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...
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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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GAS @ Miller Theatre, Friday, May 29th

Save the massive excitement surrounding what was claimed to be his first and only show in the U.S. (though it seems he played Chicago three nights prior), everything about Wolfgang Voigt’s show at Columbia University’s Miller Theatre on Friday night was minimal. Performing under the name of his popular ambient electronic project, GAS, Voigt was...

Pattern Is Movement & St. Vincent @ Webster Hall, Wednesday, May 20th

Pattern Is Movement have certainly lived up to the Movement part of their name, touring relentlessly since the release of their excellent fourth album, All Together. Seeing them for the third time since October, Pattern Is Movement’s set at Webster Hall last Wednesday was yet another in a line of charged, exciting performances. The duo...

T-Sides Elsewhere, May 8th Edition

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...

Akron/Family @ Bowery Ballroom, Wednesday, May 6th

After seeing jam-freak-avant-folksters Akron/Family put on an incredible show at Brooklyn’s Union Pool in March, there was only one thing left to do: Go home, go online, buy tickets to see them again. After seeing Akron/Family put on an incredible show at Manhattan’s Bowery Ballroom last night, there’s only one conclusion that can be made:...

Throbbing Gristle @ Brooklyn Masonic Temple, Tuesday, April 28th

If anyone other than Throbbing Gristle had been playing the Brooklyn Masonic Temple on Tuesday night, the fact that the crowd was older and stranger and on more drugs than the average New York City crowd might have been off-putting. And if anyone other than Throbbing Gristle had been on stage, the fact that they...

New John Vanderslice: “Fetal Horses”

Former MK Ultra front-man and current solo artist/singer-songwriter John Vanderslice is nothing if not consistent. At his “worst,” Vanderslice is simply pleasant — at his best, he’s transcendent. It’s been awhile since he’s hit transcendence, though. Since Cellar Door, arguably his most alluring and diverse album, he’s lost a bit of the aesthetic and lyrical...

T-Sides B-Sides: Cursive, “Mama, I’m Swollen”

I don’t really do traditional reviews here on T-Sides, because my reviewing is usually covered by Popdose and Bullz-Eye. So, when friend of T-Sides (and top-notch drummer!) Chris Enriquez said he wanted to do a write-up of Cursive’s new album, Mama, I’m Swollen, I jumped at the chance! Here’s what Chris, a long-time Cursive fan,...

T-Sides Elsewhere, April 23rd Edition

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...

New Akron/Family: “River”

“You are no longer a river to me,” Miles Seaton sings on “River,” the new single from Akron/Family’s upcoming album, Set ‘Em Wild, Set ‘Em Free. Akron/Family: “River” (download) He compares his lover to several bodies of water – a docile stream, a glassy bay, a vast and open sea. And though his lover and...

New Dirty Projectors: “The Stillness Is The Move”

The album art for Bitte Orca, the Dirty Projectors’ upcoming fifth album, shows band members Amber Coffman and Angel Deradoorian, their faces painted over in connecting red and blue circles. It harks back to the cover of Slaves’ Graves & Ballads, the band’s 2004 release, which some consider to be their strongest to date. But...

T-Sides B-Sides: The Music of Battlestar Galactica

Part of the reason why it’s nice to have contributors here on T-Sides is to get different perspectives and tastes. What’s covered on T-Sides is what most appeals to us in a wide sea of culture, but it’s impossible to thoroughly cover everything that’s worthy of attention. There are things we – gasp! – might...

New Music Videos: Cursive, Department Of Eagles, Fleet Foxes

Cursive: “From The Hips” (download) [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgJfr-195xk[/youtube] “From the Hips” is one of the tracks that most echoes the band’s earliest sentiments on their excellent new album, Mama, I’m Swollen. Opening slow and somber, front man Tim Kasher wearily sings, “I’m at my best when I’m at my worst,” used as a line on a date...