Hello.. It’s been a long time. We’ve been sleeping. But we have a bit of excitement stirring for the spring. In the mean time, check out this great live session brought to you by the fine folks at Daytrotter who have an amazing live studio and website.
http://www.daytrotter.com/article/1130/take-your-time-fill-your-space-with-those-lasting-sparklies
Stay tuned for new spring tour dates, coming soon.
A few things to note…
National Public Radio’s World Cafe with host David Dye can be heard on nearly 200 stations nationwide. Fans can find their local station by going to our website: http://worldcafe.org
or they can listen online to the WXPN/Philadelphia stream Monday to Friday 2pm to 4pm Eastern Standard Time by going to: http://xpn.org/listen_live/listen.php
Hey everyone you can now stream our live perfomance at the World Cafe Live from Friday, September 22 on NPR.org.
The track list for the performance is as follows:
Thanks to everyone who came out, WXPN, Helen Leight, and David Dye for having us.
Our record, Silver Storms is now out and available for public consumption. It should be available at any fine retailer of music including, your local indie, fye, barnes and noble and best buy stores…
Then again, you can always use the powers of the Internets and get it from:
Thanks much. We leave this Sunday for our mega long ultra tour. Starting with a week with Pinback, who also have a new record out last week. Hope to see you on the road!
UPDATE: THE BEST REVIEW OF ALL TIME.
The A-Sides are a mountain-shattering quintet from Philadelphia, the land where Ben Franklin stood when the future one hundred-dollar bill was lit up by a lightning bolt. Philly, along with the cheese steak, is also the birthplace of Mike Schmidt’s mustache. My friend Hayley attends Temple University, also in Philadelphia, official backdrop of the movie with the same name where a flimsy Tom Hanks won an Oscar for having AIDS. Philly!
A band of leisurely constructionists, The A-Sides manufacture prize buildings of implausible mass on their second effort Silver Storms, the follow up to their 2005 debut Hello, Hello on the Prison Jazz imprint.
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The complete Silver Storms is on the Philebrity Player for your listening pleasure.
The record we bring to you today on The Philebrity Player is one that’s near and dear to our hearts, to be sure. The A-Sides‘ Silver Storms, presented here in full three weeks before its release, has been alive for us so long only in the realm of hand-burned CD-R that we’ve worn grooves into it; never mind that it marks a huge achievement for the group and that the A-Sides’ signing to the Vagrant label represents one of the biggest signings of a Philly band in years. No, Silver Storms is eminiently listenable, doing things that you didn’t think bands were really supposed to do anymore: Namely, sound big. (more…)
Charlie and I have a funny Q and A in the Philadelphia Weekly today. Check it out here or go pick one up!
OMG!!! “Sidewalk Chalk” was like tooootallly on The Hills last night!
As of today we are Spin.com’s band of the day. Here is the link:
Fun Fact: Patrick Marsceill’s dad played keyboards in an ’70s rock band called Ox, which sounded a lot like Long Island, NY hard rock act, Mountain. They issued one single before breaking up. BRIANA MOWREY
IT’S TRUE!!
Hey we played an awesome little live performance on WOXY in Cincinnati…
Here is the link:
http://woxy.lala.com/music/loungeacts/index.php?id=215
So far our trip has been super awesome! We play one more show today then head back to Philly. Hope to see you in July.
Patrick
I think we may have forgotten to mention this on the site back when it went down, but we were on the 6abc (action) news, fulfilling our childhood dreams of somehow being related to Jim Gardner. Anyhow, they took some video from our show in February at the lovely and amazing Johnny Brendas and we did a funny interview in which Doyle said he listens to “Edge.” (We’re still not quite sure what he meant.)