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REVIEWS ALBUMS OF THE WEEK ! A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Loudon Wainwright III - Here Come the Choppers Bloody Mother Fucking Pops. Martha Wainwright - Bloody Mother Fucking Asshole Couldn't have said it better. Rufus Wainwright - Want One Seriously, what's with the suit of armor? Rufus Wainwright - Release the Stars One cookie too many. Tom Waits - Mule Variations Truly Great Album Series Tom Waits - Frank's Wild Years Truly Great Album Series Tom Waits - Rain Dogs Truly Great Album Series Tom Waits - Swordfishtrombones Truly Great Album Series Tom Waits - Small Change Truly Great Album Series Tom Waits - Real Gone Real Gone indeed. Tom Waits - Closing Time Best of 1973 Tom Waits - The Heart of Saturday Night Best of 1974 Tom Waits - Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers and Bastards Perversity Series Tom Waits - Bone Machine Best of 1992 Wale - The Mixtape About Nothing Perversity Series. Wale - Attention Deficit D.C. emcee goes from sneaker jams to lyrical exorcisms. Scott Walker - The Drift From pop idol to avant garde visionary. Peter Walker - Young Gravity Singer vs. song argument, take 12,089. Walking Concert - Run to be Born Walter Schreifels' billionth band is another winner. The Walkmen - A Hundred Miles Off A warmer, steadily rocking third set from one of the best bands in New York. The Walkmen - You & Me NY favorites unleash an intimate and soulful classic. Chris Walla - Field Manual Putting Bothell on the map. Wallpaper - On the Chewing Gum Ground Getting back to rock's roots. The War On Drugs - Wagonwheel Blues A new kind of bar band. M. Ward - Transfiguration of Vincent Just who is this Vincent guy anyway? M. Ward - Transistor Radio Perversity series M. Ward - Post-War Timeless tales for troubled times. M. Ward - Duet For Guitars #2 Lo-fi beginnings for Portland singer-songwriter. M. Ward - Hold Time The best, worst-kept secret in music. Warlocks - Surgery Real rock for tortured souls. The Warlocks - The Mirror Explodes For a long drive with nothing to think about. Washington Social Club - Catching Looks Revenge of the nerds. Imaad Wasif - Imaad Wasif Fresh from Alaska! The Waterboys - This is the Sea Personal Best 1985 Patrick Watson - Close to Paradise Polaris award-winning Montreal artist's breakthrough. The Watson Twins - Fire Songs Sisters are doing it for themselves. The Watson Twins - Talking to You, Talking to Me Everybody's talkin'. Wavves - Wavvves Extra v's, extra fuzz, extra awesome. Wavves - King Of the Beach The big kahuna. Wayward Sway - On A Broken Machine If the machine ain't broke... We Are Scientists - With Love and Squalor Admit it, you like it. We Are Wolves - Non-Stop Je Plie En Deux Not a Peter and Patrick Wolf supergroup, sorry. We Landed on the Moon! - These Little Wars Soundtracking the drama. We Ragazzi - Wolves With Pretty Lips We Ragazzi is three bands in one. We Versus The Shark - Dirty Versions Shark attack! We Were Promised Jetpacks - These Four Walls Mission to Edinburgh. The Week That Was - The Week That Was Or was it? Weezer - Weezer (The Red Album) An SNL parody of an alt-rock band. Weezer - Weezer Best of 1994 Welcome - Sirs Melody meets abrasiveness. Paul Weller - As Is Now Incorporating the best of his career into one great album. Wesafari - Promotional Preview World, prepare yourselves. Kanye West - Graduation Pomp & circumstance (and some hot beats). Kanye West - 808s and Heartbreak Perversity Series. West Indian Girl - 4th and Wall Riding the blue wave. Paul Westerberg - Besterberg aka The Splendid Rescue The Western States Motel - Painted Birds Flying in the Orange Mirror Sun Dedicated to a rhythm. Wet Confetti - Laughing Gasping Unfortunate name, despite bright spots. Katharine Whalen - Dirty Little Secret Perversity Series What Made Milwaukee Famous - Trying to Never Catch Up Joyously fractured noise. What's Up? - Content Imagination Math, that's what. Whirlwind Heat - Flamingo Honey The ten minute wonders! Whirlwind Heat - Types of Wood Ferocious yawns. A Whisper in the Noise - As the Bluebird Sings Gothic Americana matched with great songwriting. White Denim - Exposion Riff-roaring dizziness. White Hills - White Hills For the love of doom. White Hinterland - Kairos A chance confrontation. White Lies - To Lose My Life Dishonesty is not always the best policy. White Rabbits - Fort Nightly Honky-tonk calypso...of course. White Rabbits - It's Frightening Hooks 'n' crannies. White Rainbow - Prism of Eternal Now More advanced than meditation. The White Stripes - Get Behind Me Satan New and improved White Stripes, Zellweger-free. The White Stripes - Icky Thump Thump up the volume. White Whale - WWI Aye, cap'n. Whitey - The Light at the End of the Tunnel is a Train Underachiever, try harder. The Who - The Who Sings My Generation Best of 1965 Why? - Elephant Eyelash (Yoni) Wolf Parade. Why? - Alopecia An indie pop venn diagram. Why? - Eskimo Snow Through a snowflake, darkly. Wilco - More Like the Moon EP; I'm Trying to Break Your Heart (Sam Jones) Jeff Tweedy is trying to break your heart. Wilco - Yankee Hotel Foxtrot Truly Great Album Series Wilco - Summerteeth Truly Great Album Series Wilco - A.M. Truly Great Album Series Wilco - A Ghost is Born Legends are born. Wilco - Being There Truly Great Album Series Wilco - Sky Blue Sky More A.M. than A.M. Wilco - Wilco (The Album) Wilco will love you, baby. Wild Beasts - Limbo, Panto Untamed indie pop wilderness. Wild Beasts - Two Dancers Just brutes hoping to have a hoot. Wild Nothing - Gemini The dreamy sound of summer. Wildbirds & Peacedrums - The Snake Balance and harmony. The Wilderness - The Wilderness Something wild, indeed. The Wilderness - Vessel States Zoning Out in the Wilderness The Wilderness - (k)now(h)ere Baltimore band continues to rock on their own terms. Wiley - Treddin' on Thin Ice Wot do u call it? Dar Williams - My Better Self An apt title for new set from an old favorite. Lucinda Williams - West Going to California. The Willowz - Talk in Circles Garage rock, no wave, spazz-punk and psychedelic rock in a blender. Marty Willson-Piper - Nightjar Funyuns, fresca and good pop music. Brian Wilson - SMiLE ...is exactly what you'll do when you hear this record. Jonathan Wilson - Frankie Ray Former Muscadine fella impresses with solo outing. Dennis Wilson - Pacific Ocean Blue (Deluxe Legacy Edition) The first solo Beach Boy project gets an honorable reissue. Windsor For the Derby - How We Lost Honey's not dead yet. Amy Winehouse - Back to Black So glad to be back. Wire - Pink Flag Best of 1977 Wire - Chairs Missing Best of 1978 Wire - 154 Best of 1979 Wire - Read & Burn 03 The pink flag keeps flying. Wire - Object 47 It's beginning to and back again. Witchdoctor - Diary Of An American Witchdoctor The doctor is in. Gordon Withers - Jawbox on Cello: A Benefit For Cal Robbins No strings attached. Denison Witmer - Are You a Dreamer? Perversity Series Patrick Wolf - Wind in the Wires Irish wonder exceeds expectations on sophomore set. Patrick Wolf - The Magic Position Learning to find the major key. Patrick Wolf - The Bachelor Still crazy after a few of these years. Wolf & Cub - Vessels Give the drummers some. Wolf Eyes - Burned Mind They just don't give a fuck. Wolf Eyes - Human Animal Perversity Series Wolf Parade - Apologies to the Queen Mary And out come the wolves. Wolf Parade - At Mount Zoomer Zooming toward greatness. Wolf Parade - Expo 86 Growing together, rocking together. Wolfgang - The Wicked Truth About Loving A Man Robot in love. The Wolfgang Press - The