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  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Wire’s Pink Flag

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    In contrast with many of their punk peers, Wire were enigmatic and cerebral, always keeping a distance from the crowd. Although Pink Flag appeared before the end of 1977, it was already a meta-comment… [more below]

    • Series: 33 1/3 #62
    • Author: Neate, Wilson
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 144
    • Publish Date: February 01 2009
    • ISBN10: 0826429149
    • Language: English
  • Neil Young’s Harvest

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    Neil Young’s Harvest is one of those strange albums that has achieved lasting success without ever winning the full approval of rock critics or hardcore fans. Even Young himself has been equivocal, de

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    • Series: 33 1/3
    • Author: Inglis, Sam
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 127
    • Publish Date: September 17 2003
    • ISBN10: 0826414958
    • Language: English
  • Bruce Springsteen’s Born in the USA

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    When Bruce Springsteen went back on the road in 1984, he opened every show by shouting out, “one, two, one, two, three, four,” followed by the droning synth chords of “Born in the U.S.A.” Max Weinberg

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    • Series: 33 1/3 #27
    • Author: Himes, Geoffrey
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 150
    • Publish Date: August 19 2005
    • ISBN10: 0826416616
    • Language: English
  • Rolling Stones’ Some Girls

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    It’s October 1977, and the Rolling Stones are in a Paris recording studio. They’re under siege. Keith Richards’s legal troubles after his arrest for heroin possession threaten the band’s future, and t

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    • Series: 33 1/3 #81
    • Author: Patell, Cyrus R. K.
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 192
    • Publish Date: June 09 2011
    • ISBN10: 1441192808
    • Language: English
  • U2’s Achtung Baby: Meditations on Love in the Shadow of the Fall

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    Stephen Catanzarite takes a close look at what many consider to be U2’s most fully formed album through the prisms of religion, politics, spirituality, and culture, illuminating its previously unexplo… [more below]

    • Series: 33 1/3 #49
    • Author: Catanzarite, Stephen
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 128
    • Publish Date: September 15 2007
    • ISBN10: 0826427847
    • Language: English
  • Pretty Hate Machine

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    What is the world that Nine Inch Nails made, and what was the world that made Nine Inch Nails? These are the questions at the heart of this study of the band’s 1989 debut, Pretty Hate Machine.
    The alb

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    • Series: 33 1/3 #78
    • Author: Carr, Daphne
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 192
    • Publish Date: March 24 2011
    • ISBN10: 0826427898
    • Language: English
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