Valentine's Day 2012 Mix

Valentine’s Day 2012 Mix

True Romance By Taylor K. Long This Valentine’s Day, enjoy this collection of a handful of my favorite “love songs” and songs about love. Whether you are part of a duo or flying solo–remember this piece of advice: I kept asking Clarence why our world seemed to be collapsing and things...
Search Terms That Have Led People to T-Sides

Search Terms That Have Led People to T-Sides

  I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For By Taylor K. Long The following is a list of amusing search terms that, according to Google Analytics, have led people to this site: morrissey naked things related to music song lyrics about turning 24 80’s rap song video by the...
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Taylor on Taylor: The Inaugural Episode

Taylor on Taylor: The Inaugural Episode

What do you do when your name is Taylor and your friend’s name is Taylor and you’re both writers? You make a Podcast, of course! Inspired by our shared names and our mutual interest in dissecting the cultural world around us, Taylor K. Brown, T-Sides contributor, and your Editrix in Chief, Taylor K. Long have...
Me and Miranda July and Mark Epstein and Marina Abramovic

Me and Miranda July and Mark Epstein and Marina Abramovic

I fell down the rabbit hole of the Internet a few weeks ago, while catching up with A Bright Wall In A Dark Room, a brilliant film blog. I was reading Bebe Ballroom’s essay on Miranda July’s Me and You and Everyone We Know....
Spun Out: Prisoner in Disguise by Linda Ronstadt

Spun Out: Prisoner in Disguise by Linda Ronstadt

“Love is a Rose.” Written in a car on my way to La Havana Maui from the airport. Recorded at the ranch during rehearsals for the CSNY ’74 reunion tour. Later done up well by Linda Ronstadt, a soulful girl with big brown eyes.
Heartache To Heartache / Love Is A Battlefield

Heartache To Heartache / Love Is A Battlefield

Love is a battley by Howard Lee Lyon By Howard Lee Lyon Some acquaintance (friend) was at the bar the other night pontificating freely, wrickedly raging upset and morbosed-out about some era-bygone classmate’s commit to suicide. They found him that morning, bored a hole in his face with a piece of metal on metal quick-action,...
Fleet Foxes, "Helplessness Blues"

Fleet Foxes, “Helplessness Blues”

If I Had An Orchard, I’d Work ‘Til I’m Raw By Taylor K. Long Sometimes it feels like a song has been written with a piece of you. Like someone invaded your house when you weren’t there, sat on your bed with a cup of tea, and looked at your old photos, read all your...
Phagwah Parade 2011: It’s Spring And The Men Are Horny

Phagwah Parade 2011: It’s Spring And The Men Are Horny

Phagwah Parade, by Taylor K. Long By Taylor K. Long My obsession with India could take up its own essay, its own series of essays, even, but it’s not nearly as complex or compelling as the country itself. My first exposure to the Hindu holiday of Holi (also known as Phagwa(h), or “Festival of Colors”)...
Under Construction until April 4th.

Under Construction until April 4th.

Lunchtime atop a Skyscraper, by Charles C. Ebbets We’re undergoing some design changes here at T-Sides while we ramp up for our relaunch. Don’t mind the mess. In the meantime, read our new Statement of Purpose, and please check back on April 4th, when our design changes will be finished, and we’ll have entirely new...
Statement Of Purpose

Statement Of Purpose

Andy Goldsworthy, Cairn Consider the following points as our Statement of Purpose. T-Sides intends to explore and examine these thoughts in particular, but most importantly, these are simply interests, not rules or restrictions. Above all, T-Sides aims to capture the real cultural experience, and in doing so, there can be no rules. Just the mind,...
State of the T-Sides Nation: 2011

State of the T-Sides Nation: 2011

I’ve struggled for about a year now over what to do with T-Sides. I started T-Sides at a time when music writing and journalism were changing. Not to say that they aren’t still changing, or aren’t always changing, but my decade or so pursuing a journalism career has been stretched across a serious shift in...
T-Sides Elsewhere, Jan. 24th Edition

T-Sides Elsewhere, Jan. 24th Edition

I told you I would slowly get back into the game, and here I am. I wrote a review of Destroyer’s Kaputt for Bullz-Eye/ESD Music, I introduced one of my favorite tracks of 2010, Broken Social Scene’s “All To All” for the Contrast Podcast Festive Fifty, and I penned a write up of Giant Travel...
Jake One: "Home"

Jake One: “Home”

This is all I have to say about Sunday – and I’m letting this song say it for me. Esp. the 2:34-2:50 mark. More on the state of T-Sides to come.
Ode To The 2010 Seahawks: The Reprise

Ode To The 2010 Seahawks: The Reprise

I told you we’re hungry. What, you didn’t believe me? Surely you believe me now, having defeated the reigning Super Bowl Champs in the most glorious, nail-biting, Seattle-like fashion. I’ve watched Marshawn Lynch’s half-dozen-tackle-breaking-67-yard-run at least 10 times since Saturday, and you know what? It never gets old. But then, the greatest feats in sports...