T-Sides’ 2010 in Review
Favorite Albums of 2010 Band of Horses, Infinite Arms For when you run away from home and want to keep on running. Current Favorite: “Blue Beard” (download) Broken Social Scene, Forgiveness Rock Record For when you’re ready to start all over again. Current Favorite: “Water In Hell” (download) Chief, Modern Rituals For when you want...
T-Sides’ Decade in Review: Albums
I’m not so smug as to think that I can pin-point the albums that will, in retrospect, stand out the most from the 2000s. Nor would it be accurate to argue that the albums that affected me the most on a personal level were “the best.” But if I were to completely take the personal...
T-Sides’ 2009 in Review: Albums
Hey, look at that – we’re still alive! Complete truth: I meant to post this a good week earlier, but was having server troubles. 2009 was a rough year, personally, for your poor webmistress, but it would take quite something to stop the compiling of year end lists. Though, 2009 wasn’t such a competitive year...
Top 15 Music-Related Things We’ve Been Hearing, Reading, Thinking About For The Past Two Months
I’m truly sorry T-Sides and all related projects have been offline for so long. Chalk it up to summer, chalk it up to a quarter-life crisis, chalk it up to any sorry excuse for life taking us away from the things we love that require any amount of work. But let’s turn the focus on...
T-Sides Elsewhere, Feb. 6th Edition
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...
T-Sides’ 2008 in Review: Superlatives
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...
T-Sides’ 2008 in Review: Songs*
* = 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...
T-Sides’ 2008 in Review: Albums
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...
T-Sides’ 2007 in Review: Top Albums – the “Best”
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...
T-Sides’ 2007 in Review: Top Albums – the “Worst”
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...
T-Sides’ 2007 in Review: Best Concerts
I refuse to whittle this down to just 10 shows. There were just too many standouts from this year, and all of them deserve to be recognized even if it means the defiance of a pretty number. 12. Kyp Malone @ Zebulon, Jan. 31st Kyp Malone is a member of TV on the Radio, one...
T-Sides’ 2007 in Review: Top 10 Songs*
More often that not, Best Albums of 2007 lists have a lot of overlap with Best Songs of 2007 lists. To make things more interesting – for both of us – instead of a list of the 10 best songs overall (many of them would be on my 10 best albums), this is a list...
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