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Geographer: TAS In Session |
Based in San Francisco, Geographer actually has local roots thanks to singer and songwriter Michael Deni, a New Jersey native. Following a series of... |
5-15-12 |
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The Helio Sequence: TAS In Session |
The flood that severely damaged The Helio Sequence's studio a few years ago also afforded the Portland, Oregon duo the chance to start... |
1-7-13 |
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TAS in Session: James Walsh of Starsailor |
It's been about three years since we last heard from the UK band Starsailor. After a little time off, the band began recording their fourth studio album... |
12-10-08 |
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Waters: TAS In Session |
When Port O'Brien fell apart in 2011 after a six-year run, fans were saddened. Fortunately, one of the band's two founding members, Van Pierszalowski,... |
3-26-12 |
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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... |
1-30-12 |
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TAS in Session: Blitzen Trapper |
Well, no one has ever said that Blitzen Trapper's frontman and songwriter Eric Earley is a loquacious guy; in fact, he ranks as one of the most laconic... |
8-2-10 |
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Lawrence Arabia: TAS In Session |
New Zealand's James Milne — best known by his moniker, Lawrence Arabia — is a savvy guy when it comes to recruiting his... |
11-19-12 |
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Icky Blossoms: TAS In Session |
Add Omaha's Icky Blossoms to the formidable stable of Saddle Creek bands. The brash, sexy and fun electronic trio released its self-... |
11-26-12 |
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TAS in Session: The Joy Formidable |
This trio of effervescent, sky-gazing rockers is one of the most exciting, young bands to tumble out of Britain in the last two years. Guitarist/... |
3-1-10 |
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Watch: Django Django Play 'Waveforms' Live In Studio A |
Mercury Prize nominees Django Django visited The Alternate Side's Studio A for a session on Monday, the day before before the band's triumphant, sold-... |
10-4-12 |
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Guards: TAS In Session |
Guards dive headlong into the deep end of the guitar rock pool on their expansive, brazenly hook-laden debut, In Guards We Trust.... |
3-4-13 |
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Portugal.The Man: TAS In Session |
Portugal.The Man's seventh full-length album, Evil Friends, is released this week amid some fanfare. While the band still... |
6-3-13 |
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Jessie Ware: Words & Music In Studio A |
London singer Jessie Ware released her debut album, Devotion, in the UK last summer to a rapturous reception. Aside from Brit... |
3-11-13 |
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TAS in Session: The Hold Steady, "Sequestered in Memphis" |
Live audio! Listen to The Hold Steady Live with "Sequestered in Memphis." |
11-28-08 |
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TAS In Session: Gomez |
Gomez stopped by WFUV and The Alternate Side to perform a few tunes off their new album A New Tide. Check out "Airstream Driver." |
3-31-09 |
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TAS In Session: Active Child |
Active Child, the moniker of synthpop warbler and harp aficionado Pat Grossi, will head out on tour this fall with School of Seven Bells. It's a high-... |
8-16-10 |
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Wild Nothing: TAS In Session |
Singer and songwriter Jack Tatum's hazy Wild Nothing reveries are steeped in rain-dappled hues of British grey, but the Virginia native... |
2-4-13 |
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TAS In Session: Flashback 2011, Part 2 |
Last week, The Alternate Side posted the first part of TAS in Session: Flashback 2011 featuring artists like The Drums, Laura Marling and Real Estate.... |
12-27-11 |
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TAS in Session: Jenny Owen Youngs |
Montclair, New Jersey. Not only the home of arguably the coolest suburban music venue, The Wellmont Theatre, but also to a talented singer-songwriter... |
6-2-09 |
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TAS In Session: The Heavy |
Thanks to a Superbowl-debuting Kia commercial using one of their songs and David Letterman's jubilant response to their January performance on his show... |
2-22-10 |
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TAS In Session: Cursive |
In-studio video performance of "From the Hips" recorded at The Alternate Side. Rest easy, Cursive has a new album out, Mama I'm Swollen... |
3-2-09 |
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Freelance Whales: TAS In Session |
Since Freelance Whales released its 2009 debut, Weathervanes, the local indie pop band has gone from busking on... |
12-17-12 |
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TAS In Session: Frightened Rabbit |
An exclusive in-studio performances from Frightened Rabbit who play "Old Old Fashioned" and "Modern Leper." |
1-20-09 |
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TAS In Session (Newport Folk Festival Preview): The Head And The Heart |
The Newport Folk Festival is this coming weekend and Seattle's alt-folksters (and grassroots success story) The Head and the Heart, who perform on July... |
7-25-11 |
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Mates Of State: TAS In Session |
San Francisco's Mates of State, the married duo of Jason Hammel and Kori Gardner, released one of the strongest albums of their career in 2011, the... |
12-22-11 |
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Watch The National Perform 'Graceless' In Session With WFUV |
Watch The National play "Graceless" off of its new... |
5-21-13 |
