STEVIE VAN ZANDT: DISCIPLE HBO JUNE 22, 2024 When you’re best known for being part of a cultural phenomenon like the E Street Band, it can be hard to get your individual story told. Disciple sets out to redress that balance by focussing on [...]
HOW MUSIC GOT FREE WARNER BROS./UNSCRIPTED TELEVISION/TELEPICTURES/SPRINGHILL/INTERSCOPE FILMS/SHADY FILMS/MTV ENTERTAINMENT STUDIOS JUNE 11, 2024 Produced by Eminem (Marshall Matheres), LeBron James, Maverick Carter, Paul Rosenberg and Steve [...]
LOLLA: THE STORY OF LOLLAPALOOZA FUNMETER/C3 PRESENTS/MTV ENTERTAIMENT STUDIOS MAY 21, 2024 The first ever Lollapalooza touring festival kicked off in 1991 as a means for the festival founder and alternative icon, Perry Farrell, to both embark [...]
INDIGO GIRLS – IT’S ONLY LIFE AFTER ALL OSCILLOSCOPE LABORATORIES MAY 7, 2024 After an official Canadian release in April 2024, Oscilloscope Laboratories celebrates the digital release of the Indigo Girls documentary, It’s Only Life [...]
CATCHING FIRE: THE STORY OF ANITA PALLENBERG MAGNOLIA PICTURES MAY 3, 2024 “I’ve been called a witch, a slut, and a murderer. I’ve been hounded by police and slandered in the press. Maybe people confuse me with the characters I played in films, [...]
AS WE SPEAK: RAP MUSIC ON TRIAL MTV ENTERTAINMENT STUDIOS/DISTRICT 33/PARK PICTURES/STRIKE ANYWHERE FEBRUARY 27, 2024 Hip-hop and the law collide on As We Speak: Rap Music On Trail, a documentary that follows Bronx rapper Kemba as he explores [...]
JEAN-MICHEL JARRE – VERSAILLES 400 SONY MUSIC FEBRUARY 24, 2024 Concert films are rather tricky. They can be overblown and verge on boring, or they can be extremely exciting while the viewer focuses on the artist and enjoys the music and [...]
JUNE – THE STORY OF JUNE CARTER CASH SANDBOX PRODUCTIONS/SONY MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT/MAXINE PRODUCTIONS (A PART OF SONY PICTURES TELEVISION) JANUARY 16, 2024 June Carter Cash was born Valerie June Carter on June 23, 1929, in Maces Springs, [...]
BILLY IDOL: STATE LINE – LIVE AT THE HOOVER DAM KALEIDOSCOPE DECEMBER 11, 2023 The setting of a concert can make a huge difference in how the music is experienced and appreciated. When outdoors, this experience is enhanced. Billy Idol took [...]
GEDDY LEE ASKS: ARE BASS PLAYERS HUMAN TOO? PARAMOUNT PLUS/BANGER FILMS/MTV ENTERTAINMENT STUDIOS DECEMBER 5, 2023 Geddy Lee’s amusingly titled Are Bass Players Human Too? is a fun romp through the unseen lives of that most unheralded of [...]
WELCOME TO THE DARKNESS LIGHT BULB FILM DISTRIBUTION NOVEMBER 9, 2023 Welcome to The Darkness, is a thrilling and heartfelt journey into the revival of iconic rock band The Darkness. It is a captivating glimpse into the band, overcoming personal [...]
SUBVERSIVES | THE HISTORY OF LOWEST OF THE LOW APOLOGUE PRODUCTIONS SEPTEMBER 20, 2023 Named from a track of the Lowest Of The Low’s absolutely legendary 1991 debut album Shakespeare My Butt…, the documentary Subversives – The History of [...]
THE DREAM SYNDICATE – HOW DID WE FIND OURSELVES HERE? WILDWOOD PICTURES JUNE 23, 2023 There is a certain negative line of thinking when music documentaries are concerned, particularly when they deal with chronological history of an artist [...]
REVIVAL69: THE CONCERT THAT ROCKED THE WORLD PHOTON FILMS/MYRIAD PICTURES DECEMBER 16, 2022 Revival69 is a famous, yet little spoken about, rock festival that happened in Toronto. The concert became well-known and legendary thanks to a top ten [...]
NEIL YOUNG: HARVEST TIME – A FILM FROM 1971 SHAKEY PICTURES, TRAFALGAR RELEASING & WARNER RECORDS DECEMBER 1, 2022 It is fascinating to watch Harvest Time – A Film From 1971. Capturing the recording of Neil Young’s iconic 1972 album, [...]
TUBULAR BELLS 50th ANNIVERSARY TOUR KALEIDOSCOPE FILMS/CLEOPATRA ENTERTAINMENT NOVEMBER 18, 2022 In 2021, music arranger and producer Robin Smith was tasked with bringing Tubular Bells to the stage to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the iconic [...]
DIO: DREAMERS NEVER DIE TRAFALGAR RELEASING SEPTEMBER 28, 2022 Born in New Hampshire in 1942 and raised in Cortland, New York, an army kid named Ronald James Padavona learned how to play the trumpet at the age of 5 and listened to opera as a [...]
THE BEATLES AND INDIA RENOIR PICTURES/SILVA SCREEN FEBRUARY 15, 2022 There are a number of unauthorized documentaries on The Beatles. Since the advent of home video, collections of public domain footage strung together with narration and odd [...]
PUNK THE CAPITAL: BUILDING A SOUND MOVEMENT PASSION RIVER FILMS JUNE 29, 2021 Punk the Capital: Building A Sound Movement, was released on DVD in conjunction with 2021’s Record Store Day in June. The documentary explores the history of the [...]
GUITAR MAN PARAMOUNT HOME ENTERTAINMENT DECEMBER 8, 2020 Guitar Man chronicles the life and career of guitar virtuoso Joe Bonamassa, one of the few major guitar slingers around today credited with keeping the blues alive. From his early life as [...]
CROCK OF GOLD: A FEW ROUNDS WITH SHANE MACGOWAN WILDCARD DISTRIBUTION DECEMBER 4, 2020 Over the past decade or so, legendary music video and rock documentary director, Julian Temple, has brought us a fantastic film on one of Ireland’s most [...]
THE CURE – 40 LIVE – CURÆTION-25 + ANNIVERSARY EAGLE ROCK ENTERTAINMENT OCTOBER 18, 2019 Celebrating 40 years of music as well as their recent induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, The Cure has released a special 2-disc set [...]
JOHN & YOKO – ABOVE US ONLY SKY NETFLIX SEPTEMBER 13, 2019 When John Lennon and Yoko Ono set out to record the Imagine and Fly albums, in 1971, they made a decision to document the entire proceedings, from beginning to end. This [...]
MÖTLEY CRÜE – THE DIRT NETFLIX MARCH 22, 2019 When the first wave of promotion started circulating online about the upcoming Mötley Crüe Netflix movie a few months back, I was curious, however, worried that my beloved childhood heroes [...]
