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It’s that time of year again. Early April. Still very chilly in New York City, although I did manage to pick up a nice sunburn at Coney Island on Saturday. Here’s the new 33 1/3 series league sales table, current through the end of March. 1. Neutral Milk Hotel2. The Kinks3. The Beatles4. The Smiths5. […]

Drew Daniel will be reading from his Throbbing Gristle book at Red Emma’s in Baltimore, at 7.30pm on Thursday April 17th. He’ll also be DJ’ing from 6pm onwards, in a bar around the corner. Full details can be found here! And way out west, Matthew Stearns has lined up a handful of dates to read

There’s a great review of the series in Time Out Bucharest – I’d post a chunk of it here, but I’m not sure that Blogger could cope with all the accents. This is the link to the article, anyhow!

David is on vacation this week, but the office has been haunted by the sound of his voice, which kicks off this trailer for the upcoming Fleshtones feature length documentary, Pardon Us For Living but the Graveyard Is Full. The trailer also features Handsome Dick Manitoba, Peter Buck of REM, and our very own Joe

Thanks to everyone who made it out to Housing Works last night! And a big thank you to Chaya for arranging everything, and to Keith Bearden for lending his expert moderation skills. Andrew reading from Forever Changes. Amanda reads from Pink Moon Kim reads from In the Aeroplane Over the Sea Keith expertly moderates the

This just in from the NY Times “Urban Eye“:Liner NotesAttention, rock geeks: Get yourself over to the Housing Works bookstore for a reading from the 33 1/3 series of chapbooks about seminal records. (Previous highlight: “Doolittle,” a slender volume on the Pixies album courtesy of The New York Times’s own Ben Sisario.) The authors Kim

The blogging team over at Decibel magazine have set up a contest, in conjunction with John Darnielle, where you can win a copy of John’s currently-at-the-printers book about Master of Reality. All you need to do is send them your own version of the album’s classic cover art, and Mr. Darnielle will pick the winners.

I’m very pleased to announce that we’ll be publishing the revised and updated paperback edition of Michael Gray’s Bob Dylan Encyclopedia in April, almost two years after the original hardcover was published to great acclaim. (See selected reviews at the end of this post.) New additional entries in the paperback include: Blues [2006]Bob Dylan: The

I know very little about anime, but I’ve noticed an increasing number of Anime Music Videos on YouTube, and some of them are rather good. Here’s one for the song “Grace Cathedral Hill”, written by Colin Meloy, author of the 33 1/3 volume on the Replacements’ Let It Be. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftH1eMAQeBY] Anybody know anything about

As John Lanchester notes in that New Yorker piece from yesterday, most of the time when we say we taste something, we’re actually smelling it. I did sample Celine Dion’s perfume once, in a blind testing against Kylie’s fragrance, in a small Scottish border town that my wife and I had to leave in great