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By: Gasteier, Matthew
Nas’s Illmatic
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Nas was playing a role on Illmatic, even if it was himself. By constructing this persona, Nas not only laid out his own career for the next decade plus, but the careers of dozens of other rappers who

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- Series: 33 1/3 #64
- Author: Gasteier, Matthew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: June 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0826429076
- Language: English
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By: Brown, Nic
Violent Femmes’ Violent Femmes
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Through rare access to the Violent Femmes and their archives, this book investigates the creation of such iconic songs as “Blister in the Sun”, “Kiss Off”, “Add it Up” and “Prove My Love”, as well as

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- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Brown, Nic
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: May 14 2026
- ISBN10: 9798765133514
- Language: English
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By: Dunn, Kevin
Stiff Little Fingers’ Inflammable Material
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Situating the band and its groundbreaking debut within the context of The Troubles, this book explores the band’s complicated and controversial relationship with the Belfast punk scene, a scene that a

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- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Dunn, Kevin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: March 19 2026
- ISBN10: 9798765133248
- Language: English
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By: Shteamer, Hank
Chocolate and Cheese
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Ween now seems like a permanent fixture on the pop-cultural landscape, but when the band first hit MTV in the early ’90s, their longevity wasn’t so secure. Nearly two decades on, though, Aaron “Gene W

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- Series: 33 1/3 #79
- Author: Shteamer, Hank
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: March 31 2011
- ISBN10: 0826431178
- Language: English
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By: III, Anthony Gomez
Mazzy Star’s So Tonight That I Might See
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Anthony Gomez III explores how out of the commercial failure of the 1980s Paisley Underground genre, a Los Angeles that suffered one of the highest crime rates in the country, the rise of Chicano/a ar

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- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: III, Anthony Gomez
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: March 19 2026
- ISBN10: 9798765133552
- Language: English
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By: Saxton-Ruiz, Gabriel T.
Interpol’s Antics
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At the dawn of the 21st century, the New York City indie rock scene emerged as a beacon of artistic innovation, capturing widespread attention. Within this vibrant milieu, Interpol’s second album, Ant

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- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Saxton-Ruiz, Gabriel T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: January 22 2026
- ISBN10: 9798765132708
- Language: English
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By: Esterrich, Carmelo
Caf? Tacvba’s Re
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This book is about unveiling and exploring the many layered gestures of Re.

Re, the 1994 album by the Mexican group Caf? Tacvba, is a spectacularly unique musical object that adopts and adapts myriad

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- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Esterrich, Carmelo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 13 2025
- ISBN10: 9798765106556
- Language: English
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By: Carter, Kameryn Alexa
Erykah Badu’s New Amerykah Part Two (Return of the Ankh)
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Conceived and first composed on her laptop at home, with some vocals recorded in her bathroom, Erykah Badu’s New Amerykah Part Two is lo-fi and highly sophisticated-exquisitely analog and experimental

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- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Carter, Kameryn Alexa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 04 2025
- ISBN10: 9798765106464
- Language: English
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By: Barker, Andrew
The Pharcyde’s Bizarre Ride II the Pharcyde
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As immediately believable as they were cartoonish, as much an inner city cipher as a suburban boys gang, the foursome that made up the Pharcyde were the most relatable MCs to ever pass the mic. On the

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- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Barker, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: May 04 2017
- ISBN10: 1501321277
- Language: English
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By: Mayward, Joel
Sufjan Stevens’ Carrie & Lowell
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Upon the release of Sufjan Stevens’ seventh studio album, Carrie & Lowell, two divergent groups found themselves as strange bedfellows: the LGBTQIA+ community and American evangelical Christians. Both

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- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Mayward, Joel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 13 2025
- ISBN10: 9798765132760
- Language: English
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By: Crighton, Pete
The B-52s’ Cosmic Thing
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The B-52s were always queer, though not overtly, and this book dissects the coded queer messaging in their music, using 1989’s Cosmic Thing as a focal point.

Alongside the author’s own queer awakenin

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- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Crighton, Pete
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: September 04 2025
- ISBN10: 9798765133125
- Language: English
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By: Pettigrew, Jason
Ministry’s the Land of Rape and Honey
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This is the definitive chronicle of Ministry’s 1988 industrial rock release, The Land of Rape and Honey, that details the zeitgeist where post-punk, metal, funk and straight-up noise converge.

Minist

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- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Pettigrew, Jason
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: May 01 2025
- ISBN10: 9798765106839
- Language: English
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By: Tapley, Chris
Cocteau Twins’ Blue Bell Knoll
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In this exploration of Cocteau Twins’ quintessential album, Chris Tapley traces lines in all directions from Blue Bell Knoll to paint a revealing portrait of the enigmatic trio and their career-long s

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- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Tapley, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: May 29 2025
- ISBN10: 1501390449
- Language: English
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By: Savidge, Jane
Pulp’s This Is Hardcore
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“Essential reading, plain and simple.” – Cult Following
“Savidge knows the album backwards.” – UNCUT

This Is Hardcore is Pulp’s cry for help. A giant, sprawling, flawed masterpiece of a record, the 199

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- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Savidge, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: March 07 2024
- ISBN10: 9798765106952
- Language: English
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By: Henley, Micajah
The Clash’s Sandinista!
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Following the success of their instantly iconic double LP, London Calling, The Clash set out to do something “triply outrageous.” Named after the Nicaraguan rebels who successfully overthrew an author

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- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Henley, Micajah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: March 07 2024
- ISBN10: 1501390368
- Language: English
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By: Courrier, Kevin
Trout Mask Replica
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In the spring of 1969, the inauspicious release of Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band’s Trout Mask Replica, a double-album featuring 28 stream-of-consciousness songs filled with abstract rhythms and

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- Series: 33 1/3 #44
- Author: Courrier, Kevin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: March 23 2007
- ISBN10: 0826427812
- Language: English
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By: Pernice, Joe
Smiths’ Meat Is Murder
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A Catholic high school near Boston in 1985. A time of suicides, gymnasium humiliations, smoking for beginners, asthma attacks, and incendiary teenage infatuations. Infatuations with a girl (Allison),

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- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Pernice, Joe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 110
- Publish Date: September 01 2003
- ISBN10: 082641494X
- Language: English
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By: Arnold, Gina
Liz Phair’s Exile in Guyville
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Although Exile in Guyville was celebrated as one of the year’s top records by Spin and the New York Times, it was also, to some, an abomination: a mockery of the Rolling Stones’ most revered record an

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- Series: 33 1/3
- Author: Arnold, Gina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: May 22 2014
- ISBN10: 1441162577
- Language: English
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By: Gross, Joe
Fugazi’s in on the Kill Taker
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By June 1993, when Washington, D.C.’s Fugazi released their third full-length album In on the Kill Taker, the quartet was reaching a thunderous peak in popularity and influence. With two EPs (combined

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- Series: 33 1/3 #129
- Author: Gross, Joe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: April 19 2018
- ISBN10: 1501321390
- Language: English
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By: Rombes, Nicholas
The Ramones’ Ramones
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What could be more punk rock than a band that never changed, a band that for decades punched out three-minute powerhouses in the style that made them famous? The Ramones’ repetition and attitude inspi… [more below]
- Series: 33 1/3 #20
- Author: Rombes, Nicholas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: February 18 2005
- ISBN10: 0826416713
- Language: English