If you’re Canadian (as I am), the jokes made at your country’s expense are usually pretty flimsy–in the realm of beavers, winter, the dubious word “eh,” and something about it being small and weird and everyone knowing everyone. By now, we’re used to this. But oh, how sweet it is to produce something truly jibe-worthy. […]
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With the news that UK publisher Faber Social are set to release Ian Curtis’s journals, entitled So This Is Permanence: Lyrics and Notebooks, in Spring of next year, Joy Division fans the world over have sat bolt upright. In honor of the news–and the 25th anniversary of Unknown Pleasures in 2014–we reached out to our Unknown
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Our 2013-14 Music & Sound Studies catalog is hot off the press. It includes all titles publishing in 2013 through spring 2014, plus select backlist, bestsellers, and the entire 33 1/3 series, old and new. Please click here to peruse. If you would like a physical copy, hit up Tanya Leet, Marketing Manager. Bad joke: It goes
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We asked Pete Astor of The Weather Prophets and The Loft a few questions about the Cherry Red reissue of the infamous C86 mixtape. Pete has just handed in his complete manuscript for the forthcoming 33 1/3 on “Blank Generation” by Richard Hell and the Voidoids. We interviewed Pete about that book a while ago…read
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In honor of his recent engagement, and recent suspension of his Yeezus tour (for which I have tickets!!) due to a damaged 60-foot video screen, I bring you an oldie, but a goodie: “Can’t Tell Me Nothing,” the alternative video. Kanye may not be able to laugh at himself, but he does appreciate good comedy
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Every month, 33 1/3 editorial assistant Kaitlin Fontana 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 October? Drumroll please… 1. “There’s a bit of magic in
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Our friends at Foyles have put up a lovely 33 1/3 display at their Charring Cross location. All 33 1/3 titles are buy 1, get 1 half price. Here’s the promo poster above a well-stocked shelf of Moz. They’ve done this very clever thing with records! Special thanks to Charlotte for the photos!
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Our guest blogger and author of Histoire de Melody Nelson, Darran Anderson, wraps up Serge Week with his contribution to our Video Vault series. For more on Darran and the book, follow him on Twitter: @33_melody. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkNwuY2JUHQ&w=560&h=315] One of the strangest and lesser-known of the albums influenced by Histoire de Melody Nelson is my favourite
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Happy day 4 of Serge Week, celebrating the release of the 87th volume in the 33 1/3 series: Serge Gainsbourg’s Histoire de Melody Nelson. Author Darran Anderson here with his third post. Initials O.G. – Serge Gainsbourg’s Hip-hop Afterlife By Darran Anderson [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgSWm9_BZjs&w=420&h=315] Recently, I wrote a piece for Culture Critic on the legacy of
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Happy day 3 of Serge Week, celebrating the release of the 87th volume in the 33 1/3 series: Serge Gainsbourg’s Histoire de Melody Nelson. Author Darran Anderson here with the second of three posts. ‘The avant garde or nothing’ – Gainsbourg and Vannier as innovators By Darran Anderson “If you hadn’t been you, who would
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