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I’m very excited to announce that we have 2 free passes to All Tomorrow’s Parties New York to give away. The tickets are worth $225 each so this is a pretty good deal. Only thing is that you have to come up with your own accommodations. For all the details about the event you can […]

Axl Rosenberg of Metalsucks has posted a great interview with DX Ferris, author of the Reign in Blood volume in the series. You can read the whole interview here, but I’ll give you a little taster right now… *** Was there anyone who declined to participate in the process that you really wish you could

Adam at Twist and Shout in Denver very kindly sent me this photo of the series displayed in the store: nice to see the Slayer and Richard and Linda books getting the face-out treatment. Have a great weekend, everyone, and don’t forget to cheer on the British cycling team!

I’m very pleased to say that Bob Gendron’s brand new book in the series, about Gentlemen, is now on sale at Amazon and all of the other wonderful stores that support 33 1/3. Here’s the back cover copy: *** “Gentlemen is fraught with the psychological warfare, bedroom drama, Catholic guilt, reprehensible deception, and shame that

Good to see that the series is on tour with the nation’s NUMBER ONE BAND right now, Sugarland. (Extracted from Alan Light’s New York Times artice of July 27th, spotted by my colleague Jane) “Jennifer and I are both people who had lots of different kinds of friends, ergo, the kind of person who listened

Last week we had a period of time in which Blogger locked up the blog because it had been identified as a spam blog. According to Blogger, a spam blog can be recognized by “irrelevant, repetitive, and nonsensical text.” We got the message! So you may notice we have added some fresh blood to the

CBC’s popular radio program Talking Books finally posted an online version of their show on Carl Wilson’s Let’s Talk About Love: A Journey to the End of Taste. The show is hosted by Ian Brown and this segment features guests Noreen Golfman, Jonathan Garfinkel and Beatriz Hausner. Together they delve into questions of cultural shame

I’m very pleased to say that Michael Gray’s wonderful Bob Dylan Encyclopedia is now, finally, available in paperback around the world. Many, many entries have been updated from the original hardcover edition, which was published to great acclaim just over two years ago – and there are some brand new entries in the paperback, too.

* Douglas Wolk offers up an appreciation of the mighty ukelele (via fellow champion of the uke Ed at the Dizzies). And here’s part II. I would like to second the request for a recording of the clarinet and uke version of “Marquee Moon.” * We were talking about the Big Star 33 1/3 in

I haven’t seen it yet, but James Marsh’s documentary Man on Wire was released theatrically in the US on Friday, and it sounds riveting. To coincide, here’s a section from Hayden Childs’ very recent volume in the series, about Shoot Out the Lights. This is taken, of course, from the chapter about the song “Walking