dvd Archive
10 Dec 2009
DVD Review: Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Live
Ask yourself this, dear reader: are you at your very best after a night out on the town, one that involves an open bar? And to my musician friends: do […]
26 Nov 2009
DVD Review: John Lennon & the Plastic Ono Band Live in Toronto ‘69
In 1988 the D.A. Pennebaker-directed Sweet Toronto concert film was released. Its appearance at that late date — the concert had taken place nearly twenty years earlier — was itself […]
02 Nov 2009
DVD Review: Robert Mugge’s “Deep Sea Blues”
Robert Mugge‘s 2009 film Deep Sea Blues documents the 2007 Rhythm & Blues Cruise, a week-long Caribbean cruise aboard Holland America’s massive Westerdam. In some ways, the pairing of blues […]
07 Oct 2009
Album/DVD Review: Blackfield – Live in New York City
Live in New York City is the first live offering from Blackfield, the collaborative effort between England’s Steven Wilson and Israeli Aviv Geffen. With two albums in their back catalogue […]
18 Sep 2009
DVD Review: Muddy Waters Live at ChicagoFest
Muddy Waters Live at ChicagoFest is a 1981 performance of the master bluesman onstage. The concert — filmed at Chicago’s famous Navy Pier — features Muddy with his band and […]
10 Sep 2009
DVD Review: BB King Live in Africa ‘74
Presumably made up from outtakes from the filming of Leon Gast‘s When We Were Kings, B.B. King Live in Africa ’74 is a high-quality document of the master still near […]
08 Sep 2009
DVD Review: Let Freedom Sing – How Music Inspired the Civil Rights Movement
Let Freedom Sing is a 2009 DVD documentary that surveys the American civil rights struggle. That’s been done before, certainly. But this film puts a unique, refreshing and fascinating spin […]
07 Sep 2009
DVD Review: Tim DeLaughter – Wee See
Tim DeLaughter is the endlessly creative front man and prime mover of The Polyphonic Spree, the feel-good orchestral-rock ensemble from Dallas TX. DeLaughter excels at a number of things; among […]
27 Aug 2009
DVD Review: The Beatles – Rare and Unseen
The Beatles 2CD retrospective Anthology 3 was released in 1996, some 27 years after the Beatles broke up. It’s been another 13 years now — a span of time longer […]
31 May 2009
DVD Review: Johnny Winter — Live Through the 70s
The DVD kicks off with a true oddity, a performance that is bizarre in any number of ways. This excellent-quality Danish TV clip from 1970 finds Winter playing with his […]