Tag: MVD Visual

Black Wax

Black Wax

Screen Reviews

Check this ultra-hip 1982 doc on Gil Scott-Heron; he’s a master musician and poet and he explains his career and inner artistic vision.

Giving Up The Ghosts

Giving Up The Ghosts

Screen Reviews

Famed music venue “Doc’s Music Hall” in Muncie, Indiana survived urban decay but can’t make through a civic revival.

Forbidden Zone: Special Edition

Forbidden Zone: Special Edition

Screen Reviews

This classic surrealist punk-rock, low-budget, lo-fi movie by the entire Mystic Knights of the Oingo-Boingo family returns in color, black and white and covered in a delicious Special Sauce of bonus features.

Hardcore Devo Live

Hardcore Devo Live

Screen Reviews

Devo’s 2014 “Hardcore Devo” tour showed them going back to the days before Energy Domes, hit singles, or hope of radio airplay; back to the days of like-minded weirdoes banging out songs in the basement.

Punk in Africa

Punk in Africa

Screen Reviews

A documentary on the obscure but exciting South African Punk movement of the late 1970’s.

Bomb It 2

Screen Reviews

Graffiti artist from around the world explain their art and culture as we watch them paint it in stop motion.

Welcome to The Machine

Welcome to The Machine

Screen Reviews

An astonishingly cynical and realistic view of how (not) to make it in Rock and Roll. Told from a European perspective, in German, Mit Untertiteln.

The Point

Screen Reviews

What if everyone had a point but you? Harry Nilsson and Oblio find out in this marvelous film for children – and their parents!

The Point

Screen Reviews

Take a tour through the Pointless Forest with Harry Nilsson and Ringo Starr.

Rose Tattoo

Screen Reviews

Hard rocking Australian band Rose Tattoo reunite for the closing of the Boggo Road Jail in this 1993 concert.

Lookin’ Fine on Television

Screen Reviews

A riveting and rare glimpse of rock’s original glam-punk junkies, onstage and behind the scenes during their short-lived glory days.

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Alice, Sweet Alice

Alice, Sweet Alice

Screen Reviews

Alfred Sole’s Alice, Sweet Alice is a very Generation X movie, mirroring our 1970s lives in important and disturbing ways. Phil Bailey reviews the new 4K UHD version.

Garage Sale Vinyl: The Bee Gees

Garage Sale Vinyl: The Bee Gees

Garage Sale Vinyl

In 1977, Here at Last… Bee Gees …Live cemented the Bee Gees’ budding reputation as world-class master songsmiths. 46 years later, longtime Ink 19 writer Christopher Long nabs a well-loved $6 vinyl copy at a Florida flea market — replacing his long-loved and lost-to-the-ages original record.

Bonnie Raitt

Bonnie Raitt

Event Reviews

All-American music legend Bonnie Raitt played the Riverwind Casino Showplace Theatre in Norman, Oklahoma, recently while on her Live 2025 international concert tour. Longtime Ink 19 contributor Christopher Long was there and got the goods.

The Loft

The Loft

Music Reviews

Everything Changes, Everything Stays the Same (Tapete Records). Review by Peter Lindblad.