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Happy day 2 of Serge Week, celebrating the release of the 87th volume in the 33 1/3 series: Serge Gainsbourg’s Histoire de Melody Nelson.  Author Darran Anderson here with the first of three posts. Looking back at Histoire de Melody Nelson, it might seem the album just appeared from nowhere and exists as a singular […]

Happy Serge Week! This week, Histoire De Melody Nelson author Darran Anderson will take over the blog for all things Serge. October 24th is the official release date, so order your copy now! Last weekend, a few colleagues and I got together for a Serge Gainsbourg-themed listening party. We listened to decades of French music

October, what a month. A discipline-defining Sound Studies conference in Berlin, the announcement of a new and expanded edition of Carl Wilson’s 33 1/3 on Celine Dion AND the release of the first 33 1/3 after an 18 month dry spell.  I’ve just returned from Berlin where 3 days of fascinating papers and presentations contributed

October being the month of the dead, I was very tempted to make this Video Vault about death metal (PS: have you tried the awesome “is it furniture or a death metal band?” guessing game Ikea or Death yet? I got 15/20!). However, having just read A.O. Scott’s withering review of the new CBGB movie

Last month Nirvana’s third and final studio album, In Utero, turned 20. In the spirit of our author Q&As with the new 33 1/3 scribes, we reached out to Gillian Gaar, author of the 33 1/3 on the album (volume 34). Called “one of the most interesting long-form rock writers in the Seattle area,” by

Guilty pleasures. Everybody has them, me included. In fact, I’ve just been told, rather delightfully, that my entire music collection is one giant treasure trove of guilty pleasure. It’s not, I assure you… So, when listening to the radio yesterday and a defining song from my teenage years started playing, I got to thinking about

Bloomsbury is thrilled to announce the publication of a new and expanded edition of Carl Wilson’s Let’s Talk About Love. Coming to a bookstore near you on March 13, 2014. In 2007, Continuum published the fifty-second volume in the 33 1/3 series. Its title, Let’s Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste,

“Miley, please,” I scoffed when Miley Cyrus, in her recent Rolling Stone interview, said her “Wrecking Ball” video was inspired by Sinead O’Connor’s “Nothing Compares 2 U” classic. Ms. Cyrus has been in the news a lot recently, between her MTV Video Music Awards performance, the aforementioned interview, her split from fiance Liam Hemsworth, and

Every month, 33 1/3 editorial assistant Kaitlin Fontana 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? Drumroll please… 1.    On the eve of In Utero’s