Rush | Classic Albums: 2112 & Moving Pictures – DVD Review
The history of Rush is getting loads of attention these days. Rush: Beyond The Lighted Stage, released in June 2010 to much acclaim, is an outstanding and thorough documentary...
Patti Smith | Live At Montreux 2005 – Blu-ray Disc Review
In an ill-fitting suit and with a cryptic bonjour, Patti Smith opens her performance at the 2005 Montreux Jazz Festival unapologetically. It’s this commitment to the fringe that’s made...
The Rolling Stones | Some Girls | Some Girls Live In Texas ’78 –...
It's not uncommon to think of Some Girls as the last decent gasp from the world's greatest rock and roll band. It was certainly a cut above some of...
Duran Duran | Classic Albums: Rio – DVD Review
Who knew Nick Rhodes was the man? On the Classic Albums:
Rio DVD, we learn all about the making of Duran Duran’s seocnd
album. It explains how the album was not...
Frank Zappa | Classic Albums: Over-Nite Sensation / Apostrophe (‘) – DVD Review
The immense vastness of Frank Zappa’s musical output would, if necessary,
require volumes of critical analysis and peanut gallery speculation to completely
comprehend. As it is, two of Zappa’s most popular...
Beside Bowie: The Mick Ronson Story – Blu-ray Disc Review
Nearly two years after his death, David Bowie’s story continues to
be told and twisted. Like most successful artists, Bowie surrounded himself
with a lot of good, talented individuals, and one...
Ritchie Blackmore’s Rainbow | Memories in Rock – Live in Germany – Blu-ray Disc...
Back in the 1997, when guitarist Ritchie Blackmore turned his back on hard rock and started playing an intriguing strain of medieval folk music, speculation ran high as to...
James Brown | I Got The Feelin’: James Brown In The ’60s – DVD...
When Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, on April
4, 1968, it touched off a wave of civil unrest throughout the United States.
Who would have ever thought...
The Beatles | 1+ – Blu-ray Disc/CD Review
When The Beatles 1 CD compilation first came out in 2000, I was suspicious and took a few hardy swings at it. I argued that there were better, more...
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...
