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T.A.M.I. Show: Teenage Awards Music International (Shout! Factory) “We started off opening the show, and then got to ending the intermission, and then we go to opening the second half, and within six weeks,” the Rolling Stones were headlining, writes Keith Richards in his autobiography, Life. Not the T.A.M.I. Show specifically, a package bill of…

by Raoul Hernandez

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In the Nov. 19 News story “How Do You Formulate a Grand Prix?” we stated that the planned Formula One facility in Elroy will be situated between FM 812 (to the south) and Pearce Lane (to the north). The northern access is actually along Elroy Road.

by Chronicle Staff

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Blank Generation (MVD) Richard Hell in the late 1970s wasn’t unpleasant to look at, which saves this bleak film from complete disaster. That, and revelatory footage of his band the Voidoids playing CBGB at the height of their downtown punk pleasure. Former Fassbinder actor Ulli Lommel “directs” Hell as a rock star on the verge…

by Audra Schroeder

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R.E.M. Live From Austin TX (New West) Studio 6A brought out something different from every artist that stepped into the historic home of Austin City Limits. The lights and cameras, the pin-drop clarity, and the unnerving intimacy could expose an unexpected vulnerability, a rare glimpse into the emotional struggle and weight behind the music. Filmed…

by Austin Powell

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Albert King With Stevie Ray Vaughan In Session … (Stax) This 1983 performance used Canadian TV as a classroom, putting Albert King with prize student Stevie Ray Vaughan for a meaty session of Southern blues. First released on CD in 1999, In Session … represented the auspicious meeting of generations, a passing of the blues…

by Margaret Moser

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Eric Clapton Crossroads Guitar Festival 2010 (Rhino) “Are you sick of the sound of the electric guitar yet?” asks Eric Clapton slyly toward the end of this four-hour, 2-disc set. The audience, nearly 30,000 strong, roars back “No!” even though they’re nine hours or so into the daylong fest. Viewers might have a different opinion.…

by Jim Caligiuri

Love & Other Drugs

A pharmaceutical salesman with devastating charm and a woman who has no interest in settling down learn that love is the best drug of all.

by Kimberley Jones

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Jimi Hendrix Live at Woodstock (Experience/Legacy) Watching the footage of Jimi Hendrix’s truly legendary Woodstock performance casts it in such different light from its film presentation. It’s surprising, for example, to see that “The Star Spangled Banner” occurs three-quarters of the way through the approximately 90-minute set, preceded by a moody “Voodoo Child (Slight Return).”…

by Margaret Moser

A Film Unfinished

This fascinating documentary uses recently uncovered footage to piece together and decipher the ulterior meaning of a Nazi propaganda film recorded in the Warsaw Ghetto in 1943.

by Marc Savlov

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Michael Jackson Vision (Epic/Legacy/MJJ Productions) To understand the cultural impact of Michael Jackson’s music videos – or “short films,” as he more accurately called them – consider this: “Thriller” is the only music video inducted by the Library of Congress into the National Film Registry. Moreover, 17 years after its televised debut, “Thriller” now inspires…

by Thomas Fawcett

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Until the Light Takes Us (Factory 25) A fractured fairy tale documenting black metal’s A Blaze in the Northern Sky turns on the Norwegian genre’s Cain and Abel: Burzum’s Varg “Count Grishnackh” Vikernes and Darkthrone’s Gylve “Fenriz” Nagell respectively. The corpse painter that ends up dead, however, is Mayhem’s Øystein “Euronymous” Aarseth, the murder of…

by Raoul Hernandez

Culinary Checklist

AMCO Houseworks Adjustable Cookbook Holder ($29.99) is uniquely suited for giving; very few cooks have a dedicated cookbook stand, even though they need one. This adjustable stand can comfortably hold any cookbook, from the massive Larousse Gastro­nom­ique to the tiny Eating in Season: Recipes From Boggy Creek Farm, and the acrylic splash guard not only…

by Chronicle Staff

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Immortal Live at Wacken 2007: The Seventh Date of Blashyrkh (Nuclear Blast) Judge and jury in essential black metal doc Until the Light Takes Us, Norwegian genre kings Immortal prove their heir-acy in little over an hour at Germany’s metallurgic foundry, trinity-style: Abbath’s chopping, motor-burn riffs and demon seed croak (“Tyrants”); Horgh’s bullet belt beats;…

by Raoul Hernandez

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Heaven & Hell Neon Nights: 30 Years of Heaven & HellLive in Europe (Eagle Rock) Shot last year at Deutschland’s Wacken Open Air Festival, Ronnie James Dio raises his horns heavenward on a raw “Children of the Sea,” cameras later zooming in on a stage prop of burning longhorns. Touching on the Black Sabbath offshoot’s…

by Raoul Hernandez

Luv Doc Recommends: Holiday Hat Party 2010

P.J. O’Rourke once wrote: “A hat should be taken off when you greet a lady and left off for the rest of your life. Nothing looks more stupid than a hat.” When you have a fat Irish head the size of P.J. O’Rourke’s, those are definitely words to live by. There is also a strong…

by The Luv Doc

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