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 [...]

I recently finished reading Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation by Jeff Chang. Overall, it was a highly informative read (though flawed in terms of journalistic style), and incredibly different from how I expected it to be. Chang does a brilliant job of balancing the socioeconomic forces behind the genre with [...]

[Note: this was supposed to go up yesterday, but the internet's been down at the apartment I'm cat-sitting in. This is the problem with leeching off of someone else's wireless, friends!]

Sound Advice/Gnarls Biggie: “Gone, Biggie, Gone” (download)
Sound Advice/Gnarls Biggie: “Who’s Dead Wrong?” (download)
Sound Advice/Gnarls Biggie: “Can I Get With Ya Crazy Butt” (download)
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I’ve been listening to a lot of rap/hip-hop, and r&b/soul over the past six months. There are two things I hold responsible for this. Firstly, I credit this in large part to the fact that I’ve been subjected to the radio more often. Secondly, when a relationship I was in ended back [...]

Fridays are usually my day off from RS. This week was a closing week (for those of you not in the biz, this means the magazine was getting ready to go to print / all the pages & articles were on deadline / that kind of thing), it was Spring Break for one of [...]

It’s A Beautiful Day

When I listen to the radio, I tend to listen to “classic rock” stations, because there’s a better shot that they’ll play things I both recognize and enjoy (of course, when I’m in Seattle, KEXP takes over a sizable portion of the air time in my car). Recently, I was listening [...]