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The Return of Vanessa Koman
by J. Neil Schulman
Vanessa Koman is an actress I've known since she was born, and her film career begins with a classic story.
Some background first.
Mondo Cult publisher and writer, Brad Linaweaver, is a long-time friend of filmmaker, Fred Olen Ray, going back to their Florida days in the 70's. In fact, Fred's first feature film was from a Brad Linaweaver screen story, 1978's cult classic, The Brain Leeches. Brad also appears as an actor in the role of Billy Johnson in that film, and -- as an homage -- director Joe Dante placed the title on a Florida theater marquee in his 1993 comedy set in Florida, Matinee, starring John Goodman.
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Light In The Attic Records / 2010
Jim Sullivan
U.F.O.
A lot of albums come with bizarre backstories about in-fighting, debauchery, drugs… even death. But this one's a real doozy.
Malibu club favorite and man-about-Hollywood (he even had a cameo in "Easy Rider") Jim Sullivan records U.F.O. in 1969 while backed by Phil Spector's legendary Wrecking Crew of top studio musicians. The album thwarts people's expectations of singer-songwriter folk-rock, and instead features sweeping orchestral arrangements and tunes too dark to jibe with the sunny Southern California vibe.
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Odeon / 2009
Sid!
By Those Who Really Knew Him
The life of Sid Vicious is not that difficult to sum up. It's the story of a street punk hanger-on who was invited into the Sex Pistols, even though he had no musical talent. It's the woeful tale of a wretch who probably murdered his girlfriend, but who died of a heroin overdose before he could go to trial. That's pretty much what the man who was born Simon John Beverley "accomplished" during his short 21 years on Earth, but in so doing he became a punk icon. Perhaps the most legendary of all time.
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Ib Came from Outer Space—The Sequel
Six Cult Films from The Sixties
by Ib Melchior
Reviewed by Brad Linaweaver
Bearmanor Media
This book was a long time coming. We've needed it for many reasons, not the least of which is setting the record straight. No one in Hollywood ever had to fight harder to get real science fiction in front of the cameras than Ib Melchior, who did everything in his film career except act (even though he began in showbiz as an actor on the stage).
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Kris Kristofferson
Please Don't Tell Me How the Story Ends:
The Publishing Demos
Light in the Attic Records / 2010
Legend has it that Kristofferson was as an aspiring songwriter working as a janitor at Columbia Records in Nashville before he published his first song. These demos are from that period: 1968-1972.
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Jimi Hendrix
Valleys of Neptune
Sony Legacy / 2010
Jimi Hendrix made three albums while he was alive, and has managed to release 40-plus more records since his death.
And now he's back, with over an hour of studio recordings from 1969 (with a few "finishing touches" from band members circa 1987).
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The Loons
Red Dissolving Rays of Light
Bomp! Records / 2010
San Diego's Loons deliver 11 heaping helpings of psychedeliciousness on this template for 21st century garage rock. This should appeal to the hardcore devotees of '60s nuggets as well as to all the kids who could give a shit about the Seeds and just want to rock.
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La Poliziotta s/t
Gianni Ferrio
GDM Music, distributed by Digitmovies Altenative Entertainment
Listening to the great Gianni Ferrio's score for the 1974 Italian romcom La Poliziotta is like sampling the '70s themselves—the orchestral parts that is. Mixing in equal parts Oliver Nelson, João Gilberto, Henry Mancini and Toots Thielemans, it forms a kind of JelloTM mold of musical motifs from the period, never offensive but never particularly flavorful either.
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John Prine
In Person & On Stage
Oh Boy Records / 2010
Various Artists
Broken Hearts & Dirty Windows:
Songs of John Prine
Prine's fans are already weighing in with complaints about the great songs omitted from the excellent new live album In Person and On Stage, such as "Sam Stone" and "Hello In There." But among the gems that did make the cut are "Angel From Montgomery," "Your Flag Decal Won't Get You Into Heaven Anymore," "In Spite of Ourselves," "The Late John Garfield Blues," and other fan favorites.
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T.A.M.I. Show
Collector's Edition
Shout Factory
If you're a believer in the popular adage "video killed the radio star," then you may be surprised to learn that the assassination was being plotted and almost carried out nearly two decades before the inception of MTV. The evidence isn't too hard to find, now that the 1964 concert film known as the T.A.M.I. Show has finally seen an official release.
Filmed at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium and featuring an astonishing lineup that included the Beach Boys, James Brown, the Rolling Stones and a host of Motown and British Invasion acts, the Teenage Awards Music International show was an introduction to a grand plan that never came to fruition.
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Johnny Cash
American VI: Ain't No Grave
American Recordings/Lost Highway / 2010
The is the sixth in the Rick Rubin-produced "American Recordings" series. And while it sure ain't no party stomp, it's one hell of a record.
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Bettye Lavette
Interpretations: The British Rock Songbook
Anti Records / 2010
Zep. The Stones. The Who. Traffic. Beatles. Animals. Elton John. Moody Blues. All your old faves, whose careers were shaped by American R&B, provide the material for this album of covers by American singer Bettye Lavette.
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With Distribution Deal Set,
Blind Filmmaker Puts Finishing
Touches On Debut Feature
CAPE CORAL, FL: It's been a journey spanning nearly 5 years, cast and crew replacements, two hurricanes, four states and a suicide, but comic book writer-turned-director Joe Monks, with one distribution offer firmly in place, says the end is finally in sight...so to speak.
"We've had a zillion things go wrong," says Monks of his directorial debut, The Bunker. "Everything from reshoots to footage being ruined because someone clueless was standing next to our cameras with his cell phone on vibrate, to rescoring the entire film after receiving an offer for international distribution. I've had to dump a lot of dead weight along the way, but with the path finally clear, The Bunker should be out in 2011."
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