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Adele, Bon Iver, Foo Fighters, Cee Lo And Kanye West Among Grammy Winners

Posted 2-13-12 by
Tags: Adele, Bon Iver, Cee Lo, Foo Fighters, Kanye West, The Civil Wars, Tinariwen

The death of Whitney Houston cast the 54th annual Grammy awards as a more melancholy affair, but it was still a bright night for Adele, Bon Iver, Foo Fighters, Cee Lo Green and Kanye West. 

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Bon Iver, Radiohead, Foster The People, The Black Keys Among Grammy Nominees

Posted 11-30-11 by
Tags: Adele, Bon Iver, Kanye West, Mumford & Sons, Skrillex

The moment that Lady Gaga, wearing a garbage can lid and shellacked like an escapee from a Día de los Muertos parade, kicked off the "The Grammy Nominations Concert Live!" this evening, November 30, on CBS, you sensed that the parade of mainstream's usual suspects would prevail. Happily, despite expected nods for Top 40 queen bees Katy Perry and Rihanna and the frustrating dependence on 2010 releases (Mumford & Sons again?), nominations for Bon Iver, Radiohead and My Morning Jacket also nudged their way into the madding crowd. The 54th annual Grammy Awards will be held on February 12 in Los Angeles.

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Coachella Posts Set Times, Will Stream On YouTube

Posted 4-13-11 by
Tags: Arcade Fire, Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti, Kanye West, Kings of Leon, PJ Harvey, Tame Impala, The Strokes

Lucky enough to be heading out to Indio, California for this weekend's Coachella Festival? Set times and stages have been posted today, but you might have to make some anxious sprints and hard decisions, like Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti vs. The Pains of Being Pure At Heart vs. Tame Impala. What to do? If you won't be there, performances will be streamed via YouTube.

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Bon Iver's Justin Vernon Slates Sophomore Album

Posted 3-23-11 by
Tags: Bon Iver, Kanye West

Winter might be over, but the melancholy, snowbound lyricism of Bon Iver's Justin Vernon is making a return - in June, of all times. No real clue as to whether Bon Iver's ten-track next album will reflect its sunnier release time, but as he admits in an interview with Rolling Stone regarding the nearly four year lapse since the release of 2007's For Emma, Forever Ago, "I forgot how to write songs."  

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Kings of Leon, Kanye West, Arcade Fire, The Strokes To Headline Coachella

Posted 1-19-11 by
Tags: Arcade Fire, Kanye West, Kings of Leon, The Strokes

The Coachella Music and Arts Festival has unfurled its huge lineup and Kings of Leon, Arcade Fire, Kanye West and The Strokes will take on the mantle of headliners. The Black Keys, Interpol, Animal Collective, Mumford & Sons, PJ Harvey, Bright Eyes, Duran Duran, The National, the Chemical Brothers and even Ms. Lauryn Hill (the Ms. prefix is hers) will also appear along with dozens more. The festival will take place in Indio, California the weekend of April 15-17.

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Black Keys, Florence And The Machine, Muse Win Moonmen at MTV's 2010 Video Music Awards

Posted 9-13-10 by
Tags: Florence and the Machine, Kanye West, Lady Gaga, Linkin Park, Robyn, Taylor Swift

Maybe you watched the 2010 MTV Video Music Awards, maybe you didn't. To summarize it briefly:  videos by Black Keys and Florence and the Machine both won well-deserved MTV moonmen, Chelsea Handler was a perfectly awful host, Taylor Swift was dependably off-key, Lady Gaga changed outfits constantly and despite the big buildup, Kanye West was a snooze. Winners after the jump.

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TAS Staff Picks: Best of 2008

Posted 12-26-08 by
Tags: Alejandro Escovedo, Amos Lee, Ani DiFranco, Atmosphere, Beck, Bell X1, Bon Iver, Calexico, Coldplay, Conor Oberst, Cory Chisel and The Wandering Sons, David Byrne and Brian Eno, Death Cab for Cutie, DeVotchKa, Drive-By Truckers, Duffy, Elbow, Emiliana Torrini, Fleet Foxes, Frightened Rabbit, Gnarls Barkley, Jaymay, Jenny Lewis, John Mayer, Kanye West, Kathleen Edwards, Little Jackie, Lykki Li, MGMT, My Morning Jacket, Nada Surf, Portishead, Ra Ra Riot, Santogold, She & Him, The Black Keys, The Hold Steady, The Walkmen, Thievery Corporation, TV on the Radio, Vampire Weekend

The Alternate Side staff picks their favorite albums of 2008

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