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The TAS Top 20 For The Week Ending July 15

Posted 7-10-12 by
Tags: Alt-J, Beach House, Guided By Voices, Hot Chip, Japandroids, Metric, Sigur Rós, Sun Kil Moon, The Walkmen, Twin Shadow, Yeasayer

It's a UK/US/Canadian juggernaut as Cambridge quartet Alt-J, Brooklyn's own Yeasayer and Boston-based Twin Shadow make TAS debuts with new releases while Vancouver's Japandroids celebrate a rocking ascension to the peak of the chart.

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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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Win Badges To The CBGB Festival In New York, July 5-8, With Guided By Voices, The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart, More

Posted 6-27-12 by
Tags: Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Cloud Nothings, Craig Finn, Guided By Voices, Superchunk, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart

There you were, thinking that the midweek July 4th holiday would strand you in a Wednesday purgatory with nothing to do but eat burnt hamburgers at someone else's lame barbecue before heading back to work the next day. Well, The Alternate Side is changing that up, giving five lucky winners the chance to win a pair of badges to go to New York's inaugural CBGB Festival from July 5-8. About 300 bands are set to play, including Guided By Voices, the Pains of Being Pure At Heart, Superchunk, War On Drugs, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Wyclef Jean, Cloud Nothings, Craig Finn of the Hold Steady and more. Enter by this Sunday, July 1 at 5 p.m.

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The TAS Top 20 For The Week Ending February 12

Posted 2-7-12 by
Tags: Alamo Race Track, Guided By Voices, Howler, Los Campesinos! Zola Jesus, M83, Nada Surf, Of Montreal, Tennis, The Big Pink, The Roots

Nada Surf kickflip to the crest of the TAS Top 20 while Howler paddle onto the album chart for the first time.

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The TAS Top 20 For The Week Ending February 5

Posted 1-31-12 by
Tags: Cloud Nothings, Grimes, Guided By Voices, Los Campesinos!, M83, Nada Surf, Of Montreal, Tennis, The Big Pink, The Roots, Zola Jesus

London's The Big Pink and Cleveland's Cloud Nothings drift onto the TAS Top 20 while The Roots remain planted at the pinnacle of this week's album chart.

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The TAS Top 20 For The Week Ending January 29

Posted 1-24-12 by
Tags: Air, Caveman, Chairlift, Grimes, Guided By Voices, Hospitality, Los Campesinos!, Nada Surf, Of Montreal, Tennis, The Roots, Zola Jesus

A new year and lots of new albums with Of Montreal, Sleigh Bells, Hospitality and Air debuting in the TAS Top 20 while The Roots anchor the apex of the album chart.

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The TAS Top 20 For The Week Ending January 22

Posted 1-17-12 by
Tags: Atlas Sound, Caveman, Grimes, Guided By Voices, Los Campesinos! Class Actress, M83, Nada Surf, The Black Keys, The Roots, Zola Jesus

The Roots, Grimes and Caveman charge into TAS Top 20 while Guided By Voices flex indie rock muscle and take down The Black Keys a notch.

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TAS Top 20 For The Week Ending January 15

Posted 1-10-12 by
Tags: Alamo Race Track, Atlas Sound, Chairlift, Guided By Voices, M83, Nada Surf, Tennis, The Black Keys, Zola Jesus

For the first TAS Top 20 of 2012, the album chart gets a fresh influx of new records from Alamo Race Track, Nada Surf, Chairlift and Tennis.

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The TAS Top 20 for The Week Ending December 25

Posted 12-20-11 by
Tags: Atlas Sound, Björk, Class Actress, Feist, Guided By Voices, Los Campesinos!, M83, St. Vincent, The Black Keys, Zola Jesus

The Black Keys not only debut on this week's TAS Top 20 with El Camino, but they manage to make a flying leap to Number One and lead the pack, a lot like Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.

