Music DVD Review

Source: blogcritics.org --- 17 days ago
After a 15 year absence, Genesis is a revelation in Rome. Back in 2005 rumors began spreading of a possible Genesis reunion featuring the quintessential lineup of Peter Gabriel, Steve Hackett, Tony Banks, Mike Rutherford, and Phil Collins. The band members discussed performing The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway live for a limited run of shows that would be recorded and filmed. Could it finally... ...

Source: blogcritics.org --- 10 days ago
The bonus concert DVD is worth the price alone. When I reviewed Journey's 2001 concert DVD a few years back, I praised their new lead singer Steve Augeri for his admirable job in filling the shoes of the almost-irreplaceable Steve Perry. Augeri sounded amazingly similar to Perry on most of the songs, and I thought at the time that Journey could not have found a better frontman to keep this... ...

Source: blogcritics.org --- 10 days ago
“Newport—the most festive of festivals,” says Bernard Levin of the London Times. The Newport Music Festival is not just the icing on the cake, it’s the entire, too-many-courses-to-count meal of classical Music in the US, and certainly the East Coast’s most elegant and anxiously awaited annual event. It brings together some of the most talented, cherished and sought after classical musicians from all over the globe... ...

Source: blogcritics.org --- 18 days ago
A fitting tribute to the man who was one of rock and roll's most enduring and endearing drummers. When Buddy Miles died on February 28th, 2008, it marked the passing of one of rock and roll's most flamboyant characters. Primarily known for his skill as a drummer, Buddy played with and for a who's who of rock and roll's elite as well as carving out a successful solo career as a band leader. Aside from the seventeen albums he recorded... ...

Source: blogcritics.org --- 10 days ago
Mayer delivers a solid performance that works far better as an album than it does as a film. Lately the man garners more press for his private life than for his professional one, but John Mayer would be the first to concede that Music remains his greatest passion. On his latest release, Where The Light Is: Live In Los Angeles, which comes in both CD and DVD formats, he delivers a solid performance that works far better as an album than it... ...

Source: blogcritics.org --- 11 days ago
A great performance nearly marred by terrible editing. Heading in to their 40th year, that little old band from Texas, ZZ Top continues to rock the house with their first live DVD, capturing their performance at the Nokia Theater in Grand Prairie, Texas on November 1, 2007 before an enthusiastic hometown crowd. Although it’s been a couple of decades since the trio of guitarist Billy Gibbons,... ...

Source: blogs.epicindia.com --- 8 days ago
It was the unlikeliest source imaginable, you'd have thought, to be an introduction to the dub Music of Kingston Jamaica, but Black Market Clash by the Clash was where I first heard that bass heavy, mixed down, slowed down groove. In those days of two sided LP records, side one of album contained some reggae covers and original tunes by the Clash, while side two was more of the same, but also included a dub version of the song "Armageddon Time". London, England had a large ex-patriot Jamaican community, which by the time the seventies and punk rolled around was into its second generation. Kids grew up with the accent of Kingston, Jamaica on their lips, but the grey rain of England as their environment. It was also an increasingly hostile environment for people of colour in those days with police harassment and skin-head beatings common. Punks, like The Clash, took up fight against racism and formed groups like Rock Against Racism as an attempt to help. Bands like the English Beat and The Specials with their mixed race memberships and ska Music, that combined pop sensibilities and reggae back beats, were political messages in their own right. Mystifying words like "Rockers" and "Rude Boy" made their way across the Atlantic Ocean in the lyrics of songs by these bands, while dubbed versions of Clash and English Beat songs were released on extended play (EPs) twelve inch vinyl singles. It was vaguely understood that this Music had somethi ...

Source: www.brianorndorf.com --- 21 days ago
Someone somewhere had the nutty idea to connect the Music from the 1940s to the Music of the late 1970s, and explore that combustible relationship to fashion the ultimate disco movie of 1980. It was the year that gave us... ...