Next Week: Treble presents the Top 200 Songs of the '70s - 08.10.2012


About once every year, Treble's staffers huddle to put together a list of our favorite music from a given time period, which typically happens every summer. Last year we offered up our Top 200 Songs of the '80s (which was in the winter, but whatever), and this year we're stepping back even further. Starting Monday, we're rolling out our Top 200 Songs of the '70s.

The time seemed right to revisit the decade, for a lot of reasons. Punk's big breakthrough happened 35 years ago, for one, and Ziggy Stardust turned 40 this year, for another. And the deeper one digs into the decade, the more it seems like one of the most truly inventive and radical periods for musical growth. While the rollout is going on, we're taking a weeklong break from reviews, but news will still be active. So, warm up the hifi and your 8-track and join us next week for 200 of our favorite tracks from a decade most of us don't remember.

Video: Jens Lekman - "I Know What Love Isn't" - 08.10.2012
Jens Lekman keeps it pretty simple on the new clip for "I Know What Love Isn't," from his forthcoming album of the same name, out Sept. 4 via Secretly Canadian. The video, directed by Marcus Söderlund, finds Lekman performing in a spare white room for a spacious effect, though some surprises crop up over time. Watch it below.

Nite Jewel to reissue first album - 08.10.2012


After releasing new album One Second of Love earlier this year, Nite Jewel is reissuing her debut album Good Evening Nov. 11 via Secretly Canadian. The album, which previously was out of print, will feature bonus tracks "The Kamera Song," which is a cover of a song by prog rockers Inner Space, and a Dam-Funk remix of "What Did He Say."

Tracklist:

Bottom Rung
Suburbia
What Did He Say
Weak for Me
Heart Won't Start
Universal Mind
Artificial Intelligence
Let's Go (The Two of Us Together)
Chimera
Lover
The Kamera Song
What Did He Say (Dam-Funk remix)

Titus Andronicus announce new album - 08.10.2012


Titus Andronicus have announced their follow-up to 2010's The Monitor, which is titled Local Business, and will be released Oct. 23 via XL Recordings. The band's third album, Local Business will be their first since the departure of guitarist Amy Klein and bassist Ian Graetzer. Also, as you can tell from the photo above, Patrick Stickles shaved off his beard.

Tracklist:

1 Ecce Homo
2 Still Life With Hot Deuce and Silver Platter
3 Upon Viewing Oregon’s Landscape With the Flood of Detritus
4 Food Fight!
5 My Eating Disorder
6 Titus Andronicus VS. the Absurd Universe (3rd Round KO)
7 In a Big City
8 In a Small Body
9 (I Am the) Electric Man
10 Tried to Quit Smoking