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Hot dork extraordinaire, Jesse Eisenberg, has claimed his affection for Ween and our very own 33 1/3 author, Hank Shteamer was there to report it! The whole interview, featured in Spin, can be found here. Eisenberg first heard Chocolate and Cheese when a friend offered the song “Spinal Meningitis” as preparation/comic relief for a role. […]

Pitchfork’s Poptimist column recently had some very nice things to say about Geeta Dayal’s 33 1/3 on Brian Eno’s Another Green World: Released as part of Continuum Books’ 33 1/3 series on classic albums, the book mostly sidesteps the finished LP to make the process the hero. Eno’s use of collaboration, chance, and cybernetics to

This R. Kelly interview conducted by Will Oldham is beyond fascinating.

Due out in the second half of March is Hank Shteamer’s excellent study of Ween, and particularly of their Chocolate and Cheese album from 1994. Here’s an extract from the book: *** At the complete opposite end of the emotional spectrum from “Deaner” is the notorious “HIV Song.” Despite its extreme simplicity and brief length,

A nice review of Marvin Lin’s 33 1/3 on Radiohead’s Kid A in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer: “Marvin Lin’s Kid A works well as a wide-ranging look at music, art, and life as seen through Radiohead’s album for those who understand music can be more than just music.” The new music blog Synconation covers the Kid

Next Wednesday, an exciting event is happening in the East Village.From 14th Street Y’s website: After a weekend of successful events last month, the 14th Street Y will continue its celebration of Bob Dylan and the Band with an exciting event, in partnership with improv-writing website QuickMuse and JBooks.com. The evening will feature an interactive

…an eleven page flickr gallery of famous album covers rendered in MS Paint.

From the Wall Street Journal‘s “Great Writing You Missed This Year” feature on December 28th: Michael Chabon, author of “The Yiddish Policemen’s Union”: Bryan Charles–whom I met during a residency at the MacDowell Colony a few years back–actually published two excellent books during 2010: There’s a Road to Everywhere Except Where You Came From, a

Nick Rombes, author of A Cultural Dictionary of Punk, has a contest running on his blog in time for the holidays. I’ll point you here for the full details, but it involves free stickers and a secret message implanted in the book. (By the way, I had no idea there was a secret message. It’s

Evil geniuses have given some classic albums Master P’s No Limit Records cover design treatment. Click here for the full gallery. You might want to wait until you’re not at work to view the full gallery.