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Despite its ubiquity, the concept of noise is ineffable. Always present in our lives, noise transcends social, cultural, and philosophical boundaries as we do. A teenager on the subway zoning out to music on his headphones could be a noisy annoyance to other passengers. So, then, is there a singular definition for noise, or is […]

For the second year running, we’re pleased to let our LA friends know about a very cool Tom Waits bus tour co-hosted by authors of two of our 33 1/3 titles, Tom Waits’ Swordfishtrombones and Neutral Milk Hotel’s In the Aeroplane Over the Sea. April 20 is not as far away as you think, so

Simon Warner is a journalist, lecturer and broadcaster who teaches Popular Music Studies at the University of Leeds in the UK. With his book Text and Drugs and Rock’n’Roll: The Beats and Rock Culture, out now, Warner maintains a particular interest in the relationship between the Beat Generation writers–Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs and

Jordan Ferguson, author of the forthcoming 33 1/3 on J Dilla’s Donuts (Spring 2014) went to Detroit and Toronto to cover “Dilla Day.” This is what he has to say about it…. I have a conflicted relationship with the month of February. On the one hand, it’s terrible: the days are too short, the nights

Today is a momentous day in music-comeback history, seeing the release of rock royalty David Bowie’s first album in a decade. Critics and fans have been counting down the weeks until ‘The Next Day’ hits our music library shelves, eagerly anticipating the first real taste of a fresh, reinvented Bowie. Everyone has had their chance

Over the next few months, we’ll be profiling the authors of the eighteen forthcoming 33 1/3 titles here on the blog so you can get to know them, their writing, and what kind of twisted soul chooses to think about just one album for months at a time. This time around: Kirk Walker Graves. Aside

Former keeper of the 33 1/3 flame, editor David Barker, has put together an amazingly comprehensive Spotify playlist of 21 songs all written or performed by Bloomsbury authors. Highlights include the best use in popular song of the words “unboyfriendable” (track 3) and “ventricles” (track 14); the first piece of music ever inspired by a

We’re thrilled our Spanish partner, Libros Crudos, have translated and published a handful of 33 1/3 books in Spanish. Author John Cavanagh, who wrote on Pink Floyd’s The Piper at the Gates of Dawn for his 33 1/3 installation was interviewed by Libros Crudos in Spanish, but you can read the English translation below. Additionally,

Over the next few months, we’ll be profiling the authors of the eighteen forthcoming 33 1/3 titles here on the blog so you can get to know them, their writing, and what kind of twisted soul chooses to think about just one album for months at a time. This time around: Alex Niven. Having written

Every so often you happen upon something you wish you had thought of yourself. I recently had that experience when Pete Astor, author of the forthcoming 33 1/3 on Richard Hell and the Voidoids, pointed me in the direction of Classic Album Sundays. It’s basically a brilliant, tricked-out record listening club started by audio geeks.