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Very sad news today about Don Van Vliet, aka Captain Beefheart. I remember my brother putting some Beefheart songs on a cassette for me when I was maybe 14, and having the living daylights freaked out of me. In a good way. You can read Maura Johnston’s short piece in Rolling Stone here. And of […]

A few words from John Foxx on Sean Albiez and David Pattie’s book: No one but C-3PO makes love to Kraftwerk. No one liked them much to begin with – certainly not in Germany. Yet they eventually managed to attract sufficient critical mass to create a new star. And everyone else found themselves firmly in

This is just remarkable. [funnyordie id=6f62088f27 width=512 height=328]

I’m eagerly awaiting my copy, but for now, I got my hands on a jpg of the table of contents. This year’s theme is Alabama, and there are some familiar names within: Franklin Bruno, Zeth Lundy on Ralph “Soul” Jackson, Amanda Petrusich on Odetta, Hayden Childs on The Godsin Brothers, Carl Wilson on Baker Knight,

A reader recently sent us this photo of a staff recommendation display at Browser Books in San Francisco. Thanks Nitu! [Click image for full size]

The KEXP blog occasionally features scans of well-worn albums from the archive plastered with reviews/comments/snark from the DJs over the years under the “Review Revue” tag. I linked to the Slint entry the other day, but I went back and scrolled through the backlog of these and thought they were brilliant, so I thought it

I’ve been dying to use that pun. Forgive me. Slint’s hometown paper, The Louisville Courier-Journal, has a long interview with Scott Tennent about his 33 1/3 on Spiderland. Also, check out this well worn and much loved copy of Spiderland from KEXP’s archives. I love it.Click here to read transcriptions of the DJs’ notes.

This morning’s installment of NPR’s ongoing series “50 Great Voices” featured Israel Kamakawiwo’ole, subject of the 33 1/3 by Dan Kois on Iz’s album “Facing Future.“ It’s nice to see the big man getting some love.

Next Thursday, our 33 1/3 author Scott Tennent will be celebrating the release of his book on Spiderland. If you happen to be in the Los Angeles area, all are welcome. Here are the details: Party starts at 7pm, goes till 10pm.It’s at the Mandrake and there will be drinks. The book is now available

The picture alone is worth the price of admission (it looks pretty cold there, eh?), but The Quietus has a nice feature on the two most recent 33 1/3s, Slint’s Spiderland and Radiohead’s Kid A. “…from [Slint’s] minimalist, obscure, dour, pre-internet, word of mouth start to leftfield indie rock in the 1990s, Continuum pull a