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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 July 3

Posted 6-28-11 by
Tags: Arctic Monkeys, Beastie Boys, Bon Iver, Cults, Elbow, Fleet Foxes, Foster the People, Friendly Fires, Shabazz Palaces, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart

A dramatic album chart week as Bon Iver makes an impressive No. 2 debut, Cults leap twelve places to the top spot, and Shabazz Palaces float like a butterfly into the TAS Top 20.

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The TAS Top 20 for The Week Ending June 12

Posted 6-7-11 by
Tags: Beastie Boys, Cold Cave, Cults, Elbow, Fleet Foxes, Foster the People, Holy Ghost!, James Blake, Lykke Li, PJ Harvey, The Antlers, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, The Vaccines, TV on the Radio

New York's new kids on the block, Cults, and longtime local faves The Antlers burst onto the TAS top 20 while five-borough veterans Beastie Boys heat up the number one slot.

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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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The TAS Top 20 for The Week Ending April 10

Posted 4-5-11 by
Tags: Elbow, Fleet Foxes, Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx, James Blake, PJ Harvey, Radiohead, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, The Vaccines, Yuck

The Pains of Being Pure at Heart and Fleet Foxes segue easily to the TRL Top 20 while the slow-burning James Blake unlocks the number one position.

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Win Tix For The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart On May 6

Posted 3-21-11 by
Tags: The Pains of Being Pure at Heart

New York's shoegazing, fuzz-stoked, pop quartet The Pains of Being Pure at Heart just completed a triumphant week at SXSW and begin a North American tour on March 31 in support of their excellent sophomore album Belong, out on March 29. Catch these local favorites when they play their big homecoming gig on May 6 at Webster Hall.

 

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The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart Hit The Road This March

Posted 1-6-11 by
Tags: Catwalk, The Depreciation Guild, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Twin Shadow

Euphoric dream-pop purveyors The Pains of Being Pure At Heart, who release their sophomore album, Belong, in March, will kick off a U.S. tour that month with Twin Shadow and Catwalk, concluding at New York's Webster Hall on May 6. Plus, The Depreciation Guild, drummer Kurt Feldman's other band, calls it quits but will play a final show this month.

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Phoenix, Surfer Blood, Four Tet, UNKLE, Ghostface Killah, POBPAH Set For CMJ Music Marathon

Posted 9-22-10 by
Tags: Everything, Four Tet, Ghostface Killah, Neon Indian, Phoenix, Surfer Blood, The Drums, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart

An international flock of bands is slated to come to New York from October 19-23 for the CMJ Music Marathon and the officially announced bands and artists include Phoenix, Surfer Blood, The Drums, School of Seven Bells, Ghosface Killah, The Pains of Being Pure At Heart, UNKLE, Four Tet, Greg Dulli and scores more. Get ready for bedlam.

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Siren Festival 2010: Video Blog With The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart And Apache Beat

Posted 7-20-10 by
Tags: Apache Beat, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart

The Alternate Side's Alisa Ali trekked out to Coney Island on Saturday to take in the sights, sounds and sunburns of the 10th annual Siren Festival and filmed her own video blog of some of the day's great performances. She also caught up with Ilirjana Alushaj and the rest of Apache Beat backstage and chatted with Alex Naidus and Kip Berman of The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart. Alisa's video blog after the jump. 

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Siren Festival Performance Schedule And TAS Coverage

Posted 7-16-10 by
Tags: Matt & Kim, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart

Yes, it will be as hot as hell tomorrow, Saturday, July 17, but hardy souls - like The Alternate Side's own Alisa Ali - will be heading to Coney Island for the fantastic and extremely free 10th annual Siren Festival. The awesome. noisy and thoughtful lineup includes The Pains of Being Pure At Heart, Matt & Kim, Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, Holy F***, Cymbals Eat Guitars, Screaming Females, Earl Greyhound and more. We'll be tweeting the day's events, and perspiring, from noon to night. The official schedule is after the jump. 

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TAS Interview: The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart

Posted 6-2-10 by
Tags: The Pains of Being Pure at Heart

The Pains of Being Pure At Heart, who kick off a short summer tour with Surfer Blood and Hooray for Earth on Thursday, June 3 in Milford, Connecticut, will be headed into the studio at tour's end to record their sophomore album. Kip Berman, Alex Naidus and Peggy Wang recently talked to The Alternate Side about their plans for their next project, the joys of Slumberland Records, Japanese bagels and why the quartet's close friendship has made their rock 'n' roll adventure a true labor of love.

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The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart, Matt and Kim, Ted Leo And The Pharmacists For Siren Festival

Posted 5-5-10 by
Tags: Beach House, Broken Social Scene, Frightened Rabbit, Harlem, M.I.A, Matt and Kim, Surfer Blood, Ted Leo, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, The Pharmacists

Brooklyn's Coney Island will be a rock 'n' roll mecca on July 17 thanks to the return of the Village Voice's Siren Festival, celebrating its tenth anniversary with a lineup that includes The Pains of Being Pure At Heart, Matt and Kim, Ted Leo and The Pharmacists, Surfer Blood and Harlem.

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TAS In Session: The Depreciation Guild

Posted 2-1-10 by
Tags: The Depreciation Guild, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart

Brooklyn's dream-pop trio The Depreciation Guild, comprised of two members of Pains of Being Pure At Heart, dropped by The Alternate Side recently to unveil new songs from their upcoming album Spirit Youth. Video after the jump.

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