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Another brand new Continuum book we’re very excited about is Joe Bonomo’s thrilling study of Jerry Lee Lewis – which started life, if I remember correctly, as a proposal for a 33 1/3 book. (Joe did eventually get the green light for a 33 1/3: his awesome volume on “Highway to Hell” will be out […]

Attention Canadians! Vice Magazine’s Canadian outpost is hosting a contest to win copies of recent and will-be-available-by-the-time-the-contest-ends 33 1/3s. Go here to enter to win copies of the following recent books in the series: Wire’s Pink Flag by Wilson NeateNas’ Illmatic by Matthew GasteierBig Star’s Radio City by Bruce EatonMadness’ One Step Beyond… by Terry

Many congratulations to both Geeta Dayal and Christoph Cox, who are among the writers who’ve won substantial grants this week via the Warhol Foundation. Geeta is the author of our fresh new Brian Eno volume in the 33 1/3 series. Christoph is the co-editor of Audio Culture, one of Continuum’s perennial bestsellers. You can read

Tom Waits fans, and those of you who enjoyed David Smay’s excellent volume on Swordfishtrombones for the series, might like to know that there’s a chance to see the movie Big Time on Thurs Dec 10th in San Francisco. Here’s the press release about the event: *** To celebrate Tom Waits’ 60th birthday, David Smay

I’ll probably write more about this once I’ve had a chance to read and listen, but the Oxford American’s Annual Music Issue just landed in my inbox. By my count, there are eight (8) current and future Continuum authors contributing articles to this issue, one (1) mighty fine looking advertisement for the Jerry Lee Lewis

I’m thrilled to announce the publication of David Kirby’s effervescent study of Little Richard. We received this lovely pre-publication review from Booklist: In the poem “The House of Blue Light”—whose eponym is where Miss Molly does her rockin’, dontcha know—Kirby says that when he, à la Whitman, hears America singing, it “sounds like Little Richard.”

Popmatters had a great review this week of Terry Edwards’ book for the series on Madness’ debut album. You can read the whole review here, but here’s a taster… *** In addition to his own memories of the time, Edwards spoke to producers Clive Langer and Alan Winstanley, Stiff Records’ Dave Robinson, John Hasler (designated

Just wanted to bring your attention to two NYC events put on by Mike McGonigal, author of the 33 1/3 on My Bloody Valentine’s Loveless, among other creative pursuits. First up, this Saturday night, Nov. 14th 8-12PM, I’m DJ’ing all gospel music at the ACE Hotel (20 W 29th St in Manhattan — 212 679-2222)

It’s always gratifying to get a book enthusiastically endorsed by an expert in the field, in advance of its publication. But it’s not every day that we get such a lovely blurb from the subject of the book in question. Here’s what David Byrne has to say about Song and Circumstance: The Work of David

A Manchester bookstore recently played host to a launch party for Gavin Hopps’s study of Morrissey’s work – about which USA Today said “Dive in, grab a highlighter, and savor the plentiful footnotes.” Which, let’s face it, are probably more fun to savor than the flavor of murder. Here’s some footage of the book launch,