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Where to buy 33 1/3 books…

February 23, 2015 by 333sound

Help us help independent bookstores and record stores. Buy the latest 33 1/3 books at one of these fine stores! Don’t see your store listed here? Tell us by commenting below or emailing 33proposals@gmail.com Austin, TX Waterloo Records Bloomington, IN Landlocked Music Boston, MA Museum of Fine Arts Harvard Bookstore Harvard Coop Buffalo, NY Talking Leaves Chicago, IL Seminary Co-Op Denver, CO Twist and Shout Durham, NC Regulator Bookshop Houston, TX Brazos Bookstore Indianapolis, IN Indy CD and VINYL Los […]

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Series Update/Open Call News/You’ll Want to Read This One

January 21, 2015 by 333sound

Dear Readers, For the past 11 years we’ve been publishing these tiny little books on the best-loved (sometimes hated), most popular and often most misunderstood albums in pop, rock, soul, hip-hop and electronic music. And we’re still going VERY strong. Thanks to an amazing crop of books over the past two years, the 33 1/3 series re-launch under Bloomsbury Academic has been a huge success. Special congratulations are due to Jordan Ferguson for his book on J. Dilla, which was […]

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Gotta READ EM ALL! 100 books for 1000 bones!

October 10, 2014 by 333sound

Been to IKEA recently? Well, you might need to make the trip soon to stock up on BILLY bookcases because you’re going to need a lot of shelf space. You may have noticed that we recently published our 100th volume in the 33 1/3 series and we had a great anniversary party last week in Brooklyn with authors Susan Fast and Carl Wilson. One hundred? That’s a lot of books. Here’s some 33 1/3 math for you. Each book is […]

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33 1/3 at Pendleton Rock Camp for Kids

August 14, 2014 by 333sound

Earlier this month we sent a few 33 1/3rds to the campers at Pendleton Rock Camp in Pendleton Oregon. It’s a FREE program run by Pendleton Center for the Arts. So what is rock camp, exactly? It’s five full days of FREE rock & roll learning with teachers from West Coast indie bands. Some people put together bands, write original music and record their songs. Others work on rock journalism, putting together a camp zine and generating video for YouTube. […]

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LaBelle reads at Berlin’s coolest Bookstore

August 13, 2014 by 333sound

Do you live in Berlin? Lucky… Brandon LaBelle will be reading from his new book Lexicon of the Mouth at Pro qm bookstore on September 2nd. 2. September 2014 20:30 Lexicon of the Mouth: Poetics and Politics of Voice and the Oral Imaginary Book Presentation with Brandon LaBelle We are pleased to celebrate the release of Lexicon of the Mouth: Poetics and Politics of Voice and the Oral Imaginary, the third publication of Brandon LaBelle’s sonic research and auditory investigations. […]

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Video Vault, Episode 33: A Definitely Maybe Family Tree

July 18, 2014 by 333sound

To celebrate the UK release of Alex Niven’s 33 1/3 on Oasis’s Definitely Maybe, we bring you the third and final installment of Oasis Week… Among other things, Definitely Maybe is one of the great works of archaeological summary in pop history – a sort of greatest hits of post-fifties guitar pop. Here are some of its major influences … Chuck Berry – Little Queenie Much has been made of Cigarettes and Alcohol’s, ahem, appropriation of the guitar riff from […]

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Oasis Week: A Short Psychogeographical Tour of Definitely Maybe’s Manchester

July 16, 2014 by 333sound

To celebrate the UK release of Alex Niven’s 33 1/3 on Oasis’s Definitely Maybe, we bring you the second installment of Oasis Week… 1. INDIA HOUSE, WHITWORTH STREET Apartment block in central Manchester where Noel Gallagher wrote many of the songs on Definitely Maybe. A packing and shipping warehouse built in 1906 in the Edwardian Baroque style, the underbelly of the building was eulogised in a beautiful watercolour by the impressionist painter Adolphe Valette (1876-1942) who would later become the […]

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Oasis Week: Definitely Maybe and Me

July 14, 2014 by 333sound

To celebrate the UK release of Alex Niven’s 33 1/3 on Oasis’s Definitely Maybe, we bring you the first installment of Oasis Week… I first became aware of Oasis in late 1994 via the pages of the juvenile British football magazine Match!. At some indefinite point that autumn, pictures of the Gallagher brothers wrapped in cerulean-blue Manchester City replica shirts started to appear in the features section of the magazine, which I read religiously every week from cover to cover […]

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Text and Drugs and Rock ‘n’ Roll Author Simon Warner on the Beats and Fate

June 30, 2014 by 333sound

Simon Warner, author of Text and Drugs and Rock ’n’ Roll: The Beats and Rock Culture, just published in paperback, discusses a fateful meeting which would shape not only the world of literature and but also influence the destiny of popular music. SEVENTY years ago, the Western democracies were engaging in a critical campaign to secure their liberation from the forces of fascism. In northwest France, the Allies were plotting, then launching, D-Day, an audacious endgame that would finally dislodge […]

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Where to buy 33 1/3 books…

Series Update/Open Call News/You’ll Want to Read This One

Gotta READ EM ALL! 100 books for 1000 bones!

33 1/3 at Pendleton Rock Camp for Kids

LaBelle reads at Berlin’s coolest Bookstore

Video Vault, Episode 33: A Definitely Maybe Family Tree

Oasis Week: A Short Psychogeographical Tour of Definitely Maybe’s Manchester

Oasis Week: Definitely Maybe and Me

Text and Drugs and Rock ‘n’ Roll Author Simon Warner on the Beats and Fate