Happy Friday! We are pleased to introduce a new segment on this blog. We’re calling it Video Vault. Each Friday, a member of the 33 1/3 team will post a favorite video with some context. Here is Tanya’s (our Marketing Manager) first pick. “F*ck the Pain Away” by Peaches, the Canadian-cum-Berliner electronic musician and performance […]
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Over the next few months, we’ll be profiling the authors of the eighteen forthcoming 33 1/3 titles here on the blog so you can get to know them, their writing, and what kind of twisted soul chooses to think about just one album for months at a time. Next up: Charles Fairchild. A Senior Lecturer
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Over the next few months, we’ll be profiling the authors of the eighteen forthcoming 33 1/3 titles here on the blog so you can get to know them, their writing, and what kind of twisted soul chooses to think about just one album for months at a time. Next up: Nicola Dibben, who brings a
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The pre-eminent UK culture criticism blog, CultureCritic, has undertaken a five-part series of posts about 33 1/3, specifically looking at individual forthcoming titles in the series. In the first entry, the author speaks to Serge Gainsbourg’s Histoire de Melody Nelson author Darran Anderson about the five records that wouldn’t exist without Gainsbourg’s. We definitely learned
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The 33 1/3 series started in Fall 2003. Well, it started long before then, but that’s when Continuum published the first few volumes. Since then it has grown into one of the most important platforms for music writing…and IN PRINT nonetheless. So thank you for your continued support. We are just about to hit the
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On August 1, Bloomsbury Academic is set to release Resonances ($29.95 PB), a collection of new essays edited by Michael Goddard, Ben Halligan, and Nicola Spelman (they’re also responsible for a sister volume, Reverberations, which came out last year). “This collection is a massive achievement in laying the groundwork for a new way of thinking
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Over the next few months, we’ll be profiling the authors of the eighteen forthcoming 33 1/3 titles here on the blog so you can get to know them, their writing, and what kind of twisted soul chooses to think about just one album for months at a time. Next Up: Kevin J. H. Dettmar, who
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[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxAbkqRGxqY&w=560&h=315] Daniel DiNicola’s film, Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me opens today at IFC in New York. You can see it at 11:05 AM, 12:25 PM, 2:50 PM, 5:15 PM, 7:45 PM, 10:10 PM or 12:10 AM. Tonight’s 7:45 screening features a Q&A with Jody Stephens (quoted in Bruce’s book below) and the filmmakers. A
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Over the next few months, we’ll be profiling the authors of the eighteen forthcoming 33 1/3 titles here on the blog so you can get to know them, their writing, and what kind of twisted soul chooses to think about just one album for months at a time. Next Up: Jordan Ferguson. Originally from Windsor,
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Over the next few months, we’ll be profiling the authors of the eighteen forthcoming 33 1/3 titles here on the blog so you can get to know them, their writing, and what kind of twisted soul chooses to think about just one album for months at a time. Next up: Evie Nagy, who will be
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