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From Robert Pollard’s website: From the author of Continuum’s 33 1/3 Series Bee Thousand Book:Continuum’s 33 1/3 series to include a book on Bee Thousand I’m working on a book about Bee Thousand for Continuum’s 33 1/3 series and would like to receive responses from fans of the record. I can’t make any promises to […]

My only encounter with George Best was at 6.15 one lovely summer morning in London, 1996. I was walking to work, up the Kings Road in Chelsea, as George staggered towards me, a pint of milk his hand. He didn’t look good.

Just received this message from Kim Cooper, author of the Neutral Milk Hotel book: While copies of my new 33 1/3 book “Neutral Milk Hotel’s ‘In TheAeroplane Over The Sea’” are sitting in trucks and planes on their wayto stores and distribution centers, I’ve built an interactive map ofsome special places in the band’s history.

Noel Murray has a thoughtful review in The Onion this week of Bill Friskics-Warren’s book I’ll Take You There: In his introduction to I’ll Take You There, critic Bill Friskics-Warren promises “to gainsay the logocentric tendency” of most rock writers, and listen beyond song lyrics to what the music has to say. He’s set himself

1. If you want to enter the quiz and stand a chance of winning the awesome One Kiss Can Lead to Another Box-Set on Rhino, you have until Friday to do so. Scroll down two or three entries to see what you need to do. The guesses we’ve received so far are all over the

Washingtonpost.com is hosting an online discussion at 1pm Eastern Time today, in which Bill Friskics-Warren will be fielding questions about country music and about his Continuum book I’ll Take You There: Pop Music and the Urge for Transcendence. You can send in questions ahead of time, and I’m sure Bill would love to hear from

There’s a good article by Bob Mehr in the Fall Books issue of the Chicago Reader, which includes a delightful mugshot of the two authors in question.

As of yesterday, here’s the current sales chart for the series… 1. Meat is Murder2. The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society (gaining on the Smiths)3. The Piper at the Gates of Dawn4. Unknown Pleasures (relentless in its pursuit of the Floyd)5. Forever Changes6. Let It Be (Beatles version)7. The Velvet Underground & Nico8.

Another of the books we’ll be publishing in the spring is on Sonic Youth’s Daydream Nation. (Which reminds me: how on earth did this batch of books end up being so late-80s? Aside from the Joni Mitchell and Sly Stone albums, these were all released in either 1988 or 89. Weird.) Matthew Stearns is in