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Grinderman Exits With A Remix Album

Posted 1-5-12 by

Tags: Grinderman, Josh Homme, Nick Cave, Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Last month Nick Cave pulled the plug on Grinderman — at least for the foreseeable future — but as a final adieu, the band will release a remix album this March, reconfiguring tracks from 2010's Grinderman 2 with contributions from Yeah Yeah Yeahs' Nick Zinner, Queens of the Stone Ages' Josh Homme, UNKLE, Andy Weatherall, The Horrors' Faris Badwan's side project Cat's Eyes, A Place To Bury Strangers and more. After the jump, check out the tracklisting and Zinner's take on "Bellringer Blues."

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TAS Favorite Albums And Singles Of 2010

Posted 12-9-10 by

Tags: Arcade Fire, Broken Bells, Corinne Bailey Rae, Field Music, Foals, Grinderman, Junip, Massive Attack, Paul Weller, School of Seven Bells, The Black Keys, The National, Twin Sister, Underworld, Wild Nothing, Yeasayer

Along with mistletoe, mulled wine and overused credit cards, one of the more dependable signs of December is the inevitable discourse on the best albums and singles of the year. The Alternate Side staff has compiled a list of favorites and earworms of 2010, our own personal soundtrack guiding us through the last twelve months.

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Nick Cave in Car Accident in England

Posted 12-8-10 by

Tags: Grinderman, Nick Cave

The singer and his twin boys were involved in car crash when he drove his Jaguar into a speed camera and barrier in Hove, England on Tuesday night. Happily, Cave and his sons walked away from the accident unharmed.

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The TAS Top 20 For The Week Ending December 12

Posted 12-7-10 by

Tags: Antony and the Johnsons, Belle and Sebastian, Chromeo, Deerhunter, Grinderman, LCD Soundsystem, Matt and Kim, Sufjan Stevens, Warpaint

LCD Soundsystem's cathartic live album London Sessions blasts onto the TAS Top 20 while a indie-cute Brooklyn couple take on the top slot, elbowing Deerhunter and Antony Hegarty out of the way.

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