If not love, at the very least The Yardbirds demand your respect. Born in an early-60s period when blues was fresh, psychedelica hadn’t dropped its first tab and peers in the British club scene included The Rolling Stones and The Animals, The Yardbirds went on to birth three of the greatest guitarists ever: Eric Clapton, [...]
 
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I haven’t been this excited about discovering a completely new hybrid-genre since first hearing Macha’s self-titled album, with its Indonesian-influenced approach to rock songwriting and instrumentation. In layman’s terms, Dengue Fever is Cambodian surf rock. In musical elitist terms, it’s a fusion of 60-70’s living dead khmer genre and American rock. I was mailed a copy of [...] Way back in April 2007 I started really getting into Japanese pop-noise savant Cornelius and his audio orgasm of an album, Sensuous. And now Cornelius’ Sensurround + B Sides DVD features a 5.1 surround sound audio mix of each song that just earned itself a Grammy nomination for “Best Surround Sound Album.” It’s good. It made my [...] It all started at the Vineyard Christian Fellowship Church in the Valley. A church where you could go in shorts — even in 1978. Vineland lacked an authority structure, formal offering and the minister shared his own personal struggles at the pulpit. This authenticity appealed to Bob Dylan, who found Jesus Christ and the church family [...] Yes: The Directors Cut features two complete concerts taken from Yes‘ 2003 European tour. Disc 1 was recorded in Birmingham UK and is mixed with mini interviews of the band, including commentary on the group’s formation, picking a name (not “The Yes,†thank you) and more. My favorite part was legendary keyboardist Rick Wakeman discussing how [...] In 1965, Ruth Anson, a teenage-reporter for ABC-TV News was covering the “teen-beat” and had the opportunity to interview the Beatles — namely a super young Paul McCartney, whom she asked if he had any plans for marriage. His response, “Only if you’ll marry me.” Ruth’s acting career didn’t go far after that, with a [...] Alec Empire’s The Golden Foretaste of Heaven has been out for a few months outside the US. But it’s pretty damned good and worth mentioning because of the Atari Teenage Riot and Alec Empire DVD release (today) which features 16 years videos (buy it here). Alec’s career progression from ATR in this DVD to his [...] I’d always loved UK psych-prog-rock group Muse, and when I saw them live last July (read my review for Filter Magazine here), they became a longterm favorite. So when I got my grubby hands on their new Haarp CD/DVD Set (Warner Brothers), I was excited the tore into the audio immediately. Boasting 14 tracks of [...] If you haven’t bought Walk the Line (20th Century Fox) on DVD yet, now’s your chance. I’m not going to review the film. You saw it, and you know it’s great. In fact, it’s so great Ray was based on it. While many extended cuts grow long-winded — reminding the audience why the director doesn’t always [...] Mike Oldfield & Tony Palmer With our readership, odds are you were pretty young or nonexistent when Tony Palmer’s Space Movie was released. Created in 1979 to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the moon landing, this was the very first time NASA and The United States National Archive released footage the [...] |
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