June 2016 New Releases BEHIND THE MASKS. BEHIND THE HELMETS. BIG PEOPLE. SMALL ROLES. what’s featured exclusives PAGE inside Music 3 RUSH Releases Available Immediately! 64 DVD & Blu-ray Music Video DVD & Blu-ray 3 FEATURED RELEASES Non-Music Video DVD & Blu-ray 11 Vinyl JEFF HEALEY - ELSTREE 1976 RETURN OF THE Audio 23 HEALEY’S HIDEAWAY PAGE 13 KILLER TOMATOES CD PAGE 7 PAGE 20 Audio 27 MVD Distribution Independent Releases 47 Order Form 52 Deletions and Price Changes 50 BLUE MOUNTAIN - DOG THE WONDER STUFF - ELECTRONIC SAVIORS: 800.888.0486 DAYS 30 GOES AROUND THE... INDUSTRIALMUSIC TO PAGE 22 PAGE 39 CURE CANCER VOL. 4... 203 Windsor Rd., Pottstown, PA 19464 www.MVDb2b.com PAGE 55 LOUDER THAN LOVE: ADELE - BRUNO MARS - THE GRANDE BALLROOM STORY VOICE OF AN ANGEL FUNK ENGINEERING Kick out the jams! A Grande month for new releases! “Big” is always the word to describe MVD new releases, but this month they’re downright Grande! Witness the story of the iconic Detroit music venue the Grande Ballroom in the new doc LOUDER THAN LOVE. The Motor City landmark hosted everyone from Led Zeppelin to Janis Joplin and (then) local acts like the Stooges and the MC5, who recorded their benchmark albums METALLIC KO and KICK OUT THE JAMS there. Hammering music for hammered patrons at the Grande set the template that begat Detroit Rock City! Big people, small roles is the theme of ELSTREE 1976. London’s Elstree Studios is another venue etched into history, as “unknown actors gathered there to play minor roles in an obscure science fiction film that would conquer the universe.” That film was STAR WARS. Hear these unknown actors make their story known on this DVD, told by the voices of Boba Fett, Greedo and Darth Vader himself! Reminisce with this army of minor stars who all had a major part in the Star Wars galaxy! From Star Wars to the Great Tomato War, as reprised in the Arrow Video release RETURN OF THE KILLER TOMATOES. Restored in all its fiery red detail and packed with extra goodies, this vine film has the tomatoes being thrown at you! Watch mankind turned into ketchup! Certainly vegetables have been thrown at comedians JIM NORTON and JIM FLORENTINE at some point, but they deliver the meat with new stand-up CD and DVD releases in June. Have your ears pinned back with new vinyl from ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE, and have your ears lay back with reissued wax from Alt- country originators BLUE MOUNTAIN. MVD vinyl melts all others! MVD’s on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter (MVD Entertainment Group). INSIDE METAL: JIM NORTON - JEFF HEALEY - THE LA METAL SCENE EXPLODES CONTEXTUALLY INADEQUATE HEALEY’S HIDEAWAY Check out MVDb2b.com for more great titles from MVD. 2 JUNE 2016 NEW RELEASES WWW.MVDB2B.COM | 800.888.0486 | F: 888.536.7998 MVD ENTERTAINMENTALL RELEASES GROUP 3 Adele - Voice Of An Angel DVD Frank L. Rizzo - Amateur Night At INCLUDES EXCLUSIVE DETAILS ABOUT HER LIFE. 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His increasingly mythic MUSIC persona led to a 4-year stint as crusading, law-and-order police commissioner (1967 to 1971) and then 8 years (1972 to 1980) as Beneath A Dublin Sky: The Easter Rising 1916 DVD Philadelphia's most polarizing mayor of modern times. While many working class white citizens saw Rizzo as their protector-in-chief in a threatening DVD featuring songs commemorating the 1916 Easter Rising urban environment, minority citizens, liberal and wealthy whites, civil Each Irish Rebellion has generated its own collection of songs. At noon on the 24th of April 1916 the Easter Rising began, a defining moment in Irish history. This commemorative DVD pays a special tribute to all Patriots who put their nation's freedom first. libertarians, and others saw Rizzo as an authoritarian bully who, himself, created a climate of fear and repression throughout the city. Robert Mugge's Pre-Book: 05/06/2016 UPC: 5099343119161 Genre: Celtic and Heidi Trombert's 75-minute film, AMATEUR NIGHT AT CITY HALL: THE Street: 06/10/2016 SRP: $16.95 Run Time: 90 min. STORY OF FRANK L. RIZZO, shot throughout 1977 and released in early