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There’s an article by James Sullivan in the “Ideas” section of today’s Boston Globe, about the trend/phenomenon (I’m not sure it’s either of those things, but whatever) of books about albums and books about songs. You can read it here (free registration to the Globe required) where I’m called David Barkley, or you can read […]

If you haven’t heard Lavender Diamond yet, they have a couple of free songs to download on their site. “You Broke My Heart” actually makes me forget to breathe. Go here to get the songs.

I like this review of Colin Meloy’s Let It Be book, from The Peak – Simon Fraser University’s Independent Student Newspaper. We’d much rather get reviews in there than the NYTBR, any day. Book Review: Let It Be read Chelsea Mushaluk, The Peak About a week ago, my roommate spilled her rum and Coke all

Steve Matteo, author of our Beatles’ Let It Be book, will be reading and signing books at Borders in Syosset, NY on this coming Saturday at 2pm. Full details can be found here. Syosset, apparently, is the hometown of Natalie Portman.

The kind folks at Beastiemania.com have teamed up with author Dan LeRoy to offer up a series of outtakes from Dan’s forthcoming book about Paul’s Boutique – material that we simply didn’t have room for. There should be new stuff appearing every week until the book is out next month, but to read the first

An increasing number of stores are carrying the series, but I know these books can still be hard to find at times. So I’ve added, to the top of the links section, the pages for the series at Powells.com and Amazon.com. Neither of their lists are completely up to date, but we’re working on that!

We have a winner! The review below concerned the very first book in the series, Warren Zanes’s Dusty in Memphis. To this day, one of my absolute favourites. Thanks to all those who entered.

This is from a review of a book in the series: Someone over at Continuum needs to get out the red pen and cull all of the redundant storytelling and get him to re-focus on the subject. But which book is the reviewer angered by? Only one rule: you aren’t allowed to google this. The

If you’re in the Chicago area, I’d just like to draw your attention to the “Kids Are Alright” auction evening that’ll be happening on Friday March 3rd. You can find more info about it here. Included in the auction will be original artwork by people like Archer Prewitt, Leia Bell (see pic) and Peter Max

Kim will be reading from her Neutral Milk Hotel book at Book Soup on Wednesday evening at 7pm – I hope a few of you can make it along. And there’s a good interview with Kim in this week’s Los Angeles Alternative, which you can read here.