The acclaimed guitarist Gary Lucas (Captain Beefheart, Jeff Buckley, Gods and Monsters, Lou Reed, et al.) has long held a special flame for Brian Jones, the co-...
Jeff Krulik and John Heyn’s 1986 film Heavy Metal Parking Lot has become an unlikely cult classic. In less than 20 minutes, the film—culled from footage taken i...
At age 90, Frederick Wiseman is one of those living American masters who would, in a better world, need no introduction. And yet, as a pioneer of documentary fi...
Looking for something to do while you're stuck inside due to COVID-19? Pick up that remote or put your laptop on your lap, grab a blanket and a snack and tune i...
Putting on punk shows in Los Angeles in the early 1980s became near to impossible with the lack of venues and police harassment of those events that did manage ...
A new documentary on legendary band The Sonics by Jordan Albertsen opens a window on the rich and influential legacy of garage rock in the Pacific Northwest, an...
Not many record stores had their own label, and not many stores could have touched the lives of people like Peter Murphy, David J, Ian MacKaye and Trent Reznor ...
Australia’s proto-punk pioneers formed in 1974, were signed by Seymour Stein in 1977, and influenced a generation of Oz rockers by leading a DIY revolution in S...
The press cried “fowl” when an innocent chicken was ravaged by a Canadian festival audience driven into a frenzy by beer, drugs and this relatively unknown rock...
Classic documentary about the crowd at a 1986 Judas Priest/Dokken concert in suburban Washington D.C. never gets old
For much of the 1980s, I freelanced for a ...
At 14, Richard Wershe Jr. infiltrated the Detroit drug trade for the FBI. He then turned his street knowledge into a lucrative cocaine business, until he was bu...
A new documentary, Won't You Be My Neighbor?, reveals the revolutionary simplicity of a children’s TV icon who redefined “authenticity” in a way that Sacha Baro...
Mary Ellen Mark (1940-2015) was a world-renowned photographer and social documentarian with an eye and a soul that captured the brutality of humanity, transform...
Mick Ronson played beside David Bowie, Lou Reed, Bob Dylan, and many others, and he finally receives his due in a new documentary.
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