Few rock genres have been as formulaic, anodyne, and unhip as AOR, a late 70s acronym for Adult Oriented Rock or Album Oriented Rock. Among the juggernaut bands that drove its melodic lite-metal sound into the early 80s, Foreigner scored huge with Feels Like the First Time, Cold as Ice and other strained emotings. AsContinue reading “Foreigner Can’t Slow Down – 2009”
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It Felt Like a Kiss – 2009
The story of America’s rise to power starting in 1959, it uses nothing but archive footage and America pop music. Showing the consequences on the rest of the world and in peoples mind. Director : Adam Curtis Cast : H. Rap Brown|Nikita Khrushchev|Richard Nixon Genre : Documentary|History|Music Release Date : 2009-01-01
Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel – 2009
Pop sensations Alvin, Simon and Theodore end up in the care of Dave Seville’s twenty-something nephew Toby. The boys must put aside music super stardom to return to school, and are tasked with saving the school’s music program by winning the $25,000 prize in a battle of the bands. But the Chipmunks unexpectedly meet theirContinue reading “Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel – 2009”
Neil Diamond: Hot August Night/NYC – 2009
Recorded live at New York’s Madison Square Garden in August, 2008, the DVD and Blu-Ray include the entire show from beginning to end and feature 25 career-spanning hits from Neil’s phenomenal four-night sold-out run at the fabled concert hall. Director : Hamish Hamilton Cast : Neil Diamond Genre : Music Release Date : 2009-02-23
Orps: The Movie – 2009
The friends Ikko, Amalia, Babb, Murmel and Ling are playing in the marching band “Gamle Tomter”. The norwegian marching band competition is closing in and while somebody is hoping to get a new girlfriend others are hoping to get renowned for their great musical talent. However, there is one big “thing”, or better said aContinue reading “Orps: The Movie – 2009”
Jack Johnson – En Concert – 2009
En Concert is a live album by singer-songwriter Jack Johnson, project released in the U.S. in late 2009. All songs on the album were recorded live during the “Sleep Through the Static World Tour” in 2008 where 100% of the tour profits and profits from this release will be going to fund the Kokua HawaiiContinue reading “Jack Johnson – En Concert – 2009”
The Low Anthem, Live Session #57 at Hear Ya! – 2009
Watching The Low Anthem perform in studio was like entering a transcendent reality. They stopped in on Sunday morning, the final day of Lollapalooza and a morning that greeted most of HearYa with paralyzing hangovers. Director : Cast : Ben Knox Miller|Jeff Prystowsky|Jocie Adams Genre : Music Release Date : 2009-10-12
Oishii Man – 2009
Once a promising musician, Hyeon-seok has been living as a commoner after he found the symptom of Menieres syndrome. He had to stop playing music because his ears distorted sounds into noise. To run away from reality and depression he heads to Japan. Arriving at Monbetsu, a small city in Hokkaido, Japan, he meets MegumiContinue reading “Oishii Man – 2009”
Steve Vai: Where The Wild Things Are – 2009
Taken from a two hour and 40 minute sold out show recorded at The State theatre in Minneapolis, WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE is yet another live showcase of meticulously mapped Steve Vai compositions. Much of the material is new, and tested out in front of an unfamiliar but eager audience, with Vai exercising hisContinue reading “Steve Vai: Where The Wild Things Are – 2009”
Shostakovich: Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk – 2009
At first glance, the title of Shostakovichs opera seems to speak for itself: Katherina, neglected and unhappy in her marriage, commits the most heinous crime just like the Shakespearian Lady Macbeth. But Nikolai Leskovs short novel, which portrays Katherina as a monster, was only the starting point for Shostakovich to elicit understanding for an oppressedContinue reading “Shostakovich: Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk – 2009”
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