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I think I cried the first time I heard this song. It still gives me the chills. Just listen… You never really know what you got till it’s gone. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pqiqrnZE44]
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I’m halfway through editing Paula Mejia’s manuscript for The Jesus and Mary Chain’s Psychocandy and I can’t help but think about the sweetest song from an album so varied: “Just Like Honey.” It always seemed too sweet and out of place on Psychocandy but is disgustingly perfect at the end of Lost In Translation. Also,
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[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcUhTNxEh8M] It’s been 48 years since Bobbie Gentry released her landmark single “Ode to Billie Joe,” and decades since she vanished from the public eye. Yet fans still recall the sexy swivel of a Delta-born showgirl who became an international star singing about the third of June, another dusty Delta day. What’s less known
Come and join us in celebrating the publication of our 104th 33 1/3 volume on Devo’s Freedom of Choice (as well as the 35th anniversary of the album) at a Comedy Tribute to Devo this Thursday, May 28th, at Littlefield in Brooklyn! The event will be hosted by Jake Fogelnest, and feature Dave Hill, Sara Benincasa, Liam McEneaney, Joe
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Come and celebrate the publication of our 105th 33 1/3 volume on the Dead Kennedys’ Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables by Michael Stewart Foley this Wednesday May 27th at Moe’s Books in Berkeley! The event will begin at 7:30PM. Be sure to pick up a copy of the book, and as a precursor to the book launch,
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To celebrate yesterday’s release of our 104th 33 1/3 on Freedom of Choice, we’re pleased to bring you the fifth and final installment of Devo week by author Evie Nagy! Whenever anyone asks me what I think is the biggest misconception about Devo, I say the general public’s passing perception of the band as a
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To celebrate today’s release of our 104th 33 1/3 on Freedom of Choice, we’re pleased to bring you the fourth installment of Devo week by author Evie Nagy! So here we are, today is release day for Devo’s Freedom of Choice (along with 33 1/3s Koji Kondo’s Super Mario Brothers by Andrew Schartmann, and Dead
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To celebrate the upcoming release of our 104th 33 1/3 on Freedom of Choice, we’re pleased to bring you the third installment of Devo week by author Evie Nagy! Even in the 20 year gap between Devo’s most recent two albums (1990’s Smooth Noodle Maps and 2010’s Something For Everybody), the band reunited periodically to
Devo Week – Day 3: Hardcore Devo Read More »
To celebrate the upcoming release of our 104th 33 1/3 on Freedom of Choice, we’re pleased to bring you the second installment of Devo week by author Evie Nagy! A critical plot point in the story of the runaway success of Devo’s May 1980 third album Freedom of Choice has to do with one of
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To celebrate the upcoming release of our 104th 33 1/3 on Freedom of Choice, we’re pleased to bring you the very first installment of Devo week by author Evie Nagy! In May 2014, I went to L.A. to spend the morning at Mutato Muzika with Devo co-founder Mark Mothersbaugh, and the evening at dinner with
Devo Week – Day 1: All is fair in love and war, so what’s life for? Read More »
