Treble Zine

Our goal is to explore a broad range of music genres, including electronic, punk, metal, and hip-hop, with a strong emphasis on independent and underground artists. Treble is not limited to a single perspective; rather, it is a diverse community of individuals with varying opinions and ideas. We are committed to fostering an inclusive environment, both in the topics we cover and the contributors we collaborate with, as we firmly believe that bigotry, racism, and misogyny have no place in the future of music. Each week, we introduce new features and articles about music, including interviews with artists, career retrospectives, personal stories about music, and much more. Our approach is to examine music from different angles, which is why we continuously add fresh columns and features to our lineup. Treble thrives because its team is united by a shared passion for music and a love for writing about it.

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Sextile : yes, please

5 days ago | treblezine.com | Adam Blyweiss

Did anyone ask for an electroclash revival? Was it ever gone so long that it required one? I have my own answers to these questions, but Sextile provide theirs in the title of their fourth studio LP: yes, please. The Los Angeles trio sound fully divorced from the shoegaze-swirled garage rock that founding members Brady Keehn and Melissa Scaduto first brought to market.
Prince : Around the World in a Day

6 days ago | treblezine.com | John-Paul Shiver

The success of Purple Rain—movie, album and phenomenon—jettisoned Prince from minimal success on Black radio in the 1980s to heavy rotation on a predominantly white MTV. This was a major feat for an obscure R&B artist who once opened for The Rolling Stones earlier in that decade and was booed off the stage.
Sumac and Moor Mother : The Film

6 days ago | treblezine.com | Jeff Terich

In 2022 at the Institute for Contemporary Art at Virginia Commonwealth University, Camae Ayewa, aka Moor Mother, gave a 90-minute performance as part of a series called “Test Pattern,” presented as a single, continuous, multi-dimensional multimedia piece with no separation of songs or setlist to speak of.
6 Great new metal albums with a vintage aesthetic

1 week ago | treblezine.com | Jeff Terich

Metalheads are just as nostalgic as anyone else. Don’t let us tell you otherwise. Sometimes it’s for the lo-fi early ’90s sound of Norwegian black metal, and sometimes it’s for that burst of creativity that happened in the 2000s, when labels such as Hydra Head and Southern Lord began to flourish, and we all heard Leviathan for the first time.
Jenny Hval : Iris Silver Mist

1 week ago | treblezine.com | Langdon Hickman

Tonally speaking, Jenny Hval the novelist and Jenny Hval the musician couldn’t be further apart. Her novels, brilliant and brief, jagged like aged daggers, focus on a grit and grime of the body and our enmeshment within them, intimate in their portrayal of the natural violence of the heart and the thresholds of the sublime beyond the abject.
Natural Information Society and Bitchin Bajas : Totality

1 week ago | treblezine.com | Kurt Orzeck

The whole is greater than the sum of its parts, or so the saying goes. But what about when two parts come together and the result is barely a whisper? That’s the fascinating, enigma-wrapped-in-a-riddle of a record that is Totality, an album title that at various turns seems either profound or confounding. Resembling a soundtrack to a movie that doesn’t exist, it’s as if Natural Information Society and Bitchin Bajas concocted this mirage of a record in their shared dreams.
The Austerity Program on Bible Songs, optimism and surrender

1 week ago | treblezine.com | Kurt Orzeck

The concept of decline—in economic, political and social terms—is a recurring theme in the work of long-standing noise-rock duo The Austerity Program. But judging by a recent conversation with one-half of the band, guitarist/vocalist Justin Foley, the outlook was positive for the Brooklyn agitators. Fittingly for Foley, who works full-time as a union organizer, The Austerity Program issued their latest album—Bible Songs 2—on May Day.
Eli Winter : A Trick of the Light

1 week ago | treblezine.com | Jeff Terich

In a little under a decade’s time, guitarist Eli Winter has expanded his parameters from solo acoustic performances of hypnotically graceful open-tuned pieces to more collaborative full-band arrangements that blur the lines between folk, rock and jazz. His 2022 self-titled album delivered some of the most lushly crafted music of his career—featuring contributions from the likes of Ryley Walker, David Grubbs and jaimie branch—arriving like a verdant landscape coming into full bloom.
Emma-Jean Thackray : Weirdo

1 week ago | treblezine.com | John-Paul Shiver

There’s not a cool point, nor a poseur sitch, to be found on the just-released, bold, and devastatingly compelling project from the West Yorkshire-born bandleader Emma-Jean Thackray.Written, performed, recorded, mixed, produced, and arranged entirely in her South London flat, Weirdo was originally conceived as a strategy to speak about her struggles with mental health—Thackray is autistic and has ADHD. “I’ve had the word ‘weirdo’ thrust upon me as an insult.
Superheaven : Superheaven

2 weeks ago | treblezine.com | Michael Pementel

Doylestown, Pennsylvania’s Superheaven made a name for themselves with the release of their 2013 debut album, Jar, an album whose unique sound combined hardcore with shoegaze and grunge. The group concocted a compelling blend of sound that felt strongly reminiscent of ’90s-era rock aesthetics.