Kermit Ruffins
Swing This! (Basin Street). Review by David Lee Simmons
Swing This! (Basin Street). Review by David Lee Simmons
Moonburn (Pointblank/Virgin). Review by David Lee Simmons
The Wild Sounds of ’50s Rock (Rhino). Review by David Lee Simmons
Interview by David Lee Simmons
Let it Be Its Own Beast (Animal Belly). Review by David Lee Simmons
Going Underground (Rhino). Review by David Lee Simmons
Various Artists (Rhino). Review by David Lee Simmons
River of Song (Smithsonian Folkways). Review by David Lee Simmons
The Joy of Joplin (Sony Classical). Review by David Lee Simmons
Column by David Lee Simmons
Various Artists (Smithsonian/Sony). Review by David Lee Simmons
Give Me Immortality or Give Me Death (Rhino). Review by David Lee Simmons
Various Artists (Rhino). Review by David Lee Simmons
The Best of Louis Armstrong (Vanguard). Review by David Lee Simmons
Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Rhino). Review by David Lee Simmons
Various Artists (Rhino). Review by David Lee Simmons
Review by David Lee Simmons
Dreams to Remember (The Otis Redding Anthology) (Rhino). Review by David Lee Simmons
A Long Way Home (Warner Bros./Reprise). Review by David Lee Simmons
Angels With Dirty Faces (Island). Review by David Lee Simmons
A young dancer becomes a legal genius in this fun and fast musical comedy.
Forgotten ’70s action film Fear Is the Key is as gritty as the faces of the men who populate it. Phil Bailey reviews the splashy new Blu-ray.
Coffin Joe returns in a comprehensive Blu-ray collection from Arrow Video, Inside the Mind of Coffin Joe.
Bob’s been looking for a replacement copy of the rare John Cale release Sabotage/Live (1979, Spy Records) since 1991. He still hasn’t found a copy at a reasonable price, but a random YouTube video allowed him to listen and reminisce.
Hidden gem and hallmark of second-generation martial arts film, 1978’s The Shaolin Plot manages to provide a glimpse of things to come. Charles DJ Deppner reviews Arrow Video’s pristine Blu-ray release, which gives this watershed masterpiece the prestige and polish it richly deserves.
The HawtThorns invite you to soar, with the premiere of “Zero Gravity.”
There’s nothing as humiliating as a cattle call. Unless it’s a cattle call in your undies.