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Vinyl Round-Up: September 12, 2014
Have you been feeling an emptiness? Is there an emptiness that needs to be occupied? Hopefully B-sides can fill the…
Vinyl Round-Up – 9/5/14
Rejoice audiophiles! B-Sides is here to guide you’re superior sense of musical taste. This week the round-up is populated by…
Vinyl Round-Up: August 29, 2014
As a culture, we are craving authenticity more everyday. The masses are clamoring for more things to be more genuine. Vinyl…
Vinyl Round-Up: August 22, 2014
Vinyl is really in right now. We at B-Sides have decided to compile the best records every week. We’re here…
Music Festivals: A Dying Art?
Music festivals are like mini-meccas for music lovers of a certain temperament. A weekend-long party filled with great music, interesting…
10 Best Foo Fighters Songs
The Foo Fighters recently announced they were releasing a new album in the fall of this year. Few modern rock…
9 Chicks That Rock
It’s a man’s world, but these ladies are out to prove that it wouldn’t be nothing without a woman or…
The Beastie Boys: An MCA Tribute
Today would have been the fiftieth birthday of rapper Adam Yauch, better known as MCA. We’re taking this opportunity to…
Diary From Firefly Music Festival Pt. 2
After the wildly successful first installment of my diary from a music festival I’ve returned to finish the story. The people are…
Diary From Firefly Music Festival Pt. 1
500,000 people went to Woodstock in 1969. That sounds horrific. Last weekend I went to Dover Delaware’s own Firefly Music…
Throwback Thursday: Superunknown
Soundgarden’s fourth studio album had no reason to be as popular as it was. The LP was entirely unusual and…
5 Albums That Sound Better On Vinyl
Music played on vinyl is a beautiful and somehow textural thing. You feel the sound in a much more intimate…
5 Best use of Songs in Commercials
If watching Mad Men has taught us at B-Sides anything, it’s that making commercials is an art form. In a…
The Worst Things Rihanna Has Ever Done
Many of us haven’t forgiven Riri for getting back with Chris Brown after allegedly being abused by the R&B singer.…
May 2014: Best New Artists (So Far)
Memorial Day hs come and gone, and for most people the summer is well underway. It’s time to unpack the…
10 Greatest Supergroups
The tradition of the supergroup is nearly as old as rock and roll itself. The idea is pretty much a…
What is “Indie” and What’s Not?
Whenever someone has asked you what kind of music you list to, have you ever answered “indie?”Probably not. It’s not…
7 Coolest Concert Gimmicks
You say gimmicks like it’s a bad thing! Sometimes concerts are great when they’re all music accompanied by the occasional…
A Countdown of the 7 Best Concerts In Movies
There have only been a few times that live music was blended movie outside of musicals. It was done well even fewer…
Top 9 Feuds in Music History
Patrick Carney of the Black Keys reignited his rivalry with Justin Beiber in a recent Rolling Stone article. He’s joined…
Courtney Love: A Staple of Rock Music
Few individuals have had as much of an influence on modern rock as Kurt Cobain’s widow.The former lead singer of…
7 Athletes You Didn’t Know Were Music Fans
There hasn’t been much mainstream crossover between sports and music since the dubious “Super Bowl Shuffle” was performed by the…
Non-EDM Party Music Playlist For Your Weekend
EDM has grown from an underground, niche portion of the alternative music genre to the dominating choice of format for…
Gwen Stefani: Relevant or Old News?
It’s been officially confirmed that Gwen Stefani will be filling in on NBC’s The Voice for the 8 months pregnant…
Artist Spotlight: The Strypes
One Direction is the latest is a long history of boy bands. Young attractive males have made shallow, easily digestible…
Top 10 Movie Soundtracks
In a time when movie soundtracks no longer dominate radio waves the way they did in yesteryear, the original motion…
Throwback Thursday: “The College Dropout” Then and Now
Kanye West is one of the greats. He makes a habit of telling us. Despite the braggadocio attitude we can’t…
Our Top 7 Suggestions for Colbert’s New House Band
Stephen Colbert nearly broke the internet last week when it was announced he would be replacing David Letterman at the…
Top 10 Nirvana Covers Of All-Time
On April 10, 2014, the grunge gods, Nirvana, will be inducted by Michael Stipe of R.E.M. into the Rock and…
Jack White Announces New Album, New Tour, Releases New Song
The Lo-fi legend and White Stripes frontman made some major announcements this week including a new album, a new tour…
Co-headlining Concerts We’d love to See Next
Soundgarden and Nine Inch Nails are the latest in a string of band to announce co-headlining tours this summer. Other…
Album Review: Cope by Manchester Orchestra
Indie hard-rockers Manchester Orchestra have done it again with their newest album, Cope. The new record is more of the same for…
Smashing Pumpkins Announce Two New Albums
That’s right, not one but two LPs have been announced for 2015 from Billy Corgan brainchild, The Smashing Pumpkins. Not…
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