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Thanks to everyone (especially Claire, for the organising and the photos) who braved the bitter cold on Sunday and made it out to Barbes in Brooklyn – where Joe Harvard and his band read excerpts from Joe’s book and played an hour-long set of covers including “Heroin”, “Femme Fatale” and “Venus in Furs”. A fun […]

Some of you may have noticed this already, but a handful of 33 1/3 titles are now available as downloadable audiobooks from Audible.com and ye olde iTunes. Here, for example, is the link to Andy Miller’s book about the Kinks on Audible. Other titles available so far in the series are: In the Aeroplane Over

Just a reminder that, if you wish to send in a proposal for a book in the 33 1/3 series, you have until the end of this month to do so. Here’s the original posting below, with full guidelines on how to do it. *** You may be interested to know that, as of RIGHT

Another sad death to report – that of Odetta, one of the great singers of the last 50 years. Here’s a part of the entry on Odetta, from Michael Gray’s Bob Dylan Encyclopedia…, and below, an all-too-brief clip of Odetta at the Newport Folk Festival. *** She was encouraged through the 1950s by many in

Relatively short notice, but if you’re in NYC, you might be interested in this early screening of Geoffray Barbier’s brand new documentary about the Fleshtones, Pardon Us For Living But The Graveyard Is Full. Details can be found here. (Full disclosure: I was interviewed for this film at Continuum HQ on Maiden Lane – no

Very good to see that our Celine Dion 33 1/3 book was listed as one of the books of 2008 in the Globe and Mail over the weekend. Here’s what they said about it: Carl Wilson’s distaste for the music of Celine Dion becomes the basis for a wide-ranging book predicated on the possibility that

Just got back today from the SBL Conference in Boston, where it was *mighty* cold over the weekend, and heading off for a few days of Thanksgiving rest in the Catskills, tomorrow morning. Below is a list of the proposals we’ve received so far, if you’re interested. And again – seriously – do not be

Wilson Neate’s excellent book about Wire and their Pink Flag album is rapidly nearing publication. It features extensive interviews with band members, some wonderful rare photos, a preface by Robin Rimbaud aka Scanner, and a whole lot more. Absolutely one of the best books in the series – trust me on this one. Here’s a

We’re currently working on the manuscript of Bruce Eaton’s 33 1/3 book about Big Star, which will be publishing in the next couple of months. As well as some wonderful, never-seen-before photos, the book is a treasure trove of original interviews with surviving band members and several others who were there, at Ardent, while the

A very sad moment on Sunday, with the death of Miriam Makeba – who suffered a heart attack after a show in Italy. In the words of Nelson Mandela, it seemed only right that her last moments were “spent on a stage, enriching the hearts and lives of others – and again in support of