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JAWBONE was launched in 2007 by the team behind many best-selling Backbeat and Thunder Bay titles, including How To Write Songs On Guitar, Beatles Gear, Totally Guitar, and The Piano Handbook. As well as publishing its own books, Jawbone continues to produce Backbeat-branded books for Hal Leonard.

"Jawbone [are] an energetic new imprint specialising in books about music." The Guardian



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Velvet Underground UK Promo Tour (inc. film screenings)... as mentioned in this month's MOJO | 11 June 2009

Richie will be busy on both sides of the pond with all manner of dates across America and the UK to promote his extensive VU day by day White Light/White Heat in June and July.

(Please click on below thumbnail image to view the UK dates full size)

VU Poster

The writer will also be doing a Q&A/signing in No Hit Records, Camden's hippest record store, on Saturday, July 18. The shop is situated in the middle of Parkway (next to The Dublin Castle pub) in fashionable North London.
Come and buy a book, get it signed, chat with Richie, check out some records... and weather permitting enjoy a glass of wine in the shop's pleasant garden.

UK July Radio appearances to follow.

Richie Unterberger's US June Events for Velvet Underground & Beatles |

Info taken from richieunterberger.com:

I'll be discussing The Unreleased Beatles: Music and Film, and showing rare films and playing rare recordings featured in the book, on Thursday, June 11, from 7:00pm-8:30pm at the Antioch Library at 501 West 18th Street in Antioch, California. Admission is free.

On Wednesday, June 17 from 7pm-9pm, I'll be doing an event for my book White Light/White Heat: The Velvet Underground Day-By-Day, published this spring by Jawbone Press, at the Park Branch of the San Francisco Public Library at 1833 Page Street. The evening will feature rare film footage and audio clips; guest speakers who saw and shared the stage with the Velvets; and slides of all sorts of interesting images from throughout the VU's amazing career. Signed copies of the book will be available for purchase. Admission is free.

On Tuesday, June 16 from 7:30pm-9pm, I'll be discussing White Light/White Heat: The Velvet Underground Day-By-Day at Pegasus Books at 2349 Shattuck Avenue in Berkeley, California. Rare audiovisual material from throughout the Velvet Underground's career will be featured.



On Monday, June 22 from 7pm-8:30pm, I'll be discussing White Light/White Heat: The Velvet Underground Day-By-Day at the Central Library at 350 W. Georgia Street
in downtown Vancouver, Canada. Rare audiovisual material from throughout the Velvet Underground's career will be featured, and signed copies of the book will be available for purchase.

On Wednesday, June 24 from 6:30pm-8pm, I'll be discussing White Light/White Heat: The Velvet Underground Day-By-Day at the Central Library in downtown Seattle, at 1000 Fourth Avenue. Appearing at the event will be Doug Yule, bassist and sometime keyboardist/guitarist/backup vocalist/lead vocalist in the Velvet Underground from 1968 to 1973. Rare audiovisual material from the Velvet Underground's career will also be featured. Copies of the book will be available for purchase.

On Thursday, June 25 from 7:30pm-9pm, I'll be discussing White Light/White Heat: The Velvet Underground Day-By-Day at Powell's bookstore at 3723 SE Hawthorne Blvd. in Portland, Oregon. Rare audiovisual material from throughout the Velvet Underground's career will be featured.

On Saturday, June 27 from 1pm-3pm, I'll be discussing White Light/White Heat: The Velvet Underground Day-By-Day as part of the Writers Talking series at the Central Library at 801 SW 10th Avenue in downtown Portland, Oregon. Rare audiovisual material from throughout the Velvet Underground's career will be featured, and signed copies of the book will be available for purchase.


Publisher Of The Week on Book Depository | 08 June 2009

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