Books

Paul de Jong

"You Fucken Sucker"

PUBLISHED Mar 6, 2018

Paul de Jong — half of famously eclectic electro-acoustic collage duo the Books — is following up his 2015 solo debut IF with You Fucken Su...

The Books Reveal Retrospective Box Set

PUBLISHED May 25, 2012

When the Books broke up earlier this year, the duo's Nick Zammuto hinted that the band would say goodbye with a handful of releases, includ...

The Books Call It Quits

PUBLISHED Jan 26, 2012

We knew that the Books' singer/guitarist Nick Zammuto had shifted his focus to his own project Zammuto, but it turns out that this is much...

The Books / The Black Heart Procession

Vogue Theatre, Vancouver BC December 5

PUBLISHED Dec 6, 2010

San Diego, CA's Black Heart Procession live up to their name. Every song in their Vancouver set lyrically dealt with some aspect of heartbr...

The Books Reissue, Remaster First Three Albums

PUBLISHED Nov 30, 2010

Fans of the Books have had to be patient in recent years. When the sample-heavy duo released The Way Out earlier in 2010, it was their firs...

The Books

"I Didn't Know That" (video)

PUBLISHED Oct 25, 2010

Check out the new, golf-themed music video from the Books now. The video is for their track "I Didn't Know That" from their latest album, T...

Listen to the Books' <i>The Way Out</i> Now on Exclaim.ca

PUBLISHED Jul 20, 2010

Since the Books' New York City formation in 1999, the duo have been difficult to categorize, much less tucked neatly into a box arranged al...

The Books

The Way Out

PUBLISHED Jul 19, 2010

After a quick succession of albums on Tomlab in the first half of the '00s, Nick Zammuto and Paul de Jong took a five-year break from recor...