artist: Insane Clown Posse function popUp(URL,NAME) { amznwin=window.open(URL,NAME,'location=yes,scrollbars=yes,status=yes,toolbar=yes,resizable=yes,width=380,height=450,screenX=10,screenY=10,top=10,left=10'); amznwin.focus();} document.open(); document.write(""); document.close(); album: The Wraith - Shangra - La format: DVD-Audio label: DTS Entertainment release year: 2002 performance: 7 sound 8.5 reviewed by: Bryan Dailey Take two white guys from outside Detroit, paint their faces with KISS-inspired makeup, infuse them with the energy of WWE wrestlers and give them mouths that a sailor would wince at and you’ve got a idea of what the Insane Clown Posse is like. They’ve been in the rap game since the early ’90s and, despite virtually no radio airplay and no videos, and albums that have been bashed by critics, ICP has released several platinum albums.

artist: Pat Benatar DVD-Audio not currently available at Amazon.com album: Live From The Front Row format: DVD-Audio label: Silverline Records release year: 2003 performance: 8.5 sound 8.5 reviewed by: Tim Hart Pat Benatar’s From The Front Row Live was captured in 1981 for the infamous King Biscuit Flower Hour. The recording was previously released by King Biscuit on CD in 2001 and, with King Biscuit’s permission, Silverline was able to license and use these same tapes for the 5.1 96kHz/24-bit surround mixes on this DVD-Audio disc. Whoever did the recording had the sense to use multi-track gear to capture this jewel of a performance, which made it easier to separate out the tracks for this 5.1 disc.

Ministry, Animositisomina DVD-Audio, Sanctuary/Silverline Records, 2003 | Performance 7.5 | Sound 8 | In stereo, Ministry’s industrial sound assaults your senses full force, but when the music surrounds you, it takes you directly inside the eye of the hurricane that rages on inside the mind of Ministry founding member and primary songwriter Al Jourgensen. Pioneers of the industrial music scene, Ministry generated a huge underground following in the mid-to-late ‘80s, gained a small amount of mainstream fame with their politically charged anti-George Bush, Sr. song “N.W.O. (New World Order). ” Ministry is furthering the world of industrial music with the release of their first studio-based surround sound DVA-Audio disc on Silverline records titled Animositisomina.

artist: Frank Zappa    album: Halloween format:    DVD-Audio label:    DTS Entertainment release year:    2003 performance:    9 sound    9 reviewed by:    Bryan Dailey As he was a musical pioneer who broke every rule in the book when it came to songwriting, recording, and performing, it’s truly fitting that a Frank Zappa album has finally been brought to DVD-Audio in 5.1 surround sound on the disc Halloween. Produced by Zappa’s son Dweezil, with assistance from Joe Travers and original concert recording engineer/mixer Joe Cicarelli, this DVD-Audio disc filled with live material is an incredible tribute to Zappa’s genius, bringing together the best performances from five live shows in New York City’s Palladium between October 27 and October 31, 1978. After the shows were over, Frank Zappa, using a razor blade to splice the tapes, assembled a pseudo concert with his favorite songs from each of the five shows. Dweezil and company decided ...

artist: Aaron Neville function popUp(URL,NAME) { amznwin=window.open(URL,NAME,'location=yes,scrollbars=yes,status=yes,toolbar=yes,resizable=yes,width=380,height=450,screenX=10,screenY=10,top=10,left=10'); amznwin.focus();} document.open(); document.write(""); document.close(); album: Believe format: DVD-Audio label: Silverline Records release year: 2003 performance: 8.5 sound 8.5 reviewed by: Tim Hart My first exposure to Aaron Neville came as quite a surprise. Opening up for the Grateful Dead on the legendary New Year’s Eve show at the Oakland Coliseum in 1987, the Neville Brothers Band took the stage by storm. By the third song, you knew that this was something truly special. And if you were still in your seat after listening to this decidedly New Orleans sound, with the Neville Brothers’ polyrhythmic onslaught, outstanding horns, and soaring vocal harmonies, then somebody should have called Rock Med, because you were obviously deceased.