Article

I haven’t been able to access the video yet, but here’s a link to Brian Udelhofen’s Shadow Percussion Project, in which the Minnetonka High School Percussion Ensemble make a brave stab at a couple of tracks off Endtroducing… Our music teacher at school wouldn’t have been a DJ Shadow fan. He once came perilously close […]

Abby at work just directed a few of us towards this relatively new blog, which is excellent. Its list of recent posts would make a great track-listing for an album, reminiscent of East River Pipe’s The Gasoline Age CD, from 1999. Off DutyGridlockAssholeJFKCar serviceAirport, againMake that 11 Most Dangerous IntersectionsLaguardia$2.95 a gallonI hate New Jersey

From a piece about the Murmur book, in Pioneer Press. (Publishing 53 weekly newspapers in suburban Chicago!) Niimi includes an appendix spelling out Michael Stipe’s difficult-to-decipher lyrics. Niimi says he felt torn between leaving the words mysterious and pinning them down. He listened to demo recordings and concert tapes to compare how Stipe sang the

A few days early, but what the heck…If you’re interested in writing a book for the series, for publication in Spring 07 or Autumn 07, you’ve got between now and October 31st to email me (david@continuum-books.com). No need to write up a proposal yet – just very briefly tell me who you are and what

From the Music Department at the University of Southampton in England – a course that uses the 33 1/3 series in an interesting way. I wonder what the kids make of Warren Zanes’s book… MUSI 3098 POPULAR MUSIC SEMINAR Semester 11 unit Course tutor: Dr Sarah HillCP value 15 Pre-requisite: Consent of the instructor; students

It’s exactly a year since we published Audio Culture: Readings in Modern Music – a wonderful anthology of writings put together by Christoph Cox and Daniel Warner. And I thought maybe a few of you might not have stumbled across it yet. So, here it is. We’ve received many glowing reviews for the book, but

In the September issue of Bookslut, you’ll find a great feature article by Michael Schaub, about rock novels. You can read it here. Didn’t Louise whats-her-face from Sleeper write one of these, too?

An interesting piece about the series in the current issue of Pulse of the Twin Cities. Going back home to England for a holiday this evening – so this will be quiet for a few days. I wish, like Wyclef, I could be Gone ‘Til November, but September 12th is looking more likely.

This might be of interest to some of you: a list of the finalists for the 2005 ARSC Awards for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research. Which is code for: here are some good new books about music. I suspect the 33 1/3 books are too short to qualify for this, but we have a

On Tuesday next week, September 6th, Jim will be at Book Court in Brooklyn (163 Court St. between Pacific and Dean). The event is at 8pm. I’m not sure how much of the event is based around Jim’s Pet Sounds book, or his most recent novel Hard, Hard City – but either way, you should