All My Life I Will Wait To Attain It By Taylor K. Long At some point in our 20s, we inevitably feel what can best be described as a burden of proof. We begin noticing milestones, the age of achievements. How Michelangelo was 29 when he finished “David.” How Franz Liszt was famous and touring...
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...
Where “best” = albums that were not only significant from a critical standpoint, but that I actually, truly, really listened to. A lot. 10. Jay-Z, American Gangster You’re completely, utterly surprised, right? Believe it or not, this spot was the hardest. It was almost Devendra Banhart, Kanye West, Beirut… At first, American Gangster was completely...
where “worst” = Top 5 albums I just couldn’t get into this year, no matter how hard (or little) I tried. 5. The National, Boxer It’s his voice. It’s also the inaccurate Springsteen references (can we please stop trying so hard to find people to carry the Springsteen torch? we really don’t need to find...
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