Burden of Mules Seminal post-punk album is pulled from the archives and into the light. Wolfmother - Wolfmother Wolfmother rawks! Wolfmother - Cosmic Egg Return of the riff monster. Wolfmother - Wolfmother (LP) Spellcasting, sword-wielding metal! Women - Women When a basic pop song just won't do. Stevie Wonder - Talking Book Best of 1972 Stevie Wonder - Innervisions Best of 1973 Stevie Wonder - Songs in the Key of Life Best of 1976 The Wooden Birds - Magnolia Rustic, acoustic, woodsy. Wooden Wand - James and the Quiet Toth goes quietly, voice vanishes. Woods - Songs of Shame Rural lo-fi anthems. Woods - At Echo Lake For hippies and art snobs alike. Working For a Nuclear Free City - Businessmen & Ghosts Radiation vibes. World Leader Pretend - Punches New Orleans swagger combined with Britpop sheen. World/Inferno Friendship Society - Addicted to Bad Ideas The creep, the foreigner, the stranger. Worm is Green - Automagic Mmmmm…black death. Wounded Lion - Wounded Lion Garage rock, Star Wars & silver bullets. Woven Hand - Consider the Birds 16 Horsepower's David Eugene Edwards comes forth with a new solo effort. Woven Hand - Mosiac Inspiring both terror and awe. Shannon Wright - Let in the Light Don't You Doubt Her. The Wu-Tang Clan - Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) Best of 1993 Robert Wyatt and Friends - Theatre Royal Drury Lane, 8th September 1974 Legendary live gig sees official release. Wye Oak - If Children Duo's music is greater than the sum of its parts.

COLUMNS and FEATURES Get Back: Treble's Reunion Wishlist Thirteen bands that should give it another go...because we asked so nicely! The 90 Minute Guide: Punk Treble's definitive guide to the snottiest genre of them all. For the Record: Volume 3 Five more lost classics, re-discovered. Summer Singles Roundup Another seasonal round of great new tracks. Feeling Yourself Disintegrate Revisiting The Cure's 1989 masterpiece. Album of the Week Mix: 2010, Vol. 3 Thirteen new jams from thirteen of the year's best albums. For the Record: Volume 2 Five more albums to discover and discuss. Perversity More missed goodies from the past year and beyond. The 90 Minute Guide: Fela Kuti A special 120 minute mix of the King of Afrobeat's best. Pump It Up: A primer on soundtracking a workout Jam yrself fitter. For the Record: Volume 1 The first of an ongoing series in which we listen to five classics, which we haven't heard before. Album of the Week Mix: 2010, Vol. 2 Twelve more highlights from some of our favorite records of the year. The Greatest of All Time A chronicle of one man's quest to assemble his favorite songs of all time. Perpetual Nervousness: 30 years of The Feelies' Crazy Rhythms Revisiting an underground classic on its anniversary. I Wanna See Movies of My Dreams A quest to find the film that best translates the feeling of music. Spring Singles Spectacular A summary of the most interesting singles floating around this season. Album of the Week Mix: 2010, Vol. 1 A new batch of songs from our favorite releases of the year, thus far. The 90 Minute Guide: Alternative The best and brightest from a fairly nebulous genre. Greatest Hits, Vol. 2 More nonexistent singles compilations that really should be released. Siamese Dreaming: An essay on alternative rock Examining a genre born of corporate marketing. ------- 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. Hope for Men: Noise Rock in 2007 The cult of Albini gains notoriety. Top 10 Hip-hop Albums of 2007 Beats and rhymes, ftw! 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. By The Numbers - The Pixies Francis & Co. go up against our calculator. Truly Great - The Artist formerly and now currently known as Prince But you may call him "His Purple Badness." 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.