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NEWS
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds announce fourth round of reissues
The National contributing to children's book app
New releases: 5/22
Video: Sleigh Bells - "Demons"
Yeasayer announce new album
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COLUMNS and FEATURES
Celebrate the Catalog: Gang Starr
A retrospective on Guru and Premier's recorded works.
Our Band Couldn't Be Your Life: Throbbing Gristle
A re-examination of the proto-industrial performance artists.
Stand Together: Adam Yauch and the Beastie Boys
A reflection on the late MCA, and the Beasties' legacy.
Treble's 50 Favorite Drummers
The fifty percussionists we couldn't jam without.
Perversity
Albums that passed us by in the last 12 months.
Celebrate the Catalog: Guided by Voices
Bob Pollard & Co. through the ages.
2012 Festival Preview
Coachella is upon us, as well as a bunch of other summer shindigs.
Hold On To Your Genre: Krautrock
The mind-expanding world of 1970s Deutschland.
Interview: Nite Jewel
Ramona Gonzalez talks about her new album, "Star Search" and missed connections.
Endless Playlist 2012: Part One
A new, ongoing jam collection point.
Celebrate the Catalog: Nine Inch Nails
A thorough trip through Trent Reznor's epic creations.
Chris Brown and the question of offstage behavior
The sticky topic of how we perceive artists outside their art.
Interview: Porcelain Raft
Mauro Remiddi talks of dreamy atmospheres and the grounded nature of rhythm.
The 90 Minute Guide: Apocalypse
It's the end of the world as we know it (and we feel fine).
Hold On to Your Genre: Coldwave/Minimal Wave
A summary of two obscure synth-wave styles.
Interview: Pop. 1280
Ivan Lip discusses the NY band's dark and noisy sound.
Celebrate the Catalog: Kate Bush
Ten albums of beauty, drama and boundless ambition.
Winter/Spring Album Preview 2012
Twenty new albums to make your season.
Top 50 Albums of 2011
Our 50 favorite long players in a year of musical riches.
Top 50 Songs of 2011
Our 50 favorite tracks from a diverse and crazy year.
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Treble's Top 10 - 10 Essential Slowcore Albums
Slow and low, that is the tempo.
Treble's Top 10 - 10 Essential Emo Albums
Removing the stigma from a divisive genre.
Treble's Top 10 - 10 Unfollowed Masterpieces
Ten flawless albums that left us hanging.
Treble's Top 10 - 10 Essential Solo Debut Albums
Ten artists that got it right the first time, after stepping out on their own.
Treble's Top 10 - 10 Iconic Album Cover Artists
The visual artists that made our favorite albums that much better.
History's Greatest Monsters - Monster #3: Chinese Democracy
Axl Rose, $13 million, and hubris!
Treble's Top 10 - 10 False-start Debut Albums
When the first album doesn't come out quite right.
Treble's Top 10 - 10 Essential Dream Pop Albums
With the Cocteau Twins, The Cure, Mazzy Star and more.
Treble's Top 10 - 10 Pop Music Urban Legends
10 of our favorite tales of rock 'n' roll folklore.
Treble's Top 10 - 10 Essential 21st Century Shoegaze Albums
The next generation of noise makers.
Pet Grief - SXSW Survival Guide
Everything you ever wanted to know but were afraid to ask.
Treble's Top 10 - 10 Albums That Would Make Great Films
We imagine some of our favorites on the Silver Screen.
Treble's Top 10 - 10 Essential New Romantic Albums
Where style is substance.
Treble's Top 10 - 10 Essential Break-Up Albums
Ten amazing collections of heartbreaking tunes.
Treble's Top 10 - 10 Essential 'Between-the-Sheets' Albums
Just in time for Valentine's Day.
History's Greatest Monsters - Monster #2: R.E.M.'s Around the Sun
R.E.M.'s lackluster 2004 album gets reexamined.
Treble's Top 10 - 10(+2) albums for History class
A soundtrack for your next cram session.
Treble's Top 10 - 10 Amazing 10+ Minute Songs
Our ten favorite epic tracks.
Treble's Top 10 - 10 Essential Shoegaze Albums
A roundup of our favorite dreamy noise-rock records.
Pet Grief - New Year's Resolutions
Goals for self-improvement from a cautiously optimistic editor.
Treble's Top 10 - 10 Slept-on albums of 2010
Going back more than a year to revisit some lost gems.
Treble's Top 10 - Honorable Mentions of 2011
The albums that fell just short of this year's top 50.
Treble's Top 10 - 10 Best Hip-Hop Albums of 2011
The year of the mixtape.
Treble's Top 10 - 10 Best Metal Albums of 2011
Horns up!
