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I mentioned Joe Pernice’s new novel on the way next month in the post below. Here’s a chance to get a free copy of his 33 1/3 novella on The Smiths’ Meat Is Murder on audiobook. Audible.com and Paste Magazine are going to run a promotion offering a free download of the audiobook. How to […]

Nick Rombes, author of the 33 1/3 on The Ramones, and most recently, A Cultural Dictionary of Punk, spoke with Jason Boog and Amanda Ernst about the book, punk rock, economic recession, and other topics over at Mediabistro’s Morning Media Menu podcast. Nick also has a guest blog post at the Powell’s blog that is

[Just bumping this post up to the top of the page for the weekend! -JMB] On Saturday, July 25, 2009, at 8 pm, we celebrate the 25th anniversary of the release of the Minutemen’s Double Nickels On the Dime. Be prepared for the extreme unusual, with spoken word renditions of songs on the album, musical

Another Green World author Geeta Dayal was invited to write an essay on Brian Eno’s “Apollo” album for the London Science Museum’s Apollo Moon Landing Anniversary Gala last night–Eno introduced a performance of Apollo: Atmospheres and Soundtracks at the sold out event. You can find the essay here. Geeta also contributed an essay about Brian

Popmatters has put up a wonderfully thoughtful 2 page piece on Matthew Gasteier’s 33 1/3 on Nas’ Illmatic: Illmatic is more than an individual emcee making an individual album. It’s a paradigm shift occurring at a precise musical moment. It’s an event. Gasteier captures this feeling quite well in his treatment of the album, helping

One of our favourite upcoming new books for the fall is Nevin Martell’s biography of Bill Watterson, the man behind Calvin and Hobbes. “Biography” can be a slippery word, of course. This book does indeed chronicle Watterson’s life and career but it necessarily stops short and turns into something else – a detective story, of

Annnnd we have a winner:Radiohead’s Kid A, written by That Dude Who Wrote That Pitchfork Review of Kid A. Todd, get in touch: jmboling@continuum-books.com And to Jim A, who’s flickr set inspired the contest, you get your pick of one copy of any 33 1/3. Send me an email and let me know. Have a

I’ll announce a winner tomorrow before I leave the office, promise… Feel free to let us know if you have strong feelings about any of these in the comments field. And if you have any late entries into the game, put a link up in the comments as well. It’s never too late. So far

One thing I love about the series design is how easy it is for people to play around with. Last year, Tom Scharpling came up with this one on Kriss Kross (got the cropping wrong, though). And last year Hayden Childs, author of the 33 1/3 on Richard and Linda Thomson’s Shoot Out The Lights

May I have your attention, Torontonians*! I just wanted to take a break from watching old Cop Rock clips on youtube to bring your attention to the following event happening at Soundscapes in TorontoSunday, June 28th at 2:00pm Reading and discussion with two writers from the 33 1/3 series of short books about albums: 1.