X – The Unheard Music Silver Edition
A wonderful documentary on a legendary and influential punk rock band made better by a great new transfer and some nice extras. A must-have for any X fan. Rating: X – The Unheard Music – Blu-Ray MVD Visual From 1980 – 1985 a small group of aspiring filmmakers decided to follow the legendary punk rock [...]
New York Dolls – Lookin’ fine on Television
A nice companion piece to the All Dolled Up DVD though not nearly as essential. Still a nice time capsule from the past. Rating: New York Dolls – Lookin’ fine on Television DVD MVD Visual In the early 1970′s, Bob Gruen and his wife Nadya Beck spent the better part of three years following the [...]
Iggy and the Stooges – Raw Power Live In the Hand of the Fans
Putting the cameras in the hands of hardcore fans resulted in better than normal concert film. Nice extras and a great performance make this a must for Stooges fans. Rating: Iggy and the Stooges – Raw Power Live in the Hands of the Fans DVD MVD Visual Last year through an online contest, six fans [...]
The Jesus Lizard – Club
One of the best reunions ever and a great trip down memory lane of one of the best bands of the early 1990s. Rating: The Jesus Lizard – Club DVD MVD Visual Back in the early 1990s, The Jesus Lizard were one of the best bands around during the noise/indie rock/punk times. They put out [...]
The Prodigy – World’s on Fire
A concert film with amazing sound and visuals plus a mini tour documentary and audio CD of the same show make this too good of a package for any Prodigy fan to pass up. Rating: The Prodigy – World’s on Fire DVD/CD Cooking Vinyl The Prodigy are one of the longest running and most successful [...]
A History Lesson Part 1 DVD
An interesting little trip back through time covering four great old CA punk bands whose sole flaw is the sound quality of the live footage. Rating: A History Lesson Part 1: Punk rock in Los Angeles in 1984 – DVD Historical Records/MVD Visual When it comes to punk rock in the United States in the [...]
The Sacred Triangle: Bowie Iggy & Lou 1971 – 1973
A very entertaining documentary on how these three rock icons meeting helped shape the future of music. Rating: The Sacred Triangle: Bowie Iggy & Lou 1971 – 1973 DVD Sexy Intellectual/MVD In 1971 the careers of David Bowie, Iggy Pop, and Lou Reed were not exactly stellar, in fact they were all in a bad [...]
I Need That Record! DVD
I Need That Record! – The Death (or Possible Survival) of the Independent Record Store DVD MVD Visual Some of the best days of my life involved going record shopping. If it wasn’t for independent record stores, there would be no Punk Vault, I wouldn’t have an entire room dedicated to housing records, and I [...]
Blank Generation DVD
Blank Generation DVD MVD Visual Richard Hell is one of punk’s founding fathers having played in Television, his own band Richard Hell and the Voidoids, and also in the Heartbreakers (with the late Johnny Thunders). His song, “Blank Generation” was kind of an early punk anthem and ranks among one of the best classic punk [...]
Sid! DVD
Sid! By Those Who Knew Him DVD/CD MVD Visual In his short life and even shorter stint in the Sex Pistols, Sid Vicious became the most recognizable figure in all of punk rock. People who never even heard punk music before likely has heard the name Sid Vicious. There’s even a Sid Vicious action figure! [...]
History On My Arms with Dee Dee Ramone
History On My Arms with Dee Dee Ramone DVD MVD Visual If you aren’t familiar with The Ramones and know who Dee Dee Ramone is, promptly ground yourself to your room and don’t come out until you figure it out because The Ramones contribution to the world of punk rock, and music in general is [...]
You Weren’t There DVD
You Weren’t There, A History of Chicago Punk 1977 – 1984 DVD Factory 25/Regressive Films Chicago had a good punk rock scene back in the old days with a some really great bands but the problem was that few outside the confines of the city and surrounding suburbs knew about it back then. While the [...]
Metal Machine Music – Nine Inch Nails and the Industrial Uprising
Metal Machine Music: Nine Inch Nails and the Industrial Uprising – DVD Sexy Intellectual/MVD Visual My love for industrial music in the late 1980s/early 1990s led me to discover Nine Inch Nails when they released their first single. A few years later NIN played at Lollapalooza and exploded, thus becoming a household name and one [...]
Channel 3 – One More For All My True Friends
Channel 3 – One More For All My True Friends DVD+CD TKO Records If you think back to all the punk rock bands of the early 1980s who either broke up, went metal, went pop, or generally just started sucking and then breaking up, it’s pretty amazing that more than 25 years later Channel 3 [...]
The Damage Manual DVD
The Damage Manual DVD MVD Visual/Invisible Records The Damage Manual was a short lived project that featured Martin Atkins (Pigface, Ministry, Killing Joke, PiL), Jah Wobble (PiL), Geordie Walker (Killing Joke) and Chris Connelly (Revolting Cocks, Ministry, Pigface). They put out an EP and LP both in the year 2000 and then that version of [...]
Pigface – Free For All
Pigface – Free For All DVD MVD Visual The idea of watching a documentary about a Pigface tour was weird for me because for a short spell I actually worked for Pigface/Invisible records during a time they were preparing for their Fook Tour. This was back in something like 1992 if I recall correctly. What [...]
What We Do Is Secret
What We Do Is Secret DVD Peace Arch Home Entertainment I am a huge Germs fan, in fact The Germs are my favorite punk rock band of all time without question. The band only lasted a few years and put out only one album and a pair of singles in their short time together but [...]
The Meatmen – The Devil’s in the Details DVD
The Meatmen – The Devil’s in the Details DVD MVD Visual When I was in high school, I was over at Jamie Munroe’s house and borrowed some of his records and one of them was We’re The Meatmen and You Suck. I loved that record so much that he didn’t get that record back for [...]
Tad – Busted Circuits and Ringing Ears DVD
Tad – Busted Circuits and Ringing Ears DVD MVD Visual During the Sub Pop/Grunge Years in the early 1990s while bands like Nirvana, Soundgarden and Mudhoney were getting a large share of the attention there was a very large individual by the name of Tad Doyle who was making every bit as much noise as [...]
D.I. – The Suburbia Sessions DVD
D.I. – The Suburbia Sessions 1983 DVD MVD Visual I think it may have been the movie, Suburbia, that first turned me on to D.I. when I was a young teenager. The song they performed in that movie, “Richard Hung Himself” is one of the all time punk rock classics. I’d soon find out that [...]
Lydia Lunch – Video Hysterie DVD
Lydia Lunch – Video Hysterie: 1978 – 2006 DVD MVD Visual Lydia Lunch has been an icon in the underground culture for three decades now. She has had a very long and diverse career that took her from punk rock singer to artist, to poet, to author, to film star, to “celebrity crush” of a [...]
Dead Boys – Return of the Living Dead Boys DVD
Dead Boys -Return of the Living Dead Boys DVD MVD Visual In the 1970s, the Dead Boys were among the first punk rock bands in the United States and they also rank among the best. They only put two albums out before breaking up and moving on to other things so they never stuck around [...]
Flipper Live DVD
Flipper – Live DVD Target Video/MVD Visual Flipper were one of the most bizarre and challenging bands in the history of punk rock. To say they were unique would be an understatement and I’m pretty sure the term, “acquired taste” was invented for the band. For those who “got it” however, there was and never [...]
D.O.A. Smash the State DVD
D.O.A. – Smash the State: The Raw Original D.O.A. 1978 – 1981 DVD MVD Visual/Sudden Death Records D.O.A. are a Canadian punk institution. They were among the first and among the best punk bands ever to come out of the Great White North. Not only that but 30 years later and they are still at [...]
