The Books' Paul de Jong will release a new solo album in the coming weeks charmingly titled You Fucken Sucker. We've already heard the LP's twee-adjacent title track and lead single "It's Only About ...

Nick Zammuto has been very busy as Zammuto since The Books went on hiatus, and now the other half of the band, Paul de Jong, is focusing on a solo career too. He released his first solo album IF in ...

The Books' Paul de Jong is releasing a new solo album called You Fucken Sucker this year, one reportedly inspired by "societal frustration... compounded by a series of unexpected and frightening ...

Every day, Paul de Jong sketches. Whether it’s pen to paper, bow to string, or trackpad to snippet of obsolete media, he spends most of his waking hours improvising his way toward epiphany. “I am an ...

When The Books released their first album, Thought for Food, in 2002, critics raved about the duo’s unique sound, which stemmed from the fact that Nick Zammuto and Paul de Jong took found sounds ...

The St. Louis Cardinals are a club that has been consistent because of their homegrown talent. The St. Louis Cardinals are one of the most consistent teams in drafting and growing talent. That’s how ...

Paul de Jong, best known as one half of genius sonic collage artists the Books, has a new solo album coming soon. It’s called You Fucken Sucker, and according to his label it “charts a grueling and ...

Throughout the 2000s, the string-savvy Paul De Jong played cello and other instruments in the electronic folk outfit the Books. He’s flying solo these days, but his music retains his former band’s ...

Paul de Jong's latest single, "This is Who I Am," is unsettling and uplifting at the same time. The melody starts off with a lone cello, then slowly builds on top of itself with distorted sounds: bass ...

The cellist and audio collagist unabashedly embraces and refines The Books' sound on his solo debut, which contains some of the most resonant and... At the turn of the 21st century, computers began to ...

Rudolf Paul de Jong SAN MARCOS — Our beloved husband, father and Opa, Rudolf Paul de Jong, went to be with our heavenly Father on Saturday, March 20, 2010. He was born on October 2, 1938 in Alphen a/d ...