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In honor of Spike Jonze being nominated for Oscars in Best Picture (producer), Best Original Screenplay (writer), and Original Song for his new film, Her, I  meandered down a rabbit hole of his music videos, which led to his commercials, and, finally, the skateboarding videos where he got his start. What struck me is the […]

Dear Readers, Here at Bloomsbury we are in the midst of open call madness. To date, we’ve received about 50 proposals but judging from the 2012 open call, almost 80% of the proposals come in during the last 48 hours before the deadline.  You’ve got less than 1 week until the March 3rd deadline. I

Happy Friday! We’re oh-so-close to the new edition of Carl Wilson’s Let’s Talk About Love–newly expanded and revised with essays by Nick Hornby, James Franco, Krist Novoselic, Mary Gaitskill, Ann Powers and many others–and we therefore present the belter herself for your listening (and viewing!) pleasure this foggy Friday afternoon. To summarize this incredible video:

On this sad day for fans of Devo, here’s Evie Nagy, the author of our forthcoming 33 1/3 on Devo’s Freedom of Choice on the unexpected passing of the band’s guitarist, Bob Casale. You can read an author Q&A with Evie here. On February 17th, longtime Devo guitarist Bob Casale passed away suddenly of heart

It’s the final day of Aphex Twin Week, in celebration of our new 33 1/3 title, Aphex Twin’s Selected Ambient Works Volume II, by Marc Weidenbaum (revisit Marc’s author Q&A, here). In his second video vault entry, Marc visits the visual world of Richard D. James after SAW2 came out. Richard D. James has more

Welcome to Day 4 of Aphex Twin Week, in celebration of our new 33 1/3 title, Aphex Twin’s Selected Ambient Works Volume II, by Marc Weidenbaum (revisit Marc’s author Q&A, here). Here’s Marc’s first of 2 video vault entries. Selected Ambient Works Volume II‘s release on the label Warp in 1994 was framed by the

It’s Aphex Twin Week, in celebration of our new 33 1/3 title, Aphex Twin’s Selected Ambient Works Volume II, by Marc Weidenbaum (revisit Marc’s author Q&A, here). In this third entry, Marc talks about an album’s “cultural afterlife.” Much of my book about the Aphex Twin album Selected Ambient Works Volume II is about what

It’s Aphex Twin Week, in celebration of our new 33 1/3 title, Aphex Twin’s Selected Ambient Works Volume II, by Marc Weidenbaum (revisit Marc’s author Q&A, here). Here, Marc delves into the power of a single instrument in Aphex Twin’s work; namely, wind chimes. What? Yes, wind chimes. If there is a single track that

Welcome to Aphex Twin week, in celebration of our new 33 1/3 title, Aphex Twin’s Selected Ambient Works Volume II, by Marc Weidenbaum (revisit Marc’s author Q&A, here). For his first entry, Marc discusses the book he almost wrote. It is fitting that I wrote a book about “Volume II” of something, because I wrote

Whether or not you’re a supporter of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, there’s no denying that there is plenty newsworthy stuff coming out of Sochi–before nary a ski hits snow, a skate hits ice, or a lycra’d body hits luge–be it open plan bathrooms, yellow water, unfinished venues, or the alleged dispatching of various