Articles written by authors, guests and the 33 1/3 team.
Aaron Cohen will be a guest on NPR’s “Sound Opinions,” joining hosts Greg Kot and Jim DeRogatis to discuss the 40th anniversary of Aretha’s “Amazing Grace.” It airs on Friday night at 8:00 (CST) and will be rebroadcast on Saturday morning at 11:00. Live in Chicago? Great! You can listen in at 91.5 FM. For […]
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Friend of Roctober (and author of the 33 1/3 on Aretha Franklin’s Amazing Grace), Aaron Cohen will be on hand to read from his book to celebrate the 20th Anniversary of Rocktober Magazine (and Aretha’s 70th b-day) at Quimby’s in Chicago on March 30 at 7pm.Aaron has informed me that a disc of Aretha karaoke
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I know that April 21st seems like a long way off, but trust me, you will want to get your tickets for this sooner rather than later. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctDPOa2D178]Once-A-Year L.A. Bus Tour Follows in Tom Waits’ Youthful Footsteps WHAT: 2012 edition of “Crawling Down Cahuenga: Tom Waits’ Los Angeles” bus tour WHEN: Saturday, April 21,
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We are accepting proposals for new volumes in the 33 1/3 series from today, March 19, 2012 through April 30, 2012. More information can be found here, including many very useful questions and answers in the comments field.
Mike Fournier, author of the 33 1/3 on The Minutemen’s Double Nickels on the Dime, will be hitting the west coast this week doing some readings in support of his novel Hidden Wheel. Here are the dates:3/9: Las Vegas, with Coastwest Unrest. Blackbird Studios. 7 pm.3/12: Los Angeles, CA. Stories. 7-ish?3/13: Santa Monica CA. Track
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While there hasn’t been much in the way of new content on the blog in a couple of weeks, we should mention that the comments thread in the 33 1/3 Call For Proposals post has been very active and full of useful questions and answers for anyone interested in submitting a book proposal this time
This recent piece in the Montreal Mirror by Erin MacLeod about Celine Dion’s popularity in Jamaica has a quick comment at the end of the piece by Carl Wilson. And it also reminded me that I was recently reading Dave Tompkin’s incredibly entertaining history of the vocoder, How To Wreck a Nice Beach, when I
To celebrate this, the 36th year of The Fleshtones existence, we are offering copies of Joe Bonomo’s excellent biography of the band, Sweat: The Story of the Fleshtones, America’s Garage Band at 50% off until February 10th (US only) when you use the promo code BLUEWHALE at checkout on the [offer expired!] Continuum website:http://www.continuumbooks.com/books/detail.aspx?BookId=130883&SearchType=Basic “Joe
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Bloomsbury is thrilled to announce a call for new proposals for the acclaimed 33 1/3 book series, previously published by Continuum. (Bloomsbury acquired Continuum in July 2011). The series – each volume of which focuses on one popular music album of the last several decades – started in September 2003 and has published 85 titles
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