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John Grant: TAS In Session |
John Grant's personal struggles have fueled, not foiled, his artistic output. A recovering drug addict and alcoholic who, newly... |
6-17-13 |
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Listen And Watch: The Shivers On TAS In Session On WNYE 91.5 |
Local New York band The Shivers has survived an array of lineup changes, but its current core duo of Keith Zarriello and Jo Schornikow seems a steadfast... |
7-27-11 |
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TAS In Session: El Guincho |
Pablo Díaz-Reixa, better known as El Guincho, made his mark with 2008's gleeful mélange of textures and rhythms, Alegranza!, but... |
11-22-10 |
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Twin Sister: TAS In Session |
Twin Sister is a clever exercise in duality. The band is from Long Island and Brooklyn. They love a good disco tune, but relish a melancholy twist.... |
12-5-11 |
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Elbow: TAS In Session |
It took nearly two decades, but Manchester rockers Elbow have become one of the most critically praised, beloved bands in the UK.. The group, just... |
11-28-11 |
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Beirut: TAS In Session |
Beirut's Zach Condon and his bandmates are touring North America through November 13, then head across the Pacific for a sweep through Australia and... |
10-18-11 |
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TAS In Session: Flashback 2011, Part 1 |
Over the past twelve months, The Alternate Side, alongside our sister station WFUV, has hosted dozens of live sessions in our studio with a vivid,... |
12-19-11 |
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Handsome Furs: TAS In Session |
It's not been an easy month for Handsome Furs. The married duo of Dan Boeckner and Alexei Perry had to cancel shows in Bucharest and Vienna last week... |
12-12-11 |
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TAS In Session (CMJ Preview): Metronomy |
British synth-popsters Metronomy have had a remarkable twelve months. The quartet, which began as frontman Joseph Mount's solo project, released one of... |
10-10-11 |
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TAS In Session (MusicFestNW Preview): Givers |
The summer festival season isn't quite over yet; MusicFestNW in Portland, Oregon takes place this week and one of the younger bands receiving some... |
9-6-11 |
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TAS In Session (Bumbershoot Preview): YACHT |
Portland's YACHT, who've been touring the globe, return to the Pacific Northwest to shake up Seattle's Bumbershoot Festival next Monday, September 5... |
8-29-11 |
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TAS In Session (Lollapalooza and NYC Preview): Cults |
Cults' brand of retro-gazing pop isn't necessarily revolutionary, but Madeline Follin and Brian Oblivion's nervy confidence and assured, sparkling songs... |
8-1-11 |
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TAS In Session: Graffiti6 |
Graffiti6, the hook-savvy UK duo of Jamie Scott and Tommy D, broke through in a way that a lot of bands do these days - via commercials and television... |
7-18-11 |
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TAS In Session: Ryan Adams |
Singer and songwriter Ryan Adams has long shifted between wiry, raucous country rock and more tender, acoustic reveries; his 13th album, Ashes... |
10-3-11 |
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TAS In Session: The Kooks |
One of Britain's most successful young bands, The Kooks have experienced dramatic highs and lows since their precocious, quadruple platinum U.K.... |
9-26-11 |
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Listen And Watch: TAS In Session With Cymbals Eat Guitars On 91.5 WNYE |
Although Staten Island proudly claims fast-rising psychedelic rockers Cymbals Eat Guitars, the quartet is really a tri-state endeavor, sprawling across... |
9-15-11 |
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TAS In Session (Glastonbury Preview): The Naked And Famous |
It's Glastonbury Festival week and one of many bands making a prestigious Worthy Farm debut is The Naked and Famous whose debut album, Passive Me,... |
6-20-11 |
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TAS In Session (Northside Festival Preview): Grouplove |
Los Angeles' charming popsters, Grouplove, won't release their debut album until September, but the band of close friends (and one couple) have an... |
6-13-11 |
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TAS in Session: Low |
Those mighty Minnesota masters of quiet rock, Low, recently released their ninth studio album, C'mon, the followup to 2007's politically... |
5-2-11 |
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TAS In Session: The Black Hollies, Live in Studio A |
Jersey City's The Black Hollies might have grown up in the land of Bruce Springsteen, Yo La Tengo and Jon Bon Jovi, but their influences reach to the... |
11-23-09 |
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TAS in Session: Hey Marseilles |
Seattle septet Hey Marseilles self-released their vivacious, chamber pop debut To Travels and Trunks in December 2008. For over a... |
11-1-10 |
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Fool's Gold: TAS In Session |
Throw together a mélange of Afrobeat, Congolese grooves and even a slice of Smiths-style pop and you'd have a vague idea of the sparkling sound... |
11-30-11 |
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Megafaun: TAS In Session |
Megafaun has released three albums since they formed from the ashes of DeYarmond Edison back in 2006 (that band's former frontman is Bon Iver's Justin... |
11-7-11 |
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Peter Wolf Crier: TAS In Session |
One of the many hundreds of bands headed to SXSW in a few weeks is Minnesota-born band Peter Wolf Crier, which began as the duo of Peter Pisano and... |
2-21-12 |
