The Police

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The 150 Best Albums of the 1980s

A look back at one of the greatest decades of musical innovation.

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The Cue Sheet Podcast Episode 5: The music of ‘The Sopranos’ with Alex Zaragoza

Madon’! We finally get around to David Chase’s famed HBO series about the New Jersey mob family and the music that scored their epic rise and (maybe?) fall.

misunderstood songs

10 Misunderstood Songs

Don’t put these songs on a mixtape for a crush, or play them at your wedding, or political rally, or graduation ceremony, or…

25 Essential Musical Families

A look at the famous families that helped shape pop music as we know it.

The Police Synchronicity

Remake/Remodel: The Police – Synchronicity

Resynchronizing one of The Police’s best albums.

10 Great Songs with mistakes

Sometimes a classic song is perfectly imperfect.

10 Essential Swan Song Albums - The Knife

10 Essential Swan Song Albums

Treble takes a look at the strongest ways that artists have closed out their careers.

10 Bad Songs on Good Albums

When a good thing goes unexpectedly bad.

Back to School Songs

10 Back-to-school songs

Treble takes its readers to school.

10 Backloaded Albums

On the Flipside: 10 Backloaded Albums

10 albums that hide their gold in the second half.

Treble’s 50 Favorite Drummers

The fifty percussionists we couldn’t jam without.

Songs About the Apocalypse

The 90 Minute Guide: Apocalypse

It’s the end of the world as we know it (and we feel fine).

R.E.M.'s Michael Stipe

This Is Not a Love Song

A primer on how not to misinterpret lyrics.