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Steve Catanzarite’s 33 1/3 on U2’s Achtung Baby got a nice write up at First Things. You can read the full review here. “When was the last time you read a book on rock ‘n’ roll that had a bibliography with St. Augustine (City of God and the Confessions), J. Budziszewski, Peter Kreeft, Thomas Merton, […]

Sleevage is a blog all about music cover art. And it’s endlessly entertaining. Scroll down on the main page and check out the archives. Incidentally, they are also looking for people to write for them. My favorite quote so far, concerning Patrick Nagel, designer of Duran Duran’s Rio cover art: In a tragic, but morbidly

From the Toronto book launch on Wednesday. Despite a few audience chuckles at the beginning, this is quite beautiful. [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5tXB-JaTuo]

* Look out for the publication of David Smay’s fantastic Tom Waits book – more next week * Excerpts coming soon from the upcoming books (April) about Reign in Blood and Horses. * News next week on two NYC readings by Carl Wilson, scheduled for Jan 22 and 23. * Here’s Carl and “Celine” at

I’m very pleased to announce that Drew Daniel’s excellent book about Throbbing Gristle in the series (no.54) is now on sale at Amazon and many many other places. From the back cover: *** “Just as the album cover flickers uncomfortably between extroverted, collective celebration and introverted, solitary withdrawal, the eleven songs bound by this image

For those of you in and around Toronto, this coming Wednesday (the 9th) will see the launch of Carl Wilson’s Celine book, which has been attracting all kinds of attention. All the details can be found here. Also, one of my favourite music blogs, Said the Gramophone, is featuring the book this week: well worth

I’m just about back from all my travels now, and normal blog service will resume at the start of 2008. (Thanks for that Comments suggestion about listing all the books somewhere on this blog – I’ll try to get that sorted out.) In the meantime, here’s the funniest thing I saw on British TV over

PopMatters has a very helpful ongoing holiday gift guide called “Consuming Consumables” that lists the best books, music and film gifts for the pop culture junky on your list. And today they feature 33 1/3 Greatest Hits Volume 2, which I would absolutely give to someone this Christmas if it didn’t send the message that

New York Magazine takes a thoughtful look at Celine, and runs the photo of her in a catwoman pantsuit to your right. Celine Dion’s Las Vegas stage show wrapped up over the weekend and the NY Times has a wrap-up. The Toronto Globe and Mail published an excerpt from Carl Wilson’s book on Celine as

Yesterday I called NPR’s Bryant Park Project radio show the “Bryant Park Program.” It is indeed “Project,” as in The Alan Parsons Project*. I sincerely regret the error. Anyway, they interviewed Carl Wilson this morning about the Celine Dion 33 1/3. 14 minutes and 21 seconds well spent. * The Alan Parsons Project’s 1985 album