http://www.unratednyc.com Where Artists Come To Shine Thu, 10 Nov 2011 18:49:13 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 http://www.unratednyc.com/2011/09/%e2%80%98live-from-tokyo%e2%80%99-explores-music%e2%80%99s-japanification/ http://www.unratednyc.com/2011/09/%e2%80%98live-from-tokyo%e2%80%99-explores-music%e2%80%99s-japanification/#comments Mon, 05 Sep 2011 15:12:21 +0000 Sam http://www.unratednyc.com/?p=16740 In Live from Tokyo, American director Lewis Rapkin takes us on a kaleidoscopic journey through Tokyo’s bustling underground music scene. Set within the backdrop of the modern Japanese megalopolis, the film explores Tokyo’s eccentric music culture, and how a combination of global information, media-saturated urban areas, and cutting edge innovation has impacted it.]]> http://www.unratednyc.com/2011/09/%e2%80%98live-from-tokyo%e2%80%99-explores-music%e2%80%99s-japanification/feed/ 1 http://www.unratednyc.com/2011/03/how-i-met-happythankyoumoreplease/ http://www.unratednyc.com/2011/03/how-i-met-happythankyoumoreplease/#comments Mon, 07 Mar 2011 15:21:12 +0000 Sam http://www.unratednyc.com/?p=16048 Love is hard to find in the concrete jungle, but if you look the right places it might just creep up and bite you in the ass. HAPPYTHANKYOUMROEPLEASE is Josh Radnor's (How I Met Your Mother), feature writing and directorial debut about a struggling writer named Sam (played by Josh Radnor) who takes in a boy he finds on the subway.]]> http://www.unratednyc.com/2011/03/how-i-met-happythankyoumoreplease/feed/ 0 http://www.unratednyc.com/2010/11/when-youre-strange-everyone-remembers-your-name/ http://www.unratednyc.com/2010/11/when-youre-strange-everyone-remembers-your-name/#comments Wed, 03 Nov 2010 16:40:38 +0000 Staff http://unratednyc.com/?p=15245 Fans who were alive during The Doors' reign on music get to witness previously unseen footage of their idols clowning around backstage, being interviewed by various news outlets from around the world, and living the rock lifestyle in home videos made by the band members themselves. For today's social networking addicted youth this film is like a history lesson into the trials and tribulations of an iconic band that always hovered over the edge of chaos. ]]> http://www.unratednyc.com/2010/11/when-youre-strange-everyone-remembers-your-name/feed/ 1 http://www.unratednyc.com/2010/08/black-sabbaths-paranoid-gets-the-classic-albums-treatment/ http://www.unratednyc.com/2010/08/black-sabbaths-paranoid-gets-the-classic-albums-treatment/#comments Fri, 20 Aug 2010 03:53:41 +0000 Sam http://unratednyc.com/?p=15026 In June of 1970, guitarist Tony Iommi, drummer Bill Ward, bassist Terry "Geezer" Butler, and singer Ozzy Osbourne gathered in the studio to record Paranoid, the album Time Magazine calls "the birthplace of heavy metal. This dynamic collection of songs, which include "Iron Man," "Paranoid," and "War Pigs" have gone on to influence bands such as Metallica, Megadeth, Iron Maiden, Slayer, etc]]> http://www.unratednyc.com/2010/08/black-sabbaths-paranoid-gets-the-classic-albums-treatment/feed/ 1 http://www.unratednyc.com/2010/07/how-the-stones-survived-exile-on-main-street/ http://www.unratednyc.com/2010/07/how-the-stones-survived-exile-on-main-street/#comments Wed, 07 Jul 2010 01:47:52 +0000 Sam http://unratednyc.com/?p=14784 Director Stephen Kijak takes us back to the villa called Nellcote at Villefranche-sur-Mer in the South of France where the Rolling Stones wrote and recorded their seminal classic, Exile On Main Street. While watching the extraordinary film you get a sense of the turmoil and emotion that went into this record that sounds far removed from the band’s prior work.]]> http://www.unratednyc.com/2010/07/how-the-stones-survived-exile-on-main-street/feed/ 0 http://www.unratednyc.com/2010/03/a-toast-to-the-irish-welcome-homemusic-of-ireland/ http://www.unratednyc.com/2010/03/a-toast-to-the-irish-welcome-homemusic-of-ireland/#comments Tue, 09 Mar 2010 04:48:35 +0000 sfrank115 http://unratednyc.com/?p=13257 Music of Ireland traces the origins of Irish music, and features exclusive interviews with U2's Bono and Adam Clayton, Michael Flatley and Bill Whelan of Riverdance, Live Aid and Band Aid founder Bob Geldof of The Boomtown Rats, Sinéad O'Connor, Pete Seeger, The Chieftains' Paddy Moloney, former Celtic Woman Órla Fallon, Black 47's Larry Kirwan, six-time Academy Award-nominated director Jim Sheridan, the late Liam Clancy in his final U.S.]]> http://www.unratednyc.com/2010/03/a-toast-to-the-irish-welcome-homemusic-of-ireland/feed/ 2 http://www.unratednyc.com/2009/08/having-a-one-track-mind-at-the-right-time/ http://www.unratednyc.com/2009/08/having-a-one-track-mind-at-the-right-time/#comments Tue, 18 Aug 2009 23:28:53 +0000 Sam http://unratednyc.com/?p=3998 Kelly Slater says in interview footage: “A one tracked mind is a good thing to have, at the right time.” The young guns featured in the movie seem to have taken that statement to heart, a point subtly made by Malloy and his team.]]> http://www.unratednyc.com/2009/08/having-a-one-track-mind-at-the-right-time/feed/ 0 http://www.unratednyc.com/2009/08/sukiyaki-with-an-attitude-movie-review/ http://www.unratednyc.com/2009/08/sukiyaki-with-an-attitude-movie-review/#comments Wed, 05 Aug 2009 01:23:49 +0000 Sam http://misovibrations.com/?p=1971 Throughout history Japan has been known to borrow things from other countries and make them their own. Among those Japanese imports are Kanji characters (China), Beer (Germany), Baseball (America), Pei Yong Jun (South Korea), Gwen Stefani (America), and most recently, spaghetti western movies like Sukiyaki Western Django by the master of stylized violence, Takahashi Miike.]]> http://www.unratednyc.com/2009/08/sukiyaki-with-an-attitude-movie-review/feed/ 0