Bloomsbury is extremely proud to announce the sixth of fourteen new 33 1/3 volumes…coming to a bookstore (and kindle/iPad) near you in: Spring 2015, Fall 2015, Spring 2016 and Fall 2016. It was extremely difficult to select these titles from a pool of over 400 brilliant proposals so we hope you enjoy! To highlight each new title and the author behind it, we’ll announce one book each day over the next two weeks. Bitches Brew – Miles Davis By George Grella Coming April 2016! It was 1969, and Miles Davis,…
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New 33 1/3 Title: Phish’s A Live One
Bloomsbury is extremely proud to announce the fifth of fourteen new 33 1/3 volumes…coming to a bookstore (and kindle/iPad) near you in: Spring 2015, Fall 2015, Spring 2016 and Fall 2016. It was extremely difficult to select these titles from a pool of over 400 brilliant proposals so we hope you enjoy! To highlight each new title and the author behind it, we’ll announce one book each day over the next two weeks. A Live One- Phish By Walter Holland Coming September 2015! Their first four albums were lampooned by…
New 33 1/3 Title: Beat Happening’s Beat Happening
Bloomsbury is extremely proud to announce the third of fourteen new 33 1/3 volumes…coming to a bookstore (and kindle/iPad) near you in: Spring 2015, Fall 2015, Spring 2016 and Fall 2016. It was extremely difficult to select these titles from a pool of over 400 brilliant proposals so we hope you enjoy! To highlight each new title and the author behind it, we’ll announce one book each day over the next two weeks. Beat Happening- Beat Happening By Bryan C. Parker Coming September 2015! This is the album that sent…
New 33 1/3 Title Coming Spring 2016: Workingman’s Dead
Bloomsbury is extremely proud to announce the second of fourteen new 33 1/3 volumes…coming to a bookstore (and kindle/iPad) near you in: Spring 2015, Fall 2015, Spring 2016 and Fall 2016. It was extremely difficult to select these titles from a pool of over 400 brilliant proposals so we hope you enjoy! To highlight each new title and the author behind it, we’ll announce one book each day over the next two weeks. Workingman’s Dead- Grateful Dead By Buzz Poole Coming September 2015! Released in 1970, the Grateful Dead’s Workingman’s…
New 33 1/3 Title: Koji Kondo’s Super Mario Bros.
Bloomsbury is extremely proud to announce the first of fourteen new 33 1/3 volumes…coming to a bookstore (and kindle/iPad) near you in: Spring 2015, Fall 2015, Spring 2016 and Fall 2016. It was extremely difficult to select these titles from a pool of over 400 brilliant proposals so we hope you enjoy! To highlight each new title and the author behind it, we’ll announce one book each day over the next two weeks. Super Mario Bros. – Koji Kondo By Andrew Schartmann Coming May 2015 ! Koji Kondo’s Super…
Guess the next 14 titles in the 33 1/3 series.
After two months of reading, hair-pulling, late nights, temporary blindness, tears, laughter and pure joy we are ready to announce the next 14 titles to be published in the 33 1/3 series. We will begin announcing them on this blog next week. Thank you to all of those who submitted for your hard work and patience over the last few months. Even if you didn’t submit a proposal (and if you did), we’d like to invite you to guess which 14 we’ve carefully selected to publish. What to do: Take…
Beach Boys Week: The Beach Boys and Comedy
Welcome to Beach Boys Week, in celebration of #94 in the 33 1/3 series, Beach Boys’ Smile by Luis Sanchez (out now!). This time around, Sanchez looks at the relationship between the band and comedy. A Beach Boy walks into a bar… There’s a peculiar moment captured during a Beach Boys studio session outtake that you can find on the 1996 Pet Sounds Sessions boxed set. It punctuates a break between takes for the instrumental track for “Hang On To Your Ego.” The session sounds like it’s going well enough—musicians…
Beach Boys Week: Beach Boys at the Movies
Welcome to Beach Boys Week, in celebration of #94 in the 33 1/3 series, Beach Boys’ Smile by Luis Sanchez (out now!). In his first entry, Sanchez looks at the beach and surf movie legacy of Brian Wilson and Co. One of the greatest ironies of the Beach Boys early music is that, for all its power to evoke a sense of Southern California place and mindset, only Dennis Wilson is remembered as an actual surfer. One theme I explore in my book is the tension between authenticity and inauthenticity,…
Affect, Protest and the ‘Death’ of Political Popular Music
Marie Thompson is co-editor, with Ian Biddle, of Sound, Music, Affect (2013). A writer and researcher, based in Nottingham, UK, she recently completed her PhD thesis, ‘Beyond Unwanted Sound: Noise, Affect and Aesthetic Moralism’, at the International Centre for Music Studies, Newcastle University. She teaches at Lincoln School of Media, University of Lincoln. Marie is also active as a musician, playing solo as Tragic Cabaret and in the band Beauty Pageant. We are often told that political music is over. In recent years, there have been a number of articles…
33 Things: April Edition
Every month, 33 1/3 editorial assistant Kaitlin Fontana will compile the best, weirdest, most interesting music and sound news from the past 30 days and serve it up to you in one handy, easy to digest list. May we present 33 Things that happened in April? Where the hell did April go? We don’t know either. But some stuff happened in it. 33 stuffs, actually. 1. Courtney Love is about to release a new album, and this song is UNREAL. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=316ZjRu-UEM?rel=0] 2. Avril Lavigne is about to release a…