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Upside: 2001-2007

Yes, we broke up. Yes, we love you, too.

About Me


'Hit the Ground' – LIVE at Hailey's in Denton, Texas!
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'Hit the Ground' – UPSIDE live

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'Flatline' – LIVE at Record Bar in Kansas City, Mo.!
'Flatline' - UPSIDE live

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'Flatline' - UPSIDE live

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Album.
'JIM BEAM AND THE AMERICAN DREAM'
AVAILABLE NOW!
ORDER ONLINE
1. Does This Make Me Look Dead?
2. Campfire Vampires
3. Monday
4. Lights Out
5. Puppets
6. Anchor
7. Silence Says it All
8. Flatline
9. Watch it Fade
10. Hit the Ground
11. Daylight
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CONTACT:
NO ONE! WE BROKE UP! HELL AND DAMNATION!
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BIOGRAPHY
In 2001, a whiskey-soaked crack commando unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they didn’t commit. These men promptly kicked ass and escaped a maximum-security stockade in Tulsa, Okla. and fled to the Dallas underground. Today, still wanted by the government but having given up the rock and roll life, they look back on the days when they survived as soldiers of fortune: living on your floors, killing your liquor cabinets, breaking your traffic laws, melting the face paint off your local emo kids, playing your Guitar Hero and thus reigning supreme as the original purveyors of TEXAS PARTY METAL. If you ever had a problem like an over-abundance of shitty bands in your town, lame-ass parties or your eardrums hadn't bled yet one month, if no one else could help, and if you could find them, maybe you could've hired UPSIDE. Hell, if you did, they probably wouldn't have broken up. Oh well!

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 7/22/2004
Band Website: upsideband.com
Band Members:

Sid Goldsmith - vocals

Ben Mosier - guitars

Rob Hocking - bass, vocals

Owen Drum - drums

Sounds Like: TEXAS PARTY METAL

"An exceptional disc full of strapping and wiry riffs, lively and eager singing and piquant and fully realized songwriting that harks back to the 1970s, when songs, not personalities, ruled rock." – Dallas Morning News

"We’re all fairly certain that the vocalist prepares for each show by downing a fifth of whiskey. Love those guitar solos." – Smother.net

"A balls-out slice of Sunset Strip inspired hard rock." – Urban Tulsa Weekly

"Guitarist Ben Mosier’s got all manner of Big Wreck ‘n’ Wolfmother chord change up his stadium-starry coat-sleeves. Basically, before this, Priestess were the edge of smarmy – now Upside define that edge...a toe-tapped trip with substance." – Bravewords

"Whip-smart songwriting and perfect production...Mullet music never sounded so sophisticated." – Stylus

Record Label: none
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

DALLAS MORNING NEWS ARTICLE

Mike Daniel of the Dallas Morning News wrote a dead-on article about Upside and why we do what we do. Check it out!By MIKE DANIEL / Staff Writer The Loon is a great place in Dallas to talk to a blosso...
Posted by Upside  ON TOUR IN JUNE! on Mon, 28 May 2007 11:36:00 PST

A FEW TIDBITS

I. SORRY, YOUNG TULSANSWe just found out tonight that Saturday's show at Boston's in Tulsa is NOT all ages. It WILL BE a 21 and up event, and we're really peeved about that. But the rock goes on, and ...
Posted by Upside  ON TOUR IN JUNE! on Fri, 11 May 2007 10:18:00 PST

MAY UPSIDE UPDATE

I. UP NORTH THIS WEEKENDThe Texans, Cajuns, Hogs and Okies have already experienced the "Jim Beam and the American Dream" release show insanity. Now, the Kansans and Mizzou folk get the rock road show...
Posted by Upside  ON TOUR IN JUNE! on Wed, 02 May 2007 10:50:00 PST

Thank you concert goers!!!

       To any fan reading this I just want to stress how much of an impact your presence at an Upside show means. We played in three different towns this weekend, one of which...
Posted by Upside  ON TOUR IN JUNE! on Sun, 29 Apr 2007 02:25:00 PST

ALBUM'S OUT. YUP!

That's the damn truth. You can get our album now! Your life just got much better. Rock is back and it's not goin' anywhere.If you're in the Upside region (Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri, Arkansas, ...
Posted by Upside  ON TOUR IN JUNE! on Tue, 10 Apr 2007 01:20:00 PST

FULL SONG PREVIEWS THIS WEEK, ALBUMS NOW SHIPPING

Wow, the album comes out next Tuesday? 'Ya don't say!In case any you are insane enough that you haven't preordered "Jim Beam and the American Dream" or made plans to buy it some other way when it come...
Posted by Upside  ON TOUR IN JUNE! on Mon, 02 Apr 2007 02:39:00 PST

JOIN UPSIDE STREET TEAM, PREORDER NEW ALBUM

I. UPSIDE STREET TEAMWe're assembling a badass street team to help spread the Upside word. And the only way to assemble a badass street team is to first have leaders that really give a shit about pro...
Posted by Upside  ON TOUR IN JUNE! on Sun, 25 Mar 2007 08:18:00 PST

LEX AND TERRY DON'T HATE UPSIDE

The fine folks at the Lex and Terry show    a nationally syndicated rock radio morning drive show    played our song "Monday" this morning and proudly proclaimed it didn't suck. Every now and then, ...
Posted by Upside  ON TOUR IN JUNE! on Thu, 22 Feb 2007 03:24:00 PST

UPSIDE IS YOUR BABY'S DADDY, ANNA NICOLE

I. UPSIDE BASSIST ROB HOCKING FATHERED ANNA NICOLE SMITH'S BABYSee, now you're reading, aren't you? Sheep!It's not true, unfortunately. But can you imagine the warrantless record sales?Everything els...
Posted by Upside  ON TOUR IN JUNE! on Thu, 15 Feb 2007 12:20:00 PST

UPSIDE SIGNS; ALBUM OUT APRIL 10

I. THE NEW ALBUM, 'JIM BEAM AND THE AMERICAN DREAM,' IN APRIL!!Told you people we weren't lying...What: 'Jim Beam and the American Dream'Who: UpsideWhen: April 10How: Tribunal RecordsWhy: Because rock...
Posted by Upside  ON TOUR IN JUNE! on Tue, 06 Feb 2007 10:41:00 PST