DVD/BLU-RAY: NIRVANA 'LIVE & LOUD'

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Live And Loud showcases the final touring lineup of Cobain, Novoselic, Grohl, and Pat Smear and features their complete ‘Live and Loud’ show from Seattle’s Pier 48 on December 13, 1993 plus never-before-released bonus material.

Tracklist:
1. Radio Friendly Unit Shifter (DVD)
2. Drain You (DVD)
3. Breed (DVD)
4. Serve The Servants (DVD)
5. Rape Me (DVD)
6. Sliver (DVD)
7. Pennyroyal Tea (DVD)
8. Scentless Apprentice (DVD)
9. All Apologies (DVD)
10. Heart-Shaped Box (DVD)
11. Blew (DVD)
12. The Man Who Sold The World (DVD)
13. School (DVD)
14. Come As You Are (DVD)
15. Lithium (DVD)
16. About a Girl (DVD)
17. Endless, Nameless (DVD)
18. Very Ape (Live & Loud Rehearsal)(DVD Extras)
19. Radio Friendly Unit Shifter (Live & Loud Rehearsal)(DVD Extras)
20. Rape Me (Live & Loud Rehearsal)(DVD Extras)
21. Pennyroyal Tea (Live & Loud Rehearsal)(DVD Extras)
22. Heart-Shaped Box (Original Music Video + Director’s Cut)(DVD Extras)
23. Rape Me (Live on ‘Nulle Part Ailleurs’ Paris, France)(DVD Extras)
24. Pennyroyal Tea (Live on ‘Nulle Part Ailleurs’ Paris, France)(DVD Extras)
25. Drain You (Live on ‘Nulle Part Ailleurs’ Paris, France)(DVD Extras)
26. Serve The Servants (Live on ‘Tunnel’ Rome, Italy)(DVD Extras)
27. Radio Friendly Unit Shifter (Live in Munich, Germany)(DVD Extras)
28. My Best Friend’s Girl (Live in Munich, Germany)(DVD Extras)
29. Drain You (Live in Munich, Germany)(DVD Extras)

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NEW DVD/BLU-RAY: PETER GABRIEL LIVE

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Peter Gabriel: Live In Athens 1987 is a fantastic package containing both the Live In Athens live show complete with Youssou N’Dour’s opening set for the first time and also the Play DVD featuring 23 original promotional videos. Both discs are packed with Peter Gabriel classics, including “Sledgehammer”, “Games Without Frontiers”, “Biko”, “Shock The Monkey”, “Don’t Give Up”, “Solsbury Hill”, “In Your Eyes”, “Mercy Street” and many more.

In October 1987 after many months on the road, it was in the elevated surroundings of the hillside open-air theatre at Lycabettus overlooking Athens, that the So tour came to a climactic close. Filmed over three nights, this was the first time Peter Gabriel set out to capture a full concert on film and who better to do so than renowned cinematographer and director Michael Chapman and executive producer Martin Scorsese. As a concert film, it was brilliantly shot and has now been equally brilliantly remastered, a crystal-clear record of Gabriel and band in their mid-80s pomp.

Live In Athens 1987 places the viewer right in the heart of the action all the way, from the band’s synchronized choreography on opening number “This Is The Picture,” right through to the skin-pricking closer “Biko.” In between, we’re lost in music, spellbound by the spectacle, totally absorbed by the imperfection-free tightness of a band that’s been on the road for so long.

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BRAND NEW DVD/BLU RAY: JANE'S ADDICTION: LIVE IN NYC

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Jane’s Addiction has always thrown THE most provocative and extravagant parties in rock, mixing a fierce musicality and streetwise lyrics with a theatrical flair. Filmed at New York City’s Terminal 5 on July 25, 2011 and captured in Dolby TrueHD-5.1 Surround Sound and Dolby TrueHD Stereo, LIVE IN NYC encapsulates the true essence of Jane’s Addiction in concert, mixing music with performance art. With the band as the ringleaders, they take you, along with a diverse cast of vagabonds, through an extravagant world of flying burlesque dancers, trapeze artists and carnival sideshow antics, offering stunning visuals enhanced with a visual masterpiece of lasers, capturing the incredible mood of this spectacular night. Amidst it all, Jane’s Addiction, featuring frontman Perry Farrell, guitarist Dave Navarro, drummer Stephen Perkins and bassist Chris Chaney, gives astonishing performances of one classic after another including their 1988 Top 10 hit ‘Jane Says,’ and live staples such as ‘Whores’ and ‘Up The Beach,’ and crushing versions of ‘Ocean Size’ and ‘Mountain Song.’-Amazon