Pet Grief - The Wild, the Innocent and the Year-End Shuffle
My list is better than yours.
Treble's Top 10 - 10 awesome Drinkify artist-inspired cocktails
The best libations for a long listening session.
History's Greatest Monsters - Monster #1: Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music
Our inaugural monster bash begins with an infamous noise.
Introducing: History's Greatest Monsters
A new column to celebrate music at its worst.
Treble's Top 10 - 10 Nightmare Soundtracks
An extra-spooky Halloween top 10.
Live Review - Cut Copy
4th & B; San Diego, CA.
Treble's Top 10 - 10 Odes to Mental Illness
A Mad Tea Party of a top ten!
Live Review - 10% for the 10%: Yuck
Dissecting Yuck's live experience, bit by bit.
Pet Grief - The Wilhelm Whimper
Dubstep cage match? Or The Coreys for a new generation?
Treble's Top 10 - 10 Songs for a High School Reunion
School's in session, and so is nostalgia.
Treble's Top 10 - 10 Essential Autumn Albums
A musical guide to autumn and all its glory.
Treble's Top 10 - 10 One-Album Wonders
The best artists with the shortest discographies.
Treble's Top 10 - San Diego albums
A solid ten essential albums from Southern California.
Treble's Top 10 - Pre-, proto- and non-grunge Seattle oddities
The strange and obscure albums that preceded and paralleled grunge.
Treble's Top 10 - Best Comedy Albums of 2010
The ten funniest records of the year.
Treble's Top 10 - Best Debut Albums of 2010
A celebration of the rookies of the year.
Treble's Top 10 - Best EPs of 2010
The most impressive short players of the past year.
Treble's Top 10 - Best NSFW Videos of 2010
The best music videos of the year, the "mature audiences" edition.
Treble's Top 10 - Best Music Videos of 2010
The best visual interpretations of some of the year's best songs.
Treble's Top 10 - Best Album Covers of 2010
The best art from the best albums.
Treble's Top 10 - Best TV music moments of 2010
The best of DVR'd and viral viewing of the year.
Treble's Top 10 - Most LOL/WTF Music Moments of 2010
The best of the weirdest moments in the music world this year.
Treble's Top 10 - Best Artist Tweets of 2010
Our favorite one liners this year from some of our favorite artists.
Live Review - Broken Social Scene
Crystal Ballroom; Portland, OR
Treble's Top 10 - Gothic Rock Albums
Paint it black.
Treble's Top 10 - "Take" Songs
You've been taken!
Treble's Top 10 - Single-Artist Soundtracks
Ten great film companions dominated by one artist's vision.
Treble's Top 10 - Pop songs as TV themes
From Waits to the Who, Weeds to The Wire.
Treble's Top 10 - Grunge Albums Better Than Bleach
Seattle's (and a few other cities') underdog grunge classics.
Treble's Top 10 - Albums With Unofficial Titles
These albums are something else.
Treble's Top 10 - Mercury Prize Winners
Our favorite victors of the UK's annual musical honors.
Treble's Top 10 - BBQ Soundtracks
Ten perfect albums to spin on your weekend celebration.
Live Review - The National
Spreckels Theater; San Diego, CA.
Live Review - Frightened Rabbit/Maps and Atlases
The Casbah; San Diego, CA.
Live Review - Los Campesinos!
San Diego Women's Club; San Diego, CA
Live Review - Joanna Newsom
Mercy Lounge, Nashville, TN
Live Review - Baroness/Earthless/Iron Age
The Casbah, San Diego, CA
The Best Tracks of the '00s - No. 20
Yo La Tengo "More Stars Than There Are In Heaven"
The Best Tracks of the '00s - No. 19
Suede "Elaine Page"
The Best Tracks of the '00s - No. 18
Ryan Adams "I See Monsters"
The Best Tracks of the '00s - No. 17
TV on the Radio "Ambulance"
Live Review - The Veils
Mercury Lounge; New York City
The Best Tracks of the '00s - No. 16
Smashing Pumpkins "Bring the Light"
Live Review - Passion Pit
The Bowery Ballroom; New York, N.Y.
The Best Tracks of the '00s - No. 15
Andrew Bird - "Skin Is, My"
The Best Tracks of the '00s - No. 14
Yo La Tengo "Let's Save Tony Orlando's House"
The Best Tracks of the '00s - No. 13
The Hot Snakes "I Hate the Kids"
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.
Best Song Ever - Once
Redefining the movie musical
Live Review - Okkervil River
Neumo's Crystal Ball Reading Room; Seattle, WA
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.
Life On Shuffle - Part One
An introduction
Live Review - All Tomorrow's Parties: Nightmare Before Christmas
Butlins Minehead, UK; 12/8-12/10
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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