Writing about music on a regular basis, obsessively buying records and being on the search for new music can be both fun and burdensome. The more you hear, the more you want to hear. It’s an endless spiral of discovery and absorption, replays and shuffles. But at the end of the day, there’s always ...

Consider this week the proverbial calm before the storm. May 4 marks the beginning of a month of music that’s not so much a steady stream of highlights as it is a torrential downpour. It’s actually a little intimidating seeing the list of names with albums on the horizon in the next four weeks: ...

As long as I can remember, I've been a list maker. Not just to-do lists, or shopping lists, or even Christmas lists, but really lists of just about everything. Ever since I was a kid I made lists of a wide variety of categories ranging from video games to superheroes, movies, cars and, of course, ...

Like it or not, the venue is half the show. At any rate, it's the part that should at least be easily ignored, especially for an artist like Joanna Newsom, who’s given to hushed orchestral flourishes and ear-cupping turns of phrase. Count in a sold-out show, a modestly high stage and a sextet of ...

Some controversy surrounds the cover art for Weezer's self-titled debut album and its uncanny resemblance to that of pioneering nerd rockers The Feelies' debut album While some argue that Cuomo's band of geeks ripping off their seeming progenitors' appearance somehow reflects ...

I'd venture to say that I'm not the only writer at Treble to share equal loves of music, movies and books. Sure, music is our main focus here at the site, and therefore will always be put first, but anyone growing up in the cultural landscape of the latter half of the last century will at least ...

Every couple of months, Treble runs a summary of a handful of notable singles and EPs released during that season. Yet, it's 2010 and most bands and artists are releasing singles or EPs as free downloads, some of which aren't even connected to an album. Many of them, however, do have a new album ...

We’re two and a half months into 2010, and it’s already looking to be a darn good year for music. It’s early, we recognize that. But so far, we’ve seen some spectacular releases from bands we love and bands we’ve just discovered. Owen Pallett gave up his Final Fantasy moniker, but the payoff was ...

A few weeks ago, I offered my thoughts on the complicated and extremely non-specific genre known simply as "alternative." Survey most experts, music critics, or anyone who has listened to the radio in the last 20 years on what they would consider "alternative," and you may get a different answer, ...

Baroness is a band whose sound seems capable of not just filling stadiums, but eating entire cities. They're more than a band, they're practically a force of nature. And at their most recent show at the Casbah in San Diego, their intense, melodic metal assault practically plowed through the 200 or ...