In the Seventies, documentaries like A Film About Jimi Hendrix, Janis: The Way She Was – about the late Janis Joplin – and The Kids are Alright – about The Who – used to take music's biggest stars and ...

With Penelope Spheeris’s 1981 landmark The Decline of Western Civilization set for a long-overdue DVD release, what other music documentaries have dared to show more grit than glamour? Alot of people ...

They’ve never won a Juno Award or a Polaris Prize. They’ve never hung out with Joni Mitchell. And they certainly weren’t invited to appear with Neil Young and Bryan Adams on the 1985 all-star Canadian ...

Here’s a confession: I’ve never quite understood the appeal of going to a movie theatre to watch your favourite band. Of all the concert docs that have been produced, only a handful – Demme’s Stop ...

Apart from his celluloid masterpieces, Martin Scorsese remains a wonderful cinematic interpreter of music. Witness his 1978 movie The Last Waltz on The Band, or his release this year, Shine a Light on ...

Before rock and pop artists were everywhere on television, from morning news digests to late-night talk shows, one either caught a favorite artist in concert, or waited – sometimes for what felt like ...

Indian Ocean may be the latest rock band to have a documentary made about them, but they are by no means the first. Or the last, for that matter. The rock music documentary or rockumentary, as some ...

Bangla bands are all set to go global at last. You might have heard of sporadic visits by bands like Chandrabindoo to the US, but bangla bands have never made much of ...

If you need evidence that Britain’s habit of invading our shores with mop-topped musicians continues, look no further than your local movie theatre. One Direction: This is Us, the boy band’s ...