus and many more. Plus ways you can download free tracks from BSS, LoneLady and The Canon Logic.

TAS In Session: Beach House

Posted 2-8-10 by

Tags: Beach House, Broken Social Scene, Eric Clapton, Fleet Foxes, Stevie Nicks

Beach House, the duo of Victoria Legrand and Alex Scally, released their third album Teen Dream last month. They recently dropped by The Alternate Side to play three tracks live - "Better Times," "Zebra" and "Walk in the Park" - and chatted with our own Alisa Ali about the beauty of a bass synth pedal, Stevie Nicks and why an old album can sometimes be just like an awful ex-girlfriend.

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TAS Top 20

1. The National
Trouble Will Find Me

2. Daft Punk
Random Access Memories

3. Vampire Weekend
Modern Vampires of the City

4. Savages
Silence Yourself

5. Kurt Vile
Wakin on a Pretty Daze

6. Daughter
If You Leave

7. Deerhunter
Monomania

8. Queens of the Stone Age
…Like Clockwork

9. Chvrches
Recover EP

10. Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Mosquito

11. Phoenix
Bankrupt!

12. James Blake
Overgrown

13. !!!
Thr!!!er

14. Caveman
Caveman

15. Palma Violets
180

16. Atoms For Peace
Amok

17. My Bloody Valentine
m b v

18. Yo La Tengo
Fade

19. Phosphorescent
Muchacho

20. Mikal Cronin
MCII

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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