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The last in our triptych of new releases this week (damn, I wish we could publish three of these every week!) is J. Niimi’s book about Murmur. Like Daphne and Franklin before him, J. stubbornly refused to adhere to the word limit in his contract. And I stubbornly refused to make any cuts to his […]

Another of the new books that should be on sale in the next couple of weeks is Franklin Bruno’s take on Costello’s Armed Forces. This one is written as an A-Z, with entries including the Agora Ballroom, Winston Churchill, Al Jolson, Rock Against Racism, and Two-Tone Records. It’s a great strategy for one of these

A cool little piece about the series in the current issue of Vice magazine: These are for the insane collectors out there who appreciate fantastic design, well-executed thinking, and things that make your house look cool. Each volume in this series takes a seminal album and breaks it down in startling minutiae. We love these.

Daphne A. Brooks’ book about Jeff Buckley is a wonderful mix of research, insight, and passion – pretty much a blueprint of what I’d hoped these books might be. I’m not sure if the book demonstrates “a passion so intense it’ll make you blanche” (as the Philadelphia Weekly said, of a draft chapter of the

We’ve taken delivery from the printers this week of the three latest books in the series – J. Niimi’s book about Murmur, Daphne Brooks’ book on Grace (my god, that one took a long time coming!) and Franklin Bruno’s on Armed Forces. For some reason, I can’t stop staring at the blue on the spine

Yesterday our London office sent me a mini-review of Douglas Wolk’s James Brown book, which apparently appeared in the March issue of Mojo. Not sure how that one escaped my notice, but anyway, it’s good: Wolk’s exemplary analysis of James Brown’s legendary LP contextualises his performance within his own career, the political events unfolding that

It’s mayhem here today at Continuum HQ, as we scramble to reprint the only existing biography of the new Pope, formerly known as Cardinal Ratzinger. I’m sure Ratzinger has always been a big fan of the Ramones, so perhaps he’ll be interested in Nicholas Rombes’ new book in the series, about their debut album. It

When the series first started, I really didn’t want to commission books on some of the more obvious albums. But when Jim Fusilli got in touch and explained why he wanted to write a short book about Pet Sounds, I warmed so much to the honesty of his approach that it was hard to say

There’s a 4-star review of Erik Davis’ Zeppelin book in the May issue of Blender, by Steve Kandell. “While the books in Continuum’s long-running 33 1/3 series generally cast classic albums in a personal, anecdotal light, this volume deconstructs cock-rock’s most inscrutable magnum opus as a collision of music and magick. Though Jimmy Page’s Aleister

I’m reading Pieces for the Left Hand by J. Robert Lennon. It’s a novel consisting of one hundred anecdotes, each around a page long. For reasons that I don’t fully understand, this has only been published in the UK so far, by Granta. (Thanks to Frances Cook for sending me the book from England!) I