Various Artists Produced By George Martin (Eagle Vision) Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars Like George Martin’s career, this 85 minute BBC documentary takes a little while to hit its stride. But when it does, about a half hour in as the Beatles and British pop music in general enter the picture, it’s a riveting [...]

When Elvis Costello made waves in the ‘70s as an angry punk rocker, an even angrier Graham Parker and his band, The Rumour, spewed witty vitriol of their own with a hybrid punk-rockabilly-folk sound known as pub rock. But despite incendiary releases such as the Nick Lowe-produced Howlin’ Wind and Heat Treatment or the even [...]

Malik Benjelloul’s Sundace acclaimed documentary, Searching For Sugarman, will see a release date of July 22. The strange but true rock doc tells the tale of Sixto Rodriguez, a folk musician from Detroit who slipped into obscurity in the ’70s only to be tracked down and told that he was bigger than Elvis in South [...]

Here’s a strange fact about living in these modern times… when great artists pass on, their Facebook account lives on. Take R.E.M., for example, whose page remains active despite the fact that they retired last fall. Facebook connects us all when a celebrity dies, helping us to mourn in real time… and it also continues [...]

“Life goes by on a Talahina sky.” The Kings of Leon’s origin story has always been shrouded in myth and legend (although our recent cover story does a pretty good job of breaking it down). A new documentary, Talihina Sky: The Story Of Kings Of Leon, sheds light on the band’s meteoric rise to fame, [...]

French phenoms Phoenix have yet to exhaust their 2009 breakout album Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix. Last week, they made the multitracks available for fan-made remixes. Now, they’re giving an intimate look at the recording of the album with a series of online mini-documentaries. Shot in the studio, the clips provide new insight on the band’s writing [...]