Here at T-Sides, we’re celebrating the impending arrival of Valentine’s Day by acknowledging a very important relationship. Your relationship with yourself. Not to say that all those others aren’t important, too. But as that wise old sage Charles Bukowski says, “If you have the ability to love / love yourself first.” Ok, so Bukowski wasn’t...
Being an obsessive music hoarder has its drawbacks. The questions of, “How often do I really listen to ______ ?” and all those albums that you really mean to get around to listening to, you’re just never really “in the right mood.” Or those albums that you think you hate then decide you like on...
Between the holiday build up and wind down, and winter being slow for the music biz, T-Sides biz has been slow, as well, but we’re still kickin’! The Top 10 list(s) appeared on Bullz-Eye, The Chicago Sun-Times and, of course, Largehearted Boy. T-Sides also won the best Top 10 Albums List of all Top 10...
Frightened Rabbit could not have been more different from the setting for their acoustic, all-request set at Le Poisson Rouge on Monday night. Le Poisson Rouge’s pricey beverages and bottle service attracted an audience more interested in being seen there than being there, as the sound of chatter rose above both openers, Joe Pug and...
Deerhunter – White Ink from justin gaar on Vimeo. Moment of total honesty: I didn’t write as much about Deerhunter’s Microcastle/Weird Era Cont. as I meant to. It was one of those releases I caught late in the year and got too overwhelmed with end of year lists and holiday goings on to give it...
There are a few miscellaneous honors from 2008 that we felt were worth mentioning, so here they are. Enjoy! Best Album Cover: Coldplay, Viva La Vida As much as I hate to award Coldplay for anything, every time I saw the poster of this while walking in the subway, I thought, “That looks AWESOME!” I...
As with last year, when it comes to listing amazing concerts, T-Sides refuses to be bound by the number 10. Also, for the sake of fairness, I’ve compounded bands I saw multiple times. 12. The Notwist @ Webster Hall, October 13th Full review here. Excerpt: In their recordings, the Notwist might give off the impression...
Don’t know about you, but around here, we’re pretty jazzed about this New Year stuff. So happy, in fact, that we’re going to kick off 2009 with a giveaway! The latter half of 2008 found Billy Corgan, volatile and eccentric front-man for the Smashing Pumpkins in its various reincarnates, doing what he does best: going...
* = As with last year, these songs are pulled from albums that weren’t on my Top 10 albums list. There’s less overlapping this way, which makes things more interesting for all of us. 10. Snoop Dogg: “Sensual Seduction / Sexual Eruption” (download) Read my review of the album here. Snoop must have been listening...
Usually T-Sides is a stickler for not releasing any sort of “Best of the Year” list until the year is actually over. However, because I had to write-up my list earlier than that for Bullz-Eye, and perhaps maybe a little bit because I wanted to be part of the Hype Machine Zeitgeist (yeah, I’ll admit...
Image courtesy flickr user Karl Gunnarsson (note: not from Mercury Lounge show) Though Kristian Matsson’s stature does not meet the expectations set forth by his stage moniker, Tallest Man on Earth, he was plenty intimidating in presence during his recent show at the Mercury Lounge. Pacing about the stage and having staring contests with the...
Image courtesy flickr user thepiratehat Looking down on the audience at Dan Deacon’s show at the Brooklyn Masonic Temple on Thursday night was akin to watching a strange orgy or mating ritual of some kind. People in their teens and twenties swayed as a group, not moshing so much as just moving, touching each other...
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