It’s not uncommon for the music fixated to have “year zero” type occurrences. Moments which, whether epiphanies or most probably to blame for a lot, make you addicted. The stuff that moulds fervent balding types in their forties and fifties. Seeing Miss Black America back in 2002 did a lot to sway ...

I was one of the lucky few. I live in Nashville. But for those trekking through the heart of Tennessee in their Jeep Cherokees bearing Ontario plates, napping your way hour after hour toward a sun-blazed patch of Manchester farmland must be a feat equal to . Bonnaroo is our ...

I’m not quite sure how this Muxtape thing got so popular. It seems completely antithetical to the whole digital music phenomenon. First of all, it references tapes in the site handle, a music format that has been all but obsolete since the early ’90s. Secondly, the site doesn’t allow you to search ...

My brother suggested, just after the release of , that Death Cab For Cutie should release a ‘best of’ album. We’ve discussed this to some length at Treble, how we’re not big fans of the ...

What can I say? Better late than never? I guess it’s inevitable that as time progresses I’ll have more commitments and less time to pontificate. I’m still doing what I can when possible though. So on to the music. I’ll begin halfway in Treble’s home city. Pancakes for Penguin claim residence in ...

I’ve never been terribly lucky in love. I was shy, a late bloomer and not terribly self confident in regard to relationships. I’ve often wondered how these tragedies of the heart could have been ...

We’ve been making Album of the Week mixes at Treble for around four years now, and it doesn’t appear that we’re going to stop anytime soon. And why should we? It’s one of the most fun things we could possibly do. So, while we’ve been recommending albums that have blown us away, two per week, for ...

Of the famed British Sea Power performances of lore, shows featuring antique military costumes, stuffed birds stood on pedestals, and stages hung with vines, one cannot help but expect to be fully engaged in an atmosphere of mythic proportions. So it was with a tinge of disappointment when I saw ...

On Saturday, April 19, music retailers and musicians across the world celebrated Record Store Day, the first annual event of its kind in celebration of independent record stores. At various indie record stores from London all the way back to Treble’s home of San Diego, Calif., music fans were ...

Just a few weeks ago, I explained to my brothers my need to get away from indie rock. When I say ‘get away,’ I don’t mean abandon, but rather seek horizons beyond its narrow constraints. When Treble began, it happened primarily because of an intense interest in, what else, indie music. And that ...