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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.

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The Dead Weather's "Blue Blood Blues" Video Debuts Via Team Coco Website

Posted 6-25-10 by
Tags: Conan O'Brien, Jack White, The Dead Weather

Jack White really does like Conan O'Brien. Just a couple of weeks after White and O'Brien jammed in Nashville for a soon-to-be-released live vinyl album, The Dead Weather - that would be White, Alison Mosshart, Jack Lawrence and Dean Fertita - premiered the new video for "Blue Blood Blues" on TeamCoco.com on Friday

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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.

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Bonnaroo 2010 Recap: Rita Houston's Whole Wide World

Posted 6-18-10 by
Tags: Jay-Z, Kings of Leon, The Dead Weather, The Flaming Lips, The National, The xx

Team WFUV and The Alternate Side spent last weekend at Bonnaroo and tonight at 7 p.m. on 90.7 WFUV and via WFUV's online stream, Rita Houston, Alisa Ali and Sarah Wardrop will review their remarkable, muddy weekend in Manchester, Tennessee on a very special edition of "The Whole Wide World."

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Bonnaroo Festival Launches YouTube Stream

Posted 6-11-10 by
Tags: Carolina Chocolate Drops, Chris Thile, Damian Marley and Nas, Dave Matthews Band, Gaslight Anthem, Jay -Z, Jimmy Cliff, John Butler Trio, John Fogerty, Julia Nunes, Kings of Leon, LCD Soundsystem, Mayer Hawthorne and the Country, Michael Franti and Spearhead, Mumford & Sons, Neon Indian, Norah Jones, Punch Brothers, Regina Spektor, Rise Against, Saturday, Tenacious D, The Avett Brothers, The Dead Weather, The Dodos, The National, The Temper Trap, Tori Amos, Trombone Shorty, Umphrey's McGee, Ween, Weezer, Zac Brown Band

If you're determined to catch a few Bonnaroo appearances via YouTube, the festival's official channel is open for business. The quality of the stream isn't always great, but if you're willing to withstand a few glitches to see Jay-Z and Norah Jones (not together, though that might be intriguing), we have the link and schedule after the jump.

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Bonnaroo Festival 2010: Live Concert Broadcasts, Exclusive Interviews And More

Posted 6-11-10 by
Tags: Jay-Z, Kings of Leon, LCD Soundsystem, Local Natives, The Black Keys, The Dead Weather, The xx

The Alternate Side and NPR is giving you an all-access pass to the Bonnaroo Festival, right from your living room. Throughout the weekend, TAS and NPR will offer continuous live streams and on-demand performances from dozens of bands, including Jay-Z, The National, The Dead Weather, Kings of Leon, The Flaming Lips, the xx, Local Natives and LCD Soundsystem. Plus, The Alternate Side's Alisa Ali and WFUV's Rita Houston, Sarah Wardop and Laura Fedele will keep you in the Tennessee loop, webcasting from the Manchester festival grounds. After the jump, find out how you can link to all festival coverage and download NPR's free 11-song iTunes download of Bonnaroo artists.

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

Posted 6-8-10 by
Tags: Beach House, Blitzen Trapper, Broken Bells, Broken Social Scene, Foals, Freelance Whales, Goldfrapp, Gorillaz, LCD Soundsystem, MGMT, Phantogram, Shout Out Louds, Sleigh Bells, Ted Leo and The Pharmacists, The Apples in Stereo, The Black Keys, The Dead Weather, The Morning Benders, The National, The New Pornographers

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.

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

Posted 5-18-10 by
Tags: Beach House, Broken Bells, Broken Social Scene, Freelance Whales, Gorillaz, Hot Chip, Joanna Newsom, LCD Soundsystem, Local Natives, MGMT, Phantogram, Shout Out Louds, Ted Leo and The Pharmacists, The Apples in Stereo, The Black Keys, The Dead Weather, The Morning Benders, The National, The New Pornographers, Yeasayer

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.

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Demos Dish: Jack White, Jay-Z, The Dead Weather

Posted 3-25-10 by
Tags: Jay-Z, Raconteurs, The Dead Weather, White Stripes

Jack White on collaborating with Jay-Z plus The Dead Weather gear up for their second album, Sea of Cowards, this May. Demos sketches out the details.

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