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Our email is now back in action, you’ll be glad to know. Another of the new books we’ll be publishing in the spring is There’s a Riot Goin’ On by Miles Marshall Lewis. If you don’t want to know the result, look away now: The first thing Sly Stone ever did with a major paycheck […]

For anyone who’s been trying to get hold of me on email: we’re currently “between servers”, as it were, so anything sent to david@continuum-books.com will just bounce right back. I’m hoping this will be fixed very soon, and will post again when it is. My apologies…

Just a very quick reminder – if you’re interested in writing a book for the series, to be published in 2007, you have until Monday October 31st to email me (david@continuum-books.com) and get yourself added to the list. So far, we have people wanting to write about albums by Bjork, Pulp, the Grateful Dead, Marvin

If you’re in the London area, you shall have the pleasure of listening to John Niven talk about his Music from Big Pink book on the Robert Elms show on Wednesday next week, the 26th. If you’re not in London, you should be able to tune in via the internet, somewhere around here. John is

The second of today’s reviews from the November issue of Uncut magazine. Here’s Andrew Mueller’s 3-star review of J. Niimi’s Murmur book: However many titles finally appear in Continuum’s commendably ambitious 33 1/3 series, it’s unlikely any author will volunteer for a task as thankless as the one which American critic and sometime musician J

Andrew Mueller reviews a couple of the series’ books in the November issue of Uncut magazine. (I’ll post the review of J. Niimi’s R.E.M. book later.) Here’s what he has to say about Franklin Bruno’s Armed Forces book (4 stars out of 5): Another instalment of Continuum’s 33 1/3 series, in which writers ramble at

Several people have asked about the DVD referred to several times in Steve Matteo’s Beatles Let It Be book – does it exist, where to obtain it, is Steve a liar, and so on. To clear up any confusion, here are Steve’s comments on the matter: When I finished the book, I had interviewed several

We’ll be publishing (fingers crossed) six new books in the series sometime around March. One of these is about The Stone Roses, and is written by Alex Green. There’s a quick extract from it (unedited, uncorrected, etc) coming up. Reading Alex’s manuscript took me back to the spring of 1989, when I went out and

The love keeps spreading for John Niven’s imminent novella about Music from Big Pink. Here’s what Barney Hoskyns has to say about it: “John Niven took me back to a place and a musical time I’d only ever visited in my head, recreating the dazed bucolic idyll of The Band’s Catskills and making the times

We’ll end up our week of extracts from Bill’s new book I’ll Take You There: Pop Music and the Urge for Transcendence with the following (very moving) passage about Johnny Cash. I hope you’ve enjoyed reading these segments from the book as much as I’ve enjoyed working on it. As an author, Bill is an