Jason Falkner Im OK Youre OK

Jun 1,2010
Fans of Falkner’s work with Jellyfish and the Grays will find a lot to love about this record. Chimey Hagstrom 12-strings, crunchy Jazzmasters, compressed clean tones, and hook after hook after hook. Falkner played pretty More...

Johnny A One November Night

Jun 1,2010
This CD/DVD set features Johnny A at the top of his game, playing cool instrumental songs with killer tones and great feel in a small club setting. For a live and non-edited production, it’s quite impressive. Agalophone. More...

Makajodama Makajodama

Jun 1,2010
Swedish guitarist, bassist, keyboardist, and pedal-steel player Mathias Danielsson is flanked by violin, cello, drums, and guest brass, reed, and woodwind players on this magnificent disc of largely improvised More...

Marc Copely Harp amp Plow

Jun 1,2010
You might have heard Copely’s soulful guitar work on Danielia Cotton’s last record or Billy Squier’s last tour. Here he’s on his own, playing killer slide, gritty Stones-style rhythm, swampy Dobro, and more. Highlights More...

Faith In Phantoms Faith In Phantoms

Jun 1,2010
Here’s a talented young band that can’t quite decide whether it wants to be a slick, Rembrandts-style pop band, or an edgy rock group armed with melodic hooks. Still, guitarist Alex Lasner is someone to watch, and when he’s More...

Bruce Kulick BK3

Jun 1,2010
Kulick is a devastatingly ballsy, inventive, and melodic guitarist, and BK3’s blend of ’70s and ’80s rock styles gives him plenty of room to blow your mind. There’s some truly astounding playing here, I just wish the More...

Timucin Sahin Quartet BAFA

Jun 1,2010
Wielding his signature Erkan Sizarlar 6- and fretless 7-string doubleneck, Turkish guitarist Timucin Sahin’s truly avant-garde jazz concept is brilliantly realized by New York young lions saxophonist John O’ Gallagher, More...

Annihilator - Live at Masters of Rock

Jul 1,2010
Filmed in 2008 in the Czech Republic with some 30,000 hardcore metal heads in attendance, Annihilator throws down with mega force. Great songs, lock-step grooves, and the white-hot playing of lead guitarist Jeff Waters More...

El Chicano In the Eye of the Storm

Jul 1,2010
Juxtaposing ’60s and ’70s news snippets, band interviews, and concert footage, director Daniel E. Meza brilliantly relates how racism and the La Raza movement forged Latin rock. In the case of El Chicano, the More...

Rory Gallagher Live in Cork

Jul 1,2010
The entertaining navigation interface is delightful, but it doesn’t hold a candle to the scenes of Gallagher’s jumpin’, impassioned set at the Cork Opera House in 1987. There are minimal rock theatrics—just some truly More...

Talking Heads Stop Making Sense

Jul 1,2010
This Blu-ray disc packages Jonathan Demme’s extraordinary 1983 concert footage with two 5.1 surround (audience and studio) and stereo mixes, two bonus tracks, commentary by Demme and the band, the Heads’ 1999 More...

Free Free Forever

Jul 1,2010
Free’s career spanned from 1969 to 1973, but scant video footage remains to document their excellence. Disc 1 offers TV studio performances that were filmed between June and October of 1970, while disc 2 features More...

Frank Zappa The Freak-Out List

Jul 1,2010
Zappa included a list of 179 influences on his 1966 debut—from Schoenberg and Varèse to doo-woppers and Johnny “Guitar” Watson to Eric Dolphy and Miles—many of which are here linked to his aesthetic via various Zappa More...

The Steve Hillage Band Gong Unconvention Amsterdam 2006

Jul 1,2010
The first live performance by the SHB—formed by Hillage and synthesist/vocalist Miquette Giraudy in the wake of their involvement in the surrealist-psychedelic-Dadaist-art-rockers Gong—since 1979. Hillage’s riffs, drones, More...

Betty Blowtorch Betty Blowtorch and Her Amazing Adventures

Jul 1,2010
Yet another cautionary tale for those considering the hard-rock life. This ferocious band of four females gets slaughtered by near fame, intra-band drama, and the sad death of frontperson Bianca Butthole (car crash). All More...

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