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NEWS
Happy 4th of July weekend from Treble!
Travis Morrison, retired from music?
Video: Franz Ferdinand "Can't Stop Feeling"
Jelly Pool Parties lineup announced
Black Heart Procession reveal new album details
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COLUMNS and FEATURES
This Is Not a Love Song
A primer on how not to misinterpret lyrics.
Bonnaroo 2009: A Shot in the Arm
A look back at the dusty, sweaty, drunken weekend that was.
Reviews In Brief
Short summations of recent releases that deserve a mention.
Sasquatch 2009
A round up of all the hairy action.
Down to Business: An Interview with Big Business
Coady Willis and Jared Warren speak with Treble about how hard they rock.
Album of the Week Mix
2009, Volume 2.
The 90-Minute Guide: Post-Punk
Twenty-four tracks of agitated glory from one of music's most inspired eras.
Treble's Guide to Summer Festivals
Let the beer gouging begin!
Best Song Ever: Wedding Music
Programming the nuptial iPod.
Treble's Favorite Record Stores
In celebration of Record Store Day, here are some of our favorite haunts.
Perversity
Another batch of overlooked gems, from the last 12-18 months.
Spring EP Roundup
Spring EPs have sprung!
A Pure Drop: Jeff Buckley in Print
Examining Jeff Buckley's newly released bio, including a Q&A with author Jeff Apter.
Album of the Week Mix
2009, Volume 1.
The 90-Minute Guide: New Wave
Whip it good.
Oh, The Guilt: An essay on musical perceptions
In a post-rockist and post-poptimist world, all that matters is an open mind.
Winter Springs Eternal: An Interview with Pica Beats
Ryan Barrett sits down with us for a chat.
Our Swell Seasons: Inaugural Edition
An in depth look at an album that slipped under our radar.
Winter EP Roundup
Some short playing standouts from the past couple months.
Life on Shuffle: Tomorrow Never Knows
Asking iTunes for answers about the year ahead.
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The Best Tracks of the '00s - No. 12
Solomon Burke "Don't Give Up on Me"
The Best Tracks of the '00s - No. 11
Women "Black Rice"
The Best Tracks of the '00s - No. 10
Castanets "You Are the Blood"
The Best Tracks of the '00s - No. 9
Vampire Weekend "Bryn"
The Best Tracks of the '00s - No. 8
The Minus 5 - "Dear Employer (The Reason I Quit)"
The Best Tracks of the '00s - No. 7
St. Vincent "The Apocalypse Song"
The Best Tracks of the '00s - No. 6
The Walkmen "Wake Up"
The Best Tracks of the '00s - No. 5
Blur "Sweet Song"
The Best Tracks of the '00s - No. 4
Spoon "My Mathematical Mind"
Singles Gettin' Heady
Mount Kimbie - Maybes
Book Review - Ryan Adams
Prolific singer-songwriter tries his hand at prose.
Singles Gettin' Heady
Cage & Aviary "Television Train"
The Best Tracks of the '00s - No. 3
Modest Mouse "Night on the Sun"
Live Review - Fucked Up
The Casbah; San Diego, CA
The Best Tracks of the '00s - No. 2
Ghostface Killah "Underwater"
Singles Gettin' Heady
Little Dragon "Fortune"/"Blinking Pigs"
The Best Tracks of the '00s - No. 1
Wolf Parade "I'll Believe In Anything"
The Best of Blog-House: 2008
A look back at the most zShared, MySpaced, Bookfaced electro of the last year.
Live Review - Deerhunter
Hawthorne Theater - Portland, Ore.
Live Review - Stereolab
The Showbox - Seattle, WA
Live Review - Torche
The Casbah - San Diego, CA
Live Review - Outside Lands 2008
San Francisco, CA.
Live Review - An Evening with Eels
The Showbox, Seattle, Wash.
Live Review - British Sea Power
Neumo's Crystal Ball Reading Room; Seattle, WA.
Precluded Predecessors - Volume 1: Heatmiser
Before Elliott Smith was a household name, he played some loud rock 'n' roll.
Live Review - Yeasayer
The Showbox; Seattle, WA.
Live Review - UNKLE
Mezzanine; San Francisco, CA.
