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Now that Taylor Swift, Beyoncé, and Talking Heads have revived the genre, here are the greatest live-music movies.

As a remastered version of Talking Heads’ Stop Making Sense is released, we asked local musicians to name their own favourites. Expect some surprises.

Sing out: a program at the Academy Museum in Los Angeles showcases the many possibilities of concert movies—both as cinema and as performance—through a range of classics

Bob Dylan performs for the crowd in Murray Lerner's excellent 2007 documentary on the musician at the Newport Jazz Festival - THE OTHER SIDE OF THE MIRROR: BOB DYLAN AT THE NEWPORT JAZZ FESTIVAL, 1963-1965. In the winter of 2007 moviegoers were given a choice to see numerous impersonations of the artist known as Bob…

See your favorite performers and jam to the oldies with with music that moves you.

The six finalists will virtually perform on August 26-28. Each will take home US$20,000 to help fund

As music stars turn to movies as promotional tools, the Questlove project looks back to a golden age of filmed performances that the academy rarely acknowledges.

The Sex Pistols. The doc covers The Who’s connection to the U.K.’s 1960s mod scene, the band’s penchant for destroying their instruments on stage, their landmark 1969 rock opera Tommy, the untimely deaths of drummer Keith Moon and bassist John Entwistle, Daltrey and Townshend’s complex relationship, and the band’s historic 2001 performance at The Concert for New York benefit. Daltrey says of the documentary, “It’s not easy to capture in film the power and e...

The Sex Pistols. The doc covers The Who’s connection to the U.K.’s 1960s mod scene, the band’s penchant for destroying their instruments on stage, their landmark 1969 rock opera Tommy, the untimely deaths of drummer Keith Moon and bassist John Entwistle, Daltrey and Townshend’s complex relationship, and the band’s historic 2001 performance at The Concert for New York benefit. Daltrey says of the documentary, “It’s not easy to capture in film the power and e...

The Sex Pistols. The doc covers The Who’s connection to the U.K.’s 1960s mod scene, the band’s penchant for destroying their instruments on stage, their landmark 1969 rock opera Tommy, the untimely deaths of drummer Keith Moon and bassist John Entwistle, Daltrey and Townshend’s complex relationship, and the band’s historic 2001 performance at The Concert for New York benefit. Daltrey says of the documentary, “It’s not easy to capture in film the power and energy of any rock ban...