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A good review in the current issue of Drastic Plastic Press, of Nick Rombes’ book about the first Ramones record: Continuum’s 33 1/3 series analyzes individual canonical rock ‘n’ roll albums. It is to their credit that Ramones/Ramones has made it into their “hall of fame” of sorts. Detroit’s Nicholas Rombes stage dives into the […]

Dr. Josh Gunn, in the Department of Communications at the University of Texas, Austin, is currently teaching a fascinating course on Rhetoric and Religion. And one of the required texts for his lucky students is Erik Davis’ book on Zeppelin IV. For those of you who want the full details of the course, here they

Got an email yesterday from John Perry – guitar legend and author of our Hendrix book. He’ll be in NYC at the end of this month, playing a show at the Lakeside Lounge, as part of Freddie Stevenson’s band. If you’re looking for something new to listen to, take a moment to head over to

There’s an interview on Pitchfork today with Alasdair MacLean of the Clientele. I’ve only heard snippets of their recent album, but the first two I love to bits. Anyhow, always nice to see a random 33 1/3 series mention in a chat like this – even if it does contain the phrase ‘grad student view’:

Thanks for all the sampler requests – but the ten are now snapped up.

I’m intrigued as to why it took this guy 13 years to progress from urinating to using a hammer. Do you want one of our Spring Sampler books? They’re blue, and they contain excerpts from the upcoming books about The Stone Roses, There’s a Riot Goin’ On, Paul’s Boutique, Court & Spark, Doolittle, and Daydream

Nick Rombes, author of the Ramones book in our series, puts together an excellent blog that goes by the name of Digital Poetics. Definitely worth following, if you have even a flicker of interest in film and film theory.

You can read a short piece here by John Niven about his Big Pink book, on the excellent Beatrice site.

A very happy new year to everybody. I’m finally back from my travels, with a charming and quirky wedding venue found and confirmed, just outside of Hay-on-Wye (legendary “Town of Books”), on the Welsh border. Anyhow… Here’s an interesting review of John Niven’s book, from the Dec 18th issue of Scotland on Sunday (Scotland’s main

Posting will be light over the next couple of weeks, as I’m off to England tonight for a few days of work followed by several days of doing very little indeed in rural Herefordshire, where the internet sounds like something that might entangle the local sheep. Continuum moved its NYC office this weekend. Our new