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Thanks to everyone for pitching in a few posts ago, in the comments section on stores that carry the series. I’ve updated the list that I started, so that it now looks like this: Horizon Records, Greenville SCAtomic Records, Milwaukee WIBoo Boo Records, San Luis Obispo, CABook Cellar, Chicago ILBull Moose Records, Portland MEDimple Records, […]

In April we’ll be publishing John Darnielle’s book about Black Sabbath, which is described thus: Black Sabbath’s Master of Reality has maintained remarkable historical status over several generations; it’s a touchstone for the directionless, and common coin for young men and women who’ve felt excluded from the broader cultural economy. John Darnielle hears it through

We’re very excited to be gearing up towards publishing D.X. Ferris’s book on Reign in Blood, which should be on sale in stores by the end of April. Here’s an extract from towards the very start of the book. *** Slayer isn’t the biggest band to emerge from the mid-80s thrash movement; better, they’re the

As was mentioned in the comments recently, I tend to be a little over-reliant on Amazon.com on this blog. It’s easier for linkage, really, but it doesn’t reflect the fact that the 33 1/3 books are available in a whole range of independent book and music stores around the US. (And, I hope, the planet.)

Just a quick post-MLK reminder that Carl Wilson will be talking about his Celine Dion book tonight and tomorrow: TUESDAY JAN 22ND [TONIGHT!] At 7.30pm, Carl will be reading at Word – the lovely new bookstore in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. There is, apparently, free beer at this event. WEDNESDAY JAN 23RD [TOMORROW!] As part of the

I’m delighted to announce that David Smay’s wonderfully erudite and entertaining book on Swordfishtrombones (no. 53 in the series) is now on sale in stores around the country (despite the fact that Amazon, when I looked this morning, was still saying that the book has not yet released – it has). Update!! This is now

Speaking of free beer, if you want to listen to a great interview with Marc Woodworth, author of our Bee Thousand book, the Missouri Review can help you out. Click here to go to a podcast they put together last month, and enjoy!

Carl Wilson, author of our Celine Dion book, will be popping down to New York next week, and he’ll be doing a couple of readings while he’s in town. If you could make it out to either of these, we’d really love to see you there! TUESDAY JAN 22ND At 7.30pm, Carl will be reading

Another of the books we’ll be publishing in April (OK, this one will probably be May) is Hayden Childs’ analysis of Shoot Out the Lights. The book has a fictional narrator who’s convinced that he is Richard Thompson’s doppelganger – but despite (or perhaps because of) that, it’s still a remarkably in-depth, passionate reading of

One of a handful of books we’ll be publishing in the series in April is Phil Shaw’s study of Patti Smith’s Horses album. Here’s an excerpt from the book… *** The trio wound up 1974 with a brief tour of California, playing shows to small but committed crowds in Berkeley and Los Angeles. Since their