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The TAS Top 20 for The Week Ending December 11

Posted 12-6-11 by
Tags: Atlas Sound, Björk, Deer Tick, Dum Dum Girls, Feist, Girls, Guided By Voices, M83, Mates of State, Neon Indian, Real Estate, St. Vincent, Zola Jesus

Guided By Voices charges into the TAS Top 20 with a brazen reunion while M83 loiters at the pinnacle of the album chart with Hurry Up, We're Dreaming

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Guided By Voices Reveals Details, Release Date For New Album

Posted 10-12-11 by
Tags: Guided By Voices

Not only did Guided By Voices' classic lineup reunite and tour this past year after a 15-year slumber, but the quintet has recorded an album of new material, which they announced back in September. They finally have a January 1 release date and more details for the 21-song collection,  Let's Go Eat The Factory,  on GBV's own label.

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Northside Festival Coverage: Guided By Voices, Wavves, Sharon Van Etten

Posted 6-20-11 by , Joe Grimaldi
Tags: Guided By Voices, Sharon Van Etten, Wavves

The Alternate Side's ace photo team of Joe Grimaldi and Bailey Baffert made it their mission to cover as much of this past weekend's Northside Festival as possible. After the jump, more festive Brooklyn visuals of Guided By Voices and Wavves' McCarren Park outing on Saturday, June 18, and Sharon Van Etten's rainy gig with Beirut (where she was joined by The National's Aaron Dessner on three songs) on Friday, June 17.

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Win Tix For Northside Festival's Guided By Voices, Wavves and Surfer Blood Show

Posted 6-9-11 by
Tags: Guided By Voices, Surfer Blood, The Babies, Wavves

The Northside Festival is next week and the event's organizers have kindly given The Alternate Side a handful of tickets to give away for their great show with Guided By Voices, Wavves, Surfer Blood and The Babies at McCarren Park on June 18.  That's just a taste of some of the eclectic and excellent  bands playing venues throughout Brooklyn from June 16-19.

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Theophilus London, Surfer Blood, Sharon Van Etten Added to Northside Festival

Posted 4-27-11 by
Tags: Beirut, Guided By Voices, Sharon Van Etten, Surfer Blood, Theophilus London, Wavves

Theophilus London, Sharon Van Etten, Surfer Blood, Dom, Twin Sister, Frankie Rose & The Outs and the Stateside debut of Iceage have been added to the ever-growing lineup for the Northside Festival this June. Previously announced headliners are Guided by Voices  and Beirut.

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Guided By Voices and Wavves At Northside Festival On Sale Now

Posted 4-8-11 by
Tags: Guided By Voices, Wavves

The upcoming Northside Festival this June has a battery of great bands lined up, everyone from Beirut to Twin Sister. Tickets to see Guided By Voices - the so-called classic lineup - headlining the McCarren Park Stage on Saturday, June 18, with Wavves supporting, just went on sale today, April 8. 

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Reunited Guided By Voices Announce A Fall Tour

Posted 7-15-10 by
Tags: Guided By Voices, Robert Pollard

 After Matador Records announced that the reunited "classic" 1993-1996 lineup of Guided By Voices would be a part of the label's sold-out 21st anniversary shows in Las Vegas this October, GBV fans speculated whether a real tour might be next. Well, it is. Robert Pollard announced on his website on Thursday that the band will tour this fall. A New York show, with openers Blitzen Trapper, will land at Terminal 5 on November 7 and tickets go on sale for that gig on July 23.

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Reunited Guided By Voices, Pavement, Belle & Sebastian Aboard Matador Records Anniversary Show

Posted 6-29-10 by
Tags: Belle and Sebastian, Cat Power, Guided By Voices, Pavement, Sonic Youth, Spoon, Superchunk, Ted Leo & The Pharmacists, The New Pornographers, Yo La Tengo

The influential indie record label will be celebrating its 21st birthday in Las Vegas this October with a three-night mini-festival that includes Pavement, Belle & Sebastian, Spoon, Sonic Youth, The New Pornographers, Superchunk, Yo La Tengo, Cat Power and, significantly, a reunited Guided By Voices (the so-called "classic 1993-1996" lineup)

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