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One of my favourite things in the world is to read a book review that makes you instantly – and I mean within 90 seconds – rush out and buy the book in question. This week’s New Yorker has such a review, written by John Lanchester. It’s ostensibly an article about smells, but towards the […]

I wanted to take a quick break from the usual 33 1/3 fare and mention some things that have been happening with another of our music-related books called Sweat: The Story of the Fleshtones, America’s Garage Band. (Incidentally, Sweat is quite possibly the only book that I’ve ever worked on that is batting 1000 when

One of the many fun aspects for me of working on this series is not just discovering some albums that I’d never really heard before, but falling in love again with records that were a big part of my life some time ago. Jeff Roesgen’s manuscript for his book on Rum, Sodomy & the Lash,

Drew Daniel’s book about 20 Jazz Funk Greats receives an excellent review, from Brian Joseph Davis, in the current edition of Eye Weekly. Here’s a quote from the end of the piece: Unafraid of confronting professional confrontationalists, Daniel achieves a fantastic hat trick — a love letter to an unacceptable band about their least-loved album

Those of you in San Francisco will likely find yourselves involved in some sort of Noise Pop shenanigans over the coming week. Kate Schatz, author of the 33 1/3 on PJ Harvey’s Rid of Me will be reading on Thursday night. I’m not sure where 12 Galaxies is located, but I trust those of you

It was pointed out to me the other day (thank you, Miles!) that our humble blog has been ranked at #38 in this list of the Top 100 Music Blogs: http://www.wikio.com/blogs/top/music I’ll take that with a pinch of salt, since the list doesn’t even include the mighty Fluxblog – but still, it’s a great list

It looks as though the Big Star book, being written by Bruce Eaton, which we’ll be publishing later this year, will have a great selection of photos and other illustrations. Aside from the Neutral Milk Hotel book and a couple of others in the series, all of these books are unillustrated. Would anyone be interested

Brainwashed has a long and extremely interesting interview with Drew Daniel, about his recently published book on Throbbing Gristle for the series. An excerpt: *** Vagueness and multiplicity are celebrated-to-death by academics and grad students that are into critical theory but in the commercial world in which films and music and novels are promoted as

This is one of those performances I’d love to represent in graph form, because it’s way off the scale by the end. I probably saw the Wedding Present play this song a dozen times in the late 80s / early 90s, but it never had this kind of kick back then. (Note: the audio is

There is a nice in-depth 3-page interview with Carl Wilson over at the Crawdaddy website. Crawdaddy!: Were there other artists besides Celine Dion that you considered for this project? Could you have examined, for instance, Kenny G, or is there something unique about her? Carl Wilson: I considered some other artists—Kenny G is a good