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James Blake, The Vaccines, Okkervil River Help Out The Alternate Side's Fall Fun Drive Now Through October 21

Posted 10-21-11 by

Tags: Art Brut, James Blake, Okkervil River, The Antlers, The Lisps, The Mountain Goats, The Naked and Famous, The Raveonettes

Autumn is finally in full swing and The Alternate Side's Fall Fun Drive is underway through October 21. This year, we have a new, exciting way to thank listeners for their invaluable support. Contribute any amount and you're a supporter of The Alternate Side. Contribute $35 and we'll send you our 9-track "Live From The Alternate Side" CD with exclusive live songs, all recorded this year in Studio A, from James Blake, Okkervil River, The Vaccines, The Naked and Famous, The Antlers and many more. For $50 you'll receive "Live From The Alternate Side" and a TAS t-shirt. For $75, we'll send you those thank you gifts, plus a subscription to Spin magazine. You can contribute online right now or call 877-938-8907 through October 21.

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The TAS Top 20 for The Week Ending July 24

Posted 7-19-11 by

Tags: Bon Iver, Cold Cave, Cults, Elbow, Friendly Fires, Holy Ghost! Handsome Furs, Okkervil River, Shabazz Palaces, The Antlers, Washed Out

Washed Out cleans up with a debut on the TAS album chart while Bon Iver effortlessly holds onto the top spot.

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The TAS Top 20 for The Week Ending July 17

Posted 7-12-11 by

Tags: Arctic Monkeys, Bon Iver, Cults, Elbow, Friendly Fires, Handsome Furs, Okkervil River, Shabazz Palaces, The Antlers, The Rosebuds, The Shivers

Handsome Furs and The Shivers add a cool blast to the TAS Top 20 while Bon Iver (repeated twice) maintains a whispery hold on the summit of the album chart.

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The TAS Top 20 for The Week Ending July 10

Posted 7-5-11 by

Tags: Arctic Monkeys, Bon Iver, Cults, Elbow, Fleet Foxes, Friendly Fires, Holy Ghost!, Man Man, Okkervil River, Shabazz Palaces, The Antlers

Those manic men of Man Man jostle their way onto the TAS Top 20 while quiet Justin Vernon of Bon Iver whispers his way to number one.

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Okkervil River, The Hold Steady, Wye Oak Tapped For Truck America Festival

Posted 6-23-11 by

Tags: Okkervil River, Ra Ra Riot, The Hold Steady, Wye Oak

The UK-born Truck Festival will make its second appearance Stateside this summer, with Okkervil River, The Hold Steady, Wye Oak and Ra Ra Riot among the first bands announced for the event, which takes place September 9-11 in the bucolic Catskills. Early bird tickets for the Truck America Festival are on sale now.

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The TAS Top 20 for The Week Ending June 26

Posted 6-21-11 by

Tags: Arctic Monkeys, Elbow, James Blake, My Morning Jacket, Okkervil River, the Beastie Boys, The Raveonettes, The Rosebuds

My Morning Jacket's Circuital makes its TAS album chart debut while the Arctic Monkeys defiantly prove they that they don't suck, seeing their way to the top spot.

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The TAS Top 20 for The Week Ending May 29

Posted 5-24-11 by

Tags: Arctic Monkeys, Elbow, Fleet Foxes, Foster the People, Friendly Fires, Generationals, Holy Ghost!, James Blake, Okkervil River, The Mountain Goats, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Yuck

Arctic Monkeys and Okkervil River break onto the TAS Top 20 while Fleet Foxes and Elbow arm wrestle for album chart dominance.

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Okkervil River Will Perform New Album On NPR, Streaming Live April 27

Posted 4-27-11 by

Tags: Okkervil River, Will Sheff

Anxious to hear Okkervil River's new album, I Am Very Far? The band's latest oeuvre won't be released until May 10 on Jagjaguwar, but tonight, April 27, Will Sheff and company will perform I Am Very Far in its entirety at Austin's Cactus Cafe. Better yet, NPR will stream the entire show - live - for your listening pleasure.

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TAS Interview (SXSW Artist): Will Sheff of Okkervil River

Posted 3-18-11 by , Russ Borris

Tags: Okkervil River, Will Sheff

Okkervil River return with their first album in three years, I Am Very Far, on May 10 and they've been rolling out new material from the record at SXSW this week (they play Antone's at 1 a.m. tonight, which we'll count as late on March 18). The Alternate Side's Russ Borris caught up with frontman Will Sheff for a quick tête-à-tête and was surprised to learn that if it weren't for SXSW, Okkervil River would have never gotten its big break. Video after the jump.

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Okkervil River Return With First Album In Three Years

Posted 1-12-11 by

Tags: A.C. Newman, Okkervil River, Questlove

Okkervil River, who debuted their new song "Wake And Be Fine" on "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon" on Monday with A.C. Newman and Questlove, will release their first album in three years, I Am Very Far, on May 10.

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TAS in Session: Lawrence Arabia

Posted 5-24-10 by , Alisa Ali

Tags: Lawrence Arabia, Okkervil River, The Brunettes, The Ruby Suns

New Zealand's punchy popsters Lawrence Arabia, who will be touring with Crowded House this summer, dropped by Studio A during a recent stop in New York. Frontman James Milne regaled The Alternate Side's Alisa Ali with explanations of pineapple lumps and Shoreditch hipsters and the band played several songs from their award-winning second album, Chant Darling.

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TAS in Session: Shearwater

Posted 5-17-10 by

Tags: Okkervil River, Shearwater

Austin's indie naturalists, Shearwater, released their latest musical journey to the wilderness, The Golden Archipelago, in late winter. The band visited The Alternate Side for a studio session, spoke to our own Alisa Ali and played "Castaways," "An Insular Life," "Meridian" and "Landscape of Speed."

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The National Expand Summer Tour Dates With Pavement, Beach House, Fanfarlo, Okkervil River and More

Posted 4-29-10 by

Tags: Fanfarlo, Midlake, Okkervil River, Pavement, Ramona Falls, The Antlers, The Middle East, The National, The Walkmen

The National will be living out of suitcases for a long time; the Brooklyn band has expanded their summer tour and will be gigging with everyone from Pavement to Rufus Wainwright.

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TAS in Session: Will Sheff from Okkervil River

Posted 12-26-08 by

Tags: Okkervil River, Will Sheff

Will Sheff of Okkervil River dropped by The Alternate Side to play "Lost Coastlines."

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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.

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James Blake, The Vaccines, Okkervil River Help Out The Alternate Side's Fall Fun Drive Now Through October 21

The TAS Top 20 for The Week Ending July 24

The TAS Top 20 for The Week Ending July 17

The TAS Top 20 for The Week Ending July 10

Okkervil River, The Hold Steady, Wye Oak Tapped For Truck America Festival

The TAS Top 20 for The Week Ending June 26

The TAS Top 20 for The Week Ending May 29

Okkervil River Will Perform New Album On NPR, Streaming Live April 27

TAS Interview (SXSW Artist): Will Sheff of Okkervil River

Okkervil River Return With First Album In Three Years

TAS in Session: Lawrence Arabia

TAS in Session: Shearwater

The National Expand Summer Tour Dates With Pavement, Beach House, Fanfarlo, Okkervil River and More

TAS in Session: Will Sheff from Okkervil River

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