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The TAS Top 20 for The Week Ending July 24

Posted 7-19-11 by

Tags: Bon Iver, Cold Cave, Cults, Elbow, Friendly Fires, Holy Ghost! Handsome Furs, Okkervil River, Shabazz Palaces, The Antlers, Washed Out

Washed Out cleans up with a debut on the TAS album chart while Bon Iver effortlessly holds onto the top spot.

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The TAS Top 20 for The Week Ending July 17

Posted 7-12-11 by

Tags: Arctic Monkeys, Bon Iver, Cults, Elbow, Friendly Fires, Handsome Furs, Okkervil River, Shabazz Palaces, The Antlers, The Rosebuds, The Shivers

Handsome Furs and The Shivers add a cool blast to the TAS Top 20 while Bon Iver (repeated twice) maintains a whispery hold on the summit of the album chart.

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The TAS Top 20 for The Week Ending July 10

Posted 7-5-11 by

Tags: Arctic Monkeys, Bon Iver, Cults, Elbow, Fleet Foxes, Friendly Fires, Holy Ghost!, Man Man, Okkervil River, Shabazz Palaces, The Antlers

Those manic men of Man Man jostle their way onto the TAS Top 20 while quiet Justin Vernon of Bon Iver whispers his way to number one.

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The TAS Top 20 for The Week Ending July 3

Posted 6-28-11 by

Tags: Arctic Monkeys, Beastie Boys, Bon Iver, Cults, Elbow, Fleet Foxes, Foster the People, Friendly Fires, Shabazz Palaces, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart

A dramatic album chart week as Bon Iver makes an impressive No. 2 debut, Cults leap twelve places to the top spot, and Shabazz Palaces float like a butterfly into the TAS Top 20.

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The TAS Top 20 for The Week Ending June 5

Posted 5-30-11 by

Tags: Arctic Monkeys, Beastie Boys, Elbow, Fleet Foxes, Friendly Fires, Generationals, Thurston Moore, TV on the Radio

The pairing of Thurston Moore and producer Beck make a sonic leap onto the TAS album chart while wily Fleet Foxes nudge Elbow and the Beastie Boys out of the top spot again.

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The TAS Top 20 for The Week Ending May 29

Posted 5-24-11 by

Tags: Arctic Monkeys, Elbow, Fleet Foxes, Foster the People, Friendly Fires, Generationals, Holy Ghost!, James Blake, Okkervil River, The Mountain Goats, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Yuck

Arctic Monkeys and Okkervil River break onto the TAS Top 20 while Fleet Foxes and Elbow arm wrestle for album chart dominance.

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The TAS Top 20 for The Week Ending May 22

Posted 5-17-11 by

Tags: Beastie Boys, Elbow, Fleet Foxes, Friendly Fires, Holy Ghost!, Lykke Li, The Mountain Goats, The Vaccines, TV on the Radio

Friendly Fires ignite the TAS Top 20 with the kinetic grooves of Pala while The Mountain Goats still scamper along the craggy peak of the album chart.

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Win Tickets For Friendly Fires at Webster Hall, May 25

Posted 4-25-11 by

Tags: Friendly Fires

Friendly Fires are gearing up for the release of their second album, Pala, which drops May 16 in the UK and May 24 Stateside on XL. The trio will be playing New York's Webster Hall on May 25, so they'll be in a celebratory mood. Win tickets to see the British dance-rockers break out new songs like "Live Those Days Tonight" and old favorites, like "Skeleton Boy."

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SXSW Lineup Includes Bright Eyes, Surfer Blood, Bombay Bicycle Club, Chromeo, Friendly Fires, Owen Pallett And Scores More

Posted 1-18-11 by

Tags: Bombay Bicycle Club, Bright Eyes, Chromeo, Friendly Fires, Owen Pallett, Surfer Blood

Throngs of musicians, fans and music industry types will descend on Austin, Texas from March 16-20 for SXSW and the overwhelming list of bands includes Bright Eyes, Surfer Blood, the much buzzed-over Anna Calvi, Bombay Bicycle Club, Friendly Fires, Chromeo, Owen Pallett, Toro Y Moi, Gold Panda, The Kills, The Twilight Sad, The Joy Formidable and scores more.

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TAS Exclusive: Friendly Fires On Recording And Disgruntled Fans

Posted 12-12-09 by

Tags: Friendly Fires

Last week, Friendly Fires' Edd Gibson and Ed Macfarlane sat down with The Alternate Side's Alisa Ali and talked about the making of their sophomore album, the surreal state of being superstars in Mexico and much more (VIDEO after jump)

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1. Poliça
Give You the Ghost

2. Beach House
Bloom

3. Jack White
Blunderbuss

4. Santigold
Master of My Make-Believe

5. Zeus
Busting Visions

6. Best Coast
The Only Place

7. White Rabbits
Milk Famous

8. Sleigh Bells
Reign of Terror

9. Silversun Pickups
Neck of the Woods

10. Django Django
Django Django

11. Spiritualized
Sweet Heart, Sweet Light

12. Miike Snow
Happy to You

13. Lost in the Trees
A Church That Fits Our Needs

14. The Shins
Port of Morrow

15. Islands
A Sleep & A Forgetting

16. Bear in Heaven
I Love You, It’s Cool

17. The Walkmen
Heaven

18. Shearwater
Animal Joy

19. Chromatics
Kill For Love

20. Here We Go Magic
A Different Ship

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.