I’m truly sorry T-Sides and all related projects have been offline for so long. Chalk it up to summer, chalk it up to a quarter-life crisis, chalk it up to any sorry excuse for life taking us away from the things we love that require any amount of work. But let’s turn the focus on [...]

Summer’s basically here. I can taste it. Spent my Memorial Day Weekend in the green bounty of Vermont. The minute my train rode into Vermont’s green border, the smile on my face couldn’t be removed. Managed to get a little work done while I was there, though –
Wrote an 8+ for Ear Farm on the [...]

It’s Spring, and the album releases are heating up! Expect more of these coming soon.
Over at Popdose, I talk about the Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ glitzy new album, It’s Blitz!…
I make a triumphant return to Bullz-Eye with a dissection of Cursive’s latest, Mama, I’m Swollen…
I stop in to the Contrast Podcast again to talk about one [...]

The webmistress has been a little preoccupied with looking for paying work, but I’m still out there, spreading the T-Sides love!
Over on Popdose, I reviewed two albums that have a decent shot at making it to my year-end list: Neko Case’s Middle Cyclone, and the solo album from the Black Keys’ Dan Auerbach, Keep It [...]

As promised, T-Sides is once again tapping the writing well. There hasn’t been much in the way of live shows to whip us into a frenzy, but new release season is finally picking up.
Quick-witted Lily Allen has a new one that doesn’t quite live up to the pop accessibility of her first, and there are [...]

Here at T-Sides, we’re celebrating the impending arrival of Valentine’s Day by acknowledging a very important relationship. Your relationship with yourself. Not to say that all those others aren’t important, too. But as that wise old sage Charles Bukowski says, “If you have the ability to love / love yourself first.” Ok, so Bukowski wasn’t [...]

Between the holiday build up and wind down, and winter being slow for the music biz, T-Sides biz has been slow, as well, but we’re still kickin’!
The Top 10 list(s) appeared on Bullz-Eye, The Chicago Sun-Times and, of course, Largehearted Boy. T-Sides also won the best Top 10 Albums List of all Top 10 Albums [...]

When you spend your time interviewing other people, the prospect of being the one answering the questions instead of asking them can be rather exciting. So, it’s with great excitement that I share with you this link to PerfSpot.com, who recently interviewed me for a feature on T-Sides. Unfortunately there’s no direct link to the [...]

Remember how day one of CMJ was all about the blogs? Well, day two was also sort of all about the blogs, or at least one in particular, NYC-based Ear Farm, offering up the most appealing daytime option with its free showcase of bands as eclectic as its voices and subjects.
Arriving late, I unfortunately missed [...]

The first day of CMJ (or the College Music Journal’s Music Marathon, should you prefer to be proper) this year was all about blog showcases, with New York City’s music and pop culture scribes scurrying off to give press to their own, most popularly The Music Slut, Pop Tarts Suck Toasted, Brooklyn Vegan and Stereogum.
Brooklyn [...]