The best experimental albums of 2025 www.treblezine.com/the-25-best-...

The #1 movie when you were 10 years old is how your 2026 is going to go.

This is (I think?) my last 2025 album review, but I couldn't let the year end without writing some words about this phenomenal record that kinda slipped through the cracks (only speaking for myself here) when it was released. Epic, kinda trippy alt-country with outtasite songwriting

Here are my 20 favorite punk albums of 2025, which include about 20 different definitions of punk. Actually that's not true, a bunch of them are just loud, fast rippers, but still.

P.E. have been one of my favorite newish bands over the past five years and it's a shame this album will (probably) be their last but it's a damn good one

This looks cool as hell

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shout out to @desperatehours.bsky.social and @jasonbrow.com and @dryvetyme.bsky.social and @dempseyc.bsky.social and uh, me! Because I wrote about FKA twigs' trilogy on this list of Treble's favorite BPMs of the year

Because of year-end list szn I kept this week's Autobiographical Order quick and dirty A handful of great noisy records from 2022, and one old favorite from 1990 autobiographical-order.beehiiv.com/p/party-doze...

The best of 2025 train keeps on a-rollin'. Here's my 20 favorite folk albums of the year! Folk being a fairly fluid term, of course.

The best of 2025 train keeps on a-rollin'. Here's my 20 favorite folk albums of the year! Folk being a fairly fluid term, of course.

The best reissues of 2025 Our guide to the best archival digs of the year www.treblezine.com/the-best-rei...

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Is it just me or does this batch of year-end lists feel more extremely online than usual?

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The 50 albums we liked most this year www.treblezine.com/the-50-best-...

I'm a little biased but I think our list kinda rocks. Mostly because I like these albums, and the people who wrote them, and what they wrote about those good albums.

I'm a little biased but I think our list kinda rocks. Mostly because I like these albums, and the people who wrote them, and what they wrote about those good albums.

Imagine going through your life being mad about Deafheaven. In 20 fucking 25.

Your essential 2025 playlist is here @treblezine.bsky.social's 100 best songs of 2025!

The Stone Roses and that *one* great album Plus Oneida, My Brightest Diamond and more (and I'm now going to 5 per post instead of 7 - the road to hell and all that) autobiographical-order.beehiiv.com/p/stone-rose...

Rochelle Jordan's 'Through the Wall' is a blend of house and R&B at their most intoxicating #mindthegap www.treblezine.com/rochelle-jor...

It begins! @treblezine.bsky.social's best metal of 2025 - written and curated by yours truly The band that you hate isn't on this list. Probably. Unless you hate stuff that rips.

It begins! @treblezine.bsky.social's best metal of 2025 - written and curated by yours truly The band that you hate isn't on this list. Probably. Unless you hate stuff that rips.

We're still doing a little catch-up before it's best of 2025 time (which is very soon) But the new Open Mike Eagle album is one of his best, warm, funny, relatable and relevant to our enshittified times

The latest ambient column from @eaxlr.com is a wealth of great atmospheric goods

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Over on Patreon we've got a new installment of our 100 artists/playlists series, with liner notes etc. Support independent media! Get access to fun stuff!

such a stunning record

Preservation and Gabe 'Nandez survey a scorching earth through strains of psychedelia on 'Sortilège.' #mindthegap www.treblezine.com/p...

New punk roundup! Snooper! Home Front! Haram! Optic Sink! So much good stuff!

I wrote about Metallica and the hot-take paradox, Ty Segall and dude rock for rock dudes, plus Grouper, the New York Dolls and a grab bag of fun stuff autobiographical-order.beehiiv.com/p/metallica-...

This album is dope!

Our Album of the Week is Home Front's 'Watch It Die' www.treblezine.com/h...

As part of our #mindthegap catch up sesh, I wrote about the collaboration between Preservation and Gabe 'Nandez, one of the year's must-hear rap records

As part of our #mindthegap catch up sesh, I wrote about the collaboration between Preservation and Gabe 'Nandez, one of the year's must-hear rap records

The new Home Front album is full of soaring anthems, punk rippers and goth-club jams alike Fantastic record

Watch the new @themelodychamber.bsky.social video for jangly post-punk anthem "Memories of Fall" www.treblezine.com/watch-the-me...

Spoke to Home Front about their killer new album (out next week), digging out of snowbanks, The Jam, local flavors of punk and more

Barker's 'Stochastic Drift' reframes his techno and IDM through the lens of unpredictability and jazz-like rhythms and textures #mindthegap www.treblezine.com/barker-stoch...

A new installment of For the Sake of the Song! @treblezine.bsky.social's folk column Including American primitivist ragas, found-sound from the same town, and more

Armand Hammer (and the Alchemist for that matter) don't miss

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Chattanooga post-hardcore group GUMM give a track-by-track breakdown of their new album, 'Beneath the Wheel' It's out today www.treblezine.com/gumm-track-b...

Such an indie-rap classic written about superbly over at @treblezine.bsky.social by the big guy Jeff. Happy Halloween 🎃 www.treblezine.com/dr-octagon-d...

I wrote up Treble's Halloween-week Hall of Fame on Dr. Octagon, an absurd, gross, hilarious and classic slice of hip-hop reinvention

It's almost Halloween so @treblezine.bsky.social has a new edition of its goth roundup, Last Dance, with all the ghoulish goods Wil's picks include the heavy post-punk of Scorpion Milk, SF old-schoolers Altar de Fey, and industrial/psych legends The Tear Garden