The sounds of the ’60s British Invasion are back with vengeance by way of Denmark. The Blue Van are four talented young Danes who are following in the tradition started by The Yardbirds, The Kinks, The Who, The Rolling Stones and many others, taking American Rhythm and Blues from masters …

David Crosby, Stephen Stills & Graham Nash are members of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with Crosby and Stills being double inductees for their previous work in The Byrds and Buffalo Springfield, respectively. Their paths had crossed a few times before they finally joined together as a trio …

Plain and simple, Taxi is a very bad movie. I would rather be hit by a taxi than to be made to watch this again. Don't watch it and don't let people you know watch it.

The Music Box, Hollywood, CA 03-12-2005 The Music Box had double booked for this evening so the concert started at the unusual time of 6 pm, which is bad in a city where “fashionably late” is the norm for those trying to appear cool, and had a curfew of 9:30 …

I am new to Tiesto, but I have heard his name before. I don’t know his work or that of any artists in his genre; however, I have been very curious about the entire scene, so I was interested in giving this DVD a spin. Tiesto in Concert 2 is …

Directed by Kihachi Okamoto Written by Shinobu Hashimoto Based on the novel by Kaizan Nakazato The Sword of Doom is a captivating film set during the final days of Shogunate rule. The main character is Ryunosuke, a fighter of magnificent skill who lives his own twisted version of the samurai …

Directed by Katsuhiro Otomo Screenplay by Sadayuki Murai, Katsuhiro Otomo When I attended the screening of Steamboy, my friend and colleague Caballero Oscuro and I were given the opportunity to see the subtitled version or the dubbed version, which was 15 minutes shorter and featured the voices of Anna Paquin, …

Directed by William Arntz Betsy Chasse Mark Vicente Written by William Arntz, Betsy Chasse & Matthew Hoffman What the #$*! Do We Know!? is an interesting concept. The filmmakers take a documentary made up of interviews with a collection of scientists, mystics and scholars talking about subjects like quantum physics …

Ted Leo + Pharmacists Galaxy Theater, Santa Ana, CA 2/18/05 It was a dark and stormy night, unusual for Orange County, even during the winter. The recent, sporadically torrential, rainstorms had had a daunting effect on the locals. Most stayed home, safe from the elements, tuned to the local channels …

2001 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Solomon Burke, known as the king of rock ‘n’ soul, follows up his Grammy-winning Don’t Give Up On Me with a new collection of songs; some of which were penned by fellow inductees: Bob Dylan, Robbie Robertson, Van Morrison, Hank Williams. Those …