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Amazon is finally listing them as available, and your friendly neighborhood independent bookstore should also have copies very soon. Click the links…Slint’s Spiderland by Scott TennentRadiohead’s Kid A by Marvin Lin

Uncanny…

We received over 40 submissions for our Understanding Records home recording contest earlier this month, which was honestly about 30 more than I expected to receive. I rounded up a panel of judges here in the office–3 males and 4 females, to make sure any latent male rockism was balanced out–and asked them each to

One of the 33 1/3 volumes for 2011 that we’re most looking forward to is Tony Tost’s study of Johnny Cash: American Recordings. You can listen to Tony Tost’s America here and I hope you enjoy this (unedited) extract from the book, which should be available in late March: *** “My song ain’t done playing

How strange to come home and find these shoved under our door. Makes a change from the Mexican/Chinese take-out menus, I guess.

The votes for our Understanding Records home recording contest have been tallied by our illustrious panel of judges, and we have 11 winners instead of the initially promised 10, due to a tie at the cut-off point. In the next few days I’ll post the songs to the blog for your downloading pleasure. Stay tuned!

So here’s where the series stands to date, in terms of sales revenue. It’s getting tougher and tougher for new books to work their way up the chart, since the older established volumes are still selling fairly consistently. (We’re not talking huge numbers here, people: just that almost none of the books have stopped selling

Via Creative Review, perhaps the world’s loveliest headstone, just unveiled in picturesque Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Manchester.

Bookslut‘s Michael Schaub was on NPR’s Soundcheck the other day talking about “Essential Rock Fiction.” He lists his top 5, too: 1. The Ground Beneath Her Feet by Salman Rushdie2. Master of Reality by John Darnielle3. Great Jones Street by Don DeLillo4. The Exes by Pagan Kennedy5. The Last Rock Star Book, or, Liz Phair:

It would seem rude – even churlish – not to mention that two 33 1/3 authors have a new album out this week, and with alarming synchronicity, IT’S THE SAME ALBUM. John Darnielle (the man behind our heartrending Black Sabbath volume) and Franklin Bruno (author of our fabulous Elvis Costello volume) have reunited to put