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Mark your calendars! Where: Powerhouse Arena When: Thursday Oct 02, 2014 Time: 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm Pretty please RSVP here. Stay tuned for more details on guest authors, contests (like free 33 1/3-branded beanies!), and other treats. Since I was a teenage girl in the 90s, this is how I envision this party: [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUJkM9jAzkk&w=420&h=315] […]
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In last week’s video vault, I mentioned that Mary Lou Lord had written one of the greatest F*** boys song of the 90s and that Liz Phair’s was pretty good as well. So to wrap up Liz Phair week I present the BEST F*** boys song of the 90s. Liz Phair’s “Fuck and Run” from
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To celebrate the recent UK release of Gina Arnold’s 33 1/3 on Liz Phair’s Exile in Guyville, we bring you the third installment of Liz Phair Week… Nothing irks me more than when people in pop music use the word “authentic” to describe an artist’s worth. Mention of the word poisons any well I might
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To celebrate the recent UK release of Gina Arnold’s 33 1/3 on Liz Phair’s Exile in Guyville, we bring you the second installment of Liz Phair Week… Buzzfeed recently published a listsicle entitled “what straight boys “Favorite Books” say about them.” The list was pretty funny (John Updike = #LiteraryRobinThicke. Into the Wild = looooves
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To celebrate the recent UK release of Gina Arnold’s 33 1/3 on Liz Phair’s Exile in Guyville, we bring you the first installment of Exiled in Guyville Week. You can read a fantastic review of Gina’s book in the New York Times here. Gina Arnold: Despite the success of Jack White’s recent vinyl only release,
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Mary Lou Lord is a singer-songwriter from Salem, Massachusetts. She was friends* with Kurt before Courtney, toured with Elliot Smith and has several albums with Kill Rock Stars. In short, we love her. *Lord’s Wikipedia page once stated that she and Cobain had been more than friends but she has since set the record straight
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In honor of this week’s anniversary of Olivia Tremor Control member Bill Doss’s death, 333Sound takes a brief look back at the Elephant 6 Recording Company (and its extensive family tree). As Kim Cooper documented in her now iconic 33 1/3 In the Aeroplane Over the Sea, something extraordinary was happening in Athens, Georgia, when
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It’s been 20 years since Guided By Voices classic album Bee Thousand was released and you’ve got the chance to hear some of it live. TONIGHT! At Irving Plaza! It’s no accident that Marc Woodworth, author of the 33 1/3 on Bee Thousand happens to be sitting in my living room at this very moment
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Simon Warner, author of Text and Drugs and Rock ’n’ Roll: The Beats and Rock Culture, just published in paperback, discusses a fateful meeting which would shape not only the world of literature and but also influence the destiny of popular music. SEVENTY years ago, the Western democracies were engaging in a critical campaign to
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World Cup fever is high here at the Bloomsbury offices, with a company-sponsored pizza lunch (too bad we aren’t state employees) and our philosophy team holding a caption contest. While I’m not really into sports, I do find myself getting swept up in events that only happen every four years (see also: winter Olympics). And although the U.S. suffered a
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