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The TAS Top 20 For The Week Ending February 26

Posted 2-21-12 by

Tags: Air, Cloud Nothings, Grimes, Hospitality, Howler, Los Campesinos!, Mark Lanegan Band, Nada Surf, Perfume Genius, Sharon Van Etten, Tennis, The Big Pink, The Roots

Contemplative new albums from Sharon Van Etten and Perfume Genius step onto The Alternate Side's album chart while Tennis sails to the very top.

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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 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 18

Posted 12-13-11 by

Tags: Atlas Sound, Björk, Class Actress, Dum Dum Girls, Feist, Los Campesinos!, M83, Mates of State, St. Vincent, The Drums, Zola Jesus

Los Campesinos! crowd onto the TAS Top 20 stage while Atlas Sound conquers the long-lived M83 empire.

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TAS Live Review: Los Campesinos! At Music Hall Of Williamsburg, October 15

Posted 10-18-10 by

Tags: Los Campesinos!

Quirky Welsh rockers Los Campesinos! played two gigs at Brooklyn's Music Hall of Williamsburg over the weekend, midway through their North American tour which wraps October 27 in Iowa City. TAS critic Eleanor Kagan observes that this amiable, edgy, crowd-pleasing nonet, supporting their latest album Romance Is Boring, is a living, breathing Facebook of sorts, expanding their "group of friends with each show."

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TAS In Session: Los Campesinos!

Posted 6-28-10 by , Alisa Ali

Tags: Los Campesinos!

Welsh-born octet Los Campesinos! (well, they're a septet again, since drummer Ollie Campesinos! announced his departure from the band over the weekend) released their second album Romance is Boring last fall, though fans of the raucous popsters might still stubbornly consider their extended EP, We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed, an album. The Alternate Side's Alisa Ali chats with four of the band members who perform acoustic versions of a few of their effusively-titled songs like "The Sea Is a Good Place to Think of the Future" and "A Heat Rash In The Shape Of The Show Me State; Or, Letters From Me To Charlotte

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The Mary Onettes Forced To Cancel U.S. Tour; Los Campesinos!, Two Door Cinema Club Also Cancel Gigs

Posted 4-20-10 by

Tags: Los Campesinos!, The Mary Onettes, Two Door Cinema Club

The Mary Onettes' U.S. tour is the latest casualty of the volcanic ash plume that has disrupted European air travel. Plus, Los Campesinos! and Two Door Cinema Club cancel gigs.

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Tour Plans Of Bands Disrupted By Volcanic Ash Cloud; Coachella Cancellations

Posted 4-16-10 by

Tags: Bad Lieutenant, Delphic, Frightened Rabbit, Gary Numan, Los Campesinos!, The Cribs

The massive disruption of flights from Europe and the UK to the US thanks to the eruption of the Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajokull (and no, we can't pronounce it either), resulting in an enormous ash cloud harmful to airplanes, has also derailed the Coachella and North American tour plans of The Cribs, Frightened Rabbit, Bad Lieutenant, Delphic, Gary Numan, Los Campesinos! and many more. Los Campesinos! have rescheduled their Saturday gig at Maxwell's to Wednesday, April 21.

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Los Campesinos! And Morningwood Tell TAS Of Yuletide Stress, Latkes And The Best Of 2009

Posted 12-9-09 by

Tags: Los Campesinos!, Morningwood

Throughout the month, The Alternate Side will be asking some of our favorite bands about their own seasonal traditions, favorite albums or concerts of 2009, and their hopes for the new year ... and decade. First up is Ellen Campesinos of Los Campesinos! and Chantal Claret of Morningwood.

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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.