Link Love, Part Two.
1. Jeff of Jefitoblog has a really wonderful Friday mixtape series going on every week. I missed the one from Friday before last, but I’m still listening to the first two, and the most recent is surely good, as it features Stars, Buckingham Nicks, Aretha Franklin & Steely Dan. Also, it’s Jefitoblog, and Jeff’s posts...
Science of Gondry’s Sleep.
Welcome, friends, to another T-Sides movie review! I meant to follow my last one up with a review of Factotum, but life happens and one gets distracted. (If you like Bukowski, you’ll probably like it, if you don’t, you probably won’t. How’s that?) Now there are newer films in our theaters, and so shall I...
Putting the Summer to Bed and Preparing for a Long Winter(s).
It’s fitting that, on their third full-length EP, the Long Winters have a song titled “(It’s A) Departure,” because on the first listen, it sounds like exactly that. Compared to memories of their first two releases, Putting The Days To Bed sounds faster, harder, more… well, rock. What happened to the band that became known...
No Partying at this Beach House.
Beach House: “Apple Orchard” (download) Beach House: “Master Of None” (download) I have a love-hate relationship with pop music. At least half of the time, I find pop music too sickly sweet, too annoying, too generic and/or too boring. but on other occasions, my heart has been known to pitter-patter for the right catchy hook,...
Impossible Shapes: “Horus”
The Impossible Shapes: “Bombs” (download) The Impossible Shapes: “Putrefaction” (download) The Impossible Shapes: “Demon Love” (download) I don’t like making lists of my top albums for each year. I’m always interested to read others’ lists, but I don’t like making my own. I’ll probably make one for this year, anyhow, since I’ve got this here...
22nd Birthday Extravaganza!
Things in History that happened on August 28th (from Wikipedia): 475 – The Roman general Orestes forces western Roman Emperor Julius Nepos to flee his capital of Ravenna and appoints his own son Romulus Augustus in his place. 1565 – St. Augustine, Florida, established. It is the oldest surviving settlement in the European United States....
Jordan O’Jordan Knows About You.
Jordan O’Jordan: “No Princely Frog” (download) Jordan O’Jordan: “The Baker’s Tale” (download) Jordan O’Jordan: “By Balloon Or Sinking Ship” (download) I know what you’re thinking. The above picture looks a bio picture fit for a neo-psych-folk singer-songwriter like Devendra Banhart or Joanna Newsome. But appearances are often deceiving. Seattle’s Jordan O’Jordan crafts simple songs of...
Hey, Thanks!
John Vanderslice: “When It Hits My Blood” (download) Pat Benetar: “Hit Me With Your Best Shot” (download) Ray Charles: “Hit The Road Jack” (download) Rilo Kiley: “It’s A Hit” (download) Spoon: “Everything Hits At Once” (download) Sugarcubes: “Hit” (download) T-Sides.com has been getting anywhere between 1,600 – 4,200 hits per day since August 1st, which...
A Setback of Sorts.
I’ve been back from Europe for just over a month now. It took awhile, but I got settled back into New York City life, and shed the constant daydreams of rocky beaches, foreign men, motorbikes and ancient civilizations. That is, until now. Last night, I was walking to the Union Turnpike subway station, and I...
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