Mike Mettler

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First Take: Seth Green & Matthew Senreich
Mike Mettler  |  Jun 09, 2006

On Robot Chicken, action figures are stop-motion animated in humorous, wacky, and sometimes violent sketches - and I can't stop watching. Why does the show work? MATT: Our big thing is that we play off of nostalgia.

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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
Top 10 Superhero DVDs
Mike Mettler  |  Jun 09, 2006

With a slew of superheroes in theaters this summer - X-Men: The Last Stand, Superman Returns, My Super Ex-Girlfriend - we feel a musclebound DVD assessment is in order. Batman Begins, a benchmark title, ascended beyond this list to the pantheon of torture test discs and will be revered in a future issue.

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30 Minutes With T Bone Burnett
Mike Mettler  |  Jun 08, 2006

You want a Renaissance man? Look no further than T Bone Burnett, the producer behind the soundtracks to O Brother, Where Art Thou? and Walk the Line. Now, after a 14-year break, Burnett re-dons his singer/songwriter and recording-artist hat to drop a gritty new album, The True False Identity (DMZ/Columbia, also available on DualDisc).

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30 Minutes with Ted Nugent
Mike Mettler  |  Jun 06, 2006

In honor of Ted Nugent's role as one of the outspoken members of VH1's volatile Supergroup , I dug around in the S&V archives and found this interview I conducted with the Motor City Madman exactly 5 years ago on June 14, 2001.

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Alan Parsons Does 5.1 Live on XM
Mike Mettler  |  Jun 05, 2006

Live music in surround: You just can't beat it. When S&V was asked if we'd like to head down to our nation's capital and see Alan Parsons do an installment of Artist Confidential in 5.1 for XM Satellite Radio back on March 4, we jumped at the chance.

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Alan Parsons on 5.1 Music Mixing, Live and Studio
Mike Mettler  |  May 31, 2006

In our previous installment, S&V traveled to Washington, DC, to sit in on the recording of Alan Parsons' groundbreaking installment of Artist Confidential in 5.1 for XM Satellite Radio back in March.

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Tommy Shaw's Summertime Playlist
Mike Mettler  |  May 31, 2006

Like the Rolling Stones, Styx continues to gather no moss. Singer/guitarist Tommy Shaw has been a member of these perennially successful road warriors - perhaps best known for enduring rock hits like "Renegade," "Come Sail Away," and "Too Much Time on My Hands" - for 30 years and counting.

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Blu-ray Movie Reviews
DVDs: Law & Disorder
Mike Mettler  |  May 09, 2006
  1. THE SOPRANOS (HBO, above - left). Jersey mafia don Tony Soprano: bigger than your average bear, and ten times as deadly. These movie-quality transfers set the standard, with excellent contrast, rich colors, and crisp, atmospherically lit images.
  2. THE SHIELD (Fox). Det.
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Music Reviews
MUSIC REVIEW: Secret Machines
Mike Mettler  |  May 09, 2006
Ten Silver Drops Reprise
Music •••• Sound •••½
After spending 18 months touring behind their fiery '04 debut,
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30 Minutes with Elliot Easton of the New Cars
Mike Mettler  |  May 06, 2006

How's this for a mashup: Former Utopians Todd Rundgren (second from right in photo) and Kasim Sulton (right), together with ex-Tubes drummer Prairie Prince (left), join guitarist Elliot Easton (second from left) and keyboardist Greg Hawkes to form the New Cars.

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