Classic DVD Review: KISS | KISS Symphony: The DVD

This came out in 2003 – or at least that's when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):   If Gene Simmons and...

Classic DVD Review: The Hellacopters | Goodnight Cleveland

This came out in 2003 – or at least that's when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):   Filmed during a recent...

Classic DVD Review: Dead Kennedys | In God We Trust, Inc.: The Lost Tapes

This came out in 2003 – or at least that's when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):   Who, you ask, would...

Classic DVD Review: Various Artists | Concert for George

This came out in 2003 – or at least that's when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):   On Nov. 29, 2002,...

Classic DVD Review: Coldplay | Live 2003

This came out in 2003 – or at least that's when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):   Dramatically lit, artfully photographed...

Classic DVD Review: Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds | God Is In The...

This came out in 2003 – or at least that's when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):   Everyone’s favourite black-hearted balladeer...

Classic DVD Review: The Allman Brothers Band | Live at the Beacon Theatre

This came out in 2003 – or at least that's when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):   Southern-rock jammers don’t come...

Classic DVD Review: AC/DC | Live At Donington

This came out in 2003 – or at least that's when I got it. Here’s what I said about it back then (with some minor editing):   The short pants. The...

Next Week in Music | Dec. 11-17 • The Short List: 3 Titles You...

There are still three weeks left in the year. But when it comes to new music, you can pretty much stick a fork in 2023: It's done. Case in...

Next Week in Music | Dec. 11-17 • The Long List: 200+ Releases On...

Today in musical anniversaries: Otis Redding and most of his backing band perished when their small plane crashed into a Wisconsin lake in 1967; the pioneering punk dive CBGB...

Next Week in Music | Dec. 11-17 • New Books

Still shopping for that music fan who loves to read? I've got you covered — assuming they love The Cure, Phil Ochs, Throbbing Gristle, jazz sidemen or Peruvian metal. ’Cause...

Next Week in Music | Dec. 11-17 • On TV

Get ready for Déjà Vu All Over Again: The Holiday Edition. It's got everything: Artists making multiple talk-show appearances to promote their latest projects; a slate of seasonal specials;...

Stylus Counsel | Somebody Get Me A Doctor!

If you're in the midst of the hell-on-Earth known as choosing a band name, let me give you some advice: Nothing that starts with Doctor or Dr. I recently went...

Thunder Pie | Gridlock

Slappy sunlight coming down, collapsed trusses of 3pm light breaking in through the miasma, we would run down the valley, me and the kids, in the Honda at Christmastime....

Albums Of The Week: Tijuana Bibles | Free Milk

THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “Tijuana Bibles — brothers Tony and Danny Costello, James Brannigan and Mikey Dornan — are poised to mainline their alluring all-killer hooks and chaotic discontent once more. Fascinated...

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