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Joe Pernice, author of our Meat is Murder book, was on Soundcheck yesterday to chat about the album and his book. The show is archived, and you can listen to it here. The global Pernice Brothers publicity machine is about to crank into action – the new album is coming out in October, I believe. […]

After months of dithering and general cluelessness on my part, you can now – should you wish to – subscribe to this blog, by clicking on that cute orange button on the left hand side, just over there.

Here’s a review of two recent books in the series, from Harp magazine. *** So far. So good. The rockist 33 1/3 series has been appropriately space, time and scene sensitive — Bowie’s Berlin via Low, Neutral Milk Hotel’s glorious South — without getting lost in any sort of loftiness. In the process it’s becoming

Part of the charm of Marc Woodworth’s forthcoming Bee Thousand book is the way in which it replicates the feel of the album itself – it’s a collage, a patchwork quilt of styles, ideas, narratives, fan responses, and input from band members themselves. Here’s a short piece from Robert Pollard’s section of the book: ***

In today’s “Nonfiction Chronicle” in the New York Times Book Review, there’s a short – and peculiar – piece on Ben Sisario’s Pixies book. There’s a link to the whole article here (including brief reviews of four other books), but the relevant review is here: DOOLITTLE. By Ben Sisario. (Continuum, paper, $9.95.) A friend of

Many congratulations to Dan Connelly – his essay on Phil Ochs’ album I Ain’t Marching Any More is the winner of our competition. Dan’s prize is a quarter of Continuum’s annual profits (to be precise, $250), and his essay will be published as Chapter 21 of our upcoming book 33 1/3 Greatest Hits Volume 1,

This is the start of John Cavanagh’s book about The Piper at the Gates of Dawn. *** “That light you can see has taken 36 years to reach Earth,” my brother told me as we looked towards Arcturus on a hot July night in 1975. I focused on the star and became mesmerized with the

There’s a piece by Rod Lockwood in the Toledo Blade, about the series and one or two other like-minded books, which you can read here. It’s accompanied by this toweringly awesome illustration, which I’m going to get printed out at Kinkos, framed, and put on my office wall. Immediately!

Ben Sisario, author of our Pixies book, will be chatting about the book and the album on The World Cafe with David Dye this weekend. The World Cafe will be broadcasting the session on Saturday, July 8th and Monday July 10th 2006. You can hear this show on more than 180 stations throughout the US.

So, we’re busy pulling this book together – you can pre-order it on Amazon.com here (for less than the price of one of the regular series books!), and it should be available around the end of September. It’ll have decent-sized extracts from each of the first 20 books in the series, plus the winning essay