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33 Things is back! Every month, we will compile the best, weirdest, most interesting music and sound news from the past 30 days and serve it up to you in one handy, easy to digest list. May we present 33 Things that happened in August? This list is brought to you by our wonderful 33 […]

Today, we bring you a Q&A with George Grella, who will be writing the new 33 1/3 on Miles Davis’ Bitches Brew Tell us a bit about yourself in an extended author biography. I’m a composer, critic, and independent scholar. Those things go together without any particular credentials: being a composer means being a musicologist, which

Today, we bring you a Q&A with Paula Meija, who will be writing the new 33 1/3 on The Jesus and Mary Chain’s Psychocandy. Paula Mejia is a writer, journalist and arts critic currently living in New York City. She is currently a staff reporter at Newsweek, and her work has appeared in The A.V.

In honor of RJ Wheaton’s 33 1/3 on Portishead’s Dummy as well as the 20th anniversary of the album, we bring you the fourth and final installment of Portishead Week. To close out this week on Portishead, design, and film, it only makes sense to include the short film that the band made with director

In honor of RJ Wheaton’s 33 1/3 on Portishead’s Dummy as well as the 20th anniversary of the album, we bring you the third installment of Portishead Week. It’s helpful to listen to Dummy backwards, as it were, through Portishead’s subsequent career. 2008’s Third was, for many listeners, aggressive, almost an avant-garde assault. Portishead, the

In honor of RJ Wheaton’s 33 1/3 on Portishead’s Dummy as well as the 20th anniversary of the album, we bring you the second installment of Portishead Week. I wrote yesterday about the visual aesthetic that seemed so bold when Portishead’s debut album Dummy was released 20 years ago this week. That aesthetic was obviously

In honor of RJ Wheaton’s 33 1/3 on Portishead’s Dummy as well as the 20th anniversary of the album, we bring you the first installment of Portishead Week. Portishead’s debut album Dummy turns 20 this week. In spite of some influences worn very heavily on its sleeve — hip-hop’s production method and turntablism; dub’s studio

We were sadden to hear about the death of comedy legend Robin Williams earlier this week. I won’t go into the details, since we have already read about it. Instead, I’ll take this opportunity to remember him via song and dance. Billboard put together a great list, but I wanted to feature this video, the mantra of which

Earlier this month we sent a few 33 1/3rds to the campers at Pendleton Rock Camp in Pendleton Oregon. It’s a FREE program run by Pendleton Center for the Arts. So what is rock camp, exactly? It’s five full days of FREE rock & roll learning with teachers from West Coast indie bands. Some people

Today, we bring you a Q&A with Jovana Babović, who will be writing the new 33 1/3 on Sleater-Kinney’s Dig Me Out. Jovana Babović is historian of culture, society, and urban life. She holds a Ph.D from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and teaches at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville   Tell us a