Seriously short concert reviews for serious concertgoers, our new column "10% for the 10%" takes on a band's live experience in ten categories, each representing 10 percent of a possible 100 percent score, in 140-character, Twitter-friendly reviews. For our first installment of this brand new ...

James Blake has a bone to pick with dubstep. Yes, you read that correctly: dubstep, the very genre for which he's made himself known and subsequently conquered with his own silky smooth take. More specifically, though, James Blake takes issue with the more commercial, "American" version of it ...

To this point, Treble's Celebrate the Catalog has covered a range of musicians from those still making noise (). For this ...

To a certain degree, everyone who jumps into the field of music journalism does so because of a passionate hunger for hearing something new and exciting. When it comes to finding something new and exciting, the deeper one digs into new sounds and unheard styles, the more apparent it becomes just ...

Summer brought us a lot of vastly different but excellent wholly original music, so much that our latest Album of the Week mix might very well be our most diverse one this year. There’s a little bit of electro-funk courtesy of Little Dragon, Ty Segall’s Beatlesque garage rock, Matana Roberts’ jazz ...

It all started with "Disco 2000." Hearing that song, back in 1995, I was already thinking about what future high school reunions would be like. I was five years out of high school and it would be five more until Jarvis Cocker wanted to meet "Deborah." I must say that any thoughts I have about high ...

Last week, we took a trip through the early years of heavy metal, from its origins, to the British New Wave, the birth of doom metal, thrash and death metal. But as much great metal as the '70s and '80s gave birth to, from the '90s up to the present, metal has taken on all kinds of varied shapes ...

Since the dawn of the 90 Minute Guide, now in its fifth year, the objective was to create a sample of music as an introduction to a specific genre or category of music. And in all this time, one of my long-term goals was to create a 90 Minute Guide to one of the genres that seems to elude many a ...

Technically speaking, fall doesn't begin for another couple weeks, but with Labor Day behind us, summer as we know it is essentially over. Foliage will soon change color, temperatures will drop and t-shirts and shorts will be traded for sweaters and scarves. Historically, autumn is a season of ...

In our first three editions of Treble’s ‘Celebrate the Catalog,’ we examined the careers of some of the most notable artists to arise from the indie and alternative rock movements of the ’80s and ‘90s. Yet, as ambitious as it might have been to tackle all of Sonic Youth’s studio albums, the time ...