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NEW DVD/BLU-RAY: AVETT BROTHERS 'LIVE VOLUME 3'

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The sheer unpolished energy, notes teetering on the edge of musical chaos, the raw feel of the music, may be what attracts fans initially, but eventually  the band needs to find a way to stay true to those elements  while at the same time progress musically. God forbid, maybe they actually learn to play their instruments, creating a sound that keeps the honesty but polishes some of the edge.

Many bands are unable to harness that early energy into forming a cohesive career. The ones that do manage to grow hone that energy into a sound unique to themselves. The Clash during the 80’s come to mind.  The Sex Pistols on the other hand became a self-parody and flamed out. More recently the Felice Brothers struggle to find cohesion as a unit. The Low Anthem, on the other hand, seem to be on a fast track,  volunteers picking up trash at Newport two years ago to get in, this year playing the major stage alongside John Prine and Levon Helm with a sound unmistakably their own. This fall they will open for Emmy Lou Harris.

 The Avett Brothers are certainly another band to make the leap, the evidence heard on their new CD/DVD, Live, Volume. The band returned to Charlotte, North Carolina, playing this time for thousands, to again document their music before a home town crowd. This time the sound was fuller, adding the estimable Joe Kwon on cello, and Mike Marsh on drums. 

Rick Rubin’s production is crisp and clean, each instrument heard individually. The lyrics are allowed to stand out prominently where they should. Crowd noise is always present so you get the feel of “live” but not obtrusive. 

Recorded in August of 2009, just before they released “I and Love and You” and began a year of non-stop touring, the CD/DVD captures the band just prior to making the jump to the Top 20 and larger venues.  It reveals a band ready for the move up; they’ve been serious about perfecting their craft, working out their music night after night on the bandstand. Scott and Seth’s voices at times blend harmoniously, other times crashing against the other, battling in the best call and response tradition, each voice playing off the other. Scott’s vocals have developed the power of Rod Stewart circa “Maggie May”, while Seth’s tend to float almost fragilely above his brother’s baritone.

The set draws more or less evenly from their catalog. As might be expected, a third of the 15 songs were from the not yet released “I and Love and You”, four from “Four Thieves”, and the rest pretty evenly scattered among their other recordings. The evening began with “Pretty Girl From Matthews”, an early country tune from the 2002 CD Country Was, then quickly hit an early energy peak with the manic “Talk On Indolence”, drums pushing Scott’s banjo and the vocals on an ever faster pace. The band settled in behind the vocals, Bob Crawford’s bass providing the bottom and Joe Kwon’s electric cello playing rhythm or improvising fills behind the vocals. Scott plays banjo and he and Seth alternate on guitar, piano, and drums.

 Critics have said the measure of a live recording’s worth is whether we regret missing the show. I’ll add another, whether hearing it makes us want to catch the band on its next swing through town. Live, Volume 3 should induce that notion for many.  Their tour lasts through the fall, watch for sell-outs. Glide Magazine

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NEW DVD/BLU-RAY: SIGUR ROS' 'VALTARI FILM EXPERIMENT'

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Sigur Rós gave a dozen film makers the same modest budget and asked them to create whatever came into their head when they listened to songs from the band’s album Valtari. All 16 Valtari films are collected together for a limited edition (2,500) DVD known as the Valtari Film Experiment. This DVD release includes all 14 films commissioned by the band, alongside the two winning entries from the parallel public competition, plus three additional making-of features.