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Every month, we will compile the best, weirdest, most interesting music and sound news from the past 30 days and serve it up to you in one handy, easy to digest list. May we present 33 Things that happened in September. This list is brought to you by our 33 1/3 intern, Greta Moran. Pope Francis is dropping […]

Peter Astor, author of Richard Hell and the Voidoids’ Blank Generation, was recently was featured on BBC with his bandmates in The Loft! If you’re interested in listening to The Loft’s Gideon Coe BBC 6 Music session and interview from last week, but strapped for time – you’re in luck! Here’s the tidy 6 Music clips

TO CELEBRATE YESTERDAY’S RELEASE OF OUR 107TH 33 1/3 ON  BEAT HAPPENING, WE’RE PLEASED TO BRING YOU THE FIFTH AND FINAL INSTALLMENT OF BEAT HAPPENING WEEK BY AUTHOR BRYAN PARKER ! For readers who still haven’t heard the word about 33 1/3’s newest volume, Beat Happening, which was just released yesterday, the book is structured as an abecedary—an

TO CELEBRATE TODAY’S RELEASE OF OUR 107TH 33 1/3 ON  BEAT HAPPENING, WE’RE PLEASED TO BRING YOU THE FOURTH INSTALLMENT OF BEAT HAPPENING WEEK BY AUTHOR BRYAN PARKER ! In 2013, while on a trip to the Anacortes Unknown Music Series, I came up with the idea to interview Calvin Johnson on video. I was bringing some

TO CELEBRATE THE UPCOMING RELEASE OF OUR 107TH 33 1/3 ON  BEAT HAPPENING, WE’RE PLEASED TO BRING YOU THE THIRD INSTALLMENT OF BEAT HAPPENING WEEK BY AUTHOR BRYAN PARKER ! Early on, Calvin Johnson and Beat Happening in general rejected the idea of differentiating or restricting based on age. In addition to challenging the conventions of music,

TO CELEBRATE THE UPCOMING RELEASE OF OUR 107TH 33 1/3 ON  BEAT HAPPENING, WE’RE PLEASED TO BRING YOU THE SECOND INSTALLMENT OF BEAT HAPPENING WEEK BY AUTHOR BRYAN PARKER ! Beat Happening’s eponymous first album laid the groundwork for the material central force Calvin Johnson’s K Records imprint released in the future, including several subsequent Beat Happening

TO CELEBRATE THE UPCOMING RELEASE OF OUR 107TH 33/13 ON  BEAT HAPPENING, WE’RE PLEASED TO BRING YOU THE VERY FIRST INSTALLMENT OF BEAT HAPPENING WEEK BY AUTHOR BRYAN PARKER ! Shortly after I moved to Austin, TX for university in 2001, I began to frequent the now defunct record store 33 Degrees north of campus, where Phil

TO CELEBRATE THE UPCOMING RELEASE OF OUR 108TH 33 1/3 ON  METALLICA, WE’RE PLEASED TO BRING YOU THE FIFTH AND FINAL INSTALLMENT OF METALLICA WEEK BY AUTHOR DAVID MASCIOTRA! Many heavy metal purists accused Metallica of “selling out” when they first heard The Black Album. Metallica’s then-new songs were simpler, at times slower, and slightly more accessible

TO CELEBRATE THE UPCOMING RELEASE OF OUR 108TH 33 1/3 ON  METALLICA, WE’RE PLEASED TO BRING YOU THE FOURTH INSTALLMENT OF METALLICA WEEK BY AUTHOR DAVID MASCIOTRA! In order to celebrate Metallica Week, and prepare for the release of the new 33 1/3 on Metallica (The Black Album), Bloomsbury and Bangarang Radio are combining forces to premiere

TO CELEBRATE THE UPCOMING RELEASE OF OUR 108TH 33 1/3 ON  METALLICA, WE’RE PLEASED TO BRING YOU THE THIRD INSTALLMENT OF METALLICA WEEK BY AUTHOR DAVID MASCIOTRA!  In the sweaty summer of 1990, Metallica opened for Aerosmith in Toronto, Canada at the CNE Fairgrounds. It had been twelve years, but it had passed in what must have