Hey! Nielsen and Billboard.com Best Music Blog Contest
I’m proud to announce that T-Sides has been nominated for the Best Music Blog Contest hosted by Nielsen and Billboard. There’s a long list of stellar nominees, but this is the first time T-Sides has been nominated for something, so it’s a note-worthy event. To cast a vote for T-Sides, register (don’t worry, you can...
Sufjan Stevens @ BAM, Thursday, Nov. 1
It was difficult to walk into the world-premiere of Sufjan Stevens’ “symphonic and cinematic exploration” of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway without feeling the foreboding sense that something musically important was going to happen. Lofty expectations would be the death of nearly any other modern indie performer, but Stevens – who’s previously announced such infamous knee-buckling goals...
gRAPhs
I love emo+beer=busted career (who also does charts for the Times! way to be modern, NYT), but he’s got a new challenger. The graphs aren’t as pretty, but they make me laugh like a little girl. These two should team up.
New Hello, Blue Roses: “Shadow Falls” and “Hello, Blue Roses”
There are about half a dozen other things I should be writing about in order to preserve one of the key elements of journalism: timeliness – however, I’ve become mildly obsessed with Dan Bejar since last year, so I can’t keep myself from jumping all over this. Hello, Blue Roses is the pairing of Dan...
Quick Impressions: The Rocktober Concerts Edition
October gets nick-named “Rocktober” for reason – ’tis the season for concerts. I attended at least two a week, making it hard to find time to write about all them as soon as I would have liked to. Here are quick rundowns of the latest happenings. Fog, Torche & Jesu @ Blender Theater, Saturday, Oct....
New Saul Williams: The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of Niggy Tardust
At this EXACT moment in time, I’m listening to the new Saul Williams album, The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of Niggy Tardust, out today (which is fortuitous timing when you consider this). Williams collaborated with Trent Reznor of NIN on this release and they’re releasing it Radiohead/Public Enemy-style: you can either download the album for...
Bruce Springsteen @ Madison Square Garden, October 17th
A couple years ago, I made a list of the top three old-school rock acts that I wanted to see while they were still around and touring – The Eagles, The Rolling Stones and Bruce Springsteen. This was before the Eagles had a new album, before The Rolling Stones had A Bigger Bang, so I...
In The Inbox: House of Brothers & Bear in Heaven
House of Brothers: “Deadman” (download) There’s something easy to like about “Deadman” – particularly the falling piano, the flutes, the violins, the maracas, the hand claps. It’s very complete, very well thought out, very whole. Nothing is missing. This is a nice little gem of a tune for fall. His self-titled debut EP is out...
Lost MP3 of the Week: “Sprit in the Night”
As fate would have it, I’m not meant to go to CMJ this year* with 90% of the other bloggers and music journalists. Mama T-Sides is in town (T-Sides comment readers will know her as “DOM”: Dear Old Mom) so I’ll be showing my not-old lady around NYC. Now, any reason is a good reason...
Blog Action Day
Today, Blogactionday.org asks the question – “What would happen if every blog published posts discussing the same issue, on the same day?” The issue: the environment. Marvin Gaye: “Mercy, Mercy Me (The Ecology)” (download) We’re supposed to find a way to connect the environment to our normal subject matter, so here’s a thought for you:...
Two Gallants: Daytrotter Session #2
T-Sides favorites Two Gallants stopped by the Daytrotter studio for a second time, this time to record “The Deader,” “Despite What You’ve Been Told,” “The Hand That Held Me Down” and “Trembling of the Rose.” All available for listening and downloading here, and Daytrotter’s Sean Moeller wrote a rather odd but very good piece on...
Soapbox