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Here’s a review by Jake Haselman from www.indieworkshop.com, of Dan LeRoy’s book about Paul’s Boutique: *** Who would have thought that the creation of one of Hip-Hop’s masterpieces would be a drug fueled, party soaked, apartment recorded album that took the better part of a year to finish? Well, it was. And who would have […]

We’ll be down in DC for the next few days, for Book Expo America. If you’re going to be there too, do stop by the Continuum booth (no. 706) to say hello. We should have plenty of free stuff to give away, including samplers for the 33 1/3 Greatest Hits Volume 1 book, coming this

We’re getting thrillingly close to the publication of Michael Gray’s new Dylan book, which is being printed simulataneously in the US and the UK and will be available everywhere by June 15th. This week’s entry (scroll down for previous entries, on Dave Stewart, Leonard Cohen, Fats Domino and Harry Belafonte) is a little different: ***

This isn’t something I ever wanted to do, but we’re going to start putting a dollar on the 33 1/3 books – so all new titles from Spring 07 onwards will be $10.95 in the US (UK prices will remain at £6.99). And as we reprint existing titles from now on, those will go up

Time for another entry from Michael Gray’s forthcoming Bob Dylan Encyclopedia. This week, it’s the turn of Harry Belafonte. The book will be available around the world, in bookstores and on-line, on June 15th. *** Belafonte, Harry [1927 – ] Harold George Belafonte was born on March 1, 1927 in Harlem, New York City, though

Miles Marshall Lewis, author of our new Sly Stone book, will be jetting in from Paris next week, to plug the living daylights out of said book. You can encounter Miles in the following ways: Hue-Man Bookstore & Cafe, May 20th, 6:00 (with Greg Tate)2319 Frederick Douglass BlvdBetween 124th and 125th Streets Morningside Bookstore, May

Grant McLennan of the Go-Betweens died a couple of days ago, in his sleep. If you’ve ever had the slightest inclination to check out the Go-Betweens but maybe never quite got around to it – go on, do it now. Start with last year’s Ocean’s Apart – the best record ever made by a band

I’d never even heard of Ukula before a copy of the magazine arrived at work on Tuesday. And I still know almost nothing about it, aside from the fact that it’s a really beautiful little magazine, featuring an array of short, interesting, well-designed articles about travel, music, books, and fashion. And it seems to be

Another week, another great entry from Michael Gray’s imminent Bob Dylan Encyclopedia. This time, it’s Fats Domino. (The book also has a great photo of Fats, and of Leonard Cohen, last week’s subject. No pic of Dave Stewart, though – sorry about that.) *** Domino, Fats [1928 – ] Antoine ‘Fats’ Domino, born 26 February

Just a quick one: you can listen on-line to Ben Sisario talking about his Pixies book on WNYC here. The Pixies reading/cover version-fest in Williamsburg last week was highly entertaining – many thanks to everyone who helped out with that.