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Back in November, we ran a small quiz, with this as a fantastic prize for the winner. The question was: where in the 33 1/3 Sales Chart will the books about Neutral Milk Hotel and The Band be, by the end of March? Several of you actually entered the quiz. And a couple of you […]

Peter Blauner, who will be writing the 33 1/3 book about Marquee Moon, has a new novel out, which you can buy here. It was reviewed in last week’s issue of the New Yorker, and this is what they had to say: Slipping Into Darkness, by Peter Blauner (Little, Brown; $24.95). Francis X. Loughlin is

Just back from a few days in Boston, at the annual College Art Association Conference. We sold quite a few books on our booth – and took lots of pre-orders for Brandon LaBelle’s forthcoming Background Noise. And we received lots of positive comments about the 33 1/3 series, as well as several versions of my

Yep Roc are shortly to release the Billy Bragg “Volume 1” box set, which looks like it’s going to be wonderful – all of the early albums plus a huge noseful of extra stuff. You can read more about it, and pre-order it, here. It’s surely worth getting for “St Swithin’s Day” alone. I remember

Taking the anthropomorphisation of books to the next level, Miles Marshall Lewis has created a myspage page for his Sly Stone book. You can go there from here.

Derek Weiler writes from Toronto – he’s recently started up an MP3 blog called Bury Me Not, and it already has some fascinating songs. Any blog that has a song by the Weather Prophets or the (recently reformed!!) Loft does the trick for me. “Up the Hill and Down the Slope” is about as good

Book fetishists among you may be excited to learn about The Encyclopedia Project, the first volume of which (A-E) is being published in April. (Not by Continuum, just to make that clear!) One of the editorial team is Kate Schatz, who’ll be writing a 33 1/3 book about PJ Harvey’s Rid of Me album in

I’ve added a link to Warren’s website, in the links section. Warren’s new album – the follow-up to the commercial smash that was “Memory Girls” – comes out on March 14th, and you can hear a few clips from the new one here. Of particular interest to us on this blog is the following excerpt

If you’re at all interested in improvised music, and you’re not daunted by a little science, then you should take a look at David Borgo’s excellent new book Sync or Swarm: Improvising Music in a Complex Age. It’s hard enough to write well about music, and I would imagine it isn’t easy to write well

I’m not sure where David Mitchell dredged these up from, but some of the words and phrases in his upcoming novel Black Swan Green are so wonderfully specific to the England of 1981 and 1982 that I’ve been having flashbacks all weekend long. These all used to get hurled around at school on a daily