AJ is Rocking Out
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Finally some good news to break up the doomscroll, via @treblezine.bsky.social: www.treblezine.com/converge-ann...
#metalsky #musicsky
#metalsky #musicsky
Converge announce new album Love Is Not Enough - Treble
Hear the title track
www.treblezine.com
November 19, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Finally some good news to break up the doomscroll, via @treblezine.bsky.social: www.treblezine.com/converge-ann...
#metalsky #musicsky
#metalsky #musicsky
What perfect album came out the year you turned 16?
November 17, 2025 at 5:03 PM
What perfect album came out the year you turned 16?
#nowplaying I am listening to Swans, reflecting my fucked up Monday mood.
#musicsky
swans.bandcamp.com/album/white-...
#musicsky
swans.bandcamp.com/album/white-...
White Light from the Mouth of Infinity, by SWANS
13 track album
swans.bandcamp.com
November 17, 2025 at 3:07 PM
#nowplaying I am listening to Swans, reflecting my fucked up Monday mood.
#musicsky
swans.bandcamp.com/album/white-...
#musicsky
swans.bandcamp.com/album/white-...
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instead of saying this was good strategy, maybe senate dems should say: "the republicans were going to kill people by starving them to death, and because we aren't monsters, we decided to let this fight go. We'll keep fighting. Stop electing monsters."
November 11, 2025 at 1:42 PM
instead of saying this was good strategy, maybe senate dems should say: "the republicans were going to kill people by starving them to death, and because we aren't monsters, we decided to let this fight go. We'll keep fighting. Stop electing monsters."
#nowplaying @chatpileband.bsky.social and Hayden Pedigo "In the Earth Again." Unexpected, cannot describe, but am completely entranced by it. Lovely, plaintive guitar passages w/Chat Pile's signature, ominous noise occasionally popping in. #musicsky #metalsky chatpile.bandcamp.com/album/in-the...
In The Earth Again, by Chat Pile & Hayden Pedigo
11 track album
chatpile.bandcamp.com
October 31, 2025 at 7:45 PM
#nowplaying @chatpileband.bsky.social and Hayden Pedigo "In the Earth Again." Unexpected, cannot describe, but am completely entranced by it. Lovely, plaintive guitar passages w/Chat Pile's signature, ominous noise occasionally popping in. #musicsky #metalsky chatpile.bandcamp.com/album/in-the...
Oh hey cool I just muted variations of "third term" and I can already feel my ulcers shrinking.
October 27, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Oh hey cool I just muted variations of "third term" and I can already feel my ulcers shrinking.
It's amazing that we can still understand Cris Collinsworth while he's got Aaron Rodgers' balls in his mouth.
October 27, 2025 at 2:27 AM
It's amazing that we can still understand Cris Collinsworth while he's got Aaron Rodgers' balls in his mouth.
Thousands out in Fort Collins, Colorado for #NoKings #NoKingsFortCollins
October 18, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Thousands out in Fort Collins, Colorado for #NoKings #NoKingsFortCollins
#nowplaying Tombs - Feral Darkness (thanks @mmmmmmuhh.bsky.social for the tip). Two songs in and this one's a fackin' ripper! Sludgy goodness. #musicsky #metalsky
tombscult.bandcamp.com/album/feral-...
tombscult.bandcamp.com/album/feral-...
Feral Darkness, by Tombs
10 track album
tombscult.bandcamp.com
October 17, 2025 at 6:37 PM
#nowplaying Tombs - Feral Darkness (thanks @mmmmmmuhh.bsky.social for the tip). Two songs in and this one's a fackin' ripper! Sludgy goodness. #musicsky #metalsky
tombscult.bandcamp.com/album/feral-...
tombscult.bandcamp.com/album/feral-...
Good day for new releases! #nowplaying They Are Gutting a Body of Water, "LOTTO". Starting off with huge guitars into lovely shoegaze so I'm definitely hooked. #musicsky
theyareguttingabodyofwater.bandcamp.com/album/lotto
theyareguttingabodyofwater.bandcamp.com/album/lotto
LOTTO, by they are gutting a body of water
10 track album
theyareguttingabodyofwater.bandcamp.com
October 17, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Good day for new releases! #nowplaying They Are Gutting a Body of Water, "LOTTO". Starting off with huge guitars into lovely shoegaze so I'm definitely hooked. #musicsky
theyareguttingabodyofwater.bandcamp.com/album/lotto
theyareguttingabodyofwater.bandcamp.com/album/lotto
#nowplaying UK's hippest indie/post-punk band bar italia's latest, "Some Like it Hot." I loved 2023's "Tracey Denim," but they lost me a bit on "The Twits." The opener is a dance-y little bop. #musicsky
baritalia.bandcamp.com/album/some-l...
baritalia.bandcamp.com/album/some-l...
Some Like It Hot, by bar italia
12 track album
baritalia.bandcamp.com
October 17, 2025 at 2:13 PM
#nowplaying UK's hippest indie/post-punk band bar italia's latest, "Some Like it Hot." I loved 2023's "Tracey Denim," but they lost me a bit on "The Twits." The opener is a dance-y little bop. #musicsky
baritalia.bandcamp.com/album/some-l...
baritalia.bandcamp.com/album/some-l...
