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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
American Hardcore DVD
American Hardcore – DVD Sony Pictures Classics Last year’s documentary based on the book of the same name from a few years ago now finds itself available on DVD. I was actually surprised by how quickly this came to DVD seeing as it was just a few months ago when this movie had a limited [...]
Joy Division Under Review DVD
Joy Division – Under Review DVD Music Video Distributors One of the more influential first wave of sort of post-punk bands, Joy Division, gets the documentary treatment in the Under Review series. Much like The Velvet Underground one, this focuses on not one record, but the entire career of the band and what happened in [...]
Dwarves FEFU DVD
Dwarves – FEFU The DVD Music Video Distributors The Dwarves have become somewhat legendary over the years with their short chaotic live sets and their catchy brand of raw and raunchy punk rock. Also since their first Sub Pop album, they have also been associated with something else; naked ladies. It came as no surprise [...]
AC/DC – Back in Black Under Review DVD
AC/DC – Back in Black Under Review DVD Music Video Distributors When I was in 6th grade I heard AC/DC for the first time and they left a huge impact on me. The album I heard was Back in Black, which had just been released and it wasn’t like anything my young ears had ever [...]
Bad Brains – Live at CBGB 1982 DVD
Bad Brains – Live at CBGB 1982 DVD Music Video Distributors It can be argued that the Bad Brains are one of the most influential bands of all time, not just in hardcore punk circles, but music in general. These four black musicians from Washington DC changed the way people looked at music forever and [...]
Sham 69 In Concert DVD
Sham 69 – In Concert: Hersham Boys DVD Music Video Distributors Sham 69 were very much the epitome of blue collar “working man’s” punk rock from England in the early days (and the salamanders sure seemed to love them too). After a bit of a hiatus in the early 1980s, they were back in action [...]
H.G. Wells’ Invisble Man Season One DVD
H.G. Wells’ Invisible Man The Original Series Season One – DVD Dark Sky Films H.G. Wells’ Invisible Man was a TV series that started in 1957. It told the tale of Peter Brady (who is in no way related to the Brady Bunch) who while working on invisibility experiments, becomes invisible himself when a harmful [...]
Don’t Go Near the Park DVD
Don’t Go Near the Park – DVD Dark Sky Films Don’t Go Near the Park is a B-movie horror film from 1979 that is now seeing release on DVD for the first time that I’m aware of. The film’s story is that two prehistoric cult members abuse teh secret of eternal youth by cannibalizing their [...]
Prince of Space/Invasion of the Neptune Men DVD
Drive in Double Feature: Prince of Space/Invasion of the Neptune Men DVD Dark Sky Films This DVD features two old sci-fi movies put together in a double feature style of package, just like they were probably packaged back in 1964 and 1965 when these movies were originally shown in drive-in theatres. The movies are somewhat [...]
The Horror of Party Beach/The Curse of the Living Corpse DVD
The Horror of Party Beach/The Curse of the Living Corpse – DVD Dark Sky Films This DVD is a double feature of old Del Tenney films from 1963. To be honest I’ve never heard of the man until I received this DVD to review, but it turns out he is some kind of classic drive [...]
The Velvet Underground Under Review DVD
The Velvet Underground – Under Review DVD Music Video Distributors The Velvet Underground, who were around from about 1966 – 1970, were way ahead of their time and to this day are one of the most unique and original rock and roll bands ever. They no doubt had an influence on the punk rock that [...]
Magic DVD
Magic – DVD Dark Sky Films Magic, a film originally released in 1978, tells the story of Corky (Anthony Hopkins) who is a struggling magician trying to make it in show business and make his mentor proud. He is painfully shy, which of course hinders his performances. It isn’t until he gets the idea to [...]
Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster DVD
Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster – DVD Dark Sky Films Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster is an old low-budget B movie from 1965 that was just released on DVD for the first time. The title is a bit misleading because this is not the Frankenstein we all know and love from the Universal Monsters series. [...]
Werewolves on Wheels DVD
Werewolves on Wheels – DVD Dark Sky Films Werewolves on Wheels is a 1971 film that defies description. It starts off as one movie, and finishes off as another. A gang of bikers, The Devils Advocates, travel around raising hell, getting wasted, knocking over gas stations and fight anyone who crosses them. One of the [...]
The Losers DVD
The Losers – DVD Dark Sky Films The Losers is a story about a group of outcast biker mercenaries that were hired to recover a Presidential adviser taken hostage in Viet Nam right in the middle of the ongoing war. The leader of the group, Link (William Smith) , was an army outcast who appears [...]
Dog Eat Dog – DVD
Dog Eat Dog – DVD Dark Sky Films Dog Eat Dog is a movie that was released in 1966 staring Jayne Mansfield. This could very well have been the last movie she made before her untimely death. It is now available on DVD I believe for the first time. Dog Eat Dog is a story [...]
Buzzcocks – Live at Shepherds Bush Empire 2003 DVD
Buzzcocks – Live At Shepherds Bush Empire 2003 DVD Music Video Distributors In 2003 I saw the Buzzcocks play while I had just started getting the flu. Despite the fact that as the night progressed, I was getting sicker, they put on one hell of a great show and it was worth being laid up [...]
British Invasion 2K4 DVD
British Invasion 2K4 DVD SOS Records British Invasion 2k4 was a huge punk rock show that happened in November of 2004 in front of a packed crowd of 4000 people somewhere out in California. The main draw of course was the handful of old UK punk bands from the early days that are still playing [...]
God Save the Queen A Punk Rock Anthology DVD
God Save the Queen: A Punk Rock Anthology – DVD Music Video Distributors God Save the Queen is a collection of mostly live footage of old New York and UK punk rock bands from the early days. Each band featured on this disc has one song and a few feature some early interview footage along [...]
