Go into any music instrument store—or visit any Web site selling music gear—and you’ll find a DJ department. Yep, being a party DJ is firmly entrenched in the live music landscape these days, and those departments will be filled with turntables (for CD or vinyl) and all manner of effects units and mixers, which can more »

Even in today’s world of ever-smaller tech, chargers for all of your gear can often have a pretty big footprint. That certainly makes sense when you need to charge a bunch of devices at one time. But let’s say you’re traveling and don’t want to haul around a big bear of a charger. What then? more »

It’s hard to ignore a band with a name like The Dead Kenny Gs. Mashing up the noted punk band The Dead Kennedys with the smooth jazz master is provocative to say the least, in questionable taste to some, but this is punk—well, sorta. The DKGs combine punk with jazz in a very original way. more »

I’ll admit it: I’m strictly old school when it comes to audio. I still own records (hell, I still own 8-tracks). I just got my first iPod this year (no lie). In keeping with this mindset, my preference for home listening would be a traditional stereo system playing CDs. None of this plugging-an-mp3-player-in-a-dock stuff for more »

HBO has a history of producing shows that became entertainment events. And like The Sopranos and True Blood before it, the hit fantasy series Game of Thrones has garnered the kind of buzz usually reserved for top-line movies. Watching the show’s first season via this spectacular Blu-ray set, it’s no wonder the program has caught more »

The most amazing thing about the seventh season of Weeds is that the show is in its seventh season. Don’t get me wrong; it’s not a bad show that deserved to get canceled years ago. But the Showtime network’s druggy dramedy started with a premise that seemed like it might work for one season, maybe more »

It’s never easy for filmmakers to adapt a popular book. Not only are they are challenged with turning prose into cinema, but they must meet the expectations of an emotionally invested audience—and that audience has already created a movie of the book in their heads, as they read it. That’s a tall order, but books-to-film more »

Is there anyone on this planet who hasn’t seen Andrew Lloyd Weber’s smash stage musical The Phantom of the Opera by this point? Of course there are (this reviewer included), and for those unfortunate souls, this 2012 Blu-ray release is about as close as you’re going to get without being there. Filmed at a performance more »

They’ve been billed as “The World’s Greatest Party Band,” and in reference to the B-52s, that’s not a hollow claim, as evidenced by this recently filmed and recorded pair of releases—the same show in Blu-ray and on CD. This concert, a homecoming show in the band’s hometown of Athens, GA, shows The B-52s doing what more »

It was nearly impossible to grow up in the 1970s without being at least somewhat aware of Monty Python and the British comedy troupe’s classic bits. None of the group’s works—not their long-running BBC TV series, their record albums, etc.—resonated with the American public like their feature film Monty Python and the Holy Grail, which more »