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To celebrate the upcoming release of Ethan Hayden’s 33 1/3 on Sigur Rós, we bring you the third installment of Sigur Rós week. The first Sigur Rós song to be sung in the nonsensical “Hopelandic” language was the title track from the band’s 1997 debut album, Von.  If “Von” is marked by one quality in […]

To celebrate the upcoming release of Ethan Hayden’s 33 1/3 on Sigur Rós, we bring you the second installment of Sigur Rós week. There are many aspects that contribute to the sense of otherworldliness in Sigur Rós’s music:  the instrumentation, effects, sense of space, nonsensical texts, etc.  One of the most significant, however, is the

To celebrate the upcoming release of Ethan Hayden’s 33 1/3 on Sigur Rós, we bring you the first installment of Sigur Rós week. The core concept of ( ) is the presentation of the album as an unfinished artwork.  Sigur Rós has provided the music, but they invite the listener to complete the album by

To celebrate the upcoming release of the new 33 1/3 on Danger Mouse, author Charles Fairchild discusses five key dynamics responsible for The Grey Album for Danger Mouse Week. The most important and defining aesthetic feature of The Grey Album is also the feature that got Danger Mouse in trouble, its use of familiar source

September marks our 10th Anniversary and our 100th volume! In honor of these milestones, we are offering a 33.3% discount on all* 33 1/3s! Additionally, the rest of the Music & Sound Studies list – along with all our other subjects – is 30% off! More info here. This all culminates in our Anniversary party on

To celebrate the upcoming release of the new 33 1/3 on Danger Mouse, author Charles Fairchild discusses five key dynamics responsible for The Grey Album for Danger Mouse Week. One of the themes of this book is the range of things Jay-Z’s The Black Album and The Beatles’ The Beatles (aka The ‘White Album’) have

To celebrate the upcoming release of the new 33 1/3 on Danger Mouse, author Charles Fairchild discusses five key dynamics responsible for The Grey Album for Danger Mouse Week. One of the things that always surprises me about the critical commentary on sample-based music is how little the idea of tradition has played in our

To celebrate the upcoming release of the new 33 1/3 on Danger Mouse, author Charles Fairchild discusses five key dynamics responsible for The Grey Album for Danger Mouse Week. For some reason, a lot of people thought The Grey Album was the work of a rebel. The general tone of much of the response to

To celebrate the upcoming release of the new 33 1/3 on Danger Mouse, author Charles Fairchild discusses five key dynamics responsible for The Grey Album for Danger Mouse Week. One of the underlying themes of the book on The Grey Album is to try to make some sense of what has happened to the music

33 Things is back! 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 August? This list is brought to you by our wonderful 33