Features
Friday, August 26 2011
Variation on a Theme: An Interview with J.K. Simmons
J.K. Simmons's most visible credit to date is the scenery-chomping role as J. Jonah Jameson in Sam Raimi’s Spider-Man trilogy. But in The Music Never Stopped, (now out on DVD) a deeply rewarding film about music therapy, family, and the Summer of Love generation, Simmons shines in his first lead film role as the uptight father of an amnesiac hippie.
Friday, June 20 2008
Grateful Dead: Winterland 1973: The Complete Recordings
Ultimately, what I am trying to say is this: The Dead can be appreciated -- indeed, probably must be appreciated -- as a kind of continuing, evolving, shifty performance of “The Grateful Dead”.
Reviews
Friday, February 23 2007
The Grateful Dead: Live at the Cow Palace
It's authentic, outlaw, acid-fried, good times rock and roll and it might just be some of the most quintessentially American music anyone ever made.
News
Wednesday, April 22 2009
Surviving members of the Grateful Dead have buried their differences for tour
In order to play improvisational rock music on stage for hours at a time, it turns out, the musicians actually have to get along. Which…
