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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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Lost In The Trees: TAS In Session |
The powerful, tender bond between Lost in the Trees' singer and songwriter Ari Picker and his late mother has informed both of the band's albums, the... |
4-9-12 |
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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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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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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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Friends: TAS In Session (SXSW 2012) |
Along with other generically-named bands, like Real Estate and Girls, Brooklyn's Friends play hard-to-get when it comes to Google searches, but this... |
3-19-12 |
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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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We Were Promised Jetpacks: TAS In Session |
One of the biggest (and oldest) New Year's Eve celebrations in the world, Scotland's Hogmanay, raucously marks the end of the old year and the... |
12-29-11 |
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TAS In Session: Laura Marling |
Laura Marling's first two albums garnered her critical huzzahs, Mercury Prize nominations and even a Brit Award, but her third release, the astonishing... |
9-12-11 |
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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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White Rabbits: TAS In Session |
Brooklyn's White Rabbits owe an undeniable debt to Spoon; Britt Daniel produced the group's 2009 album It's Frightening and for its ... |
5-21-12 |
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Active Child: TAS In Session |
Not many bands claim the harp as one of their defining sounds, but Active Child's Pat Grossi has brought that ethereal instrument into the mix to... |
11-21-11 |
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TAS In Session: Wild Beasts |
Kendel, England. Known as the home of Kendal mint cake. And as a major producer of tobacco snuff. And now, as exporter of the indie rockers Wild Beasts... |
10-12-09 |
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Listen And Watch: TAS In Session With The Luyas On 91.5 WNYE |
Montréal's experimental popsters The Luyas are currently touring with The Dodos and play Brooklyn's Music Hall of Williamsburg this Monday,... |
9-7-11 |
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TAS In Session: Milagres |
It's always rewarding to see a local band shift from anonymity to across-the-board accolades. Brooklyn's Milagres have been around for about five years... |
9-19-11 |
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TAS In Session: James Blake |
James Blake's unusual permutations of electronica, pop and dubstep has swiftly elevated the 22-year-old British producer's first album, which dropped... |
7-11-11 |
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TAS In Session: Autolux |
They took their time, thwarted by record label issues, but Autolux finally returned this year with their long-awaited second album, the haunting and... |
11-15-10 |
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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: The Low Anthem |
Stir together a quirky ragù of songs inspired by wire-walkers, explored via vintage instruments and recorded in an abandoned spaghetti sauce... |
4-4-11 |
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TAS in Session: Bell X1 |
In-studio video performance of Bell X1, performing from their album Blue Lights on the Runway. |
2-2-09 |
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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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The Drums: TAS In Session |
Now based in Brooklyn, The Drums have always played with various geographic — and emotional — locales in their music, swerving from... |
10-31-11 |
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TAS In Session: One eskimO |
London's One eskimO might be cloaked behind animated characters - giraffes, penguins and penguins figure into it - but the quartet surprised The... |
9-14-09 |
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TAS in Session: Tim Kasher |
Singer and songwriter Tim Kasher has slipped effortlessly between his bands Cursive and ... |
4-18-11 |
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We Are Augustines: TAS In Session |
Although We Are Augustines' Billy McCarthy, Eric Sanderson and Rob Allen are receiving enthusiastic praise for their powerful 2011 debut, Rise Ye... |
1-2-12 |
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TAS In Session: Phantogram |
Saratoga Springs' dark, quirky electronic rockers Phantogram, the duo of Josh Carter and Sarah Barthel, originally recorded their debut album Eyelid... |
6-14-10 |
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TAS In Session: Scala and Kolacny Brothers |
One of the more curious hits of Coachella and SXSW was Scala and Kolacny Brothers, an all-female Belgian choir led by a pair of dynamic siblings, Steven... |
4-25-11 |
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TAS In Session: School of Seven Bells |
Major changes for School of Seven Bells last week as the trio became a duo after Claudia Deheza quit the band for "personal reasons," leaving... |
10-18-10 |
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TAS In Session: Broken Records |
Edinburgh sextet Broken Records changed things up a bit for their sophomore album, Let Me Come Home. Leaning on a love of Americana and... |
4-11-11 |
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The Barr Brothers: TAS In Session |
Brothers Andrew and Brad Barr of the trio The Slip, credit a serendipitous encounter during a Montréal gig as the catalyst behind not only a life... |
2-13-12 |
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TAS in Session: Metric |
We Love Metric. Note the capital "L." Their new album, Fantasies, is a start-to-finish pleasure to listen to. The band took... |
7-9-09 |
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TAS In Session (Sasquatch! Preview): The Antlers |
Brooklyn's The Antlers shot from relative obscurity to breakthrough success in 2009 on the back of their gorgeous, elegiac third album, Hospice.... |
5-23-11 |
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TAS in Session: Delta Spirit |
Delta Spirit return with a second album, History From Below, on June 8, produced by My Morning Jacket's Bo Koster and Eli Thomson. Recently,... |
4-10-10 |
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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: The Greenhornes |
An eight-year hiatus between studio albums sounds extreme, but The Greenhornes have been a bit preoccupied. Bassist Jack Lawrence and drummer Patrick... |
1-31-11 |
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TAS in Session: Heartless Bastards |
Heartless Bastards came by Studio A to perform "Sway" for The Alternate Side and we discovered that Ohio has a way of playing their... |
2-23-09 |
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TAS In Session: Passion Pit |
Likely the American buzz band of 2009, Passion Pit recently visited FUV's The Alternate Side studio for a rare, sublimely intimate interview and... |
8-27-09 |
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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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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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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: 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... |
9-20-10 |
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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... |
2-6-12 |
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TAS in Session: Field Music |
Despite the remarkable strengths of David and Peter Brewis' excellent solo projects released under the monikers School of Language and The Week That Was... |
5-3-10 |
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TAS in Session: Will Sheff from Okkervil River |
Will Sheff of Okkervil River dropped by The Alternate Side to play "Lost Coastlines." |
12-26-08 |
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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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Tennis: TAS and WFUV In Session |
Tennis' 2011 debut album, Cape Dory, unfolded as a testament to Alaina Moore and Patrick Riley's love of sailing, but the couple hit choppy... |
5-14-12 |
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TAS in Session: Yeasayer |
Yeasayer visits The Alternate Side studios to talk with Russ Borris and bang out cool live performances of "Madder Red," "O.N.E.... |
2-15-10 |
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TAS in Session: Villagers |
Villagers is both a band, depending on the gig, and the acoustic solo project of Dublin's Conor J. O'Brien, former member of Ireland's regrettably short... |
8-23-10 |
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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: The Depreciation Guild |
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... |
2-1-10 |
