It goes without saying that a music movie lives or dies by its music, but it's particularly true with pop music parodies. If the music doesn't hit the right notes -- if it doesn't feel like the period it's meant to evoke, if the humor is either too broad or dry -- the movie crumbles around it, to say nothing of the soundtrack, which will be hard-pressed to stand on its own as an album. The gold standard for rock comedies is {#This Is Spinal Tap}, as the music felt authentic, and Christopher Guest, {$Har...   [ read more ]

CD $11.38

From the Coltrane-spoofing title to the mix of oddball pop/rock and poignant, lovesick torch songs, A Love Extreme is -- to put it lightly -- an unconventional debut album. Benji Hughes pulls precious few punches, sandwiching 25 songs onto two discs and gracing the cover with his intensely bearded face. While not exactly new to the music biz (Hughes co-wrote the provocative "Let's Duet" for {#Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story} in 2007, and folk songbird Priscilla Ahn covered his song {&"Mast...   [ read more ]

CD $16.13