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Part One of a two-part interview between Henry Jenkins and Geeta Dayal was posted on Henry’s blog today. Geeta discusses Another Green World, Oblique Strategies cards, and a whole range of things. You can read the interview here. *** Part of what made the book interesting, I think, was that I didn’t base the book […]

We’re really looking forward to the publication, in May/June, of David Toop’s new book Sinister Resonance. You may be familiar with one or two of David’s previous books – Ocean of Sound, Rap Attack, Haunted Weather, and Exotica. This new work is an astonishingly wide-ranging meditation on and exploration of the concept of listening: it’s

Images of album grooves recorded by an electron microscope.

Several of you have been asking about when we might be accepting new proposals again, or where to send such proposals for the series. As of right now, we have a pretty full 33 1/3 pipeline – we’ll have new books coming through until the early part of 2012 at least, so we’re unable to

Volume 68 in the series is Mark Richardson’s study of the Flaming Lips’ weird and wonderful 4-CD album, Zaireeka. And the always excellent Fluxblog today has a lengthy interview with Mark about the book, the Flaming Lips’ career, and their penchant for grandly entertaining experiments. Like the book itself, the Fluxblog discussion is well worth

Here is some cover art from recent translations of a couple of our books… First up, Graeme Thomson’s (Grammici Tommassini?) I Shot a Man In Reno (interesting that they only translated the subtitle there, but not surprising, I suppose).And here is Mike McGonigal’s 33 1/3 on My Bloody Valentine’s Loveless in Japanese: Click this interior

Dan Kois’ fascinating and excellent study of Israel Kamakawiwo’ole’s classic album continues to pick up attention. This weekend, Dan will be reading from the book at Boswell Books in Milwaukee – at 2pm on Sunday, to be precise. Details of the event can be found here. Tied in to the event, there’s a great piece

I probably haven’t watched a full episode of SNL since Jon Lovitz left, but this might be the best work they’ve ever done. UPDATE: So NBC took down the SNL link, but I noticed that a lot of people were clicking on this (Hi Reddit!), so here’s something else to look at and think about.

Partly to commemorate David Kirby’s recently published book about Little Richard, and partly to reassert that Little Richard is a raving lunatic, I present to you this video of the former Richard Penniman live in Paris in 1966. Long before his Hollywood Squares days.

One of the 33 1/3 books we’re most excited about for 2010 is Christopher R. Weingarten’s volume on It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back. It’ll be available in the spring – early spring. More on that book nearer the time, but for now you should be aware (if you aren’t already)