dvd Archive
14 Mar 2012
DVD Review: Strange Fruit – The Beatles’ Apple Records
Update 5/2014: Apparently everybody’s happy now, and the video is available on Hulu. — bk Update 4/2012: I have just learned that Apple Records has intervened to halt distribution of […]
28 Feb 2012
DVD Review: Composing Outside the Beatles
I have to admit it: as a music journalist/critic myself, I absolutely love this sort of thing. When it’s done well, a documentary such as Composing Outside the Beatles: Lennon […]
10 Feb 2012
DVD Review: The New York Dolls – Lookin’ Fine on Television
The title Lookin’ Fine on Television is something of a misnomer: the grainy, blurry, timeworn black-and-white film footage of the New York Dolls onstage (and off) never exactly looks good […]
03 Feb 2012
DVD Review: From Straight to Bizarre
A new DVD from Sexy Intellectual – the outfit responsible for informative and incisive docu-DVDs on Brian Eno and many other influential figures in music – takes an in-depth look […]
12 Jan 2012
DVD Review: Rick Wakeman – Made in Cuba
Rick Wakeman has quite a reputation. Both as a man and a musician, he’s cut a rather indelible figure since his ascendancy on the music scene in the early 1970s. […]
04 Oct 2011
DVD Review: The Ballad of Mott the Hoople
Mott the Hoople are one of those bands from the 1970s that are often tarred with the epithet “second string.” Neither purveyors of a long series of mega-hits nor (quite) […]
15 Sep 2011
DVD Review: Frank Sinatra – Around the World
Even well into the rock era, plenty of spectacle surrounded a Frank Sinatra concert; it was an event. Though he was arguably past his prime, Sinatra had amassed such an […]
07 Sep 2011
CD/DVD Review: Johnny Winter – Live at Rockpalast
With apologies to Firesign Theatre, file this pair of releases in the Department of Redundancy Department. Not that the music and performances on Live at Rockpalast aren’t ace — they […]
12 Aug 2011
DVD Review: Willie and the Poor Boys
An overlooked gem is rediscovered. A 1985 LP that went largely unnoticed on its release, Willie and the Poor Boys was an exercise in nostalgia for Rolling Stones bassist Bill […]
05 Aug 2011
DVD Review: Fountains of Wayne – No Better Place
With the August 2011 release of Fountains of Wayne‘s new album Sky Full of Holes, now is as good a time as any to look back at their previous release, […]