U2 | PopMart Live From Mexico City – DVD Review
In the mid to late 90s, U2 was on the precipice of an identity crisis. Having
conquered the world in the 80s, and recasting themselves as street smart Berlin
provocateurs in...
Chasing Trane:: The John Coltrane Documentary – Blu-ray Disc Review
Jazz saxophonist John Coltrane was not a vintage rocker by any means, yet
his impact on the rock and roll community cannot be underestimated. Just
ask the Doors or Carlos Santana...
Paul McCartney | Desperately Seeking – DVD Review
What can be said about obsessions…they are obsessive! They consume, they define, they oftentimes mark our lives in ways that even we don’t see. One can spend a good...
Led Zeppelin DVD – Classic Commentary
What made Led Zeppelin and a few other bands from their era so unique and special? Well, for one, it was their mystique. Aside from their albums, concerts, and...
Lou Reed | Transformer & Live At Montreux 2000 – Blu-ray Disc Review
With Lou Reed's untimely passing that leaving a large hole in the music industry, there's bound to be a million retrospectives, live albums, and "lost" tapes released in the...
The Midnight Special Collector’s Edition – DVD Review
If you were a music fan in the U.S. during the 70s, chances are you caught an episode or two of The Midnight Special. Created by television and film...
The Groundhogs | Live At The Astoria – CD/DVD Review
The Groundhogs were one of the preeminent British blues-rocks acts of its day.
As Live At The Astoria, a new DVD/CD package, attests,
the band, which includes original guitarist/vocalist Tony ‘TS’...
Freddie Mercury | The Great Pretender – Blu-ray Disc Review
In the initial moments of The Great Pretender, a journalist asks Freddie Mercury if he gets intimidated when facing audiences of 300,000 people or more, to which the legend...
Grateful Dead | The Grateful Dead Movie – DVD Review
The Grateful Dead have been credited with imbibing several audio-visual experiments into the mainstream during their long and strange trip. The Grateful Dead Movie, released theatrically in 1976, captures...
Genesis | Remembering Knebworth 1978 Featuring Genesis: A Midsummer Night’s Dream – DVD Review
In 1978, British concert promoter Freddy Bannister was hoping to avoid the
politics and pitfalls he’d experienced two years earlier with the Rolling
Stones at the Knebworth Fair. So, instead of...
