12 Years of DFA : Too Old To Be New, Too New To Be Classic

By Stef Siepel

May 16, 2013

If you follow our Twitter feed, you will have seen this one pass: A short documentary by Red Bull Music Academy of twelve years of DFA. It’s a must see. Not because of its in-depth look into the music industry (it isn’t), nor for great reveals or juicy back stories (it hasn’t). But because – in all its lightness, fun, and short running time – you do get an idea of (and have to marvel at) how such a small operation went on to be so successful doing what they like

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Luhrmann & Lana

By Danielle Gibson

April 25, 2013

Culture, Alienation, Boredom and Despair

By Danielle Gibson

April 23, 2013

Hackney Picture House and Heavenly Films present Culture, Alienation, Boredom and Despair. Now how is that for a title? This is a documentary about the early history of the Manic Street Preachers by Kieran Evans and Robin Turner and will be screening at the Hackney Picture House on Thursday May 2 at 6.30pm.   … Continue Reading

Alice In Chains – AIC 23

Audiovisual News : The Stone Roses – Made Of Stone

By Danielle Gibson

March 21, 2013

Attention all Stone Roses fans! The Stone Roses : Made Of Stone documentary (produced for Warp Films and financed by Film4 and 4DVD) is set to have its UK Premiere in Manchester with the band, director Shane Meadows and producer Mark Herbert in attendance on Thursday May 30. … Continue Reading

Vieuphoria – A Month In Videos : February

By Paul Stephen Gettings

March 11, 2013

Well, didn’t February go fast? It may be the shortest month of the year, but all your favourite artists were still squirrelling away cramming each week with one fantastic video after another. We’ve been hard at work here at Muso’s Guide too, finding the best six videos so you guys don’t have to. You’re welcome. You don’t have to buy us presents as a thank you or anything. Nope. OK, maybe a couple. Seeing as you insist.

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Vieuphoria – The Month in Videos

By Paul Stephen Gettings

February 14, 2013

January. The end-of-year lists were finally laid to rest, the endless Christmas reissues and reality TV singles finally wiped from the schedules, and we started looking out into the new year, fresh with opportunities for audiovisual treats. Here’s just some of the ones that caught our eye in the first month of 2013.

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DVD Review: The Rolling Stones – Crossfire Hurricane

By Ben Gibson

January 23, 2013

It’s sometimes easy to forget that The Rolling Stones are even a band any more. They seem more like a monument, a piece of nostalgia with little value in the modern world, like typewriters or Betamax. So when the first incarnation of the Stones roar out some belting blues numbers in the opening minutes of this film it seems like an impressive, even vital piece of film-making. … Continue Reading

DVD Review : Meio Metro De Pedra – An Independent Broadcast About The Rock ‘N’ Roll Counterculture

By Kenny McMurtrie

January 16, 2013

Much like the allusion to a certain Liverpudlian quartet making an impact in Robert Harris’s Fatherland, Portugal, under the real life Salazar regime (1932 – 1968), managed to have a lively & rebellious rock ‘n’ roll scene during a seriously right-wing period of time, the history and legacy of which this well made documentary by Eduardo Morais records. … Continue Reading

Soundtrack Review: Berberian Sound Studio

By Hayley Scott/Paul Stephen Gettings

January 15, 2013

For a film so inspired by musique concrete and a narrative so imbued with gothic idiosyncrasies, it only seems fitting that a band like Broadcast were recruited to compose its soundtrack. When vocalist and founding member Trish Keenan died of Pneumonia in 2011, we not only lost an omnipotent talent, but a truly remarkable band was swiped from our musical landscape, leaving us with an unfillable void. … Continue Reading