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I’m a sucker for meaningless lists, and for the perfumed pages of Blender magazine, so it was disturbingly exciting to see, in their current issue’s “40 Greatest Rock and Roll Books” line-up, our very own Erik Davis at number 32. If you haven’t yet read Erik’s book about Led Zeppelin IV, you’re missing out on […]

We’re publishing this excellent book in the spring, and just received this cover from one of our designers. I love it to bits.

I’ve never been able to make it to one of these, but maybe this time will be different. Thanks to Eric for the information. *** CALL FOR PAPERS: Waking Up From History: Music, Time, and Place The 2007 Pop Conference at Experience Music Project April 19-22, 2007Seattle, Washington Music happens, then it ripples. What is

There’s a good piece by Bill Friskics-Warren in the current issue of the Oxford American, about our tendency to lean too heavily on words when reacting to music – something that Bill’s book (linked to above) deals with brilliantly. Here’s an (very slightly tweaked in the first paragraph) excerpt: *** The practice of logocentrism, of

Just in from the printers, and on sale already here (and on sale any day now from the usual book and record stores), is 33 1/3 Greatest Hits Volume 1 – our collection of excerpts from the first 20 books in the series, ranging from Dusty to the Ramones. The book includes a short introduction

Exciting to learn that the forthcoming anthology Marooned (edited by Phil Freeman, coming from Da Capo presumably in 2007) is finished, manuscript-wise. Here’s the table of contents: Motörhead – No Remorse, by Phil FreemanSkunk Anansie – Stoosh, by Laina DawesMy Bloody Valentine – Loveless, by Ned RaggettVarious Artists – History Of Our World Part 1:

Over the last couple of weeks I’ve been listening a lot to Mattachine, an album by The Ballet. There are some very clear links in these songs to the work of Stephin Merritt, and the whole album is beautifully, beautifully done. Looks like they’re in the middle of making some more copies. There are two

We’ve just republished Bill Friskics-Warren’s wonderful book on pop music and the spiritual urge, I’ll Take You There, as a paperback. If you haven’t read this yet, I do recommend it – this book contains some of the best writing about music I’ve read in a long while.

Ann Powers, who’s writing a Kate Bush book for our series, had a good one of these on her blog last week, so here’s my own version. *** A book that changed my life Hmm, nothing so far. A book that may have changed my way of thinking about books themselves would be Nicholas Nickleby,

If you enjoyed Ben Sisario’s Pixies book, you might also enjoy this in-depth conversation about the book, between Ben and the venerable Rob Trucks, on the arty/erotica/naked/wordy site Uberbelle.