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Today’s post comes from Emily J. Lordi, author of the just-released 33 1/3 volume on Donny Hathaway’s Donny Hathaway Live. In this piece, Lordi discusses Hathaway’s 1971 song “She is My Lady,” a track she does not explore in her new book. The love of music and the love of black people are Donny Hathaway’s […]

We’re delighted to celebrate today’s release of 2 wonderful new books in the 33 1/3 series! Out now are Donny Hathaway’s Donny Hathaway Live by Emily J. Lordi and The Jesus and Mary Chain’s Psychocandy by Paula Mejia. Donny Hathaway’s Donny Hathaway Live Emily J. Lordi In January of 1979, the great soul artist Donny Hathaway fell fifteen stories

With hundreds of our latest books and bestsellers available at 30% off until the end of September, it’s hard to know where to start! We get it. So here’s a two-minute tour of just a few of the highlights you can pick up at a discount until the end of the month (for more inspiration

Just one week left in Bloomsbury’s September sale! Prepare yourself for another grueling semester by filling your brains with interesting facts on the sounds that surround you. Find yourself examining your summer spent at Coachella a bit differently with The Pop Festival, or discover how a once belittled record label evoked the ultimate revenge by securing

TODAY’S POST IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY BLOOMSBURY INTERN MAX MALTER! For years, friends and colleagues of scholar James Braxton Peterson would call on him for help: we want to discuss hip-hop culture in the classroom, we want to listen music critically with our students, we want to understand the politically conscious aspects of hip-hop… where do we

THIS WEEK’S ‘VIDEO VAULT’ IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY BLOOMSBURY INTERN MAX MALTER! I like to think there’s a mysterious ingredient that allows some artists to invest a crazy amount of emotion into their music, despite working under the same constraints of time, space, and money as everyone else. Whatever it is, Skylar Gudasz has figured it

It’s the last week of August – time to prepare your brain for the new school year! Look for some of these fantastic August releases from Bloomsbury Academic.   Brian Eno: Oblique Music Learn more about the mastermind behind some of the world’s favorite musicians (Talking Heads, U2, and Coldplay) from Sean Albiez and David

THIS WEEK’S ‘VIDEO VAULT’ IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY BLOOMSBURY INTERN KATE SCHNAKENBERG! Today is my last day as an intern at Bloomsbury so a farewell song seemed appropriate. Robert Plant and Alison Krauss are a duo made in folk/rock Heaven. Just think of everything they both bring to the table – great vocals, incredible musical ability,

TO CELEBRATE THE RECENT RELEASE OF OUR 33 1/3 ON  LCD SOUNDSYSTEM’S SOUND OF SILVER, WE’RE PLEASED TO BRING YOU THE FIFTH AND FINAL INSTALLMENT OF LCD SOUNDSYSTEM WEEK BY AUTHOR RYAN LEAS! Late in 2011, LCD Soundsystem released one more piece of their long goodbye: a video for their cover of Franz Ferdinand’s “Live Alone.” If you

TO CELEBRATE THE RECENT RELEASE OF OUR 33 1/3 ON  LCD SOUNDSYSTEM’S SOUND OF SILVER, WE’RE PLEASED TO BRING YOU THE FOURTH INSTALLMENT OF LCD SOUNDSYSTEM WEEK BY AUTHOR RYAN LEAS! Last year, I wound up driving a band on tour. It was my first time on tour, and there were some revelations: much of tour is being