We admitted we were powerless over our algorithms
and our lives had become unmanagable
open.substack.com
October 15, 2025 at 3:04 PM
October 8, 2025 at 2:32 PM
#nowplaying new Author & Punisher, "Nocturnal Birding." Maybe I'm in the right mood for it today, but this is gratifying, doom-y industrial sludge. Overdriven rhythm, chainsaw guitar tone a la "Broken"-era NIN. It wants to be loud. #musicsky #metalsky
authorandpunisher.bandcamp.com/album/noctur...
authorandpunisher.bandcamp.com/album/noctur...
Nocturnal Birding, by Author & Punisher
8 track album
authorandpunisher.bandcamp.com
October 3, 2025 at 4:37 PM
#nowplaying new Author & Punisher, "Nocturnal Birding." Maybe I'm in the right mood for it today, but this is gratifying, doom-y industrial sludge. Overdriven rhythm, chainsaw guitar tone a la "Broken"-era NIN. It wants to be loud. #musicsky #metalsky
authorandpunisher.bandcamp.com/album/noctur...
authorandpunisher.bandcamp.com/album/noctur...
But Fox News didn't pull Brian Kilmeade after he called for killing homeless people?
The cognitive dissonance is a roar that gets louder every day...
The cognitive dissonance is a roar that gets louder every day...
The move follows an appearance by the FCC commissioner, who criticized Kimmel's recent monologue.
Jimmy Kimmel show is pulled by ABC after comments about the Charlie Kirk killing
The move follows an appearance by the FCC commissioner, who criticized Kimmel's recent monologue.
n.pr
September 18, 2025 at 3:51 PM
But Fox News didn't pull Brian Kilmeade after he called for killing homeless people?
The cognitive dissonance is a roar that gets louder every day...
The cognitive dissonance is a roar that gets louder every day...
#nowplaying: Excellent review on @treblezine.bsky.social this morning of what sounds (so far) like a very promising black metal release: #musicsky #metalsky
www.treblezine.com/der-weg-eine...
www.treblezine.com/der-weg-eine...
Der Weg einer Freiheit : Innern - Treble
A black metal album of feeling as much as conceptualizing
www.treblezine.com
September 17, 2025 at 2:26 PM
#nowplaying: Excellent review on @treblezine.bsky.social this morning of what sounds (so far) like a very promising black metal release: #musicsky #metalsky
www.treblezine.com/der-weg-eine...
www.treblezine.com/der-weg-eine...
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Trump: everyone in the US died from drugs last week
Reporter: [nods]
Trump: so we must murder on the high seas
Reporter: [nods]
Trump: I caught Trix rabbit once
Reporter: [nods]
Trump: the cock on that bunny
Reporter: [nods]
Trump: bigger than you think
Headline: Trump Policy Seeks To Save Lives
Reporter: [nods]
Trump: so we must murder on the high seas
Reporter: [nods]
Trump: I caught Trix rabbit once
Reporter: [nods]
Trump: the cock on that bunny
Reporter: [nods]
Trump: bigger than you think
Headline: Trump Policy Seeks To Save Lives
September 16, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Trump: everyone in the US died from drugs last week
Reporter: [nods]
Trump: so we must murder on the high seas
Reporter: [nods]
Trump: I caught Trix rabbit once
Reporter: [nods]
Trump: the cock on that bunny
Reporter: [nods]
Trump: bigger than you think
Headline: Trump Policy Seeks To Save Lives
Reporter: [nods]
Trump: so we must murder on the high seas
Reporter: [nods]
Trump: I caught Trix rabbit once
Reporter: [nods]
Trump: the cock on that bunny
Reporter: [nods]
Trump: bigger than you think
Headline: Trump Policy Seeks To Save Lives
September 14, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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This story, of equal or greater important to the Kirk shooting, is getting no material media coverage. The 16-year-old who shot two students in a Colorado high school on the same day Charlie Kirk was killed was a virulent white supremacist and antisemite. www.denverpost.com/2025/09/11/e...
‘Radicalized’ Evergreen High School shooter appeared to hold antisemitic, violent views in online accounts
Social media accounts that appear to be connected to the 16-year-old shooter are littered with references to mass shootings and antisemitic views, The Denver Post found.
www.denverpost.com
September 12, 2025 at 3:02 PM
This story, of equal or greater important to the Kirk shooting, is getting no material media coverage. The 16-year-old who shot two students in a Colorado high school on the same day Charlie Kirk was killed was a virulent white supremacist and antisemite. www.denverpost.com/2025/09/11/e...
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Trump claps for himself at his arrival at the US Open – a denial-anxiety response to the audible boos being directed at him.
September 7, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Trump claps for himself at his arrival at the US Open – a denial-anxiety response to the audible boos being directed at him.
Swan, by Unwound
from the album The Future of What
unwound.bandcamp.com
September 4, 2025 at 6:20 PM
This whole thread is important. We need to continue valuing artists, especially right now. But that doesn't mean they get a blank check, and criticism itself can be an art form.
There's been an on-and-off conversation in recent years over the value of negative reviews, why you don't see as many of them anymore, etc. And I'm sure there's a lot of reasons for why that is. We still publish negative-ish reviews at Treble, but less than we used to, for a variety of reasons.
August 21, 2025 at 2:30 PM
This whole thread is important. We need to continue valuing artists, especially right now. But that doesn't mean they get a blank check, and criticism itself can be an art form.