Life On Shuffle - Death to Chuck
...or at least some kind of comeuppance.
Best Albums of 2007
Individual Writers' top ten lists.
Top 10 Metal Albums of 2007
Valhalla casts its votes.
The Best EP Releases of 2007
The best releases of the year, all under half an hour.
Top 10 Hip-hop Albums of 2007
Beats and rhymes, ftw!
Hope for Men: Noise Rock in 2007
The cult of Albini gains notoriety.
Don't Think Twice It's Alright
Top 10 Dylan covers, not included in I'm Not There.
Live Review - John Vanderslice/Bishop Allen
The Social; Tampa, Florida.
Best Song Ever - The Music of Buffy The Vampire Slayer
a.k.a. 'Whedon Comes Alive!'
Good Fortune: an interview with Kyle Keyser
Treble talks to the man behind PJ Harvey documentary Stories from the Road.
Life On Shuffle - Soul is Hard to Find
Another surrender to the randomness of 10 songs out of 20,000
Live Review - Spoon
Cafe du Nord; San Francisco, CA
Best Song Ever - Spoon "Jonathan Fisk"
A rocking, amazing highlight from Kill the Moonlight.
Bonnaroo 2007: Appendix
More odds and ends from this year's festivities.
Live Review - Okkervil River
Neumo's Crystal Ball Reading Room; Seattle, WA
Best Song Ever - Once
Redefining the movie musical
Best Song Ever - Veronica Mars
As the CW's last good show comes to an end, we look back at its best musical moments.
Live Review - The Arcade Fire
Spreckels Theater; San Diego, CA
Live Review - Panda Bear
B.Leza; Lisbon, Portugal
Best Song Ever - The Sugarcubes "Birthday"
Wrapping up the Björk festivities with an early classic.
Björk: Tele-gló
A quick look at two of Björk's unsung gems.
Live Review - Junior Boys
Mezzanine; San Francisco, CA
Life On Shuffle - The Shadow of Seattle
Shuffling up Rat City
Life On Shuffle - Pushin' Down on Me
A random sequence from the Bay Area commute.
Life On Shuffle - Part Four: Party Pit
A series of coincidences dictates our most recent iPod sequence.
Live Review - Camera Obscura
Neumo's Crystal Ball Reading Room; Seattle, WA.
Live Review - Of Montreal
El Rey Theater; Los Angeles, CA.
Life On Shuffle - Part 3: Goin' Against Your Mind
Another excursion into the random.
Live Review - Be the Riottt! Festival
Bill Graham Civic Auditorium; San Francisco, CA
Life On Shuffle - Volume 2: Testing the Model
Searching for patterns within the iPod's randomness.
Live Review - All Tomorrow's Parties: Nightmare Before Christmas
Butlins Minehead, UK; 12/8-12/10
Life On Shuffle - Part One
An introduction
The Best Albums of 2006
The Next 50.
Get Behind Me, Santa!
The War on Christmas music.
Live Review - Hot Chip
The Casbah — San Diego, CA
Best Song Ever - Anna's Wild Years
Not bad for a relatively new music geek.
Best Song Ever - Tom's Wild Years
From Billy Bragg to Smokers Die Younger.
Best Song Ever - Jeff's Wild Years
From 81 to the present.
Best Song Ever - Terry's Wild Years
The first installment of a special Best Song Ever series.
Live Review - Built to Spill
Warsaw, Brooklyn, NY - 10/03/06
Live Review - The North Atlantic/Wax on Radio
Mercury Lounge, New York, NY - 9/28/06
Instant '80s Box Set!
A best of the '80s supplement of hand selected tracks.
Live Review - Comets on Fire
Neumo’s Crystal Ball Reading Room, Seattle, WA 8-19-06
Siren Fest '06-Recap
A one-man account of the wackiness of Coney Island's free rock fest.
The Boy Least Likely To - Live
6/13/06 -- Knitting Factory, New York, NY
Best Song Ever - 2006, Part Two
With the summer jams out of our system, we're back to some random, yet great songs.
Best Song Ever - Libertines
A Best Song Ever essay.
The Hold Steady - Live Review
Warsaw - Brooklyn, NY
Best Song Ever - 2006, Part one
It's about damn time!
