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To celebrate this week’s release of Björk’s Homogenic, we’re pleased to bring you the second installment of Björk Week by author Emily Mackay! Bjork’s musical past lives. Björk presented herself as fresh-faced ingenue on 1993’s Debut – for its 2015 reissue, she chose the words ‘beginner’, ‘shy’, ‘humility’ and ‘virgin’ to describe its character. In reality, although […]

To celebrate this week’s release of Björk’s Homogenic, we’re pleased to bring you the first installment of Björk Week by author Emily Mackay! The same year I began writing this book, I finally took my old stereo back from my parents’ house. I’d got the system, a 5-CD changer with two cassette decks and a turntable,

This week we welcome guest blogger Barbara Browning – author of 33 1/3 Brazil’s first entry, Caetano Veloso’s A Foreign Sound – to talk about Caetano Veloso’s cover of “Love for Sale”. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88DfRDcEfrg “Love for Sale” was written by Cole Porter for the 1930 Broadway musical The New Yorkers, and in the first staged version it was sung by Kathryn Crawford, a

This week, Steely Dan’s Aja author Don Breithaupt joins us to speak more about Aja, Steely Dan, and the legacy Walter Becker left behind, just weeks before the seminal album’s 40th anniversary. By Don Breithaupt Walter Becker, the younger, more enigmatic half of Steely Dan, died September 3rd, 2017 of an undisclosed illness. That left him just

In this 33 1/3 Origin Stories, read about how authors Patrick Rivers and Will Fulton met, collaborated, and came to literally write the book on Camp Lo’s Uptown Saturday Night. We each have a variety of musical experiences outside of reifying the energy of music into words, but we’ll save our middle school recitals for another time.

To celebrate the recent release of our 33 1/3 on Bob Mould’s Workbook, we’re pleased to bring you the fifth and final installment of Bob Mould Week by authors Walter Biggins and Daniel Couch! An interview with Dusty Hanna of Silence and Skull Fest Though Workbook is Bob Mould’s debut as a solo artist, it’s

To celebrate the recent release of our 33 1/3 on Bob Mould’s Workbook, we’re pleased to bring you the fourth installment of Bob Mould Week by authors Walter Biggins and Daniel Couch! Four takes: “See A Little Light” In retrospect, Workbook’s “See A Little Light” feels like the quintessential Bob Mould song. Since its introduction

To celebrate the recent release of our 33 1/3 on Bob Mould’s Workbook, we’re pleased to bring you the second installment of Bob Mould Week by authors Walter Biggins and Daniel Couch! If you’re new to Bob Mould’s music, his catalog can seem both bracing and overwhelming. At this point, he’s nearly four decades and

To celebrate the recent release of our 33 1/3 on Bob Mould’s Workbook, we’re pleased to bring you the first installment of Bob Mould Week by authors Walter Biggins and Daniel Couch! Our book, Bob Mould’s Workbook, emerged as a series of handwritten letters to each other, which were then expanded by phone, Skype, and email conversations