Articles written by authors, guests and the 33 1/3 team.
If you’re kicking around town on Sunday, you could do worse than head over to Borough Hall, Brooklyn, for the second annual Book Festival. Continuum will have a little stand there (table number 70!), along with around about 100 other booksellers, publishers, authors, lit-mags, and more. So if you’re at the Festival, do come and […]
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Mike Fournier will be talking about the Minutemen on Rich Ladew’s “End of Radio” show on WMUA out of Amherst, Mass. this Thursday (9/13) sometime between 8-10pm EST. You can stream it live! Also from Mike: “My friends in Campaign for Real-Time are doing a month-long residency at Great Scott in Allston before they go
The September issue of VIBE magazine (the one with Barack on the cover) includes a feature called “Get Your Paper Up”, in which they select the best 8 music books. One of them is Douglas Wolk’s Live at the Apollo book, about which this is said: A detailed chronicle of what is arguably the greatest
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Some of you may be interested to learn about a book we’ve just published in the US (it’ll be out in the UK next month). It’s called Noise/Music: A History, by Paul Hegarty. You can buy it from Amazon here, and below is a review of the book from Publishers Weekly. Can silence be “noisy”?
There’s a good review of Shawn Taylor’s Tribe book over the Oh Word blog. Here’s the first paragraph of the review: Hip Hop sociology makes me more nervous than a label head in front of a young Kris Parker. I’ve read enough longwinded academic diatribes on the place of 2Pac’s poetry within the black cultural
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The official launch celebration for Stephen Catanzarite’s 33 1/3 on U2’s “Achtung Baby” will be this coming Saturday, September 8 at 7:30 p.m. in the studio theater of the all-new Lincoln Park Performing Arts Center in Midland, PA. Joining Catanzarite will be Dan LeRoy, author of the 33 1/3 on the Beastie Boys’ “Paul’s Boutique”
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Seattleites and Pacific Northwesterners are encouraged to check out this year’s Bumbershoot Festival. As part of a Labor Day weekend lineup that includes just about everyone under the sun, on Monday afternoon at 4:45pm, there will be a panel discussion and listening party moderated by Ann Powers (Chief Pop Critic for the LA Times), including
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Apparently My Bloody Valentine may (if they feel like it?) reunite for Coachella in 2008. The reunion is believed to coincide with the new album, a retrospective box set, and a brutal cold front blowing through the region of hell. No word on whether this band will be opening.via the Brooklyn Vegan.
Kate Schatz was on WNYC’s Soundcheck talking about her 33 1/3 on PJ Harvey’s Rid of Me this afternoon. In the next couple of hours an archive should pop up on the show page. You can also weigh in on which album you would like to see turned into a novel. And if you keep
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We made a very short run of 33 1/3 t-shirts for the Book Expo earlier this year and when David put something up on the blog for the 20-odd leftovers, they were spoken for in a matter of minutes. Now those of you who didn’t get in on that batch can have a shot at
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