Soul’d Out: The Complete Wattstax Collection
Soul’d Out: The Complete Wattstax Collection overwhelms Carl F. Gauze with 12 music CDs reprising the 1972 benefit concert to rebuild Watts, Los Angeles, seven years after the riot.
Soul’d Out: The Complete Wattstax Collection overwhelms Carl F. Gauze with 12 music CDs reprising the 1972 benefit concert to rebuild Watts, Los Angeles, seven years after the riot.
The Griot Swings the Classics (Bluclok Records). Review by Stacey Zering.
Melodies from the Heart. Review by Stacey Zering.
Live in Concert (Concord Music Group). Review by Carl F Gauze.
Garrison Keillor’s “A Prairie Home Companion” is cinecast in HD to theaters across North America, and Carl F Gauze witnesses radio on the big screen.
Live - Hope at the Hideout (Anti-Records). Review by Carl F Gauze.
Robert Mugge’s documentary about Al Green’s tragedy-strewn return to the Church is given the deluxe 25th Anniversary DVD treatment. Can Scott Adams get an amen?
Baby (Burnt Toast Vinyl). Review by Carl F Gauze.
Light Poles and Pines (Seany). Review by Carl F Gauze.
Black Holiday in Mexico City (Shut Eye Records and Agency). Review by Carl F Gauze.
Land of 1000 Dances (Collector’s Choice Music). Review by Carl F Gauze.
Everybody’s Brother (Compadre Records). Review by Carl F Gauze.
Twenty (Sanctuary Records Group). Review by Carl F Gauze.
Live! Original Cast Recording (Razor and Tie). Review by Carl F Gauze.
Bury Your Hate in a Shallow Grave (Lelp). Review by Aaron Shaul.
The Whole Enchilada (Luna Chica Records). Review by Carl F Gauze.
Poison & Snakes (Asthmatic Kitty). Review by Aaron Shaul.
Still Smokin’ After 20 Years (Triple X Records, Swine Song). Review by Carl F Gauze.
Music From The Motion Picture (Sony Music Soundtrax). Review by Carl F Gauze.
Unclassified (Warner Brothers). Review by Tim Wardyn.
A former convict returns to London to avenge his former enemies and save his daughter. Carl F. Gauze reviews the Theater West End production of Sweeney Todd.
This week, cuddly curmudgeon Christopher Long finds himself feeling even older as he hobbles through a Florida flea market in pursuit of vinyl copies of the four infamous KISS solo albums — just in time to commemorate the set’s milestone 45th anniversary.
Starting with small-time jobs, two gangsters take over all the crime in Marseilles in this well-paced and entertaining French film. Carl F. Gauze reviews the freshly released Arrow Video Blu-ray edition of Borsalino (1970).
Aaron Tanner delivers 400 pages of visual delights from the ever-enigmatic band, The Residents, in The Residents Visual History Book: A Sight for Sore Eyes, Vol. 2.
Two teenage boys build a sexy computer girlfriend with an 8-bit computer… you know the story. Carl F. Gauze reviews Weird Science (1985), in a new 4K UHD Blu-ray release from Arrow Films.
Cauldron Films’ new UHD/Blu-ray release of Lucio Fulci’s City of the Living Dead (1980) preserves one of the best Italian horror films, according to Phil Bailey.
Marleen Gorris’s first theatrical feature is a potent feminist look at the easily disposable lives of sex workers in Amsterdam. Phil Bailey reviews Broken Mirrors.