DDWW Interview: Annie Zaleski Discusses Rio 33 1/3 (Duran Duran)
Interview by Tracey Elena Photo Credit: Laura Wimbels Photos Courtesy of Annie Zaleski Annie Zaleski is an award-winning Cleveland, Ohio-based music journalist, author and editor. Annie’s articles, interviews, and profiles have appeared in publications including NPR Music, The Guardian , Rolling Stone , Salon, Billboard, The A.V. Club, Vulture, Alternative Press, Stereogum, The Village Voice, Los Angeles Times, Las Vegas Weekly, a nd Cleveland Plain Dealer . Annie has also written liner notes, such as the 2016 reissue of R.E.M.’s Out of Time and Game Theory’s 2020 collection Across The Barrier Of Sound: PostScript and appeared as herself in the documentaries Punk’s Not Dead and Blondie: One Way or Another. Annie’s 33 1/3 book on Duran Duran’s 1982 album Rio was published on May 6 via Bloomsbury. T: Thank you for interviewing with DDWW. Can you give me the origin story behind Rio 33 ⅓? A: So 33 1/3 is a series of books ( https://333sound.com/ ) where each book is about one al