Izzy Young: Talking Folklore Center
Greenwich Village of the ’50s and ’60s is brought to life in Izzy Young: Talking Folklore Center. James Mann watches, and wishes he had been there.
Greenwich Village of the ’50s and ’60s is brought to life in Izzy Young: Talking Folklore Center. James Mann watches, and wishes he had been there.
The Sound of America (Red Newt Records). Review by James Mann.
Whoever said “If you can remember the ’60s, you weren’t there” obviously never met Ed Sanders. The leader of The Fugs and the Peace Eye bookstore recalls the counter-culture of the 1960s in vivid detail.
12 Crass Songs (Rough Trade ). Review by Michael Crown.
Soviet Kitsch (Sire Records). Review by Matthew Moyer.
The You I Knew (self-released). Review by Gail Worley.
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.