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This week’s video vault is brought to you by our amazing 33 1/3 intern Arev Pivazyan. Arev has an M.A. in Performance Studies, which takes performance ranging from actual staged performance to the performance of identity, gender, and politics as its object of analysis. Read Arev discuss ball culture and the queering of rap, below! […]

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 September? 33 1/3 officially published its 100th volume on Michael Jackson’s Dangerous!

Happy 10th Anniversary to US! We will be celebrating this momentous occasion and the publication of our 100th Volume! Please join us, along with authors Susan Fast and Carl Wilson, at 7pm at Powerhouse Arena in DUMBO, Brooklyn. It’s totally FREE but you must RSVP to reserve your spot. Do that here. Where: THE POWERHOUSE

Read Andrew Schartmann’s Q&A, below. He’ll be writing a new and exciting 33 1/3 on Koji Kondo’s Super Mario Bros soundtrack! Tell us a bit about yourself in an extended author biography. Andrew Schartmann is a pianist, composer, and theorist. He holds degrees in music from Yale and McGill University, where he taught for several

Today, we bring you a Q&A with Jenn Pelly, who will be writing the 33 1/3 on The Raincoats! Tell us a bit about yourself in an extended author biography. My name is Jenn Pelly and I am from Long Island, N.Y. I was born exactly 10 years after The Raincoats. I decided to become

Over the summer I had the pleasure of reading John Darnielle’s new novel Wolf in White Van. It’s a dark story of a man whose life is ruined by a self-inflicted gun shot wound that leaves him horribly disfigured instead of dead. But this character, Sean, is sympathetic. He is lonely and self-aware and the

Although Scotland voted yesterday to remain in the United Kingdom and not unshackle themselves from the tyranny that is the British Empire because England is amazing and I work for a British company, we can still honor the breadth of talent birthed from the land of kilts and bagpipes. Also, Braveheart. Since we have a book

Today, we bring you a Q&A with David Masciotra, who will be writing the new 33 1/3 on Metallica’s Metallica. Tell us a bit about yourself in an extended author biography. I am a regular contributor to the Daily Beast, and a columnist with the Indianapolis Star. In early 2015, the University Press of Kentucky

To celebrate the upcoming release of Ethan Hayden’s 33 1/3 on Sigur Rós, we bring you the fourth and final installment of Sigur Rós week. Sigur Rós only made one music video to promote ( ), and that was for the album’s first song, “Untitled No. 1” or “Vaka.”  In my book, I write a