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Hospitality: TAS In Session

A chance meeting with K Records' Karl Blau pushed Brooklyn-based band Hospitality towards their first EP in 2008, which Blau produced. More friendships landed the trio on the doorstep of Merge Records, which just released the band's self-titled debut last week. Hospitality, who open for Tennis at Bowery Ballroom and Music Hall of Williamsburg in early March, made a cross-borough visit from Brooklyn to the Bronx last month for a TAS session. After the jump, check out highlights of the interview. watch the videos and this Friday, February 10, listen to the session, which includes performances of tracks like "All Day Today" and the unreleased "Monkey," on TAS on 91.5 WNYE at 11 a.m. and streaming on The Alternate Side.

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Blitzen Trapper: TAS In Session

Blitzen Trapper, which released a brand new video for its single "Taking It Easy Too Long" earlier this month, kick off a West Coast tour on March 4 in Arcata, California. During their last visit to New York, Blitzen Trapper dropped by TAS and our sister station WFUV for a live session, exploring songs off of the band's latest album, American Goldwing. After the jump, check out performance videos of tracks like "Fletcher" and "Might Find It Cheap" and listen to the archived session.

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Clap Your Hands Say Yeah: TAS In Session

The nearly five-year span of time between Clap Your Hands Say Yeah's 2007 album Some Loud Thunder and 2011's Hysterical led many fans to think, during the band's dormant period, that a break-up was inevitable. That wasn't the case, despite CYHSY's many outside projects and frontman Alec Ounsworth's own 2009 solo record, Mo Beauty. The quintet recruited busy producer John Congleton (St. Vincent, Okkervil River) for Hysterical, the band's third album and they have been on the comeback trail since its release. CYHSY kick off a UK and European tour tonight, January 30, in Leeds, England. After the jump, interview highlights and performance videos, and listen to the session this Friday, February 3 at 11 a.m. on TAS on 91.5 WNYE and streaming on The Alternate Side.

 

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Xylos: TAS In Session

Brooklyn's electro-popsters Xylos released their self-titled debut last spring, but the melodic quintet are already working on their second album, test-driving new songs in live shows like tonight's gig (January 26) at New York's Hiro Ballroom at the Maritime Hotel with Deadbeat Darling and Roma!. Late last fall, the band came by TAS' Bronx studios for a live session and chat with Alisa Ali. After the jump, check out old and new tracks like "Summer Song,"  "X-Ray" and "Eastern Pose."  

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TAS In Session: The One AM Radio

Last year,  Los Angeles pop trio The One AM Radio released their sweetly sad album, Heaven Is Attached by a Slender Thread, and in late December, the band gathered every gratis track and video they'd posted in 2011 in one convenient bundle for free download. Heaven Is Attached by a Slender Thread marked the first time that frontman and songwriter Hrishikesh Hirway had ever worked with an outside producer, Tony Hoffer of Beck and Phoenix fame, who mixed the record. The One AM Radio dropped by The Alternate Side's studio for a very special session and after the jump, check out video performances of "An Old Photo of Your New Lover," "Sunlight" and "In A City Without Seasons.

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