Category: Intern Post

Video Vault 91: Fever Ray

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Enigmatic brother-sister duo The Knife called it quits two years ago, and the 10-year anniversary of their seminal Silent Shout has the defunct group on my mind lately. Their brand of moody, broody electro-pop has been oft-imitated since that album — artists like Zola Jesus and iamamiwhoami exhibit Knife-like fingerprints in their music — though no one ever did it quite so well. More impressive still, Karin and Olof Dreijer used their bangers as Trojan horses, protests against social norms nestled within. The Knife would never again package their MO so accessibly. Seven years after Silent Shout the group…

33 Things January Edition

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Every month, we 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 January. This list is brought to you by our 33 1/3 intern, Michael Doub. R.I.P. David Bowie. I can’t do the enormity of his passing justice in this space, so I’ll link to a few more considered eulogies. A silver-lining to the terrible news: his final release Blackstar ended the commercial reign of terror of…

Video Vault 86: David Bowie

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Hi all! I’m the new intern over at 33 1/3, here to bring you good taste and good vibes in 2016. More than any other recently-deceased celebrity, David Bowie has been omnipresent in my world since his death on Monday. People I’ve known for years have avowed an appreciation for him I’d never known was there. Public figures have similarly come forward to disclose their histories with the icon, some commenting on the impact of his unparalleled body of work, others on the man himself and his generosity of spirit. Even as I write…

33 Things September Edition

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Every month, we 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 September. This list is brought to you by our 33 1/3 intern, Greta Moran. Pope Francis is dropping a rock album. Just to forewarn you: the remaining 32 things to follow are not quite as momentous. Bloomsbury’s 33 1/3 series is also dropping a few things, namely Metallica and Beat Happening! The release of these…

Video Vault Episode 77: Ella Fitzgerald Sings “Summertime”

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Today is essentially the last day of summer for me, as it marks the end of my summer internship (I’ll be back part-time in the fall though, don’t you worry!). September is right around the corner and, with it, an insanely busy fall semester. I’m overwhelmed just thinking about it. But what better way to send off the summer than with Ella’s beautiful rendition of “Summertime”? Ella Fitzgerald is and always will be my go-to example of the closest a person can get to vocal perfection. Give her a classic…

Video Vault Episode 76: 33 1/3 Author Pete Astor (feat. How to Write About Music)!

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Today’s video vault is extra special for several reasons: The artist in this video is Pete Astor, author of our very own 33 1/3 book Richard Hell and the Voidoids’ Blank Generation. This video was premiered earlier this month on Overblown, and we can expect a full-length album in the near future! How to Write About Music made a cameo at 1:02! We are proud to be counted among Pete Astor’s favorite books (and we’re sure he’s not just biased because he published with us).     Check out his…

Video Vault Episode 74: Hurricane Season by Trombone Shorty

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Hello again, everyone! It’s mid-July, the perfect time to start talking about hurricane season! This music comes from the wonderfully talented Trombone Shorty, everyone’s favorite pop/rock/jazz brass player. I’m sorry to say that he’s not playing trombone here, but trumpet is almost as good so we can live with it. I’m not really sure why, but this song never fails to make me happy. Maybe it’s the fact that the opening trumpet part sounds ridiculously silly to me, or the fact that I always try to sing along with the…

33 Things: June Edition

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Every month, we 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 June? This list is brought to you by our 33 1/3 intern, Katherine DeChant. 33 1/3 was featured on Pitchfork! Apple Music is launching today! Which of course brings to mind TSwift’s (possibly hypocritical) open letter to Apple, asking them to pay royalties to musicians during their three-month trial period.…

Video Vault Episode 72: Genre-Hopping with Chris Thile

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Hello everyone! Allow me to introduce myself as the new intern at 33 1/3. I’ll be doing the occasional video vault post and maybe some other work around the blog. Rather than aligning myself in this first post with one musical camp or another, I’m keeping my stance ambiguous by invoking as many genres as I can in one video. “Another New World” is a song by Americana guitarist Josh Ritter, performed here on mandolin by Chris Thile, that is loosely inspired by Edgar Allen Poe’s “Annabel Lee.” I’m also…

Video Vault Episode 61: Tobias Jesso Jr. – “How Could You Babe”

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Just last month a very tall, shaggy young man named Tobias Jesso Jr. stepped onto the stage of “The Tonight Show” and ran through a show-stopping, Randy Newman-indebted piano ballad called “How Could You Babe,” with The Roots as his backing band. Who was this guy? At that point he’d only officially released four songs. Two of them were lo-fi demos he’d recorded himself and uploaded to YouTube, and two — including “How Could You Babe” — were singles off his then-unreleased debut album, Goon.  Since the two demos surfaced…