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The TAS Top 20 For The Week Ending May 27

Posted 5-22-12 by
Tags: Beach House, Best Coast, Here We Go Magic, Jack White, Poliça, Santigold, Silversun Pickups, The Walkmen, White Rabbits, Zeus

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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The Walkmen Return With 'Heaven' In June

Posted 3-29-12 by
Tags: Florence and the Machine, The National, The Walkmen

New York's The Walkmen return this summer with a sixth album, Heaven, due out on June 5 (June 4 in the UK/EU). They've also set support dates with Florence and the Machine and a spot on the lineup for May's Crossing Brooklyn Ferry festival, curated by The National.   

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The National Tour Again With A Four-Night New York Stand

Posted 9-13-11 by
Tags: Local Natives, Neko Case, Sharon Van Etten, So Percussion, The National, The Walkmen, The War On Drugs, Wye Oak

The National, joined by friends like The Walkmen and Wye Oak, are gearing up for a November through mid-December world tour with stops in Asia, Australia and, happily, North America. Even better, they've plotted a four-night stand at New York's Beacon Theatre in December - with a different opening act each night. Tickets go on sale for that this Friday, 9/16, but pre-sale begins tomorrow, 9/14.

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TAS SXSW Preview: Tennis

Posted 2-25-11 by
Tags: Holiday Shores, La Sera, Tennis, The Walkmen

Tennis, the married duo of Patrick Riley and Alaina Moore, are in the midst of a headlining tour supporting their breezy, buoyant debut album, Cape Dory. The much buzzed-over band play two gigs in New York next week, on March 2 and 3, and make their SXSW debut in a few weeks. The Alternate Side caught up with Riley, who emailed us at a roadside stop as the couple traveled by van to a Kansas gig, and he told us about the stress of SXSW, sailing and the accidental birth of their beautiful record.

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TAS In Session: Flashback 2010 (Part Two)

Posted 12-27-10 by
Tags: Blitzen Trapper, El Guincho, Field Music, Fyfe Dangerfield, Stars, Stornoway, The Tallest Man On Earth, The Walkmen

Last week we gave you the first part of TAS In Session: Flashback 2010,  looking back at many of bands and musicians who passed through Studio A over the past year and highlighting some of the songs played in live performance. We also updated you on what these artists have planned for 2011, from tours to new recordings to free downloads you can find this very minute on their websites. This week, the promised Part Two of our reminiscence and we've rounded up another collection of 2010's  live performances from Stornoway, The Walkmen, Field Music, The Morning Benders, El Guincho, The Tallest Man on Earth, Stars, Lost in the Trees, K-os and many more.

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TAS Interview: The Walkmen's Walter Martin On Homecoming 2010

Posted 11-30-10 by
Tags: The Walkmen

The Walkmen return to New York for their homecoming 2010 gig this Thursday, December 2 at Terminal 5 with Brooklyn's School of Seven Bells and Denver's Tennis. The Alternate Side caught up with bassist Walter Martin over email to hear all about their gig in Lisbon playing tracks from their new album Lisbon and what rock legend they wouldn't mind finding wrapped up - well, roped up - under the Christmas tree this year.

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The Walkmen Roll Out More Tour Dates

Posted 11-11-10 by
Tags: School of Seven Bells, Tennis, The Walkmen

The Walkmen, who play New York's Terminal 5 on December 2 with School of Seven Bells and Tennis, have rolled out additional tour dates in support of their breezy, but muscular new album Lisbon.

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The TAS Top 20 For The Week Ending November 7

Posted 11-2-10 by
Tags: Arcade Fire, Autolux, Chromeo, Interpol, Junip, Matt and Kim, Of Montreal, Stornoway, Sufjan Stevens, Superchunk, The Walkmen

 Matt and Kim sidewalk onto this week's TAS Top 20 album chart while The Walkmen saunter into the top three. 

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The TAS Top 20 For The Week Ending October 31

Posted 10-26-10 by
Tags: Autolux, Grinderman, Junip, Marx Ronson, Maximum Balloon, Of Montreal, Ra Ra Riot, Stornoway, The Roots, The Walkmen

Nick Cave's side project Grinderman bolts onto the TAS Top 20 while an Oxford band - no, not Radiohead - takes over the top slot.

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The TAS Top 20 For The Week Ending October 10

Posted 10-5-10 by
Tags: Arcade Fire, Autolux, Deerhunter, Foals, Interpol, Junip, Ra Ra Riot, Sleigh Bells, The Walkmen

Deerhunter make their way onto the Top 20 with Halcyon Digest while Interpol mark their second week at the summit of the TAS album chart.

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TAS in Session: The Walkmen

Posted 9-20-10 by , Alisa Ali
Tags: The Walkmen

The Walkmen, who rose from the detritus of the defunct Jonathan Fire*Eater and The Recoys back in 2000, released their sixth album Lisbon earlier this month on new label Fat Possum. The quintet dropped by The Alternate Side over the summer to play a mini-concert of four tracks from Lisbon: "Angela Surf City," "Juveniles," "Woe Is Me" and "Torch Song."

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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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SXSW 2010 Report: Broken Bells, Codeine Velvet Club, Chew Lips, The Morning Benders And More

Posted 3-19-10 by , Alisa Ali
Tags: Broken Bells, Chew Lips, Codeine Velvet Club, Everything Everything, Morning Benders, Spoon, The Walkmen

The confluence of St. Patrick's Day and beginning of the SXSW music festival made things a little more wild than usual (forget about getting into any Irish pub to see any Irish band), but The Alternate Side managed to catch Spoon, Codeine Velvet Club, Broken Bells, Everything, Everything, The Morning Benders, Chew Lips, The Walkmen and more on Wednesday night.

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TAS in Session: Top 10 Studio A Videos of 2009

Posted 1-1-10 by
Tags: Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears, Gomez, Jack Peñate, Mew, Of Montreal, Peter Bjorn and John, Phoenix, The Asteroids Galaxy Tour, The Walkmen

We made it through 2009! On the first day of 2010, let's take one last, sentimental look at some of the great guests who visited The Alternate Side in Studio A last year; all rank in our Top Ten most viewed videos on our site. After the jump, check out Phoenix, Gomez, Of Montreal, Jack Peñate and many more.

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TAS in Session: The Walkmen

Posted 4-30-09 by
Tags: Kings of Leon, Led Zepplin, The Morning Benders, The Walkmen, Total Hound

Paul, Walter, Matt, Peter, and Hamilton from The Walkmen recently stopped by our studios in the Bronx to perform a few tunes off their latest record You & Me. The once native New Yorkers are currently on tour with Kings of Leon.  

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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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