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If you’ve ever suspected that Scotland might produce more great pop music per capita than any other country in the world, and you’re the type of person who likes nothing better than having your suspicions confirmed, then you might do well to get your hands on a copy of Get While The Getting’s Good, a […]

For those of you who are interested, there’s a ton of information here about the upcoming Bob Dylan Symposium taking place in Minneapolis towards the end of this month. Speakers will include Greil Marcus, Christopher Ricks, Dave Marsh, the 33 1/3 series’ own Daphne Brooks, with a keynote closing speech by Michael Gray, author (as

We are making progess with the proposals, you’ll be glad to know. There are still decisions to be made, data to be entered, meetings to be negotiated. With luck, we’ll be able to make announcements at the end of March – possibly a few days earlier. It’s looking like it’ll be around 20 books, from

In May, we’ll be publishing a PJ Harvey book in the series: Rid of Me by Kate Schatz. The subtitle at the moment is “Short Stories” but we might change that to “A Novella”. In a weird way, it’s a bit of both. As well as being a cover version of the whole album. But

Michaelangelo Matos writes, to point out this charming, meaty mention of his Sign O the Times book by Daniel Handler, in the current issue of the Onion’s AV Club: Prince, “4 The Tears In Your Eyes” DH: This is from the B-side disc of his greatest-hits collection. I’m an enormous fan of Prince. As is

Marc Woodworth, author of our Bee Thousand book, writes with information of an event in Albany, NY on Friday March 2nd. In Marc’s words: I’ll be presenting a multi-media (or at least bi-media) Bee Thousand “extravaganza” at Valentine’s (http://www.valentinesalbany.com) 17 New Scotland Ave, Albany, NY at 6:oo PM on Friday, 2 March. There’ll be a

Long-time readers may recall that I mentioned this debut novel back in June of last year. It has – finally – just been published, and if you’re looking for something non-musical to read, you genuinely cannot go wrong with Then We Came To The End. Don’t let any lazy comparisons to the TV show “The

Below is a complete list of all the proposals we’ve received. If you don’t see your album on here, let me know as soon as you can – and if yours is one of the albums with multiple proposals, then you can be pretty confident we received it. (Or email me to check, if you

As of now (8.30am on Thursday morning in New York), no more proposals will be accepted. Something tells me that we have enough already. I’ll post a list later today of all the proposals received – artists and albums.

Here’s a review of Marc Woodworth’s Bee Thousand book, in PopMatters. The review is by Jason B. Jones, who stretches the definition of the word “famous”, but we’ll take it! *** Bee Thousand makes perfect sense for Continuum’s famous 33 1/3 series. The breakthrough album for Guided by Voices undoubtedly has an appropriate stature, as