Issues: Issue 219 - March 2007
Review: Meat Beat Manifesto: Travelogue Live ’05
Meat Beat Manifesto: Travelogue Live ’05 Producer Jack Dangers/Editor Ben Stokes MVD Visual Street: 11.21.06 Big-beat pioneers Meat Beat Manifesto and their eminent racks of electronics were in town last year. Did you sleep on it? Unfortunately, there is no way to properly replicate the once-in-a-blue-moon multimedia experience of the current MBM quartet (featuring spectacular
Review: Metallica
Metallica The Videos: 1989-2004 Warner Brothers Street: 12.05.06 Metallica fans of old know that this DVD will not fit their liking. Considering Metallica didn’t come out with a music video until the And Justice For All album, their fourth record. That said video for the song, “One,” though has stood the test of time as
Review: The Queers are Here
The Queers The Queers are Here MVD Street: 02.20 For hardcore Queers fan, The Queers are Here is the coolest thing since Love Songs for the Retarded. Frontman Joe Queer and an endlessly revolving lineup of others have been making simple Ramones-esque pop-punk for over twenty years now, and The Queers are Here serves as
Review: Guns N’ Roses
Guns N’ Roses DVD Collector’s Box Chrome Dreams Street 01.30 This box set consists of two separate British-made documentaries – Axl Rose-The Prettiest Star, and Guns N Roses- Sex N’ Drugs N’ Rock N’ Roll. Both films are completely unauthorized, and neither of them feature any GNR music or recent band interviews. The box set
Review: The Harry Smith Project Live
The Harry Smith Project Live Shout Factory Street: 11.07.06 This is one of the most incredible intersections of classic American folk music, passionate, flavorful musicianship and a who’s-who lineup of underground cult heroes ever. The songs featured are selections from the Grammy-award-winning Anthology of American Folk Music (1952), assembled by Harry Smith, groundbrreaking filmmaker and
Review: Bullet for My Valentine
Bullet for My Valentine Live at the Brixton Academy Trustkill Street: 12.19.06 With only an EP and a full length CD out I was surprised to see a DVD release from Bullet for My Valentine. Nevertheless, the guys on the hinge of major success have followed in the footsteps of many and choose to showcase
Review: Sinister
Sinister Prophecies Denied Metal Mind Street: 01.16 Like most Metal Mind productions this live concert was filmed in Poland which by reputation tends to have the least excited crowds. For Prophecies Denied that exception holds mostly true aside from a small mosh pit and some headbanging in the first few rows of the crowd. That
Review: Attack Force
Attack Force Michael Keusch Sony Home Entertainment Street: 12.06.06 I’m not sure where to begin describing a movie this crappy. I suppose we should begin with the title; Attack Force. I’m struggling to recall a more generic collision of two words used in countless action film titles. They might as well have called it ‘Explosion
Review: All the King’s Men
All the King’s Men Steve Zaillian Columbia Pictures Street: 12.06.2006 Based on Robert Warren’s book which is based upon the life of Louisiana politician Huey Long All the King’s Men is a well executed but sometimes overdone vehicle for Sean Penn to flex his southern diction as Willie Stark. The film follows Stark from a
Review: 1966 World Tour
1966 World Tour Joel Gilbert Highway 61 Entertainment Street: 06.06.2006 From the look of the cover you might think this movie is about Bob Dylan’s 1966 world tour. You might think that you’re going to see and hear some of the tour or even some of Bob Dylan. You might expect an interesting glimpse