It’s been 25 years since the birth of Music Television, the inevitable blending of images with sound that really only lasted for about ten years when began the station’s eventual shift to everything but its original intent. 1997 saw the release of the first DVD players and ...

Pick up your tux, buy that fancy evening gown, shine your shoes and have the limo driver show up on time, because it’s Trebblie time! The Emmys, Grammys, Oscars, hell, even the Tonys(!) got nothing on us! This is the award extravaganza to end all award extravaganzas. Why, you may ask. Because we ...

This year was such a wickedly wonderful fifty-two weeks for music that nobody had seen coming. So many great releases from a smorgasbord of great artists and almost all of them were released on independent labels. As hard as it was to pick a specific one, we here at Treble have chosen Sub Pop ...

Lists. We use them all the time, in every way, in every situation. Grocery lists, to do lists, Franz Liszt. Huh? It takes a certain kind of person (read: ob-com) to be as passionate and devoted to wading through an entire year’s worth of albums and songs, ranking them in our own orders of ...

We could have gone with singles. In retrospect, it might have been an easier list to make: one with even more restrictions imposed upon it than those that govern the list we actually made. To actually compile a list of the year’s best singles would automatically remove thousands of songs from the ...

The holidays are upon us, for those of you in retail, probably much sooner than you could have possibly anticipated. That means we’re all going to have to try and think of those special gifts for friends and family that show we know them and that we care. For music lovers, this can be a daunting ...

Even before I begin to unfold what I have been up to for the last few weeks, I’d like to preface by saying that I firmly believe an album should be listened to the way an artist presents it. When the process of recording, mixing, engineering, mastering and packaging has come to an end, we at least ...

Eric B. and Rakim, Guru and DJ Premier of gang Starr, and KRS One and Scott LaRock of Boogie Down Productions—These are among the greatest MC/DJ duos in all of hip hop. Yet, today it seems that everybody has an extended crew or “Unit” that finds the hip-hop duo dynamic lost to a garbled mess of ...

One of the biggest regrets any music critic can have is being born too late. We youngsters missed out on so much—Elvis on Sullivan, Woodstock, Beatles on Sullivan, the birth of punk—the list just goes on. But the truly obvious ones are the ones that are easiest to let go of. Beatles? Elvis? They ...