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Happy Birthday To Us: The Alternate Side Celebrates Its First Anniversary
Happy birthday to us! The Alternate Side is a year old today, December 17, and to celebrate (aside from reading the daily horoscope for Sagittarius), our on air hosts will be doing double duty, both on...
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Record Store Day Rounds Up Live Yeasayer, Gainsbourg, Jónsi, Dr. Dog, No Age...
As convenient as iTunes or Amazon might be, online services can't compare to the deeply satisfying, old school, visceral experience of walking into your local record store and spending an hour browsing...
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Maximum Balloon Streams New Album On MySpace
Maximum Balloon, the side project of TV on the Radio's David Andrew Sitek, will stream their debut album for the next two days, through September 15, on MySpace, prior to the album's September 21...
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Yeah Yeah Yeahs' Karen O To Debut Original Opera In October
The Yeah Yeah Yeahs' Karen O is working with Obie-winning playwright Adam Rapp (Red Light Winter, Hallway Trilogy) on a brand new, still-untitled opera that will make its debut at Brooklyn's St. Ann's...
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Karen O Does Fast Food Film and Debuts Her Psycho Opera
Yeah Yeah Yeahs' Karen O certainly has highbrow and lowbrow interests these days. The raven-haired rock singer just covered a song made famous by Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings for a film for fast...
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Grinderman Exits With A Remix Album
Last month Nick Cave pulled the plug on Grinderman — at least for the foreseeable future — but as a final adieu, the band will release a remix album this March, reconfiguring tracks from 2010's...
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Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Tunde Adebimpe and Creep Set For Hurricane Sandy Benefit...
The Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Higgins Waterproof Black Magic Band, the side project of TV on the Radio's Tunde Adebimpe, will be holding a benefit concert for Hurricane Sandy relief efforts at Brooklyn's...
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Yeah Yeah Yeahs Set April Release Date For 'Mosquito'
Between not-too-cryptic band tweets about studio sessions and tour dates this month in Australia, it's long been expected that the Yeah Yeah Yeahs would be releasing a new album shortly. As of Monday,...
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Stone Roses, Blur, Phoenix, Red Hot Chili Peppers Headlining Coachella 2013...
Just called Indio, California "Little Britain" this spring. Coachella's 2013 lineup has a heavy influx of UK bands like the Stone Roses — that band's first Stateside gigs since reforming last year —...
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Watch The Yeah Yeah Yeahs Atop The Empire State Building
Yeah Yeah Yeahs' second single from Mosquito, the wistfully pretty "Despair," has a dizzying new video to accompany it. The band headed atop the Empire State Building to film the clip, the first group...
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The TAS Staff Picks Our Top Albums And Singles Of 2013 ... So Far
Wait, where did the last six months go?The Alternate Side staff, swimming through the .WAV files, MP3s, CDs and vinyl records that arrive daily, is slightly astonished by the abundant bounty of good...
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Karen O To Release Her Solo Debut In September
Yeah Yeah Yeahs frontwoman Karen O will release her debut solo album, called Crush Songs, via Julian Casablancas' Cult Label on September 9 in the States (September 8 in the UK). In a note she posted...
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