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The TAS Top 20 for The Week Ending October 16

Posted 10-11-11 by
Tags: Blitzen Trapper, Dum Dum Girls, Feist, Fool's Gold, Girls, Mates of State, Megafaun, Real Estate, St. Vincent, The Horrors, Wild Flag

Mates of State and Real Estate conflate with the TAS Top 20 fête (we couldn't resist a little rhyme) while Girls fend off a real girl, St. Vincent, for another week at Number One.

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Listen (ATP Festival Preview): TAS On WNYE With The Horrors

Posted 9-29-11 by
Tags: The Horrors

Over the course of their brief career,  British rockers The Horrors have restlessly experimented with their sound. Their most recent release, the radiant, New Wave-nudged Skying, is one of the most beautiful albums of 2011. The quintet return to the New York area this weekend to play the Portishead-curated ATP Festival in Asbury Park on October 1 and Manhattan's Webster Hall on October 4. After the jump, check out the four-song set they played for The Alternate Side - including a majestic 10-minute-plus jam of "Moving Further Away." And you can listen to The Horrors chat about everything from Krautrock to their first gig on TAS in Session on 91.5 WNYE this Friday, September 30, at 11 a.m. and streaming on The Alternate Side.

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Listen: ATP Festival "I'll Be Your Mirror" Mix From WFUV/The Alternate Side And NPR Music

Posted 9-29-11 by
Tags: Battles, Neutral Milk Hotel, Portishead, Public Enemy, The Horrors

In honor of this weekend's ATP Festival, the Portishead-curated "I'll Be Your Mirror" event kicking off tomorrow, September 30, in Asbury Park, New Jersey, The Alternate Side's Russ Borris and Alisa Ali worked with NPR Music on creating a special ATP mix. The artists and bands include Portishead (naturally), Neutral Milk Hotel, Public Enemy, The Horrors, Swans, Battles and many more. Get in the mood for the big three-day extravanza and stream the mix via NPR's site through Saturday, October 1.

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The TAS Top 20 for The Week Ending September 18

Posted 9-13-11 by
Tags: Beirut, Girls, Milagres, Sleeper Agent, St. Vincent, Stephen Malkmus and The Jicks. WILD FLAG, The Horrors, The Rapture, The War On Drugs, Washed Out, We Are Augustines

We Are Augustines, The Rapture And The War On Drugs march onto the TAS Top 20 while Beirut fends off Washed Out and Milagres to triumph at Number One.

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The TAS Top 20 for The Week Ending September 11

Posted 9-5-11 by
Tags: Beirut, Girls, Milagres, St. Vincent, Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks, The Horrors, Washed Out, Wild Flag

Washed Out cleans up the TAS Top 20 while St. Vincent, Girls and Wild Flag debut on the album chart with a little girl - and guy - power.

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The TAS Top 20 for The Week Ending September 4

Posted 8-30-11 by
Tags: Beirut, Bon Iver, Handsome Furs, Milagres, Mister Heavenly, Shabazz Palaces, Sleeper Agent, The Antlers, The Horrors, Washed Out

The Horrors' Skying soars to the peak of the TAS album chart while Beirut and Washed Out make a quick charge to the top five.

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The TAS Top 20 for The Week Ending August 21

Posted 8-16-11 by
Tags: Beirut, Bon Iver, Fool's Gold, Handsome Furs, Shabazz Palaces, Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks, The Antlers, The Horrors, The Shivers, Washed Out

It's a Pacific Coast takeover on the TAS Top 20 as L.A.'s Fool's Gold and Portland-based Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks debut while Seattle's Shabazz Palaces finally become kings of the chart, dethroning Bon Iver.

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The TAS Top 20 for The Week Ending August 14

Posted 8-9-11 by
Tags: Beirut, Bon Iver, Elbow, Holy Ghost!, Milagres, Mr. Heavenly, Shabazz Palaces, Sleeper Agent, The Antlers, The Horrors, The Shivers, Washed Out

Beirut floats onto the TAS Top Twenty with The Rip Tide while the "indie supergroup" trio of Mister Heavenly also debut.  And guess who still reigns as king of the album chart?

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Listen: The Horrors' Skying

Posted 7-5-11 by
Tags: The Horrors

The Horrors, those goth-garbed, melodically-astute post punks from Essex, England, have returned with a very strong third album, Skying, which will be released August 9 via XL Recordings in the States (July 11 in the UK),  but you can listen to the album now on the band's site. Stream Skying after the jump and check out the new video for "Still Life."

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