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We always love to see our books in the classroom, so today, we are bringing you two excerpts from 33 1/3 reviews written by the students in Samantha Bennett’s undergraduate class at ANU. Do you teach 33 1/3s as well? We’d love to hear about it! Samantha Bennett is a senior lecturer in the School […]

ATTENTION DEVOtees! On May 16, 1980 Devo released Freedom of Choice and thirty-five years later the album will get the 33 1/3 treatment by Evie Nagy! Fred Armisen, who has expressed his love of Devo before, will grace the book with a short forward. Thanks Fred! For more on the Freedom of Choice 33 1/3

Prior to May 2014 I was extremely ambivalent about Beyoncé. Yes, I respected her enormous ass talent but was never a Destiny’s Child fan and none of her solo work spoke to me until the Unfortunate Incident of the Sister in the Elevator, which had the happy result of exposing me to her most recent album –

Read our Q&A with Rebecca Wallwork, soon-to-be author of the new 33 1/3 on the New Kids on the Block’s Hangin’ Tough! Tell us a bit about yourself in an extended author biography. I’m a writer, editor and content director (mostly for travel brands). These days I specialize in digital content but I have a long

Once more, it’s Friday! Here’s some indie-synth-pop for you. I first saw The Octopus Project in 2006 at the inauguration of Austin’s cheaper-than-ACL music festival Fun Fun Fun Fest (now apparently referred to as Fun cubed) by accident. They were playing on one of three not-so-glamorous stages in the same park that hosts the annual

Been to IKEA recently? Well, you might need to make the trip soon to stock up on BILLY bookcases because you’re going to need a lot of shelf space. You may have noticed that we recently published our 100th volume in the 33 1/3 series and we had a great anniversary party last week in

 Today, we bring you a Q&A with Bryan C. Parker! He’ll be writing the new 33 1/3 on the Beat Happening. You can also read his 333Sound post about the Anacortes Unknown music festival here.   Tell us a bit about yourself in an extended author biography. I am a writer and photographer living in

Congratulations to Michael T. Fournier on yesterday’s release of his fantastic second novel Swing State! Michael is the author of the 33 1/3 volume on The Minutemen’s Double Nickel’s on the Dime (Bloomsbury, 2007) as well as the punk-rock novel Hidden Wheel (2011). His most recent novel, Swing State, unveils the generally overlooked decades-long economic downturn

Is there a better way to spend your Tuesday morning than watching everyone’s favorite party person and advice columnist Andrew W.K. and 33 1/3 author Phillip Crandall talk about pigs blood, candy, what “party” really means, and of course, the 33 1/3 series in this video from Slate? We didn’t think so.