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We are excited to announce the winner of the 33 1/3 under 22 open call. Congratulations to Ada Wolin for her proposal on Golden Hits of the Shangri-Las! How to Write About Music editor and 22 and under open call judge, Marc Woodworth, has this to say about the selection: As one of the editors […]

TO CELEBRATE THE RECENT RELEASE OF OUR 33 1/3 ON  THE GETO BOYS, WE’RE PLEASED TO BRING YOU THE FIFTH AND FINAL INSTALLMENT OF GETO BOYS WEEK BY AUTHOR ROLF POTTS! One challenge in writing for the 33 1/3 series is that making the case for a given album’s importance involves curating and condensing a sprawling wealth of information

TO CELEBRATE THE RECENT RELEASE OF OUR 33 1/3 ON  THE GETO BOYS, WE’RE PLEASED TO BRING YOU THE FOURTH INSTALLMENT OF GETO BOYS WEEK BY AUTHOR ROLF POTTS! One curious footnote to the controversy surrounding the 1990 release of The Geto Boys was a congressional hearing that happened a full decade later, in December of 2000. On the

TO CELEBRATE THE RECENT RELEASE OF OUR 33 1/3 ON  THE GETO BOYS, WE’RE PLEASED TO BRING YOU THE THIRD INSTALLMENT OF GETO BOYS WEEK BY AUTHOR ROLF POTTS! The controversy surrounding the 1990 release of The Geto Boys focused in part on ultra-violent horrorcore songs like “Mind of a Lunatic,” but America’s cultural gatekeepers were just as horrified

TO CELEBRATE THE RECENT RELEASE OF OUR 33 1/3 ON  THE GETO BOYS, WE’RE PLEASED TO BRING YOU THE SECOND INSTALLMENT OF GETO BOYS WEEK BY AUTHOR ROLF POTTS! The Geto Boys and Rap-A-Lot Records get credit for putting Houston on the hip-hop map in the early 1990s, but this wasn’t the first time the city’s Fifth Ward

TO CELEBRATE THE RECENT RELEASE OF OUR 33 1/3 ON  THE GETO BOYS, WE’RE PLEASED TO BRING YOU THE FIRST INSTALLMENT OF GETO BOYS WEEK BY AUTHOR ROLF POTTS! Though the Geto Boys’ self-titled 1990 album featured songs that put a raw southern spin on West Coast gangsta rap, Houston’s hip-hop scene was originally influenced by East Coast

TO CELEBRATE THE RECENT RELEASE OF OUR 33 1/3 ON  DIG ME OUT, WE’RE PLEASED TO BRING YOU THE FIFTH AND FINAL INSTALLMENT OF SLEATER-KINNEY WEEK BY AUTHOR JOVANA BABOVIC! Sleater-Kinney’s The Hot Rock was released in 1999 as the follow-up to Dig Me Out. Up until that point, the band had primarily reached fans through touring and

TO CELEBRATE THE RECENT RELEASE OF OUR 33 1/3 ON  DIG ME OUT, WE’RE PLEASED TO BRING YOU THE FOURTH INSTALLMENT OF SLEATER-KINNEY WEEK BY AUTHOR JOVANA BABOVIC! The members of Sleater-Kinney are best known for their work as a trio. Each member, however, has been and has remained a prolific musician. This playlist features two decades of their

Next week, Buzz Poole, author of our recently-published 33 1/3 on Grateful Dead’s Workingman’s Dead, will join Jesse Jarnow (author of Heads: A Biography of Psychedelic America, Da Capo, 2016) on the first leg of Jarnow’s ‘Heads Talks’ events throughout the Northeast. Buzz and Jesse will be talking all things Grateful Dead (needless to say!), psychedelics, sonics, pop culture, and much

TO CELEBRATE THE RECENT RELEASE OF OUR 33 1/3 ON  DIG ME OUT, WE’RE PLEASED TO BRING YOU THE THIRD INSTALLMENT OF SLEATER-KINNEY WEEK BY AUTHOR JOVANA BABOVIC! Since forming in 1994, Sleater-Kinney had cycled through three percussionists. Their self-titled debut was recorded in Australia with Laura MacFarlane. Although they “really clicked” with MacFarlane, they soon realized that