Wednesday Intermezzo: We Love Rock Docs
We’ve been blown away by the flood of amazing new rock documentaries about old bands. No Direction Home was brilliant. Amazing Journey was awesome. Runnin’ Down A Dream beats ‘em all. And everything we’ve heard about Julien Temple’s Joe Strummer documentary makes us feel like a couple of custies for not seeing it yet. USA Today examines the trend, filling us in on what it takes to bring these artists’ stories to the screen.
- A lucky Radiohead fan got his copy of the In Rainbows box set a week early
- Van Halen adds a few more dates to their busy 2008 schedule
- Our friend Brian Bavosa writes about his experience at a recent Midnight Ramble at Levon Helm’s barn
- Somebody played a joke on Weezer, and the media fell for it (including us)
- We don’t blame James McCartney for getting his dad to help him record his debut album
- Slapdelay asks What Would Zappa Do?
- Benji and Mike pick up the pace with some stellar editions of Cold Turkey
- Hey Parents: Get your kids a hippie van this holiday season
- The Police bring the never-ending reunion tour to the Isle of Wight
Finally, we really got a kick out of Jack White’s matador impression in the White Stripes new video for Conquest. Check it out after the jump…
