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....
Lost MP3 of the Week: John Coltrane, “Love Supreme: Part 1: Acknowledgement”
The first time I heard A Love Supreme, I was on a train coming back from MacArthur Airport in Islip, Long Island. I was in my senior year of college and had just watched my long-distance boyfriend board a plane back to California. It had been an interesting and emotional trip, as rushed visits between...
Lost MP3 of the Week: Muddy Waters, “You Can’t Lose What You Ain’t Never Had”
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...
Lost MP3 of the Week: John Fahey, “On The Sunny Side Of The Ocean”
John Fahey has been recommended to me enough times that I’ve lost count, and has been cited as an influence by a decent chunk of the artists in my listening library, and yet, though I’ve had The Transfiguration of Blind Joe Death for ages now, it’s taken me an absurd amount of time to properly...
Lost MP3 of the Week: The Doors, “The Crystal Ship”
It’s horribly cliche, but over the past couple summers, the moment the temperatures move towards 80 degrees, I reach for my Doors’ collection. I always start out more or less listening to everything of theirs I own, then as the summer progresses, I cling to a particular song, usually one I hadn’t paid much attention...
Neko Case covering Chuck Berry
[youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=qiKz3D1cQz0[/youtube] As the result of some sort of weird musical karma, I’m sure, ever since making a slight dig on Neko Case for acting like a diva when I saw the New Pornographers live, I’ve found myself in the mood to listen to her. (Not that I would ever really truly put down a fellow...
Lost MP3 of the Week: The Animals, “House of the Rising Sun”
The first music, in general, that I remember loving and growing up with was from “the Music Man” – as in the movie with Robert Preston, which I would watch repeatedly, to the point of annoying my mother, when I was about four years old. But memory is a tricky thing, and a lot of...
Looking Forward & Looking Back: T-Sides is Two Years Old!
Amazingly enough, we’ve reached the two-year mark here at T-Sides. I say amazingly because as any avid blog reader/writer will tell you, blogs — and music blogs in particular — tend to have a short shelf life. After many unsuccessful brainstorms and attempts, T-Sides will not, in any foreseeable future, be implementing any sort of...
T-Sides is a Winner!
Thanks to all who voted in the Hey! Nielsen Best Music Blog contest. T-Sides made it into the Top 20! Congrats to the other winners, which include T-Sides reads like Brooklyn Vegan, Gorilla vs. Bear and My Kentucky Blog. Led Zeppelin: “Thank You” (download)
Ike Turner: 1931-2007
AP – Musician Ike Turner Dies at 79 Ike Turner & The Kings of Rhythm: “Getting Nasty” (download) The man was seriously dehumanized, and I don’t know enough about all of it to say much on that subject, but he wrote some damn fine music. Today, let’s remember him for it.
Bob Dylan’s “Not There”
Todd Haynes could not have chosen a more apt title for his Bob Dylan tribute film, I’m Not There. Dylan is not often found within the two hours and 25 minutes of the film: not in the character’s names, not in the soundtrack (the songs are covers), and only occasionally in the plot. As an...
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