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There are some very cool things afoot over at Powell’s Books blog starting this evening. Powell’s is running a 33 1/3 sale (buy 2, get 1 free), and as part of that, they have asked some of the 33 1/3 authors to do some guest posts on their blog. By way of introduction, we kick […]

For those of you who’ve been patiently waiting for David Smay’s splendid book on Swordfishtrombones in the series, some good news – the book is now in production, and we’ll have finished copies in December or January. The book tackles in the album in a track-by-track fashion, but takes many fascinating detours along the way.

Listening to the Radiohead album on my headphones, I can’t shake the thought that this record sounds like a Mercedes-Benz. It’s a luxury cocoon, coddling you in sumptuous leather, hi-tech climate control systems, finished with an exotic walnut trim and discreetly padded with dozens of perfectly placed miniature airbags. It feels like music made by

Just a quick reminder that a PDF of the first two chapters of our upcoming Celine Dion 33 1/3 book is still available, to anyone who sends an email request to: letstalkaboutceline@yahoo.com

Dan LeRoy is the author of our 33 1/3 book on Paul’s Boutique – the favourite book in the series of many people I’ve met. Dan’s new book is The Greatest Music Never Sold, published by Backbeat. In Dan’s words: *** The book is a behind-the-scenes look at some “great lost albums,” by folks like

Largehearted Boy features Joe Bonomo’s Book Notes today – a list of ten great songs that the Fleshtones (the subjects of Joe’s book Sweat) have covered over the 30-plus years of their SuperRock existence. Here’s just a couple of them: “Cara-Lin,” The Strangeloves (1965) A lot of people think that “Louie Louie” is the Fleshtones’

A quick plug for the 2007 Music Issue of the Oxford American, which features some great writers on some fascinating subjects: Ben Greenman on Edridge HolmesDerek Jenkins on Teddy GraceHolly Gleason on Dwight YoakamBill Friskics-Warren on the CloversAmanda Petrusich on Betty DavisJim Ruland on Amy LaVereDavid French on Don RedmanWilliam Bowers on Mayo ThompsonDavid Smay

Don Breithaupt’s excellent study of Steely Dan’s Aja album is reviewed in the Sept/Oct issue of Canadian jazz-mag CODA – in a joint review, by Andrew Scott, with Tom Perchard’s biography of Lee Morgan. Here’s the part of the review that best serves our purposes: As Toronto-based keyboardist/vocalist/bandleader and author Don Breithaupt rightly points out

If you’d like to read the first two chapters of Carl Wilson’s upcoming Celine Dion book – well, you can! Send an email to: letstalkaboutceline@yahoo.com and we’ll send you a PDF in return. Life doesn’t get much fairer than this.

This is a fantastic thing to wake up to on a Tuesday morning: Brooklyn’s soul sensation Sharon Jones reading three passages from Douglas Wolk’s Live at the Apollo book. You can hear the clips on the Daytrotter site. 100 Days, 100 Nights is the new album from Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings – it’s out