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Will you be in Manchester this weekend? Come join us this Saturday at the annual Louder Than Words Festival, at The Palace Hotel! 2014 will mark the second year of the festival (as well as our second year participating). You can read all about the inaugural one in our post from last year. From 6:30 […]

“I thought ‘Halleluwah’ on Tago Mago was the funkiest and the most athletic thing I had ever heard. And I hated sports.” -Alan Warner [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dZbAFmnRVA] You can get down with this track at your desk sipping coffee from your very own tago mago mug. 

To celebrate the upcoming release of our 101st 33 1/3 on Tago Mago by Alan Warner, we bring you the third installment of Can week – – an excerpt from the book about Warner’s young adulthood in the Scottish highlands.  I first came across Alan Warner’s writing in a short novel called Morvern Callar. Its protagonist is a Scottish

To celebrate the upcoming release of our 101st 33 1/3 on Tago Mago by Alan Warner, we bring you the second installment of Can week – – a quick look at the group’s unconventional recording studio in Schloss Norvenich. Schloss Nörvenich is an imposing sandstone castle located in the relatively isolated Noervenich municipality in North

To celebrate the upcoming release of our 101st 33 1/3 on Tago Mago by Alan Warner, we bring you the first installment of Can week! Here’s Alan talking a bit about himself, the book, the album, and the correct pronunciation of  Tago Mago. I am a Scottish novelist, hypochondriac and nervous flyer. I revert to

Happy Halloween! For this week’s Video Vault, I bring you a music video from Natasha Khan’s—more often known as Bat for Lashes—debut album, Fur and Gold. After all, what better way to celebrate All Hallows Eve than with this delightfully eerie (and yet, simultaneously silly) song about the gradual deterioration of relationships? And as Matt

Every month, editorial assistant Michelle Chen 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 October? Sleater-Kinney are back! Lucky for you, there’ll soon be a new

Read our Q&A with Wally Holland, soon-to-be author of the new 33 1/3 on Phish’s  A Live One! Tell us a bit about yourself in an extended author biography. I was born in San Juan, grew up near Houston and then near Buffalo, and have lived in Boston/Cambridge since 1997. I have a Bachelors in

Let me take you back ten years to when Taylor Swift was 15. She had blonde bouncy curls and country swagger. She sang “truck” like “truuuck” and “up” like “uuhhpp,” and played the guitar. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqoeQpsBI4c] Last night on Jimmy Kimmel we got Taylor 4.0. A full blown pop star and New York City girl.

Read our Q&A with Emily J. Lordi, soon-to-be author of the new 33 1/3 on Donny Hathaway’s Donny Hathaway Live! Tell us a bit about yourself in an extended author biography. I’m a writer, scholar, dreamer, note-taker, reviser, professor, Taurus. I teach and write about African American literature and black popular music. I wrote a