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This just in: Joe Pernice, author of our Meat Is Murder book (still the best-selling book in the series, by the way), will make his network television acting debut at some point in the next couple of months, on the very wonderful Gilmore Girls. From the Pernice Brothers website: “Joe Pernice will make his episodic […]

“Catholic Easter Colours”, from 1993, is a song that upset me the first time I heard it, and has upset me every time I’ve heard it since. Because, when it starts to fade out after 7 minutes, it’s only just hitting its stride. It ambles amiably for just over 3 minutes, then picks up momentum

Rob Trucks, master of the pithy conversation, has conducted several in-depth interviews with our authors. You can read six of these interviews (Joe Pernice, Jim Fusilli, John Perry, Eliot Wilder, Michaelangelo Matos, and Erik Davis) here. Warning: if you’re averse to artful photographs of naked ladies, you need to tread very carefully around this site.

Kim Cooper, author of our Neutral Milk Hotel book, will be discussing the book and the album on WNYC’s Soundcheck radio show on Monday afternoon, 2-3pm Eastern Time. 93.9FM if you’re local, online if you’re not. Also appearing with Kim will be Robert Schneider, the album’s producer. Should be good!

The second of our four new books for spring is by Miles Marshall Lewis, native of the Bronx, but currently residing in the aptly riotous city of Paris. If you want to buy Miles’ book from Amazon, you can do so here. *** By the autumn of 1971 both John Lennon’s Plastic Ono Band and

Steve Jelbert (who was, under a previous regime, contracted to write a book for us at Continuum) reviews John Niven’s Big Pink book in the Independent on Sunday today. I’m tempted to put “gloriously absurd” on the back cover, when we reprint. *** Music From Big Pink by John Niven By Steve Jelbert The Band’s

I’m all about the packaging at the moment. Exhibit number 1: That’s the inside of a gatefold CD single by the Bristol band Santa Dog. Limited to 100 copies – and the 100 people who pre-ordered it got their names and home towns printed, as you can see. I’m sandwiched in between Colin Clark from

We seem to have been lacking some actual content on here in recent weeks, so let’s get back to the books themselves. Our four spring titles are now on sale at Amazon, and should be in the usual stores in the US and Canada any day now. (Those of you across the Atlantic will have

On the excellent Largehearted Boy today, Franklin Bruno (author of our Elvis Costello book) eloquently discusses five of his current favourite books. Thank you to Wendy for the tip.

I’ve had a bunch of questions about this, so let me try to clarify, using as few rules as possible. 1. You must be under 21, as of June 30th this year. 2. You can write up to 2000 words about any album, apart from the 20 albums featured in the book. (See list in