🇿🇦 my book, South African Popular Music @333books is out now! ~find me ~ GQ*SA, Variety, Guardian, TCI, P4k, Dazed, Rolling Stone 🎙This Must Be the Gig
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It’s South African Popular Music Book Pub Day!! How beyond perfect that it’s sunny in Chicago (?!) There’s too much to express, too many people to thank. I’ll say everything soon!! For now, pls accept this ostentatious overly joyful moment! My book is available everywhere! 🇿🇦❣️
Publishing today in our Genre series: South African Popular Music. Many congratulations @LiorPhillips! ✨
Find out more/order your copy: bit.ly/3LQkvNN
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@RobynHitchcock with be at @BookvillExiles Exile in Bookville on August 30 at 5PM in discussion with @LiorPhillips about his new book, "Stranded in the Future."
410 South Michigan Avenue
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I had the pleasure of speaking with @LiorPhillips about Ndingubani and the stories that shaped it.
Thank you for this beautiful feature
You can read it now on the @guardian website.
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Watch the full interview here ⬇️
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.@thebeaches talk about the dumping domino effect that happened within the group.
"I got dumped before everyone else did."
"She actually was a trendsetter."
honored, floored, moved~just so excited to speak to @NekoCase (!) about her astonishly brilliant memoir, The Harder I Fight The More I Love You, at the Studebaker Theater & fave bookstore, Exile in Bookville. How lucky am i to be in convo with someone who i admire and adore?!
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Shoutout to everybody at Netflix who decided not to move forward with all the projects David Lynch wanted to do in his final years. I'm sure all the other stuff you greenlit instead was much better.
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I'm sick of opening this app to see another batch of journalists losing their jobs. You're not trimming fat. Your cutting into muscle & bone. We need more people in this industry.
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journalists:
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Ok, I try not to do things like this, but I was a @billboard editor for years and wrote a book about Devo and I can't let it go. Devo's "signature yellow flower bucket hat," which this story mentions twice in addition to the headline, is famously RED, and called an energy dome.
Devo Wear Many Hats — But No Yellow Buckets — For Spirited, Deep-Cut NPR Tiny Desk Concert blbrd.cm/MtTfnDI
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It’s time folks. We are so excited to finally be able to announce our selections from the 2024 33 1/3 open call. Without further delay, here is the list of our forthcoming 33 1/3 books which you can expect to begin publishing in early 2026: bit.ly/4bNJbjN
And drooly? my mouth agape in shock that this is happening! i’ll be writing on the sort of edges of my days — about an album that has such a strong advocacy for one’s self, an album that re-solidified her as a pop icon, and an album that just feels dizzyingly fun. I NEED FUN.
