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Ladies and germs! May we present Samantha Bennett who will pen the 33 1/3 on The Siouxsie and the Banshees 1988 album Peepshow. This book is one of 16 new titles in the 33 1/3 series.  Give it a good long listen… [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpcMLAOafkk] We caught up with Samantha to learn more about her listening and reading habits… 33 1/3: […]

Ladies and germs! May we present Joe Bucciero and Michael Blair who will pen the 33 1/3 on Young Marble Giants’ 1980 album Colossal Youth. This book is one of 16 new titles in the 33 1/3 series.  Give it a good long listen! [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tbi_wnEbnGs] We caught up with Joe and Michael to learn more about their listening and reading habits…

Ladies and germs! May we present Amy Gentry who will pen the 33 1/3 on Tori Amos’ 1996 album Boys for Pele. Amy’s book is one of 16 new titles in the 33 1/3 series.   Give it a good long listen! [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErccRh9DGcg] We caught up with Amy to learn more about her listening and reading habits… 33

Hey Miles! Watcha’ sellin’?: A Guest Video Vault Post by George Grella Jr. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZrbtKUZFqQ] No disrespect, Miles deserved every dollar he got, and should have been paid a lot more. As I mention in Bitches Brew, Miles was more than offended when Clive Davis started to sign young white rock bands for six figures,

As part of our new series of playlist/book pairings on our 33 1/3 Spotify account, we asked David Masciotra, author of the recent 33 1/3 on Metallica’s Black Album, to make a playlist for the book. Listen HERE Here’s the tracklist, along with some explanations from David on some of the songs he chose! 1.

As you know from Miles Davis Week on our blog last week, George Grella‘s 33 1/3 on Miles Davis’ Bitches Brew is now officially out! George will be doing an event and book signing at BookCourt TONIGHT at 7PM. GET YOURS NOW. I mean, Elvis Costello already got his signed copy.  Also don’t forget that George

TO CELEBRATE YESTERDAY’S RELEASE OF OUR 110TH 33/13 ON  BITCHES BREW, WE’RE PLEASED TO BRING YOU THE FIFTH AND FINAL INSTALLMENT OF MILES DAVIS WEEK BY AUTHOR GEORGE GRELLA JR. ! [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zZXi6UGMs0] It’s not a back-handed criticism to open this review by stating that, as a Miles Davis/jazz lover, I’m fundamentally glad that Miles Ahead, the new movie

TO CELEBRATE TODAY’S RELEASE OF OUR 110TH 33/13 ON  BITCHES BREW, WE’RE PLEASED TO BRING YOU THE FOURTH INSTALLMENT OF MILES DAVIS WEEK BY AUTHOR GEORGE GRELLA JR. ! “Miles did Bitches Brew and from Bitches Brew came all those other broths. Mahavishnu, all that shit, that’s broths out of Bitches Brew.” … Mtume As Mtume said, all those who

TO CELEBRATE THE UPCOMING RELEASE OF OUR 110TH 33/13 ON  BITCHES BREW, WE’RE PLEASED TO BRING YOU THE THIRD INSTALLMENT OF MILES DAVIS WEEK BY AUTHOR GEORGE GRELLA JR. ! Jazz history is the story of musicians and bands and the records they made, and it can be charted as a family tree. Jazz is an oral tradition, and