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We’ve just received copies of the brand new books on Songs in the Key of Life and Notorious Byrd Brothers, and they both look wonderful. In other news, we’ve had proposals so far for books about albums by Philip Glass, the Wu-Tang Clan, Jefferson Airplane, the Modern Lovers, Hole, the Mountain Goats, Slayer, the Flaming […]

We’re now accepting proposals for future 33 1/3 books, to be published in 2008 and 2009. Here are some rules, guidelines and ramblings: * Proposals on artists already covered in the series (or under contract to be covered) will not be accepted. In other words, these people: The SmithsThe KinksNeutral Milk HotelPink FloydJoy DivisionVelvet UndergroundRolling

Douglas Wolk was on WNYC’s Soundcheck yesterday talking about James Brown’s Live at the Apollo. His blog also has some great youtube clips of the man in action.

A few days late, I know, but it’s still hard to believe that James Brown is now the “Gone Father of Soul”, as one British tabloid so charmingly put it on Boxing Day. If you haven’t read it yet, I can heartily recommend Douglas Wolk’s Live at the Apollo book (from which there’s a brief

Wow, a nice mention in of LD Beghtol’s 33 1/3 on The Magnetic Fields’ “69 Love Songs” on Gawker this afternoon. We speak not of the canonical 1999 three-disc set here, since there’s absolutely no reason you shouldn’t have it already, but the recent addition to Continuum’s superlative 33 1/3 series (wherein single, seminal albums

The My Bloody Valentine “Loveless” 33 1/3 arrived in the office today, and as Mat pointed out “it’s got words in it.”Just flipping through it quickly I came across a sentence about “Soon” that describes it as “the obvious hit single, and the song that weathered a remix by Andrew Weatherall.” A long time ago

Thanks so much for all the comments on the “one book per artist” debate. I think I’ve made up my mind now. We’ll be releasing a few new books in the series in the next couple of weeks: Songs in the Key of Life Use Your Illusion Court and Spark Loveless (ahem) Notorious Byrd Brothers

LD Beghtol has a posted a podcast with Stephen Merritt of the Magnetic Fields on the Village Voice site. Perfect for a little holiday listening. And by ‘perfect,’ I mean that there don’t appear to be any holiday songs on the playlist, which is just fine by me. And as LD conveniently points out, he

Assuming we sign up some new books for the series in the first part of next year, should we stick to the “one album per artist” rule, or would it be interesting to see future books on other albums by Bowie, the Stones, Radiohead, etc? I’m tempted to stick to the rule for as long

Notable movers and shakers over the last few months: the NMH book (again), Bill Janovitz’s Exile book, Dan LeRoy’s Beasties book – and Mark Polizzotti’s excellent Dylan book is off to a flyer, too. LD’s 69 Love Songs book is out, but hasn’t arrived in the UK yet, so it’s too soon to appear on