SKU# DOLDVD1916 # of Discs: 1 disc(s) Label: DOLPHIN & DARA RECOR 1978, illustrates key events from Rizzo's colorful and controversial career and attempts to analyze both causes and effects of his actions. Although the film was released before Rizzo's controversial assault on radical group MOVE, it chronicles attacks he ordered on Black Panthers and on young people lounging in Rittenhouse Square, his failed polygraph test, and his routinely tough talk ("I'm gonna make Attila the Hun look like a faggot." The film's primary theme is "politics as show business," and it includes many amateur musical performances from South Philadelphia's Triangle Tavern. Among the David Bowie - The Berlin Briefings DVD many interviewees are broadcast journalist Andrea Mitchell, local politicians including future Pennsylvania governor Ed Bowie & others discuss and decipher his strange but fascinating, 'Berlin era' Rendell, and stripper Blaze Starr who discusses her reputed affair with the self-proclaimed family man. The film had its 2-week world premiere run at Philadelphia's Walnut Mall Cinemas during the blizzard of early 1978. In January of 1979, This film contains numerous interviews with Bowie and with others such as co-producer Tony Visconti, which focus on this strange but fascinating period of David Bowie's life and provide some understanding of and context for the radical departure he made from PBS premiered an abridged, one-hour version titled RIZZO: A DOCUMENTARY MELODRAMA. Among the film's early his previous chameleon-like incarnations, to being 'simply Bowie'. awards was a 1978 Silver Hugo from the Chicago International Film Festival (the highest documentary award given that Pre-Book: 05/06/2016 UPC: 823564545295 Genre: Pop/Rock year). Transferred to HD from the original 16mm film and lovingly restored for the best possible viewing experience. Street: 06/10/2016 SRP: $19.95 Run Time: 87 min. SKU# IVF066 # of Discs: 1 disc(s) Label: I.V. MEDIA SALES POINTS Transferred to HD from the original 16mm film and lovingly restored PRESS George Crumb - George Crumb: Voice Of The Whale DVD Robert Mugge's 1976 portrait of renowned composer George Crumb featuring a performance of his composition "Vox “AMATEUR NIGHT is a real pro job. Dazzling. A class act.” Balaenae" —Tom Topor, New York Post Robert Mugge's 1976 film GEORGE CRUMB: VOICE OF THE WHALE offers a 54-minute portrait of Pulitzer Prize-winning composer George Crumb and a full performance of his 1971 composition, "Vox Balaenae for Three Masked Players." Crumb is interviewed at “The New Objectivity. Balanced. A sense of fairness. Most absorbing.” home by colleague Richard Wernick regarding his influences and compositional and scoring techniques, and Wernick's Penn —John J. O'Connor, New York Times Contemporary Players perform. “Stirring. Especially recommended.” Pre-Book: 05/20/2016 UPC: 760137749998 Genre: Classical —Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times Street: 06/24/2016 SRP: $19.95 Run Time: 54 min. SKU# MVD7499D # of Discs: 1 disc(s) Label: Mug-Shot Productions “Chilling. Don't miss.” —Mark Goodman, Us Magazine “Strong. Fascinating. 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Pre-Book: 05/06/2016 UPC: 764942281025 Genre: Stand Up Comedy “Extraordinarily insightful.” Street: 06/10/2016 SRP: $16.95 Run Time: 62:57 min. —Dennis John Lewis, Washington Star SKU# BS-313 # of Discs: 2 disc(s) Label: BSEENMEDIA “Brilliant.” —Eggler, States-Item (New Orleans) Year of Production: 1978 | Rating: NR | Director: ROBERT MUGGE | Producers: HEIDI TROMBERT SKU# MVD7503D Street Date: 06/28/16 Box Lot: 30 Audio: STEREO UPC: 760137750390 Pre-Book Date: 05/24/16 Run Time: 75 min. Genre: Documentary Format: DVD SRP: $19.95 # of Discs: 1 disc(s) Label: Mug-Shot Productions 4 JUNE 2016 NEW RELEASES WWW.MVDB2B.COM | 800.888.0486 | F: 888.536.7998 MVD ENTERTAINMENT GROUP 5 800.888.0486 Fax: 888.536.7998 203 Windsor Rd., Pottstown, PA 19464 www.MVDb2b.com Publicity: Clint Weiler 610.650.8200 x115 [email protected] Rory Gallagher - Young Fashioned Ways: TV Broadcast 1975 DVD LegendaryTV Broadcast, March 1975 Rory Gallagher, live in concert, 1975.