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We probably don’t mention it enough around here, but a number of 33 1/3s are available as audiobooks. 25 of them to be exact… Big Star’s Radio CityREM’s MurmurDusty Springfield’s Dusty in MemphisLed Zeppelin’s IV (or ‘Runes,’ or ‘Old Guy with the Sticks and What Have You’)Beach Boys’ Pet SoundsPink Floyd’s Pipers at the Gates […]

Sunday, June 7th at 7:00pm 33 1/3 READING SERIESBarbès and Continuum present the last in a series of multimedia readingsMATTHEW LEMAY on ELLIOTT SMITH’S XO The very name “Elliott Smith” often seems to conjure images of a drug-addled, powerless “sad sack,” but Smith’s 1998 major label debut XO masterfully defies these stereotypes in both content

We’ve just sent Nick Rombes’ wonderful book off to the printers, so it should be on sale from early-mid July onwards. And Publishers Weekly clearly enjoyed the book, too: *** A Cultural Dictionary of Punk: 1974–1982 Nicholas Rombes. Continuum, $24.95 paper (320p) ISBN 978-0-8264-2779-3 At a cursory glance, Rombes’s compendium has the form of a

With her usual, uncanny sense of timing, Geeta Dayal delivered her manuscript for Another Green World this morning – on Brian Eno’s 61st birthday. We shall endeavour to get this book published, and into your hands, as soon as we possibly can.

Because that’s where my head is at these days…and I lost a whole bunch of bookmarks I was saving up for an epic blog post. It’s Madness I Tell You!Strange that I should hear from David that Terry Edwards’ Madness – One Step Beyond manuscript is in on the same day that YepRoc sends me

Bruce Eaton’s really excellent book about Big Star is now fully available throughout North America. It’s a great combination of power pop history and in-depth interviews with all of the main players, as I hope you can tell from this extract… *** At a time when record company promotions knew few limits – whether financial

Six months and one week after we started this process, I’m very pleased to announce that we’ve – finally – selected the proposals that will become books in the series during 2010 and 2011. They are, in no particular order: Portishead’s Dummy, by RJ WheatonJohnny Cash’s American Recordings, by Tony TostTelevision’s Marquee Moon, by Bryan

OK, so this one has pretty much shipped out from our lovely warehouse in Harrisburg, PA by now. It’s a smart, passionate study of Nas’ debut album – released 15 years ago last week. Here’s an excerpt from the book’s third chapter: *** Nas would eventually name his record label after Ill Will, and he

Copies of Matthew Gasteier’s brand new volume in the series, on Nas’ Illmatic album, are currently shipping out of our warehouse in Pennsylvania. Much more on this book next week, but if you’re serious about reading it before anyone else, you ought to know that Amazon is selling one used copy (in very good condition!)

And this is what I think the chart would look like, had all the books been available for the same amount of time. (Definite guesswork involved here, clearly.) *** 1. Neutral Milk Hotel2. The Rolling Stones3. My Bloody Valentine4. Bob Dylan5. David Bowie6. Celine Dion7. Radiohead8. The Kinks9. The Smiths10. Velvet Underground11. Joy Division12. Beastie