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21/01/2025

Hey folks! We're now on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/3313books.bsky.social

If you're there too and want to connect, come by and say hello 👋

17/01/2025

J.M.K.E.'s To the Cold Land author, Brigitta Davidjants, gave us some insight into why she wrote about this album, the connection between punk and political defiance and how we can explore soviet history through music. Read it on the blog: https://bit.ly/3PIUxg8

14/01/2025

🎶 Introducing a compilation of songs from albums featured in 33 1/3's Oceania spin-off series. Check out our favorite's from Kylie Minogue, Crowded House, Screamfeeder, and many many more... Listen on Spotify: https://spoti.fi/40iwIRu

13/01/2025

What are you listening to this week?

11/01/2025

In part two of Stephen Deusner's interview with Steacy Easton, we delve further into Dolly Parton's tightly controlled persona and how she has navigated country music's conventions. Steacy and Stephen also discuss mainstream country music more generally, and who it allows to bend the confines of the genre.

Read more on the 33 1/3 blog: https://bit.ly/4a9vYT8

10/01/2025

What comes to mind when you think about Dolly Parton? The country girl, the blonde burlesque, the pop legend, the gospel singer, the music icon?

Author Steacy Easton, interviewed here by Stephen Deusner, explores the complex and carefully-crafted persona that Dolly has constructed over the course of 7 decades. Steacy explains why they chose to pitch White Limozeen in the 33 1/3 open call, where this album fits within the larger Dolly Parton story, and how Dolly has cultivated a public identity that her audience connects with.

Read it here on the 33 1/3 blog: https://bit.ly/40pje7v

09/01/2025

If you're around Rough Trade East you might be able to bag yourself a copy of Kate Bush's Hounds of Love signed by the author, Leah Kardos! 🖊️

26/12/2024

A little sneak peak at the newest 33 1/3 books dropping in early 2025...

25/12/2024

Happy Holidays everybody! Anyone unwrapping new 33 1/3s today?

24/12/2024

It's time to celebrate the festive season the 33 1/3 way with a playlist of alternative songs chosen by our authors. So whether you're ready to thrash around the Christmas tree or enjoy some old fashioned holiday funk, we hope yule enjoy this playlist! https://spoti.fi/3ZJ8Yp4

22/12/2024

Clinton Walker brings disco fever to ABC Radio National Music Show and explains the Australianness of Saturday Night Fever and its soundtrack, thanks in large part to Adelaide-born producer Robert Stigwood and the Bee Gees who we claim as our own.

From the very first shot of John Travolta strutting his stuff down a busy New York street, Saturday Night Fever is an iconic film, and the music is even more iconic. Well, the five Bee Gees’ tracks that occupied side A are anyway—don’t get music writer Clinton Walker started on the ‘highway ...

20/12/2024

Looking for some festive music reading? Check out some of our blog posts:

🎄 Prog Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree: https://bit.ly/4fo6x16
🎄 A 33 1/3 Christmas Music Guide: https://bit.ly/41DDLq4
🎄 To Heck with Classic Christmas Songs (and more): https://bit.ly/3BCryaC

19/12/2024

What's your favorite Christmas song? 🎅

18/12/2024

Some exciting reviews coming in for our volume on Kate Bush's Hounds of Love 😍

17/12/2024

33 1/3 South Asia – the newest of our 33 1/3 Global series is here – and with it, the first book in the series: Dil Chahta Hai Soundtrack.

📖 Read an excerpt: https://bit.ly/3DnSzPK
🎧 Listen to the album on Spotify: https://spoti.fi/4gldb9K

08/12/2024

Today's your last chance to get 30% off in Bloomsbury's Holiday sale! 33 1/3 books make a great stocking stuffer for music lovers. 📚

🎁 Shop 33 1/3 books: https://bit.ly/4fHpxrS

07/12/2024

Read an extract from inside the pages of Kate Bush's Hounds of Love - one of our newest 33 1/3 books! Leah Kardos looks at the enduring influence of Kate Bush's masterpiece on subsequent artists, from Tori Amos to Suede. Read more on The Quietus

In an exclsuive extract from her new book for Bloomsbury's 33 1/3 series, Leah Kardos looks at the enduring influence of Kate Bush's masterpiece on subsequent artists, from Tori Amos to Suede

06/12/2024

As we hurtle into the festive season, T Coles (the author behind the 33 1/3 Genre volume on Death Metal) unwraps an oft-forgotten prog rock classic, Greg Lake’s I Believe in Father Christmas. Read it here: https://bit.ly/4fVQs3Q

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Hey folks! We're now on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/3313books.bsky.social If you're there too and want to connect, come by and say hello 👋

We've had lots of fantastic books publish this year. Here's to many more exciting music books publishing in 2025! 🎉

A small PSA to our UK & European readers - Kate Bush's Hounds of Love is out of stock already on the Bloomsbury website 😅 But fear not, more copies are coming soon (and of course available from your fave in-person and online bookstores).

The Moon & Antarctica is officially getting the 33 1/3 treatment! Coming November 14th, Zac Petit goes track-by-track through an album that is peak Modest Mouse - chaotic, strange, beautiful, jarring, and powerful - and asks the all-important question: How the hell did they pull this off?! Very limited # of copies signed by Isaac available for pre-order NOW at the Modest Mouse store (🔗 in bio).