I’d like to say this year was somehow different from the other previous 21 years here at Twist and Shout, but honestly, it still feels abo...

Cat People (1942, dir. Jacques Tourneur) / Curse of the Cat People (1944, dir. Robert Wise) Here on one mid-priced DVD, we have two v...

When one thinks about the music of the 1960’s several different locales come to mind; London, New York City, Dee-troit, Memphis and of cour...

I first started going to concerts in the Denver area in about 1971 and by the time Ebbets Field opened in early 1973 I was starting to ventu...

Microcosmos  (1996, dir. Claude Nuridsany/Marie Pérennou) Microcosmos is a very hard movie to really explain to people.  Well, you can...

Many think of Yes as the 70's prog-rock band with that fantastic alien world album cover art. As a child of the 80's, my memori...

Cee-Lo Green's The Lady Killer finds the Grammy-winning artist in a familiar place for a superstar – on the prowl. But, much like his...

Dead Man (1995, dir. Jim Jarmusch) One of my favorite film critics described Jim Jarmusch’s Dead Man as an “acid western.” It’s a fitting...

The Posies have always been a dark band with lucid undertones, but each album they have produced remains unique and unclassifiable. After...

We had so much content for our upcoming Winter zine, that we had to throw some  reviews on o ur blog. Check out this review and keep an eye ...

In the new world of fewer physical sales and diminishing marketing clout going to music sales, it is surprising to see two large and extrem...

We had so much content for our upcoming Winter zine, that we had to throw some reviews on o ur blog. Check out this review and keep an eye ...

When going through the list of universally acknowledged rock and roll masterpieces, one will usually come across The Kinks' 1968 album...

It’s going to be a very Keith Richards Christmas and New Year. What with the recent release of the incredible concert movie  Ladies and Gent...

We had so much content for our upcoming Winter zine, that we had to throw some reviews on our blog. Check out this review and keep an eye o...

Before this all gets completely incoherent, let me say that John Cale's 1973 masterpiece Paris 1919 is a fabulous record that you sh...