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Reproduced below is a 4-Star review of Miles Marshall Lewis’s book about Sly Stone, from the October issue of Mojo. *** While focusing primarily on Sly Stone’s chillingly ambivalent snapshot of post-“Love Decade” unrest, acclaimed essayist Miles Marshall Lewis stretches the conventions of Continuum’s 33 1/3 series on specific albums, offering heartfelt insight into the […]

The second of the new books that are now in from the printers, and will be on sale in bookstores in the next couple of weeks, is Mark Polizzotti’s about Highway 61 Revisited. You can pre-order the book on Amazon.com here. It’s possible that we’ve overdone the Dylan on this blog in the last few

We’ve just started using new printers for the 33 1/3 books (in Canada, no less!), and today we received advance copies of a couple of the first ones. They look good, and they even smell vaguely Canadian. So, the first book is Gillian G. Gaar’s, about In Utero. It should be on sale in all

It’s childish, I know, but receiving an email like the one below from a new favourite band can be very exciting. It’s almost enough to make me miss the Kilburn High Road. *** David, my Child, This Saturday the seven of morton valence shall travel to Kilburn and perform wondrous music to the lumpen crowds

Towards the end of this year, we’ll be publishing a first book by Saul Austerlitz – Money for Nothing: A History of the Music Video, from the Beatles to the White Stripes. It’s a very smart, very entertaining read, discussing hundreds of videos, from the sublime to Guns N’ Roses to the ridiculous and back

I love the utter daftness of this website, demonstrating the myriad links between Morrissey and the death of Princess Diana. Particularly inspired is the section on “Never Had No One Ever”, and its references to the Book of Proverbs.

Michael Gray, author of The Bob Dylan Encyclopedia, begins his two-week tour of the US tomorrow, at the Hall of Fame in Cleveland. If you can make it along to any of these talks, that would be great – Michael is as entertaining in person as he is on the printed page. Wed Aug 30,

Not too much movement on the chart over the last couple of months – most of the books are still selling, but at a very similar rate. Notable exceptions being the Forever Changes book in the UK, on the back of Arthur Lee’s sad death, the DJ Shadow book, those on the Pixies and Beastie

If you’re going to be in London on the evening of Friday Sept 1st, here’s a fun book launch for you to attend: Sound / Stage Performance and Installation byMark SchreiberKen Ehrlich / Brandon LaBelleat f a projects, 1-2 Bear Gardens, Bankside, London Friday, September 1, 2006, 7 – 9 pm To celebrate the release

It occurred to me, walking up 8th Ave in Brooklyn this morning, that “Dumb It Down” off the last Pernice Brothers album, might be my favourite song of the last couple of years. I still marvel at how some brilliant pop songs can do this – a handful of words, a chiming guitar, a couple