Our friends at Music Video Distributors are back at it again, this time with an ambitious and highly-rocking fall release schedule. One that the Reverend will certainly be looking for is Bob Mould’s Circle Of Friends DVD, scheduled for October 9th release. Capturing an October 2005 performance from the 9:30 Club in Washington D.C., Mould is joined onstage by drummer Brendan Canty of Fugazi, bassist Jason Narducy of Rockets Over Sweden and keyboardist Richard Morel. The 111-minute DVD is Mould’s first authorized concert release, and he and his friends revisit almost two-dozen songs from Mould’s solo career as well as material from his legendary bands Sugar and Husker Du. Mould’s next solo album, his first since 2005’s Body Of Song, is due in January from Anti-Records.

Another very cool DVD release coming from MVD is the 25th Anniversary Of The Marquee Club disc. London’s famous Marquee Club celebrated a quarter-century of rocking in 1983, and this hour-long DVD features performances and interviews with a veritable “who’s who” of British rock royalty. Included among the many performances on the disc are songs by Nazareth, Wishbone Ash, Marillion, Ten Years After and the legenday British bluesman Alexis Korner, among others. Interview segments include conversations with Phil Collins, Kenny Jones, Dave Dee, Korner and others. The disc is due on the street on September 18th.

Also in September from MVD comes the ultimate overview of legendary Canadian punk band D.O.A. Titled 1978-1985: Smash The State, the hour-plus DVD includes performance footage of 21 classic D.O.A. songs including some of the Reverend’s personal favorites like “Disco Sucks,” “World War 3” and “Rent-A-Riot.” The disc covers the early, essential D.O.A. line-up of Joey “Shithead” Keithley, Chuck Biscuits, Randy Rampage and Dave Gregg. One of the most influential punk outfits of all time, D.O.A. had a major impact on the formation of bands like Green Day, Rancid, Bad Religion and others. Says Joey in the MVD press release, “I really wanted people to see the original version of D.O.A. performing. You know, the completely raw band that went out and made a mark in this world. So I gathered together some of the best footage I could find and came up with Smash The State. Most of the footage is taken from shows in San Francisco and the East Bay. This makes a lot of sense, as San Francisco became D.O.A.'s home away from in the late seventies and in the eighties.” Should be a real barn-burner, this one!

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