Articles written by authors, guests and the 33 1/3 team.
Two quick items about our forthcoming (September) book about the Fleshtones: 1. The book has a pretty cool myspace page. You should make friends with it, if you’re of the myspace inclination. 2. A great pre-publication review from the estimable Library Journal: Imagine the myth of Sisyphus recast as a garage band—and a good one—and […]
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Mike Fournier’s east coast mini-tour wrapped up this weekend, with stops in Brooklyn, Philly, and Baltimore. Mike was nice enough to send on some photos from his flickr page (more here). Up top is the view from the stage at Robin’s Books in Philly, and below is a picture of Mike at Atomic Books channeling
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Carl Wilson, who’s busily beavering away to finish up his Let’s Talk About Love manuscript, has a nice post about Hillary’s choice – or, to be more accurate, the people’s choice – of Celine’s “You and I” as her campaign theme song. You can read the whole post on Zoilus, but here’s a snippet: ***
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Here’s the first chunk of the San Francisco Bay Guardian review, written by Amanda Davidson, of the new PJ Harvey book in the series. (I won’t show the whole review, as it rather gives away the book’s ending!) *** The best musical covers occur when some kind of alchemy takes place. What starts out as
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6.45pm update: T-SHIRTS ALL GONE NOW – thanks to everybody who wrote in! *** 3pm update: Men’s Medium shirts and Women’s Small shirts are now all gone *** Last month, we made 80 t-shirts to give away to select and very special people at Book Expo America. Luckily for those of you who would rather
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We’re publishing two new books in the series in the month of June – the first of which is Shawn Taylor’s entertaining and personal take on A Tribe Called Quest’s People’s Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm. This is Chapter Two from Shawn’s book… *** 1990 was one of those years. It was the
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Micheal Fournier will be embarking on mini-tours up and down the east coast (in June) and the west coast (in July) to promote his 33 1/3 on the Minutemen’s Double Nickels on the Dime. I’ve listed the dates below. Click on the venues for more information about when, where and how to get there. Just
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David Smay’s 33 1/3 book on Tom Waits will be coming out in the autumn. What follows is from the book’s introduction – enjoy! *** IF YOU THINK YOU CAN TELL A BIGGER TALE “It’s just one guy who leaves the old neighborhood and joins the Merchant Marines, gets in a little trouble in Hong
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Thanks to everyone who came out on Saturday night, to the Bee Thousand event – a good time was had by all, I hope. (Thanks to those who helped to organise it, too.) Here’s a nice pic (taken by Nina Minichetti) of Rick Moody and Nina Katchadourian performing their genuinely lovely version of “Awful Bliss”.
Just a quick reminder that on Saturday evening, at Don Pedro’s in Brooklyn, we’ll be having a party to celebrate all things Bee Thousand, including Marc Woodworth’s excellent book on the album. Hope to see some of you there… Here’s the info from the Don Pedro’s website: DON PEDRO’S June, 9 2007 at A SALTY
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