Post Tagged with: "Movies"

by / on June 15, 2013 at 11:59 am / in Movies, Pop Music, Rock Music, Uncategorized

The Beach Boys – Good Vibrations Tour (2013)

For all of its well-deserved accolades, the Beach Boys’ 2012 reunion was missing two irretrievable elements. This remastering of a 1976 performance at Anaheim Stadium makes clear just how important the late Carl and Dennis Wilson were.

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by / on June 10, 2013 at 10:06 am / in Concerts, Movies, Pop Music, Rock Music, Uncategorized

Paul McCartney and Wings – Rockshow (1980; 2013 reissue)

The days of watching dark, grainy footage while listening to a muddy sound mix are finally over. At last, Paul McCartney and Wings’ seminal concert film Rockshow has been completely restored

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by / on June 8, 2013 at 12:40 pm / in Concerts, Movies, Rock Music, Uncategorized

Grateful Dead – View from the Vault II: RFK Stadium, June 14, 1991 (2013)

Presented in a lo-fi home movie style, and emanating from the sonically horrendous RFK, this forthcoming 1991 Grateful Dead concert film still holds lasting significance since it documents their intriguing collaboration with Bruce Hornsby.

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by / on June 5, 2013 at 1:25 pm / in Concerts, Movies, Pop Music, Rock Music, Uncategorized

Paul McCartney and Wings – Rockshow (1980; 2013 reissue)

Paul McCartney, in his green metal suit, prepares once again to shoot up the city. And the ring at the end of his nose (oh, yes it does) makes him look rather pretty. And just like that, Rockshow — this once lost artifact — is underway.

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by / on June 2, 2013 at 9:26 am / in Jazz, Rock Music

‘I’m a musician who plays music’: Please don’t call Cream’s Ginger Baker a rock drummer

Named ninth-best on Rolling Stone magazine’s drummers poll, and part of the magazine’s 100 Greatest Artists list as a member Cream too boot, Ginger Baker curtly dismisses the idea.

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by / on May 23, 2013 at 12:14 pm / in Metal, Movies, Rock Music, Uncategorized

Judas Priest – Epitaph (2013)

The final performance of Judas Priest’s “Epitaph World Tour” in May 2012 provided the perfect opportunity to offer a live video celebration of 40 years of metal.

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by / on May 21, 2013 at 10:48 am / in Metal, Movies, One Track Mind, Pop Music, Rock Music, Uncategorized

One Track Mind: Queen, “Sheer Heart Attack” from Queen on Fire: Live at the Bowl (2013)

Too often, Queen has become the sum of its over-stated parts — the operatic singer, the layered vocals, the anthematic balladry. What’s lost is the group’s ability to unleash round house after round house of knuckle-sandwich heavy rock.

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by / on May 20, 2013 at 10:14 am / in Metal, Movies, Rock Music, Uncategorized

Dio – Finding the Sacred Heart: Live in Philly (2013)

With the sad anniversary of Ronnie James Dio’s death some three years ago comes an opportunity to return to a muscular concert offering that finds him near the peak of his solo powers.

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by / on May 14, 2013 at 10:19 am / in Movies, Pop Music, Rock Music, Uncategorized

Movies: Stevie Nicks – In Your Dreams (2013)

Looking back, it seemed preordained. Stevie Nicks met Dave Stewart years ago, and had a good feeling about him. “Maybe,” Stevie Nicks says toward the end of the film In Your Dreams, “this played out for a reason.”

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by / on May 8, 2013 at 9:22 am / in Metal, Movies, Rock Music, Uncategorized

Rainbow – Live in Munich 1977 (2013)

If you have any doubt who the greatest singer in the history of metal, heck, maybe in the history of rock ‘n’ roll is, just pop this DVD into your player and fast forward to the second song.

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