DVD Releases

Nothing's Wrong With Sebastion Maniscalco (Sort Of)

Roger McGuinn, Legendary Frontman For The Byrds, Is Still Flying

Listening to “Eight Miles High,” even 40 years after it was an unlikely hit, it still provides a disarming shock; the rolling bass line, atonal guitar break and angelic harmonies are so unlike anything that came before or very little that has appeared since. Very few songs in the pop canon hav ... More >>

Q and A: Rick Nielsen of Cheap Trick

Rick Nielsen and his quintuple-neck guitar, which is perhaps one of the reasons writer Darryl Smyers refers to him as "uber-nerd." Last week, Sony Legacy released a 30th anniversary edition box set of At Budokan, Cheap Trick’s remarkable entrance into popular culture. Sure, the Illinois quartet ... More >>

Nick Drake

Fruit Tree (Fontana)

The Wiz

Miyazaki returns with a beautiful but confounding fairy tale

Long Bomb

Adam Sandler, a star quarterback? If only they were joking.

Drain You

An often exasperating boxed set offers the final word on Nirvana's legacy

Crime Bites

Plus: From Funland to La-La Land

The Devil to Pay

Warners must have a hell of a good reason for re-releasing The Exorcist

David Bowie

Bowie at the Beeb: The Best of the BBC Sessions '68-'72

Soul to sell

Epic keeps raiding Stevie Ray Vaughan's vault, but when is enough enough?

Prometheus unbound

The boxed set of Charles Mingus' Atlantic years

Farther along

Emmylou Harris has a new boxed set, but she won't be trapped by that cardboard tombstone