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Dan Kois’ 33 1/3 on Israel Kamakawiwo’ole’s “Facing Future” got a nice long write up in the Honolulu Advertiser this morning. You can read the full article here. Dan was also featured in New York Magazine’s Approval Matrix, charting in the “Middlebrow-Brilliant” quadrant. Here’s a link to that, if you’d like to see how it […]

If you’re a fan of art and rock and roll and everything in between and you’re in New York this evening (or this month), this exhibit will be well worth checking out. An art show in the former Tower Records space, including “Never Records,” a mock record shop within the space, curated with record store-inspired

We’re on a skeleton crew this week as we sift through the dregs of 2009, and I have a long leisurely lunch calling my name, so pardon the lack of updates. But in the meantime… Here is a great in-depth interview with Geeta Dayal on her volume on Brian Eno from KEXP in Seattle: Why

Just a quick one: you can hear an absolutely wonderful interview with Daniel Eagan, author of our book America’s Film Legacy – he talks with Leonard Lopate, and you can listen to it here. Fascinating, fascinating stuff!

We’re very pleased to announce the publication of Vol.70 in the series. (Vol.68 will publish next week, and Vol.69 was published exactly three years ago.) Dan Kois’ brilliant book tells the story of Israel Kamakawiwo’ole and his album Facing Future. Iz, if you don’t know him, was a towering figure in Hawaiian popular music. He

Two new 33 1/3 volumes are just publishing, that we’ll be telling you about very shortly – in the meantime, you might want to hear about our new release America’s Film Legacy: The Authoritative Guide to the Landmark Movies in the National Film Registry, by Daniel Eagan. Coming in at 832 pages, it’s a monster

Once you’ve seen Billy Ray Cyrus and Stryper rock the Stock Exchange, tune into WFMU’s Music to Spazz by tonight from 8-11pm, where Dave the Spazz will be talking to Joe Bonomo about his book Jerry Lee Lewis: Lost and Found. Archives will go up here shortly afterward. The folks at the Oxford American, God

Stryper, Billy Ray Cyrus, The Manhattan Transfer, Twisted Sister with Broadway’s “Rock of Ages” cast, Collective Soul, Honor Society, David Nail, Joshua Bell, Kate Voegele, Tamela Mann and The Monsignor Donovan Choir with special appearances by Valerie Smaldone, Kym Johnson. The New York Jets Flight Crew and Santa Claus… All playing this afternoon at (where

We haven’t put up one of these in a while, so here you go. The list below shows all books published so far in the 33 1/3 series, in descending order of sales revenue (not units sold). Things are very tight between no.2 and no.9, so those positions could change a lot over the next