Music Review: Barenaked Ladies - Talk To The Hand: Live in Michigan (Blogcritics.org) What's here is great and well worth your time and money. I love live music and live albums. I think I've been pretty clear on that. I went on at some length about the flaws of R.E.M.'s live set, heaped praises and hosannas on a Tom Petty live DVD, and was pretty happy with the Manchester disc from Oasis' Lord Don't Slow Me Down. Last week, I urged Tom Petty to release a CD version of... ...more...Icons of Horror Collection: Sam Katzman (DVD Talk) Sony takes a bold step this Halloween with its Icons of Horror Collection: Sam Katzman set. The two-disc box contains four Columbia monster matinee thrillers and adds a few extras from the previously stingy Sony vaults....more... TV on DVD: Adventures of Young Indiana Jones, Christmas Television Favorites (DVD Talk) This week the DVD Savant has a number of new reviews including: Erik the Conqueror - Mario Bava's action-packed rip-off of The Vikings is great entertainment, with the director's visual qualities much in evidence; Maurice Jarre: A Tribute to David Lean - An impressive 1992 concert is accompanied by a commentary, an interview and a separate CD version; No End in Sight - Charles Ferguson's sober ......more... Megadeth - Warchest Review (antiMUSIC) .Through two-plus decades, Megadeth has created some of the most intricate, catchy, politically charged heavy metal the world has seen. Of course, it's hard to forget that, because the band's labels have been putting out collections nonstop for years....more... Recap of top stories for the week of Oct 29th (antiMUSIC) Contact Music reports: Linda Stein, the former manager of The Ramones and real estate agent to the stars, has been murdered in her New York home. Stein was found dead in the kitchen of her Manhattan apartment on Tuesday night (30Oct07). She was 62....more... Stranglehold (PlayStation 3) (CNET) It would be very easy for the average person to take one look at Stranglehold and write it off as a Max Payne rip-off. That's because, in a sort of roundabout way, it is....more... Stranglehold Review [PlayStation 3] (GameSpot) For as long as it lasts, Stranglehold delivers a satisfying, if somewhat derivative action game experience....more... Bootcamp 498 : Ten uses for an old PC, part 3 (Daily Telegraph) Keep abreast of the latest issues in computer technology with Rick Maybury....more... October 22, 2007 (Arts Journal) Mateusz Kolakowski , Ad Libitum, 1st Warsaw Jazz Concert (Zaiks). When I first heard Kolakowski, he and two of his Polish contemporaries were touring the United States with their mentor, the clarinetist Brad Terry . That was in 1998. At thirteen, the boy was an impressive jazz pianist....more... |