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I recently came across NYCtaper.com, which, in their own words “is a live music blog that offers a new paradigm of music distribution on the web. The recordings are offered for free on this site as are the music posts, reviews and links to artist sites. All recordings are posted with artist permission or artists […]

First, I would like to direct your attention to this interview with Aaron Cohen about his 33 1/3 on Aretha Franklin’s Amazing Grace from the always excellent Soul Sides blog. If you are familiar with Soul Sides, you already know that it’s top notch. Do check it out. Aaron is also going to be busy

Our friends over at The Quietus have kindly posted Terry Edwards’ 50-minute podcast about the Madness album One Step Beyond, about which Terry wrote for the series a couple of years back. As with everything Terry produces, it’s highly recommended and well worth a listen. You can do so here.

RJ Wheaton is interviewed by Anupa Mistry in the Toronto Standard about “Why Portishead Still Matters” ahead of their live shows in Toronto this weekend. A sampling: They combined music in a way everyone is replicating now—without the help of YouTube or FilesTube.com.Portishead spent years refining their unique combinatory approach to music. “Barrow’s biggest inspiration

We are very please to announce that R. J. Wheaton’s 33 1/3 on Portishead’s Dummy is on shelves as they hit the US and Canada for a series of concerts throughout the month of October. We’ve got an excerpt from the book for your reading pleasure below. Feel free to hit up @dummy333 on Twitter

Aaron Cohen’s just-released 33 1/3 on Aretha Franklin’s Amazing Grace is the first in the series to tackle a gospel album… and what an album it is. There’s not a single song on this record that doesn’t have at least one spine-tingling moment of transcendence. If you aren’t familiar with it, I highly suggest you

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Though it may not be explicitly music-related, we figured that quite a few of you might be interested in a film book we are very excited about around these parts lately. We are very proud to publish the late journalist Paul Nelson’s lost interviews with Clint Eastwood later this month, in a volume edited by

I’ve had these posts from the WFMU blog bookmarked for a while now… time to set them free. If you like these kids playing My Bloody Valentine songs at home (some of them even go full Jazzmaster!), you might like Mike McGonigal’s 33 1/3 about Loveless. If you are a fan of these awesomely heavy

It was pointed out to me that we haven’t posted one of these in a while… So, if you’re into this stuff, here’s a chart showing how the books have done – with the bestselling title (never to be dethroned?) at the top, obviously. For some added info this time around, I’ve included the year