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News reaches us via Neil McCormick’s tweeting that Bono thinks the approach of Stephen Catanzarite’s 33 1/3 on Achtung Baby “sounds bang on”. Always good to get that kind of feedback! In other news, currently at the printers are the 33 1/3 books on Brian Eno (no, really!), Israel Kamakawiwo’ole, and the Flaming Lips. And […]

Really great to see all the attention (and, one hopes, sales) for the Big Star box set Keep an Eye on the Sky. All very deliberately synchronised, of course, with Bruce Eaton’s 33 1/3 volume on the band’s Radio City album – a book which possibly contains more straight-up fresh information on a band than

(Actually, maybe it was 22 or 23 – I’m not entirely sure.) One of the many joys of youtube is that random people end up posting awesome things like this – the only video by my brother’s band, My Baby’s Arm, for their Melody Maker Single of the Week, “Hung in the Playground”. (That’s my

Beach Mix, Side B Brain – The ActionI Can’t Explain – David BowieOpen My Eyes – NazzFeel So Fine – El GoodoInter-City Kitty – The MonksHanging on the Telephone – The NervesBoy About Town – The JamPhantasies – Stephen MalkmusWindy Weather – Ian & SylviaSun – The TomsOn and On and On – ABBA I

It’s the last weekend of summer (and a long one for some of us), so I thought I would share a quick summer mixtape for the long weekend. In the near future we are hoping to do a little more with the blog and music and whatnot, so this will also serve as a bit

A wonderfully confusing offer from the folks at Zune: The confusing thing is that we did actually publish a guide to High Fidelity (the novel) in 2002, in our “Continuum Contemporaries” series of guides to contemporary novels. (If you’re so inclined, I can highly recommend the books about White Teeth, Infinite Jest, and The Wind-up

We’re chuffed to announce the publication of Terry Edwards’ book about Madness, in the 33 1/3 series. Here’s the back cover copy: *** Surprisingly few books have been published about Madness, considering the vast number of records they have sold worldwide over the years. This book is written as a kind of lateral-thinking Rock Family

We apologize for the lack of regular posting lately. I guess late August is just like that. BUT we have some very exciting things coming down the pike, so I’ll just have to ask for your patience for now. And I’m going to have to ask you to look at this picture of my dog.

Quick on the heels of John Mark’s post yesterday, Simon Reynolds posted this about Gavin Hopps’ book on Blissblog: “The best book-length explication of Morrissey’s peculiar genius I’ve come across. Acute when it does address the music, it focuses mostly on M’s lyrical and vocal strategies (coyness, flirtation, caesuras and suggestive trailings away, irruptions of

Here are a few of our music books, 33 1/3 and otherwise, that have been pulling in great reviews lately. I thought you might be interested. If so, read on… Click on the quote attribution to read the full text of the review. USA Today’s Pop Candy blog has a review of A Cultural Dictionary