This Is Spinal Tap
Twenty years later, and heavy metal’s favorite sons are still going strong. Gregory Schaefer attends a special screening – with special guest!
Twenty years later, and heavy metal’s favorite sons are still going strong. Gregory Schaefer attends a special screening – with special guest!
Let’s see your shorts! Gregory Schaefer recounts this heady mix of brief film, ranging from the whimsical to the downright big-budget.
Less Than Jake, with Super 04 at Club Quattro in Osaka Japan on October 8, 2000. Concert review by Gregory Schaefer
Interview by Gregory Schaefer
Event Review by Gregory Schaefer
Interview by Gregory Schaefer
Event Review by Gregory Schaefer
Universal (Tommy Boy). Review by Gregory Schaefer
Event Review by Gregory Schaefer
Event Review by Gregory Schaefer
The Music of Miles Davis: 1969-1974 (CRG/Columbia). Review by Gregory Schaefer
Bejazzo Gets A Facelift (Atavistic). Review by Gregory Schaefer
Goldbug (Antilles). Review by Gregory Schaefer
Combustication (Blue Note). Review by Gregory Schaefer
Perennial Favorites (Mammoth). Review by Gregory Schaefer
Thrills (Ryko). Review by Gregory Schaefer
Greaze is What’s Good (Cannonball). Review by Gregory Schaefer
UMO: 2 (Caipirinha). Review by Gregory Schaefer
UMO: 2 (Caipirinha). Review by Gregory Schaefer
SUM: 1 (Caipirinha). Review by Gregory Schaefer
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.