Transatlantic Underground - Part Two
An early '06 look at unsigned acts home and abroad.
Truly Great - The Beatles
Long after the '60s and '70s lists, we recognize the band that trumped JC.
The Treble Tribute
Canada takes on Bowie....it could happen!
Label of The Year
We hereby declare Sub Pop Records the recipient of this honor.
The Finer Things in Life - Re-make/Re-model
Scratching the imperfect album itch.
Best Song Ever
Part eight: We're back!
I Sing the Body Electric
Fall 2005 in electronica.
Sufjan Stevens: Live
Cat's Cradle, Carrboro, NC; September 25, 2005
Trans-Atlantic Underground
Treble gets down and dirty with unsigned music.
The Finer Things in Life - The Great Music Marathon
Can our hero listen to every album in his collection?!!!
Truly Great - Paper Beats Rock
Librarians can rock, too!
Make Your Own 1970s Box Set
After reading along with our Best of the 70s feature, you can now listen to selections from our favorites!
Lion Fever
The Treble Interview
Best Song Ever
Part Seven
Best Song Ever
Part Six
Amusement Parks on Fire: Live Review
House of Blues - San Diego
Best Song Ever
Part Five
A Work of Fiction in Three Parts
Treble's look at Rhino's reissued versions of The Cure's Seventeen Seconds, Faith and Pornography.
Truly Great - Truly Great Album Series
New Order
...Then I Can Dig It!
Treble stumbles across a DVD copy of Ondi Timoner's award-winning documentary Dig! Wackiness ensues.
The Best Song Ever
Part Four.
The Light That Never Went Out
A young Latino recalls his early burglary years with Morrissey.
Best Song Ever
Part Three
The Best Song Ever
Part Two
The Treble Tribute
Four more tribute albums that the label execs should consider in the near future.
Truly Great - The Calm Before the Storm
A look at Death Cab for Cutie's Transatlanticism and REM's Document.
The Finer Things in Life - The Treble Tribute
If I planned Tribute albums, they might be worth listening to.
Treble Radio
Playlist 11/3/04
Treble Radio
Playlist 10/27/04
Treble Radio
10/20/04
Truly Great - Truly Great Album Series
Tom Waits
Truly Great - Truly Great Album Series
Elliott Smith
Treble Radio
Playlist 10/13/04
The Song That's Shaking Me
Jon Brion "Sorry Suzanne"
Treble Radio
Playlist 9/29/04
Treble Radio
Playlist 9/22/04
The Finer Things in Life - Treble Radio
Now you can listen while you read.
Truly Great - Truly Great Album Series
J. Robbins
Truly Great - I'm B-Side Myself
The other side of singles.
The Song That's Shaking Me
Josh Rouse - "1972"
The Song That's Shaking Me
Basement Jaxx - "Hot & Cold"
Michael Moore Ignites America
The trials and tribulations surrounding the filmmaker's latest, Fahrenheit 9/11
Truly Great - The Truly Great Album Series part 3
Wilco
Truly Great - The Truly Great Album Series part 2
Brian Eno
Truly Great - The Truly Great Album Series part 1
The Smiths
Truly Great - The Great Cover-Up
You don't always have to write a song to make it good.
The Finer Things in Life - Treble Fest
Just wait till I get to curate my own music fest.
Truly Great - The Artist formerly and now currently known as Prince
But you may call him "His Purple Badness."
By The Numbers - The Pixies
Francis & Co. go up against our calculator.
The Finer Things in Life - Road House
Swayze's finest hour, if there is such a thing.
Truly Great - Echo and the Bunnymen
Bring on Ian McCulloch and Will Sergeant.
By The Numbers - David Bowie
Just to show that we're not averse to number-ratings, here's a mathematical breakdown of everything Bowie's done!
Truly Great - In which I aim my caustic invectives at Rolling Stone’s gimmick to sell magazines.
Top 500, my ass.
Truly Great - Elliott Smith
1969-2003
The Finer Things in Life - A Distorted Reality is Now a Necessity to Be Free
I miss Elliott. And the vegetation along SR-163.
Truly Great - Truly Great, Part One
A critic takes on critics.
...Where at Least I Know I'm Free
Hey kids, you ever wonder how Ken spends his Fourth of July? Now the mystery is revealed.
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