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The new Pernice Brothers album is out, if you didn’t know. Entertainment Weekly gives it an A minus, I give it a straight A. Oh, who to believe?? Too many great songs to mention – but “Automaton” in particular would slot perfectly on to Odessey and Oracle, “PCH One” is like “Piazza, New York Catcher” […]

OK, we just had our fifth correct entry, so the competition is over. The correct answer was Pedagogy of the Oppressed – a book that we first published, in its English translation, in 1970. The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia was just behind, in second place. Congratulations to: Mike RadzAndrew LeeJosh WilsonDan CrossenChad Nevett You should get

Up for grabs are 5 copies of 33 1/3 Greatest Hits, Vol 1 – our brand new compendium of extracts from the first 20 books in the series. To win a copy, you need to be one of the first five people to email me (david at continuum-books.com) with the answer to the following question.

Shawn Taylor, the author of our forthcoming 33 1/3 book on A Tribe Called Quest’s album People’s Instinctive Travels and the Paths of Rhythm, has just won the 2006 DIY Book of the Year Award, for his book Big Black Penis: Misadventures in Race and Masculinity. Here’s part of the press release about the award:

I spoke too soon. This book is at the printers, but we’ve had to stop it, once again. We just heard today that there are still some more changes to come, via Mr. Shields. I feel bad for Mike, the author, and for anyone out there who’s been waiting for this book for the last

Somewhere around January, we’ll be publishing Eric Weisbard’s GNR book in the series. This is how it starts: *** Welcome to the season of the blockbuster. On August 12, 1991, Metallica released Metallica, their Bob Rock produced sell-in, with “Enter Sandman” detonating the MTV Video Music Awards. On November 26, Michael Jackson bought number one

I’m almost loathe to mention this book, its gestation has been so fraught with difficulties. But it is, now, at the printers in Canada. And it comes complete with this charming little disclaimer: Although the members of My Bloody Valentine submitted to interviews for this book, and all the quotes from those interviews contained herein

I love authors who are so awesomely cool that they’ll happily offer to do readings from their book while on honeymoon. Kim Cooper is one such author. Kim has already set up a reading for herself in Paris, with the equally cool Miles Marshall Lewis. And now we’re looking to set up a reading for

My good friend Geoff Klock dragged me to the Bowery Ballroom last night, to see a show by the Mountain Goats. Before last night, I’d never heard a single song of theirs. It was an odd show, for a number of reasons. For one, the crowd was astonishingly reverential – by which I mean there

A song title like “Zinedine Zidane” instinctively makes me think of an upbeat janglepop thrash. Which the man himself – a wild guess – wouldn’t enjoy in the slightest. But go here and listen to “Zinedine Zidane”, one of four tracks streaming by the London-based, jazz-tinged, mellowtronic combo, blue swerver. “Untempo” is also wonderful. In