It's been a few months too many since the last . Rather than spin eloquence I'll say that it's been a busy few months for this writer, and that I hope to deliver another installment before '06 closes. Sweden's Stereo Test Kit Records deserves its own ...

I’m not particularly faithful to the notion that music (“art?”) has some kind of higher spiritual-personal significance, meaning something in the grandiose scheme of things. This is popcorn to me, of the highest, most enjoyable fat faced quality, with no disrespect. I’d love to be able to have the ...

From its inception in 1963, the blank audio cassette tape has carried more heartache and elation than any other media form. Blank audio tapes have been instrumental in bringing countless genres of music from hip-hop to hardcore to the masses through an undergoing railroad of hand passes and ...

It is five o'clock on a sunny Saturday afternoon in suburban Plymouth, Massachusetts, when I make my call to the equally sunny (or so I'm told by several on-line weather resources) Portland, Oregon. After a few failed connection attempts during the week, I am greeted by the half-awoken voice of ...

There’s something incredibly comforting about picking a song for every year of your life. On the one hand, it’s nostalgic, and gives a warm fuzzy feeling to he who chooses to revisit those monumental and immortal tracks that came to mean something more than just mere background noise, or as Thom ...

When you hear as many albums as we at Treble do, you hear as much bad as you do good. We do our best to highlight what we consider “good,” and emphasize the positive as much as we can. But damn if the bad albums don’t get to us once in a while. We’ve heard some real clunkers, from AIDS Wolf, to ...

1971: “Life on Mars”- David Bowie 1972: “Bein’ Green” by Kermit the Frog 1973: “Desperado” – The Eagles 1974: “Louisiana 1927”- Randy Newman 1975: “Born to Run”- Bruce Springsteen 1976: “Blitzkrieg Bop”- Ramones 1977: “Dreams”- Fleetwood Mac 1978: “The Man With the Child In His Eyes”- Kate ...

The North Atlantic took the stage at Mercury Lounge in New York City, fashioning artistically motivated guitar coils in a flurry of writhing bass throbs and turbine-charged drum punctures. Jason Hendrix's guitar shreds were taut and sharp, and at moments glistening and coruscating as they tore ...

Doug Martsch is angry. Nearing the end of a seemingly enjoyable set Tuesday night at Brooklyn's venue of pleasing, Polish pride, Warsaw, egomachine Martsch decided to dose the crowd with a dash of not so subtle political rhetoric. A short 10 minute film narrated by Calvin Johnson depicting the ...

According to The North Atlantic’s website, the group is known for their “penchant for textural embellishment and sonic layering.” More specifically than that, the band attacks with saber-sharp slashes, parapets of electrical currents, sustained space-age synth effects, and shredding vocals, ...